FCFL, the fan-controlled football league, is a project that unites real sports with digital technologies for users to enjoy engaging games and guide the development of football. The platform prototype has already been created, and the team behind FCFL has already organized one football team together with the fans. This is the first project in the history of sports where the fans take decisions about the strategy of the game, team’s logo and players, and so on.
The Idea Behind FCFL
What many football fans lack is engagement: instead of participating in games they have to be simply spectators who cannot control the game anyhow. With FCFL, everything changes! Now the fans are in charge of everything: they can select the team composition, logo, uniform, strategy of games and so on. Moreover, the team’s performance on the field will also be controlled by fans in real time. That makes the games more exciting and engaging.
Are the teams real? Yes! Fan-controlled football league will consist of eight teams that play for real. In fact, every person who has necessary qualification can become a player – regional try-outs will be organized in the future. The fans will also be able to select trainers.
Users
Any person can register in FCFL as a fan to participate in voting – this is how the decisions will be taken. Users can be involved in the process of team creation and strategy elaboration, and watch streamed sports events. They will be able to contribute to the development of sports, and some of them will be rewarded.
As for the league’s teams, they will consist of real people. Only legit players can apply – the team will consist of athletes who have the experience of playing football or have a corresponding degree. Coaches will also be chosen for the teams.
Technical realization
FCFL project is based on blockchain that allows for fast data distribution and better reliability. Blockchain makes games more democratic: users will be able to vote in real time and be sure that votes cannot be faked. Besides, FAN token will be introduced to reward viewers and players. Initially, the players will compete for $1.000.000 prize pool.
The games will be streamed with minimal downtime – FCFL project has received a lot of offers from US major streaming service providers and will organize high-quality broadcasting for tens of millions of users. They will be able to decide upon the strategy of the game and cast votes in real time.
In order to ensure better convenience during streaming, the game rules were slightly changed. First, FCFL team has decided to make the field a bit smaller. Secondly, a game lasts for an hour and has a 5-minute break. There are no extra points and field goals. Thanks to these rules, the game will go faster, and the number of penalties may decrease significantly.
FCFL Development Team
This is a US-based project that’s being elaborated by successful entrepreneurs, football players, and specialists in the sphere of blockchain, streaming, IT, marketing, etc. The founders have rich experience in both sports and business, which gives them a clear vision of what should be done to promote the platform and make it optimal for users and players. The team has already made a tremendous work – they’ve managed to create the first fan-controlled group called Salt Lake Screaming Eagles. It has attracted attention of millions of viewers from all over the world and support of large enterprises.
ICO
The main token sale is expected to start in the first half of 2018 (supposedly, May 2018) – the date hasn’t been announced yet. The whitepaper claims the sale will be announced on the website one day before it starts – it’s very inconvenient, and the team can simply miss the potential investors. Without prior notification via several sources, FCFL risks to lose the majority of contributors.
The details of sale haven’t been revealed yet. According to the information on the website, 40% of all emitted tokens will be available for the public sale. Pre-sale was organized in December 2017 – its outcomes aren’t revealed. Potential buyers can get whitelisted for the sale. Participation in referral program can bring up to 100$ equal FAN tokens.
Token distribution
The rest 60% of tokens will go for founders, developers, and employees (20%), as well as partnerships (20%) and FCFL marketing development (20%).
Funds will be distributed the following way:
- technology development – 25%;
- development of league and team – 30%;
- operation & technology – 15%;
- marketing & customer acquisition – 15%;
- professional service – 10%;
- oversights – 5%.
Bottom line
Although FCFL promises to become a very successful project, it’s not so attractive for investors yet, because ICO details aren’t revealed. There’s no hard or soft cap stated, no minimal and maximum personal cap or token price specified. The fact that the public sale will be announced 1 day before the event makes forecasting and calculating profit absolutely impossible.
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