RankingBall – Fantasy sports and esports bingo
Sports and esports are a major part of many people’s lives, attracting a constantly expanding audience. The ongoing esports boom has been especially spectacular. With this dynamic growth, there has been a corresponding rise in interest in more active forms of audience participation. Sports betting is nothing new, but with the advent of the Internet, i-gaming and fantasy sports have brought this form of active participation to a new level. Clearly, this field has great promise, but obstacles abound. Traditional betting activities and even more so fantasy sports can be difficult and time-consuming to get into, and struggle to attract the younger generations, used to the excitement and quicker satisfaction of modern day mobile and online games.
Enter RankingBall, an innovative project that proposes to revolutionise the way its users engage with sports with an eponymous game app based on blockchain technology.
How the game is played
RankingBall can be downloaded for free from the iOS App Store or the Google Play Store. You pick a sport and a current event, choosing between three different levels of entry fees. Some events are free, with the chance of winning RankingBall Silver (RBS) – “play money” that can also be purchased in the app. The second level requires a small RBS fee. The third level, available only to residents of countries where speculative for-profit gaming is legal, requires fiat money – or RankingBall Gold (RBG), the Ethereum-based token, which can likewise be won as a prize in Silver and Gold-level events or purchased through the ICO and afterwards.
After selecting your game, you will need to fill in a Bingo grid with players selected from a roster of both teams, aligning them in such a way as to maximise your chances of winning. Your score depends on in-game events specific to the sport (such as hits, outs and runs in baseball) happening to the players you’ve selected, with bonuses for the same kind of events happening to players in a single line on the grid. You can watch your score accumulate in real time with the broadcasts, or you can simply check on it after the game is over. The higher your score, the bigger your winnings.
How can you benefit from RankingBall?
As an ordinary user, you can gain more tokens by playing, and enhance your experience of your favourite sports by applying your knowledge of them in an exciting and potentially profitable new way. While RBS can only be used in the app, RBG can be withdrawn and traded, or used outside the platform to support streamers and pro gamers. But game developers and publishers and sports and esports media companies have much to gain as well, as greater audiences are attracted to their products and their coverage – which encourages them to sponsor the project.
What makes RankingBall stand out?
RankingBall is not the only project that combines fantasy sports with blockchain technology. However, it is perhaps the most ambitious and promising one: it covers both sports and esports, and works with many different companies to create a vibrant, developing ecosystem. Its true ace in the hole, though, is the design of the app itself, which combines elements from existing fantasy sports websites with the bingo card format to create an accessible, fast-paced interactive experience. The app also provides real-time data from live events with minimal delay.
What are RankingBall’s main advantages?
A team of seasoned entrepreneurs, developers and experts with a great deal of experience in the mobile and online gaming industries worked on the project for years. Although the ICO itself is yet to begin, RankingBall Inc. has been founded in 2015 and has taken the time to test and refine its platform. Cooperation with partners such as broadcasters and game companies was and still is crucial to its growth. RankingBall already works closely with leading Korean broadcasters and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds; negotiations with American broadcasters and developers of other popular esports titles are ongoing.
Of course, a crucial advantage of the project is the innovative design of the app. RankingBall is a unique mixture of fantasy sports, blockchain technology and online games, creating a new and appealing way of experiencing sports and esports that is more likely to engage younger audiences than older i-gaming venues.
RankingBall relies on blockchain technology to streamline the gaming experience and bypass many of the problems created by the need to follow local rules and regulations, making it more convenient and, at least in theory, available worldwide.
ICO details:
Token Name: RBG Token Contact Address: will be announced 48 hours prior to the Crowdsale Token Exchange Rate: 50,000 RBG = 1 ETH Maximum Sale Goal: 30,000,000 USD ICO Dates: June 4, 2018 (UTC 00:00) – June 24, 2018 (UTC 23:59)A new paradigm in audience participation
RankingBall shows every sign of potential for great growth in the years to come. Integrating i-gaming and blockchain technology is certainly an idea whose time has come, considering its greater convenience for everyone involved, and the advantages of the project put it and its investors in very good position to profit from this emerging niche. Initial success would allow RankingBall to continue expanding to cover more games and events and attract a larger audience, the synergy between it and its partners feeding all parts of a growing ecosystem. As this occurs and as blockchain technology continues to gain wider acceptance, it seems inevitable that the RankingBall model will attract imitators as well. As a result, the face of i-gaming will be transformed, and so will the way many of us engage with sports and esports – making the spectators more directly and more actively involved in these pastimes than ever before.
Links:
Website: https://www.rankingball.io/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RankingBallGold/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RankingBall
Telegram: https://t.me/RankingBall
Medium: https://medium.com/@rankingball
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