Football fans are known to be extremely devoted and enthusiastic, as well as numerous. Every year fans travel thousands of kilometers to support their favorite rosters, players, or their national teams. It shows how much people care, and how much they desire to be as close as possible to football as a game and as a sport. Unfortunately, not everyone can be a professional player, coach or manager.
In order to satisfy the needs of football fans, different fantasy football platforms have been created, where you can take on a role of a manager and create your perfect team. Every season these teams compete with each other, taking into account the real life performance and state of the players they chose. These kinds of fantasy sports leagues have gained a lot of popularity in recent years, with around 60 million active players in the US and Canada alone.
In 2017 a new fantasy football platform has been launched, attracting players around the globe with their innovative features. Developed by Stryking Entertainment, a German team led by Dirk Weyel, Football-Stars aims to solve the problem of seasonal popularity of similar games with introducing two separate modes. Challenge mode and Manager mode offer distinct gameplay to involve your assembled team in, with the real life data to back it up.
The success of Football-Stars was in a large part due to its free-to-play, Coins and Stars loyalty systems. Without much initial investment, players can access most of the game, and only opt-in for premium in order to receive gameplay perks, real-life merchandise and other exclusive items. Of course another source of revenue is advertising.
Despite an already thriving game, Stryking Entertainment realized that they could do a lot more for the players by introducing a cryptocurrency and blockchain to the platform. STRYKZ token will not replace either of the existing currencies, but supplement them. Players will complete token-based challenges, get access to in-development features early, enter the VIP club and enjoy other exclusive content. The community will be able to receive STRYKZ as a reward for content creation, bringing new users to Football-Stars, etc. Thanks to the security and transparency of blockchain, the players will have a way to earn STRYKZ tokens by playing others for it, if they so choose.
The end-goal of the implementation of STRYKZ token economy is to expand the functionality of the platform, for example: creation of user governed challenges and contests, regular jackpots for all users, interactions with real-life football players, bringing Football-Stars to the rest of the world by translating it into many languages.
Later down the line, Stryking Entertainment wants to license three platform services to any fantasy sports gaming developers, brands or businesses.
- Partial platform will allow third parties to create smaller games within the Football-Stars platform.
- White label will allow to utilize the platform locally, by creating an application on the Stryking code base.
- And finally, PaaS integration provides all the tools needed for a creation of a separate fantasy sports game, that will benefit from all the same features that Football-Stars encompasses.
All these measures and partnerships will inevitably lead to an increase in demand for STRYKZ token. Subsequently, even more places will accept it as payment for their services, making STRYKZ a universal sports fan token.
STRYKZ token economy will have many uses, but to start with Stryking outlines the following:
- user created challenges
- purchasing in-game content and features
- users rewarded for content contribution
- users rewarded for inviting others
- bug testing and other development assistance
- token circulation in partnered systems
The STRYKZ token itself is an Ethereum based ERC-20 standard token, with the hard cap of the sale being set for 45,000 ETH. If you would like to participate in the token sale, get more information about the project, or talk to the developers directly, please check out the links provided below. You can also try Football-Stars for yourself, as it is available on PC, iOS and Android.
Stryking Entertainment is a company with deep insight into how gaming, sports and business intertwined in the modern age. Now they take the opportunity to enhance their vision even more by running an ICO. Clearly, there is a great potential for growth and financial success, and STRYKZ token might just become an essential token given time.
What are your thoughts about fantasy sports? How popular is football in your country? Would you be interested in a cryptocurrency like STRYKZ?
Tell me in the comments below.
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gaming projects get a lot more funds than I ever expected. between AR games and fantasy sports, it seems there is a lot of money in the gaming industry
fantasy sports will grow a lot more for sure, especially with blockchain
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France won this year and my fantasy team rekt so hard because of that :D
Really liked the idea of Strykz from the start, but this is much better than I thought it would turn out