There is a lot of talk about @SportsPodium doing the first token sale right here on Steemit. Today I want to write another of my In Laymen's terms posts but this time I want to to explain what SportsPodium is all about.
Levelling the playing field
When I came back from the United Kingdom after working there for a few years, I bumped into an old school friend, who must've been one of the greatest sportsmen I ever met. To put it in perspective, during the 12 years we were at school, he earned provincial colors 14 times in 5 Sporting disciplines. For me it was a no-brainer that he would've received his national colors in one of the sporting disciplines, but this never happened. The sad thing is that it was not his fault. His only problem was that he lived in a small little town, and was never seen by the larger team scouts. Today he is actually Age group Champion for Shot Put, 4th place in the last World Championship for Decathlon, 6th in the World with Weight pentathlon, 5th in the world for Discuss.
I am a problem solver at heart and solved problems for many organisations using technology. I then decided to apply my trade to this specific problem:
Question : How do use technology to level the playing field, to assist upcoming sports talent from small towns and the likes to be more noticeable? The answer: It is all about data!
I think we all understand that data is very important in today's world. The problem which I initially had, was to find a way to collect this data, and it is a massive amount of data we are talking about.
Data of every athlete, at every club or school, every sports result, every fitness stat, training stats, training information, dietary information. Well, basically anything sports related.
The Problem -The Sports People, Clubs, Schools and all relevant stakeholders are dispersed around the world. It is not like I can pick up the phone and ask them for their data :)
I have been looking into sports data for many years. I spoke to schools/ clubs around the world and spoke to thousands of athletes from various sporting disciplines. You will not believe how poor the sports information is managed all across the globe: Sports and Match statistics are either emailed or even worse, still faxed from the clubs and schools to the sporting bodies.
The sporting bodies are supposed to file this in databases, or even old filing cabinets. Well, in a lot of cases this does not happen, and this data disappears. Please try and find basic information like - How many international swimmers are there world-wide? Or what is the World Record for U 7 Girls running the 60 metres.
The SportsPodium Solution
Our target audience is not the sports person that has made it. Our target audience is the younger generation, those still at school and practicing sport. These kids are well versed in social media technology and we are developing a new social media application which will allow them to enter their sporting information on a daily basis.
Don't get me wrong, we are not only looking for the young upcoming stars, we are looking for everyone that participates any sport to provide their information. Even those that will not become stars in the end.
We are building the largest sporting database in the world, by rewarding sportspeople for their contribution with crypto tokens directly into their crypto wallets.
Many households with kids at school has the same problem as me. Sports goes through different seasons in the year. Every season I need to buy new sporting equipment for my kids, as next year they grow which means new clothes and in some cases theydecide to play different sports :)
Parents and Sports people will have the ability to buy Sporting Equipment from a localised online shop, which accepts our token - PODS.
We will build the technology for the online shops, but anyone in the community can decide to start a shop in their area, for their own profit.
We will have various revenue streams to ensure we can grow the network, but most importantly these revenue stream will be shared with the participants in the network.
Do you think somebody like Nike or Adidias, would like to advertise to a captured sporting audience?
In my opinion they would be interested, but at SportsPodium we will be different. We will not take all the advertising money like Google and Facebook, because we are on a Blockchain and therefor have the ability to distribute crypto tokens, from where we can enable smart contracts to share parts of revenue streams back to the wider community participants.
Just think if you have 6 years of information in your sporting CV, and you have the ability to share this information with a University or Club in another region or country?
Blockchain's are amazing and we now have the ability to ensure we can share rewards back to the community from the various revenue streams. Please feel free to ask any question in the comments section. I will try my best to answer as soon as I can.
Happy Steeming!
Please feel free to buy some pods using SBD or Steem by selecting this link or by doing a direct transfer to our @SportsPodium Steem Wallet.
Its great to see how versatile the blockchain technology can be! Thanks for sharing this awesome article to highlight this!
Thank you very much @fury123. It is really only the start. I can write books about how we are going to apply this technology in the sporting industry ... for a start :) I have been solving business problems using technology all my life and Blockchain technology is seriously life changing :) We can now solve all sorts of real world problems.
interesting
Thanks a lot @untrackable
Hello.
I will certainly look into your project. I find it totally familiar.
I was working for Slovenian Sports Office in years 1996 to 2005. We established a national platform for sports information and included everyone involved. From sportspeople, clubs and societies, federations, OC, ministry, recreational sports, ... everybody! Results, events, structures, participation, evaluation, categorization. All that on the local and national level. The whole package :)
Commerical usage was not encouraged then. Now the times are different :)
We did it old fashioned way - with web application and Oracle database. The stuff is still working :)
I was also a part of IASI - International Association of Sports Information. An umbrella organization for sports related data. Lots of great people, true experts there.
Yes, it would be great to use this new age technology for sports data.
Hi @ervin-lemark,
This is wonderful to hear. We would love to chat to you more about this? We have various forums on chat groups. It would be wonderful if you could pop into our Telegram group: https://t.me/SportsPodiumPublic
It is Friday afternoon here so most of the team are probably having a beer somewhere :) But we will chat to you over the weekend.
OK and gladly. It looks like the weekend will be rainy. I will check the chat from time to time.
Take care :)
Ps: I had to install Telegram app on the phone to be able to join the group :) OK, first step taken. I am in now.
That was very interesting, thanks for sharing @ervin-lemark. We would definitely love to talk some more to you.
@jacor,
Actually I heard about this token two-three days before! But today I could get a clear idea about the upcoming project! Wow this is great, yeah I mean it! I hope this block chain will come up with newest technologies and you will bring a powerful eco system as well! I think this is a good opportunity to be a part of this great project at this level and it might be a very successful crypto based system as well!
Thank you very much for sharing such great information! Really appreciate your effort!
Cheers~
Thank you for the kind words @theguruasia. I am glad that I explained well. Please follow @sportspodium, there is many exciting things about to happen. We are working very hard in the background to make this happen. We are running a Pre-tokensale to provide Steemit users the opportunity to buy PODS with Steem and Steem Dollars before we go out on the main tokensale. You get a whopping 50% bonus when you buy now :) Please feel free to buy some pods using SBD or Steem by selecting this link or by doing a direct transfer to our @SportsPodium Steem Wallet. When you do a direct transfer we will issue your pods at the Ether price a the time you are purchasing the PODS.
Good post and information about SportsPodium i like thank you for sharing.
Great post in technology like it!
Thanks a lot :)
Thank you for this informative post! :D
It is a great pleasure @dean101
Oh, I get it now. Thanks for the clear explanation.
Great man. Thanks for the comment @summertooth
well directly coming to sporting audience question and yeah if Floyd mayweather can support crypto why not Adidas or any other sporting brand i mean the options are there :D
LOL That is very true. Thank you for a great comment @blazing :)
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'interesting concept' i think i'll give a try. and i think the proof type of the work is 'PoW'. impressive work & very informative @jacor
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@jacor - well written FAQ of SportSpodium. Now I could get a clear idea about this impressive project. A great concept is behind this project. Respect your thinking Sire. Therefore, I wish to ReSteem your post Sire.
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Thanks very much @steemwija.
The images are totally unreadable.
Apologies, not in control of the size of the image on Steemit. But just opened on my mobile and when I zoom it is fine. Have a great weekend @littleboy
Yes, that works. I think steem should expand the image on clicking it. I hope steemdevs will add this feature soon.
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Amazing post. thanks for your posting.
Thanks man
very cool looking platform
Thanks a lot 👌
wow great post dear friend.
Hi @jacor, that's really a great idea.
Especially for sports which are not well known in public it's a great way to have a network so everybody knows where he or she stands.
For example, there are many weightlifters who are above provincial level and win every single event, but for some reason never made it to the national level. A database like this would help a lot and would enhence performence.
Wow, I thought I had a pretty good understanding of SportsPodium, until I just read this. You did an amazing job breaking everything down. Most importantly exactly how it will work, and how the tokens will have value and hopefully accumulate more value. Being a huge sports fan I might have to make a move now with these bonus thru Steemit. I had been waiting it out but have a lot more excitement afte reading this. Thanks for a great read!
I am very interested to see how this will work on the amateur level here in the states. I also believe that @sportspodium could help the many American professional athletes that are looking to market themselves to clubs and teams overseas. As an American professional basketball player that plays abroad overseas, i sometimes find it very hard for the casual fan and supporter to have any idea my statistics or information on the leagyes that I am playing in, thus making it hard to market myself during and at the end of the season to other clubs, teams, and agents around the world. I am interested in learning more.
Congratulations!!
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