Rankingball: Engage, Enjoy and Earn while you eye your favorite games

My Gang and I never leave any of the football league matches. We call ourselves the football junkies shouting at every goal and catcalling at every foul. In the excitement of the game, we often bet and try and predict the outcome of the game. Or else how would Messi perform in the match. And the funny part is that I, a history-sheeter with a personal record of letting my team lose in every game that I have ever been a part of, predict the most accurate results. How I wish I could earn a few bucks out of my sixth sense! And voila! We have the answer as blockchain. With blockchain as the core concept innovators, today are trying every new possible startup. There are blockchain powered platforms for gamers and communities. Rankingball as a startup brings the fans and spectators into the main arena. It is here to unlock a new feature for sports and esports. It has developed the first skill-based game using real-time data from live sports and esports events.

Rankingball has been conducting open beta tests in major sports events such as Korea baseball league, Major league baseball, English premier league and even the NBA tournaments.
It boasts of assuring partnerships with major sports media in Korea such as KBS, SBS and ESPN, CBS and twitch in the US.
In the e world of sports, it is already into closed beta tests with names such as league of legends, counter strike and DOTA 2. There too a partnership with Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds has been established.
Though it will be initiated as an independent platform it will work towards entering into collaborations with game developers, publishers, streamers, and media by the second half of 2018.

How it works?
It works to make the idle spectators as full-fledged participants. Through the platform, the players can engage in Rankingball games while watching live matches. To engage in fun and competition with other players and to earn rewards.
The platform provides for several applications and customizations to enjoy the gaming experience in one's own way. Viewers can create their own tournaments, enter into existing ones and compete against other players all for a small fee.
Since the platform is blockchain based it provides additional benefits such as automatic matchmaking and smart contracts to set up tournaments. Game developers can promote their games through the platform as well. All the transactions within the platform will take place through RBG(Rankingball Gold), its own ERC20 based cryptocurrency. In addition, Players can also buy RBS(Rankingball silver) from ios and android apps.

The real deal and what it offers?
Esports is a relatively new market with huge potential. Its annual worth is estimated at $463 million. There are fantasy sports and real sporting events with a huge aligned industry of strategy prediction which is marred by several drawbacks. Ranking ball through its play-by-play strategy prediction game tries to overcome them.
It focuses on millenials and their wants by making the platform more exciting with real-time interaction strategic game UI and logic.
Optimization to include reward system and gameplay.
A new ecosystem with smart contracts powered by blockchain to include esports media, game developers, and ad sponsors.
Rankingball uses a familiar bingo card interface so that players can navigate easily.
Applicable to nearly all forms of sports/esports and players/teams.

RBG and RBS, and their ICO details
The platform has two currencies: RBG, the Ethereum based cryptocurrency and RBS, the virtual money linked to fiat currency to solve regulation issues. It also offers a loyalty program in partnership with external platforms.
The exchange rate for RBG is fixed at 50,000 RBG= 1 ETH
The hard cap is fixed at 40,000 ETH while the soft cap is fixed at 5,000 ETH.
The ICO started on March 26th and ended on April 19, 2018. The ICO and other related details of RBS will be decided upon the feedback from RBG’s ICO.

Verdict
The platform visions itself as a one-stop platform for all your gaming excitement and needs whether real-time, live streaming or other fantasy and esports. The sports enthusiasts and other investors would highly benefit from investing in their tokens. About 10% of the operating profit will be shared with token holders. 10-15% interest will be paid to token holders to account for POS inflation. Incentives will be granted to external partners as well. There will be special contests special contests only for token holders during major events such as World cup.
All in all, the multitude of collaborations with big partners and 4 years of testing provides a solid ground for trust in its cryptocurrencies.
For users, it combines many features into one bingo game inspired interface to provide one of its kind experience along with the reward system. The platform boasts to be at least 2 years ahead of its counterparts. Investors and users can look up to put their stakes in the blockchain powered transparent platform that aims to forego limitations of traditional platforms and inculcate a new breed of gamers and gaming horizons.

Website: http://rankingball.io/
Whitepaper: https://www.scribd.com/document/372502435/RBG-White-Paper-English-v0-981

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