SPORTSTEEM LAUNCHES TODAY – $150 IN PRIZES FOR NFL AND MLB CONTESTS

sportsteem (56)in #sports • 7 years ago (edited)

SportSteem is now live!

UnVig, LLC is pleased to announce the launch of the SportSteem prediction network, giving sports fans and prognosticators an exciting new way to make picks, track them, and be rewarded for their accuracy. 100% free to use, SportSteem leverages Steem to create a new sports platform for users – just in time for Week 4 of the NFL season!

Your Prediction Record on the Blockchain

At UnVig, we’re very serious about predictions and improving the industry through free information, transparency, and most of all the opportunity to profit from your passions. That’s why we love Steem, and SportSteem’s goal is to help organize and elevate the value in the sports content produced by our amazing community.

Simply put, SportSteem is the first and easiest way to track your sports prediction record on the Steem blockchain. We hope you’ll share your expertise, learn from your fellow fans and handicappers, and leverage your record to gain massive upvotes.

Starting right now you can track your MLB and NFL picks, with NBA and NHL to follow as their regular seasons commence.

Earn More with SportSteem

In any profession or hobby, it pays to have a good reputation. Our team has been predicting games for over a decade, and we know how passionate the legions of sports fans are about getting it right. Now that the world understands how important the blockchain is for tracking information in a fair and immutable way, it’s time to get serious about predictions and let the experts rise to the top. SportSteem’s role is to facilitate that goal by providing tools and making sure the incentives are great enough to attract top talent.

If you have a good record, our hope and expectation is that you’ll get more Steem blockchain rewards. But the opportunities with SportSteem don’t end there.

We are sponsoring free contests to get things started - keep reading for details - and will be upvoting all valid predictions. Last but not least, we’re going to actively promote - through community updates by @sportsteem - the top 10 users whose picks are providing positive returns!

Make Your Picks

Making your picks is simple. All you have to do is create a Steem blog post about your prediction, then add the relevant tags so your pick can be tracked.

We support moneyline picks - #ml; spread picks - #spread; and totals - #over and #under.

Your team choices use standard 2- and 3-letter abbreviations like #ne (New England Patriots) or #laa (Los Angeles Angels). See the bottom of this post for a full list of team tags.

In most cases, such as #stl (St. Louis Cardinals or St. Louis Blues), an abbreviation can mean more than one thing, so simply include a league tag - #mlb or #nhl in this case - and you’re all set!

IMPORTANT: Your first prediction must include the #sportsteem tag. After that it’s optional. Think of this as registration -- we require this so that anyone who doesn’t want to be tracked, isn’t tracked.

EXAMPLE: With Thursday Night Football kicking off NFL Week 4 tonight, let’s take a look at the possible picks for the contest and how you can use Steem tags to track them with SportSteem. (We’ll assume this is your first pick with us, therefore #sportsteem is mandatory).

Chicago Bears (Moneyline) - All Valid and Equivalent

“sportsteem nfl chi ml”
“sportsteem nfl chi” (when choosing moneyline, the #ml tag is always optional)

Chicago Bears (Spread)

“sportsteem nfl chi spread”

Green Bay Packers (Moneyline) - All Valid and Equivalent

“sportsteem nfl gb ml”
“sportsteem nfl gb”
“sportsteem gb” (because #gb implies #nfl, the league tag can be omitted)

Green Bay Packers (Spread) - All Valid and Equivalent

“sportsteem nfl gb spread”
“sportsteem gb spread”

Bears / Packers (Over) - All Valid and Equivalent

“sportsteem nfl chi gb over”
“sportsteem nfl gb over”
“sportsteem nfl chi over”
“sportsteem chi gb over”
“sportsteem gb over”

Bears / Packers (Under) - All Valid and Equivalent

“sportsteem nfl chi gb under”
“sportsteem nfl gb under”
“sportsteem nfl chi under”
“sportsteem chi gb under”
“sportsteem gb under”

SportSteem will do the rest! After the game is over, SportSteem will even congratulate you if you’ve picked correctly.

A Few Simple Rules

Every pick is recorded as a 1-unit (risked) wager. We currently display decimal odds (e.g 1.91), so the win amount is equal to the odds minus 1. And if your pick loses, you lost 1 unit.
You can’t make the same pick twice, or pick spread and moneyline on the same team in the same game. Just give us your best pick.
You can pick an over / under and a side - spread or moneyline - on the same game

Measure Yourself on the SportSteem.com Leaderboard

SportSteem’s pick-tracking functionality allows you to measure yourself against other Steemians. SportSteem will maintain an up-to-date leaderboard that reflects the best pick-records at any given time. Flex your sports knowledge, make your picks, and compete with the best sports minds on Steem.

Check it out at sportsteem.com/leaderboards!

Starting September 28, 2017, SportSteem is also introducing two new contests:

Monthly NFL Challenge

Starting with Week 4, anyone that makes at least one NFL pick with SportSteem will be entered into the SportSteem Monthly NFL Challenge. At the end of Week 8, SportSteem will award $100 (Steem Dollars - SBD) to the users with the most units earned - 70 SBD to 1st, 30 SBD to 2nd.

MLB Playoff Challenge:

Starting TODAY SportSteem is also hosting an MLB Playoff Challenge – counting all picks made between today and the end of postseason. After the last World Series game is played, SportSteem will award $50 (SBD) to the users with the most units earned- 30 SBD to 1st, 20 SBD to 2nd.

Stay tuned for more updates!

DISCLAIMERS: SportSteem utilizes third-party services, such as SteemDB, in order to communicate with the Steem blockchain. Service outages may occur which could impact SportSteem’s ability to log picks. SportSteem disclaims any liability for a failure to log a pick, whether due to the fault of SportSteem, one of the services it utilizes, or otherwise. Regardless of our ability to track your pick, it is always saved on the blockchain.

Moneylines and spreads are sourced from Unibet.com. While SportSteem endeavours to accurately apply the moneyline/spread available at the time a user makes a pick, SportSteem disclaims any liability for applying a different moneyline/spread than a user may have intended to apply.