Introduction:
Football (or soccer) is probably the most famous sport around the world. With over 3,5 billion fans around the globe it is one of the biggest industries with the most supporters in the world. No wonder games like FIFA or Pro Evolution Soccer are played daily by millions of fans either on the PC or on the consoles.
With the current FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia ongoing, I thought it would be a great idea to introduce a new project on the blockchain for all football fans out there. The project is called "Strykz".
What Is Strykz?
Strykz is a cryptocurrency token for all the football fans, which builds on the already existing fantasy football game called "Football-Stars". Check out the game here: https://football-stars.com/
The game is powered by the sports magazine "Kicker", which is very famous here in Germany. (PS: I'm a Kicker reader myself for many years). On Football-Stars you can build your dream team of football players and compete with others on weekly football events or tournaments to win Strykz tokens. Additionally to earning tokens for beeing successful in the game, people who are actively contributing to the community for example by creating new challenges or organizing events, will be rewarded with tokens. Strykz tokens can be used either for specific features in the game, such as unlocking the VIP status for special accesses, trading for football goods or simply can be exchanged for other tokens outside the game, giving you the opportunity to not only have fun with playing the game, but also earn money when successful.
How Does Football-Stars Work?
Football-Stars is currently focusing on the European football league and the Bundesliga, with in the future more leagues to come. With an existing official Bundesliga license, showing that the project is fully serious, Strykz aims to combine fantasy football with the blockchain technology. Players can select for each game a number of football-players to manage their team. With real time data of the performance from the football-players, for example when they are playing their match in the Bundesliga, each player gets a determined score based on his performance of the match. Based on the players you have chosen, your team performance will add up. The player, which has chosen the best team with the overall highest performance score wins the contest and can collect the largest amount of Strykz-Tokens from the pool. The application for Football-Stars is not only available for PC, but also for Android and iOS.
You can register on Football-Stars here and join the game now: Click here to register
The ICO:
Strykz is currently doing their ICO (Initial Coin Offering) in order to raise funds for development, marketing and operation costs. In exchange for Ethereum or Bitcoin, "STRY" tokens can be acquired. Here are some information regarding the tokensale:
- The public sale starts on the 27th June and ends on the 29th July
- 1 STRY is worth 0.0001 ETH
- Softcap is set at 4,000,000 USD and Hardcap is set at 20,000,000 USD
- Currently accepted payment method are ETH and BTC with more to come
The Team Behind Strykz:
Below you can find the team working behind the Strykz project. From left to right you can see the CFO Hong Thieu, then the founder and CEO Dirk Weyel and lastly the Co-founder and CTO Christian Szymanski. To get more information regarding the team, you can head to the website https://www.strykz.io/ and check out their profiles on linkedin.
The Roadmap:
Below you can find the roadmap for Strykz. The Football-Stars 2.0 with token functionalities is expected to be launched this year between Q3 and Q4. For the first quarter of next year, Strykz aims to launch on the asian market.
Why Getting On The Asian Market Is A Big Deal?
The asian market is huge. Especially China, but also Japan and Korea have a lot of football fans and people there love to play online games to compete with each other. Furthermore they love blockchain and most of the trading volume on crypto exchanges is coming from asian countries. Asia is in general more open for blockchain adoption than the rest of the world (except for the current situation of some restrictions in China). Entering this market in asia will bring a lot of exposure to this project and it help to grow.
Why Will Strykz Be Successfull?
- They have an existing game platform "Football-Stars" already established
- They have an official Bundesliga (Germany League) license
- They have Luis Figo, the famous ex portugese football player as ambassador
- They will expand onto the asian market in 2019
- They have a great team behind the project
- They are the first soccer-based-game on the blockchain
- No language barrier, since sports connects all kinds of culture
My Opinion:
Strykz is a super interesting project blockchain for football fans, which looks like a lot of fun. With their already established game "Football-Stars", the project already has a great basis on which they can develop on. Furthermore the great partnerships with Kicker and more will give the team a great boost regarding exposure and new user registrations. Overall, as a football fan, I'm very excited about this project. So stay tuned for updates regarding the Strykz project, which I will post (for example a tutorial).
Further Information:
Want to know more about the Strykz project? Take a look at their official website and their whitepaper for more information. Also subscribe to their official communication channels to stay up to date. Any questions, feel free to comment below.
Website: https://www.strykz.io/
Whitepaper: https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/strykz-ico/STRYKZ_Whitepaper.pdf
Twitter: https://twitter.com/STRYKZ_Official
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Strykz.io/
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/HQP1AhLpDJA3XLRWpcvagg
My Bitcointalk Profile (Rano): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1609093
My ETH: 0xFc58f16Ab51A635fdb06b4Db14E59ad994884AD7