⭐⚽⭐ Sportsbet's Bitcointalk Sports Fanatics League (BSFL)

Sportsbet's Bitcointalk Sports Fanatics League (BSFL) – 14000+$ rewards

Currently running Season 7

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After a successful World cup pilot project, we're happy to inform you that the forum PVP competition is back and will be bigger, longer and better than before!
This time Cro2 team is introducing the Sportsbet's Bitcointalk Sports Fanatics League (BSFL)!

General competition format

A multi-league PVP H2H system in which players play against each other every round for points like in football (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw).
Points are earned by predicting sports results/situations/events throughout the week.
If you played our World Cup competition you know roughly what to expect but his one will have more sports with majority of questions still being football.

Competition rules

There will be a questionnaire for every round and it will consist of 10 questions – the Bitcointalk's World Cup participants already know how it looks like.
Majority of the questions will be football-based, with some other important events mentioned as well. After every round the points will be calculated and according to fixtures list, the P2P duel will be resolved.
The player with more correct answers will get 3 points for a win, and if the players have the same amount of correct answers they will be rewarded 1 point each.
Example – if you win the duel with 7-5 result, you'll still get 3 points. If you win with 2-1 result, you get 3 points as well.
The questions will be about the upcoming week's sports events and the answers need to be submitted before the 1st game of the round starts. We will be using Google forms for that.
Forum rank Full Member and higher can participate.
Some exceptions will be made, Sportsbet will make some spots available for newly registered members that are active on Clubtalk chat or some other SB platforms.
The 4th Division still has spots open.
The players that will be in the Divisions 1, 2 and 3 in every following season will always have to pay the buy-in fee.
The buy-in fee will be defined at the end of each season and will be paid out of the season rewards if possible.
If you fail to participate in more than 2 rounds in a season, you will be removed from your league and will be able to rejoin from the lowest Division next season, if there is space left.
This is decided because we want to make the competition fair to everybody - if you don't play often, some opponents get easy points while others do not.

Added rules

1.) Please install Telegram Bitcointalk bot. You will get notified every time we tag participants for important info.
2.) Please submit your answers on time. Failure to submit on time in this season means instant loss.
3.) Please submit all the answers, and submit them with possible outcomes. When you give free points in your H2H questions to your opponent, it isn't fair to all other league members.
4.) To deal with the situations from points 2) and 3), we are forced to introduce some penalties.
Each team that fails to submit answers on time or submits the answers in a way that is not in accordance with competition rules will receive a 1 point deduction – not for that round but from total points won in the league.
We think the penalty is fair to keep the league competitive, and you can always ask in the thread if you don't understand some of the questions.
5.) If you repeatedly fail to submit the questions on time and in correct format, there's a high chance that we will be forced to remove you from the competition.
The competition is becoming more serious and with the plans Sportsbet has for it going forward, we all need to do our part to make it fair and exciting. You were doing that most of the time so we aren't worried, and we thank you for it.

Tiebreaker implementation added (8.5.2023)

In a situation when players have the same number of points the following methods will be implemented to rate them.

General rules about questions

Sports Grading Rules – Following will be taken in consideration unless otherwise stated in the question itself
* The questions are always about male sport/teams/athletes, unless specified otherwise
* Football question are regular time, no extra time or penalties unless stated otherwise
* Cards in football are counted both on pitch and off pitch. Yellow card is one point, red card is 2 points. Second yellow is one point. Meaning any player can accumulate maximum of 2 points.
* Player props, like goals scored or assists are for the purposes of our competition are counted as valid even if player did not play a single second of the game.
* Forfeits in sports like Tennis or loses due to technical problems in eSports are counted as regular ML wins.
* If there is only one possible outcome before the deadline, the question will be voided and all potential VAR used on that question cancelled.

VAR rules: (29.6.2023)

- Can be used to change answers in any round before that round's deadline
- Can be used 3 times per season
- Send us your desired changes over PM or write in the thread and tag both Trofo & cryptofrka, this is up to your discretion. If you trust us, better use PM to not clog the thread and give possible info to others. If you are playing against us maybe it is better to post in thread to avoid possible frictions
- You can use VAR for free inside 10 minutes of your submission on Sunday or Monday, not on Tuesday
- After you spend your challenges don't come and ask for more, whatever happens there are no more changes left for you

Schedule

Season 7

We start Season 7 with 64 teams. Divisions 1, 2 and 3 have 18 players each, and Division 4 has 10 players.
We feel that 3 paid Divisions with 18 players is the soft spot for BSFL, so no league expansions are expected for the foreseeable future.
Therefore, the promotion/relegation format will stay pretty much the same as it was in S06.
Bottom 3 teams will be relegated from Division 1 to Division 2. Top 3 teams will be promoted directly from Division 2 to Division 1.
15th team from Division 1 will play a 1v1 decider against the 4th placed team from Division 2 for the spot in Division 1.
Bottom 3 teams will be relegated from Division 2 to Division 3. Top 3 teams will be promoted directly from Division 3 to Division 2.
15th team from Division 2 will play a 1v1 decider against the 4th placed team from Division 3 for the spot in Division 2.
Bottom 2 teams will be relegated from Division 3 to Division 4. Top 2 teams will be promoted directly from Division 4 to Division 3.
16th team from Division 3 will play a 1v1 decider against the 3rd placed team from Division 4 for the spot in Division 3.
Division 4 will have double rounds - so players will play each other twice.
We're accepting new players until the start of BSFL, meaning Sunday May 18th, 18:00 GMT.

Season 8 announcement

Season 8 will almost certainly mirror Season 7. We will just look to add a few more players into Division 4.
Just a side note, Season 8 isn’t yet confirmed, we go season by season and get extensions based on BSFL forum metrics. These are really good so there’s no reason to doubt BSFL will not reach Season 8.

There are some new rules we are introducing.

LMS side-competition

LMS format will become a regular side event in BSFL. It will work similar to the EUROS and will consist of all standard BSFL league rounds (currently 17).
Points earned in these rounds will be accumulated and the one that survived all rounds and has the highest total will be pronounced as the winner. If there are more people with the same amount of points, they will equally share the prize.
Points will be taken from the ‘freebet’ column calculation, not from Head to Head results, with 1 minor correction – to win a H2H point for LMS, it will not be enough to have the best result it in your league but across all the leagues combined.
All those that have 2 points per round or less will be eliminated, if everybody has 3 or more points, those with the next worst result will be eliminated (those with 3 points, or 4 if nobody has 3 etc).
A player that fails to submit is automatically disqualified and his points do not count in that round's quota - meaning that if there is a player that did not submit and the round's minimum points is 3 - all with 3 are eliminated.
There will be buy-backs, the fee will be increased every 5 rounds. The buy-backs will be 0,25 mBTC after rounds 1-5, 0,5 mBTC after rounds 6-10 and 1 mBTC after rounds 11-xx.
You will have to survive the last round to be able to claim the reward. Everybody that survived all rounds (excluding the winner(s)) will share the additional 500$ freebets pool equally.
In case that nobody has more than 2 points in the last round, those with the least number of points will be eliminated. If that still does not leave us with a winner, there will not be any eliminations in the last round.
If there is only one player remaining after the buyback deadline at any point before the last round, he will be the winner and the freebets will be shared among those that lost to the winner in the previous round.

Beat The Mafia side-competition

In every round you'll be able to challenge one of us (or both of us!) for a winner-takes all sidebet. The rules for this one will be fairly easy:
We have deposited 20mBTC to a separate escrow address.
If you want to compete against us, you'll have to notify us in the thread
For your challenge to be valid, you need to pay 0.5, 0.75 or 1 mBTC to the separate escrow wallet before the deadline.
If you lose, Mafia keeps your money. If you win, we pay you 2x your stake to the wallet of your choice.
In case of a draw, the challenger picks either the return of the stake or another challenge.
You can challenge us as long as there is money on the escrow, but we reserve the right to stop the competition between any round.
A maximum of 5 challenges will be taken per single BSFL round, on a first come first served basis.
The sidebet will work like a regular BSFL H2H duel - so each H2H question will be graded directly between the challengers.

Late submission penalties

In case of late submission, the player loses the duel with a score of 3-0 and gets 1 'total points' penalty - it is the same rule that we had so far.
To add to that, if a person has 1 missed submission at the end of the season, his reward will be reduced by 20%. If he has 2, the reward will be 50% less and 3 means automatic disqualification and no reward at all.
The deducted rewards from such players will go to the next season's budget.
Freebet rewards will be decreased in 10$ increments - every missed submission means 10$ less reward, 3 missed submissions means no reward at all

Evil fee

In case a member got disqualified in any of the previous seasons and wants to join again, he is returning from the lowest possible Division.
The initial penalty for participating again is a 1mBTC 'evil fee' that is returned to the player at the end of the season if the player submits the answers for all rounds on time.
If he fails to do so, evil fee is kept and shared between all the teams that secured promotion from the lowest Division in that season.
If a player gets disqualified again, each subsequent time the evil fee is doubled, so becomes 2mBTC, then 4mBTC etc.

Logo rewards

Every team that achieves promotion to Division 3 will receive a team logo.
There are no plans to have logos in Division 4 but you can make them individually.
All clubs that receive logos will be required to make a short 'team summary' post - you can see how they look by clicking on any member's name that already has a logo in the league table.

Selling your spots

Based on the results of the poll we ran at the start of Season 05, we will allow selling of BSFL positions.
That means that are going the Superleague way in BSFL and from Season 6 onwards it is possible to buy/sell your spots in the leagues.
Example – if a player wants out, he can sell his spot to the highest bidder. Also, a player could say he’s willing to buy a Div1 club for x mBTC, and wait for offers. All transactions need to be done through PM and announced on time.
We will allow for both position switching and position selling, more info can be seen on this link. A club that is bought pays 1 extra buy-in fee for the next season (so, if standard buy-in is 1mBTC, for that club it is 2mBTC).
Clubs can be sold only in a short period between the end of the season and the rewards payment, that is usually around 2 weeks because the Cup final is always the formal end of the season.

Promotion/relegation system visually

Prizes and buy-ins

There will be a buy-in fee of 1,5 mBTC for the 1st Division spots, 0,75mBTC for the 2nd Division spots and 0,3mBTC for Division 3 spots.
Division 4 remains free to play. Check our dedicated sign up thread for more details.
The rewards for top 3 Divisions will come from sponsorship rewards and buy-ins and will be balanced accordingly.
Division 4 will be free to enter, and rewards will be some free bets, amount dependent on the final placement.
Almost every member will get a portion of the prize pool and the prizes are purposely set like that so that throughout the competition there is always something to play for.
To make it even more engaging we will add weekly free bet rewards for the player with most correct answers in each league (40$ for Division 1, 30$ for Division 2, 20$ for Division 3 and 10$ for Division 4).
Only one player per league can claim the weekly reward - rules for the freebet grading are here.
The funds are in control of Cro2 on our escrow wallet.
The rewards will be transferred to BTC at the start of the competition and paid out in that amount later.
The eventual small difference in payment due to tx fees will be added/deducted from the reward for the Division 1 champion.

Rewards distribution

The rewards for the LMS will be 10 mBTC + rebuys for the winner and 500$ in freebets for all other participants that survived the final round.

Some notes and explanations are below:

We feel we’re in a good place now both with the rewards amount and with the number of players, so in the next few seasons we’ll probably make only some small corrections when/if needed.
Total budget for the Season 7 will be in excess of 14.000$. Sportsbet provided 9.000$ in BTC and we collected 45,9 mBTC in fees from Div 1, Div2 and Div3 participants, 2.38 mBTC in Season 06 penalties and 1.05 mBTC in club selling fees.
We will once again have a big freebets budget to add to that – over 3.600$ in total across multiple leagues and competitions.
So, total prize pool in USD value at the beginning of this season is over 14.000$ (plus all the LMS rebuys) and an additional 3.600$ in freebets.

Cup schedule will be updated on the link in the 3rd post of the thread at a later date.

General remarks

We would really like to create some connection between the BTT community members. Therefore, we'd like this thread to be a combination of banter, sports analysis and general feedback.
We will purposely introduce occasional questions about cricket, NFL, e-sports, baseball etc. to bring more visibility to important sports events and milestones.
We encourage you to discuss about it and offer your analysis/opinions here.
Sportsbet will also have some extra rewards for most helpful or active participants, Steve promised to drop by occasionally and rain some free bets.
We hope we'll all have a lot of fun with this, it is a test version of the competition that will run throughout 2024 and if there will be enough interest & hype around it, we're sure that it will span through multiple seasons.
We know this is a lot to take in, especially if you did not participate in our Wold Cup completion thread. Feel free to check that one for some info as well.
We are here to answer all your questions and everything will be very clear once competition starts and the few rounds are completed.
For now just make sure to sign up in dedicated thread because the spots will be limited.

Feel free to write your feedback and let's have a fantastic sports 2025 season!

Division 1

•POS•	••Username••••	•PLD•	•W•	•D•	•L•	•SF•	•SA•	•SD•	•PTS•
1	jayce	4	3	1	0	15	12	3	10
2	vd309	4	3	0	1	19	14	5	9
3	strongkored	4	3	0	1	16	13	3	9
4	Jinetics1111	4	3	0	1	15	13	2	9
5	Slissy	4	2	2	0	18	10	8	8
6	slaman29	4	2	1	1	16	14	2	7
7	Saint-loup	4	2	1	1	15	16	-1	7
8	cryptofrka	4	1	2	1	14	14	0	5
9	Trofo	4	1	2	1	12	13	-1	5
10	cls63	4	1	2	1	18	20	-2	5
11	ulven	4	1	1	2	18	18	0	4
12	notblox1	4	1	1	2	14	15	-1	4
13	Harkorede	4	1	1	2	10	11	-1	4
14	buwaytress	4	1	1	2	15	17	-2	4
15	Renato297	4	1	1	2	12	15	-3	4
16	leea-1334	4	0	2	2	16	19	-3	2
17	ralle14	4	0	1	3	12	16	-4	1
18	arallmuus	4	0	1	3	12	17	-5	1

Division 2

•POS•	••Username••••	•PLD•	•W•	•D•	•L•	•SF•	•SA•	•SD•	•PTS•
1	hosemary	4	4	0	0	18	8	10	12
2	Rikafip	4	3	1	0	18	12	6	10
3	B1g4udge	4	3	0	1	13	11	2	9
4	hakan2217	4	2	2	0	15	13	2	8
5	Igebotz	4	2	0	2	16	14	2	6
6	VashaUdacha777	4	2	0	2	18	17	1	6
7	MAAManda	4	2	0	2	12	12	0	6
8	mv1986	4	2	0	2	14	15	-1	6
9	el che	4	1	2	1	16	13	3	5
10	darxiaomi	4	1	2	1	13	12	1	5
11	chi20	4	1	1	2	16	12	4	4
12	yassinmanai	4	1	1	2	13	14	-1	4
13	Koal-84	4	1	1	2	12	14	-2	4
14	LFC_Bitcoin	4	1	1	2	12	15	-3	4
15	mitchr4	4	1	1	2	11	15	-4	4
16	Kokee44	4	1	0	3	14	17	-3	3
17	jeremypwr	4	1	0	3	11	19	-8	2
18	LTU_btc	4	0	2	2	7	16	-9	2

Division 3

•POS•	••Username••••	•PLD•	•W•	•D•	•L•	•SF•	•SA•	•SD•	•PTS•
1	Dittoup	5	4	1	0	20	10	10	13
2	entebah	5	4	1	0	17	9	8	13
3	HomieAllDay	5	4	0	1	17	8	9	12
4	Ozymandias_DZ	5	3	2	0	21	10	11	11
5	paco92x	5	3	0	2	21	12	9	9
6	ILuckyGuyI	5	3	0	2	15	9	6	9
7	famososMuertos	4	3	0	1	14	8	6	9
8	slackovic	4	3	0	1	14	10	4	9
9	Hhampuz	5	3	0	2	15	18	-3	9
10	BitcoinHunt3r	5	2	2	1	14	11	3	8
11	Spack17	5	3	0	2	13	11	2	7
12	russeras	5	2	0	3	16	16	0	6
13	vivekdkhyani	5	2	0	3	16	16	0	6
14	SATWAT	5	2	0	3	11	16	-5	6
15	imarios	4	2	0	2	11	11	0	5
16	un_rank	5	2	0	3	10	15	-5	5
17	Da_Silva	4	1	0	3	9	13	-4	3
18	dbshck	17	0	0	17	0	51	-51	0

Division 4

•POS•	••Username••••	•PLD•	•W•	•D•	•L•	•SF•	•SA•	•SD•	•PTS•
1	Dump3er	4	4	0	0	19	10	9	12
2	goodpunt	4	3	0	1	15	10	5	9
3	ovcijisir	4	2	1	1	10	10	0	7
4	welovebit	4	2	1	1	13	14	-1	7
5	Hyphen(-)	4	2	0	2	13	14	-1	6
6	execijutiere	4	1	1	2	10	10	0	4
7	General_Bitcoin	4	1	1	2	12	14	-2	4
8	Note3	4	1	0	3	12	15	-3	3
9	katanic97	4	1	0	3	10	11	-1	2
10	Woodie	4	1	0	3	9	15	-6	2

W - Games Won, L - Games Lost, D - Games Drawn
POS - League Position, SD - Score Difference, SF - Score For
SA - Score Against, PLD - Games Played, PTS - Points Earned

Spreadsheet with your answers can be found here.

We will keep track of all the questions here.

League:

Round 1 questions - deadline May 20th, 17:00 GMT (forum time) - CLOSED
Round 2 questions - deadline May 27th, 17:00 GMT (forum time) - CLOSED
Round 3 questions - deadline Jun 3rd, 17:00 GMT (forum time) - CLOSED
Round 4 questions - deadline Jun 10th, 17:00 GMT (forum time) - CLOSED
Round 5 questions - deadline Jun 17th, 17:00 GMT (forum time) - OPEN

Round 5 - Scheduling

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Division 1 cryptofrka ^vs arallmuus vd309 ^vs leea-1334 jayce ^vs Saint-loup cls63 ^vs Slissy notblox1 ^vs slaman29 ulven ^vs strongkored ralle14 ^vs Trofo Renato297 ^vs Harkorede buwaytress ^vs Jinetics1111	Division 2 yassinmanai ^vs LTU_btc mv1986 ^vs Kokee44 Rikafip ^vs mitchr4 VashaUdacha777 ^vs MAAManda Koal-84 ^vs darxiaomi B1g4udge ^vs hakan2217 chi20 ^vs jeremypwr Igebotz ^vs hosemary el che ^vs LFC_Bitcoin	Division 3 Da_Silva ^vs imarios Hhampuz ^vs Spack17 dbshck ^vs russeras paco92x ^vs BitcoinHunt3r famososMuertos ^vs HomieAllDay Dittoup ^vs un_rank slackovic ^vs Ozymandias_DZ ILuckyGuyI ^vs vivekdkhyani entebah ^vs SATWAT	Division 4 execijutiere ^vs Woodie goodpunt ^vs Hyphen(-) welovebit ^vs Dump3er ovcijisir ^vs General_Bitcoin katanic97 ^vs Note3

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Cup rounds will be added later

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Full league schedule and results for Season 7:

Rounds 1-6 || Rounds 7-12 || Rounds 13-18

Penalty points and VAR usage

Round 1 - Results

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Division 1 cryptofrka 5-2 notblox1 ulven 5-6 cls63 ralle14 3-4 jayce Renato297 5-3 vd309 buwaytress 5-4 arallmuus Jinetics1111 5-4 leea-1334 Harkorede 5-2 Saint-loup Trofo 3-3 Slissy strongkored 6-4 slaman29	Division 2 yassinmanai 3-1 Koal-84 B1g4udge 5-3 VashaUdacha777 chi20 4-5 Rikafip Igebotz 5-2 mv1986 el che 3-3 LTU_btc LFC_Bitcoin 5-4 Kokee44 hosemary 6-3 mitchr4 jeremypwr 4-3 MAAManda hakan2217 3-3 darxiaomi	Division 3 Da_Silva 2-5 famososMuertos Dittoup 5-4 paco92x slackovic 3-0 dbshck ILuckyGuyI 3-4 Hhampuz entebah 3-0 imarios SATWAT 2-6 Spack17 vivekdkhyani 4-5 russeras Ozymandias_DZ 3-3 BitcoinHunt3r un_rank 0-3 HomieAllDay	Division 4 execijutiere 3-0 katanic97 Note3 2-4 ovcijisir General_Bitcoin 4-4 welovebit Dump3er 3-1 goodpunt Hyphen(-) 6-4 Woodie

Round 2 - Results

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Division 1 cls63 4-4 cryptofrka jayce 4-3 notblox1 vd309 4-3 ulven arallmuus 3-3 ralle14 leea-1334 4-4 Renato297 Saint-loup 4-3 buwaytress Slissy 6-2 Jinetics1111 slaman29 2-2 Harkorede strongkored 5-3 Trofo	Division 2 VashaUdacha777 7-5 yassinmanai Rikafip 8-5 Koal-84 mv1986 6-3 B1g4udge LTU_btc 1-8 chi20 Kokee44 4-6 Igebotz mitchr4 3-3 el che MAAManda 4-3 LFC_Bitcoin darxiaomi 3-4 hosemary hakan2217 6-5 jeremypwr	Division 3 paco92x 5-2 Da_Silva dbshck 0-3 famososMuertos Hhampuz 4-7 Dittoup imarios 4-6 slackovic Spack17 0-3 ILuckyGuyI russeras 3-4 entebah BitcoinHunt3r 4-2 SATWAT HomieAllDay 5-3 vivekdkhyani un_rank 2-7 Ozymandias_DZ	Division 4 ovcijisir 3-3 execijutiere welovebit 4-3 katanic97 goodpunt 6-4 Note3 Woodie 0-3 General_Bitcoin Hyphen(-) 3-6 Dump3er

Round 3 - Results

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Division 1 cryptofrka 3-3 jayce cls63 4-7 vd309 notblox1 5-2 arallmuus ulven 6-4 leea-1334 ralle14 4-5 Saint-loup Renato297 1-5 Slissy buwaytress 4-6 slaman29 Jinetics1111 4-2 strongkored Harkorede 2-3 Trofo	Division 2 yassinmanai 2-2 Rikafip VashaUdacha777 4-2 mv1986 Koal-84 2-2 LTU_btc B1g4udge 2-1 Kokee44 chi20 2-4 mitchr4 Igebotz 2-4 MAAManda el che 3-5 darxiaomi LFC_Bitcoin 2-2 hakan2217 hosemary 3-0 jeremypwr	Division 3 Da_Silva 3-0 dbshck paco92x 6-1 Hhampuz famososMuertos 2-4 imarios Dittoup 3-0 Spack17 slackovic 4-3 russeras ILuckyGuyI 4-2 BitcoinHunt3r entebah 4-3 HomieAllDay SATWAT 3-2 un_rank vivekdkhyani 2-5 Ozymandias_DZ	Division 4 execijutiere 2-3 welovebit ovcijisir 1-4 goodpunt katanic97 4-0 Woodie Note3 2-3 Hyphen(-) General_Bitcoin 3-6 Dump3er

Round 4 - Results

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Division 1 vd309 5-2 cryptofrka arallmuus 3-4 jayce leea-1334 4-4 cls63 Saint-loup 4-4 notblox1 Slissy 4-4 ulven slaman29 4-2 ralle14 strongkored 3-2 Renato297 Trofo 3-3 buwaytress Harkorede 1-4 Jinetics1111	Division 2 mv1986 4-3 yassinmanai LTU_btc 1-3 Rikafip Kokee44 5-4 VashaUdacha777 mitchr4 1-4 Koal-84 MAAManda 1-3 B1g4udge darxiaomi 2-2 chi20 hakan2217 4-3 Igebotz jeremypwr 2-7 el che hosemary 5-2 LFC_Bitcoin	Division 3 Hhampuz 3-2 Da_Silva imarios 3-0 dbshck Spack17 4-3 paco92x russeras 2-4 famososMuertos BitcoinHunt3r 2-2 Dittoup HomieAllDay 3-1 slackovic un_rank 3-2 ILuckyGuyI Ozymandias_DZ 3-3 entebah vivekdkhyani 4-1 SATWAT	Division 4 goodpunt 4-2 execijutiere Woodie 5-2 welovebit Hyphen(-) 1-2 ovcijisir Dump3er 4-3 katanic97 General_Bitcoin 2-4 Note3

Cro2 team with another fire collaboration, thanks so much for doing this!

A long time coming, and I know I'm not alone in saying this is something a lot of us will be looking forward to. Really good to see this initiative from Sportsbet and Cro2 -- I think it's absolutely fantastic that it's going to be inclusive of other sports and events, looking forward to seeing some of the users active in less-visible sports take part.

Side note: I've applied already, actually lower division start could be cool, reminds me of the 1990s playing with the lowest-ranked team in Football Manager or Winning Eleven and trying to just go all the way up, fairy-tale style.

This just keeps getting interesting by the day, I'm not going to miss out on this for any reason, bring it on guys!

I do hope we get the necessary number of interested participant to make this work out perfectly as you guys wish...

Quote from: LFC_Bitcoin on February 04, 2023, 07:46:40 PM

Seems kinda complicated guys, damn.

I will join though, division 1. Will submit in the official thread soon.

Obviously happy to pay to play.

Seems like it, we know Grin

What it boils down to though is a betting-based Premier league.

We had to cover all the bases with the rules so it looks like a lot to digest but you'll see - once we start, it will be really easy to understand

Quote from: Harkorede on February 04, 2023, 09:57:06 PM

If we don't, we'll just start smaller and see where it takes us. We think it has the potential to be a great competition and that people will want to play as soon as they realize that the rules are not that hard to understand as it might initially seem.
The reward distribution is also set up in a way that everybody gets something - so we hope that attracts some people that are on the sidelines.

Quote from: LFC_Bitcoin on February 04, 2023, 07:46:40 PM

Seems kinda complicated guys, damn.

I will join though, division 1. Will submit in the official thread soon.

Obviously happy to pay to play.

Nice to see you here man. I would advise that you put up that official sign up soon, since we put is as requirement in the rules. You can't really choose Div 1, you have to be "something special" to get placed there. Now you tick all the boxes for division one but there is only 14 positions in division 1 and I am sure we will get more than 14 players that are eligible. Some of them will have to go into Division 2. All that being said I believe you would get a spot even with later sign up but there could be a chance that order of sign up gets important as well.

In other words, don't wait with sign up guys. Rather do it sooner than later.

Congrats on another campaign guys! Looks like a unique approach

I saw this a bit later after I replied in the EPL pool thread. I already signed up, and saw there are many familiar names already there, as I 100% expect, but actually just before me there was 1 new username, so we can see already there are new interested users.

Looks SO good, just looking at tables and already dreaming of titles lol.

Quote from: cryptofrka on February 04, 2023, 10:37:16 PM

What it boils down to though is a betting-based Premier league.

Does this mean quiz rounds will also contain betting options? That would be really good, but hopefully not based on wager if PvP.

Quote from: slaman29 on February 05, 2023, 10:28:14 AM

Quote from: cryptofrka on February 04, 2023, 10:37:16 PM

What it boils down to though is a betting-based Premier league.

Does this mean quiz rounds will also contain betting options? That would be really good, but hopefully not based on wager if PvP.

To be fair I don't know what my colleague wanted to say with that sentence

This will be similar to world cup competition for you guys, we will still have 10 questions per round format. That 10 questions will be mostly football and from football it will be mostly Premier and Champions league. That is the basis but each round will also have few questions from other sports that could challenge you a bit more like F1, American sports, eSports, Cricket, Golf. They are intended to add bit of variety and talking points. Difference from world cup is the league system, H2H matches and promotion/relegation system but that is on us to handle and keep track off and you guys will get familiar with it very soon. It isn't complicated like it looks when put on paper, but you have to do it like that to cover all the basis and everything is transparent.

Regarding actual betting on pairs from our competition, I believe there will be something but not from beginning. In later stages when we have proper derby games and maximum engagement and everybody is comfortable with all the rules.

Let's all enjoy the event. It's a beautiful competition that makes us add information to our cultural stock about sports. We thank the official sponsor of this competition, sportsbet.

What is the starting date for the competition? Participants should prepare for the game from now on right Grin

Quote from: Trofo on February 05, 2023, 10:53:48 AM

To be fair I don't know what my colleague wanted to say with that sentence

I might have been a bit unclear, yeah Grin

What I meant to say is that it will basically work the same as any league, you get your fixtures list and get points after every win or draw.

The 'game' itself is just trying to guess the outcomes of sports results/events in the upcoming week.

I know it seems like a lot to take in, but what I meant to say is that it will be quite easy to understand (and play) after only a few rounds.

Quote from: Ulven on February 05, 2023, 11:46:35 AM

Let's all enjoy the event. It's a beautiful competition that makes us add information to our cultural stock about sports. We thank the official sponsor of this competition, sportsbet.

What is the starting date for the competition? Participants should prepare for the game from now on right Grin

Champions league games, February 13th. We'll notify you before it starts, of course

Oh shit here we go again! (GTA San Dreas meme).

Another tournament to play and more time spending here hahahaha. People in my work couldt be more happy.

Well i hope like i said in another thread to make a better performance than in the World cup.

I also hope to see the common face....

Well this is one hell of a competition. I participated in the FIFA World Cup competition and I really liked it so it's understandable that I'll join this time too. I'm somewhat disappointed with the rather small number of applications. I guess that people here are not used to seeing such complicated competitions, but trust me when I say that it's not that complicated as it looks. At least if the format will be the same as in the FIFA World Cup competition.

Quote from: slackovic on February 06, 2023, 08:39:22 AM

It's only been a day and a half, we're fairly optimistic we'll get enough members

We still have some threads where we'll announce it, SB team will do the same in their thread and in their Clubhouse - there will be 2 leagues for sure at least.

We really want to start with 3 though, and considering that it is mostly free to play for decent rewards, it will fill up eventually.

Thanks for the explanations guys, no worries, the World Cup format was amazing, and I think that was the best thing you could do, everyone loved it and it was highly competitive. CasperBGD, Harkorede, everyone else, we can get a great rematch!

Quote from: cryptofrka on February 06, 2023, 08:48:30 AM

Quote from: slackovic on February 06, 2023, 08:39:22 AM

It's only been a day and a half, we're fairly optimistic we'll get enough members

It only just got announced so I think it's just about getting everyone informed. I would think after pool owners to message all participants we will get higher signups, as you could see even in La Liga pool some people weren't aware. Hard to keep track but I check all the pools every now and then and of course jeremypwr posts Wink

Quote from: slaman29 on February 06, 2023, 10:50:36 AM

Quote from: cryptofrka on February 06, 2023, 08:48:30 AM

Quote from: slackovic on February 06, 2023, 08:39:22 AM

It's only been a day and a half, we're fairly optimistic we'll get enough members

I never participated in pools or other competitions here on the forum so I don't know how fast they fill up with applications. I guess I got used seeing hundreds applications for popular signature campaigns so I expected similar here. I'm sure that most people that participated in the World Cup competition will join here. I don't remember seeing any bad comment about that competition.

Quote from: Trofo on February 05, 2023, 10:53:48 AM

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That is the basis but each round will also have few questions from other sports that could challenge you a bit more like F1, American sports, eSports, Cricket, Golf.

if there is any way to include Basketball (NBA or Euroleague) and tennis, and less Cricket and Golf, I vote on that
not that I am not following Cricket and Golf, but does seem strange to tight schedule to RG and not include tennis in competition Wink

I am in even for Handball and Waterpolo, at least for European competition finals or Championships (World and European)