The registration site and wallet system is nearly complete, we intend to open registration today via social media and various other means, we will keep the community updated as we proceed.
How are you planning to promote/market this beyond the members of the bitshare community?
Is this a cs tourney?
I imagine this getting more popular by getting it done at universities too. If you do it from X to X months, rotating universities. Then doing this every year to gather even a bigger crowd... It could get popular.
Specially if you find some team or famous players/streamers to sponsor this.
How are you planning to promote/market this beyond the members of the bitshare community?
awesome question, the key marketing platforms we are using are:
Twitch
Gaming forums
Via sharebits:
we have a detailed marketing plan laid out which we are more than happy to share, we are working closely with @eagleeye in this regard,
perhaps he and @Freebieservers can shed more light.
wow that has a very nice look! Only thing missing might be a Freebies logo there or on the background with transparency to go with the theme, after all, you need your brand to be recognized right? I would also suggest the BitShares logo even if small and discrete.
I remember reading an older post from AK (Vote) about contributing to e-gaming. Is that still the case?
new banner is ready :D
(http://i.imgur.com/NfpAQJD.png)I remember reading an older post from AK (Vote) about contributing to e-gaming. Is that still the case?
@Xypher knows more about that than I
new banner is ready :D
(http://i.imgur.com/NfpAQJD.png)I remember reading an older post from AK (Vote) about contributing to e-gaming. Is that still the case?
@Xypher knows more about that than I
Good deal, here's the link:
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,19554.msg250932.html#msg250932
Very excited to see E-sports find it's way to Bitshares.
so uh.. anyone up for a team?
360-noskill here
so uh.. anyone up for a team?
360-noskill here
I'm down, but you will have to deal with me screaming expletives as I get killed over and over again.
1st - I really like THAT!
2nd - I would attend if it were not CS but R6Siege.
3rd - IMHO prize should be bitUSD not BTS.
4th - Don't think the date is well chosen, because of holidays.
5th - Not sure if betting in any kind without permission is legal in germany, so I'm not able to advertise this directly.
However keep it up! +5%
Nice! just curious .. Xypher renamed from freebieserver before, right?
Sadly, we have had zero donations come so far and that's a little sad :)It's long ago that I gave up on hoping for donations too.
Sadly, we have had zero donations come so far and that's a little sad :)It's long ago that I gave up on hoping for donations too.
Since then my life is much happier. ^^
1st - I really like THAT!
2nd - I would attend if it were not CS but R6Siege.
3rd - IMHO prize should be bitUSD not BTS.
4th - Don't think the date is well chosen, because of holidays.
5th - Not sure if betting in any kind without permission is legal in germany, so I'm not able to advertise this directly.
However keep it up! +5%
Nice! just curious .. Xypher renamed from freebieserver before, right?
What would donations go towards? I'd gladly donate to a crowd fund to increase the grand prize payout.
Am I wrong in assuming that that would be the best way to get more attention for this tourney?
@Xypher , I'm happy you are doing this.
As I not not a big fan of these kind of things (i.e. I'm not your target), I can offer you a more objective feed-back.
Nowhere on your website (at least I did not find it after 2-3 minutes of browsing) do you say what this is all about.
What kind of tournament is this? What is e-sport? How do people compete? Do they play some kind of on-line game?
Bitshares CS:GO Tournament!It says it on the first page.
@Xypher , I'm happy you are doing this.
As I not not a big fan of these kind of things (i.e. I'm not your target), I can offer you a more objective feed-back.
Nowhere on your website (at least I did not find it after 2-3 minutes of browsing) do you say what this is all about.
What kind of tournament is this? What is e-sport? How do people compete? Do they play some kind of on-line game?QuoteBitshares CS:GO Tournament!It says it on the first page.
CS:GO = CounterStrike Global Offensive
It is one of the biggest e-sports titles after League of Legends and Dota 2
It also has a huge betting and in-game item economy
here is my favourite clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg6TQy6pGfs to get an idea how it looks like :P
@Xypher , I'm happy you are doing this.
As I not not a big fan of these kind of things (i.e. I'm not your target), I can offer you a more objective feed-back.
Nowhere on your website (at least I did not find it after 2-3 minutes of browsing) do you say what this is all about.
What kind of tournament is this? What is e-sport? How do people compete? Do they play some kind of on-line game?QuoteBitshares CS:GO Tournament!It says it on the first page.
CS:GO = CounterStrike Global Offensive
It is one of the biggest e-sports titles after League of Legends and Dota 2
It also has a huge betting and in-game item economy
here is my favourite clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg6TQy6pGfs to get an idea how it looks like :P
OK, so here is your chance to target people who don't know what CS:GO is and why it is so much fun to play it.
Unless it's your marketing decision to ignore this target.
Thanks, @Xypher
And what about this question:
Do I need to pay anything to enroll a team and become a participant? If so - how much?
What is your business model? Who funds the rewards?
And if CS:GO is so popular, I'm sure there are already online tournaments like yours.
What USP did you achieve by doing it with BitShares?
Thanks, @Xypher
And what about this question:
Do I need to pay anything to enroll a team and become a participant? If so - how much?
What is your business model? Who funds the rewards?
And if CS:GO is so popular, I'm sure there are already online tournaments like yours.
What USP did you achieve by doing it with BitShares?
1. Currently entry is free to participants. Each team comes with 5 participants and they are allocated a BTS wallet (the fee for which we pay).
2. Rewards and operations are currently sponsored by the people we endorse. Currently FMV is our key sponsor and am trying to reel in more people.
3. Cs:GO is indeed popular, but the crypto-integration is relatively new. In addition, this gives them an early taste of our E-sports betting platform and in-game item marketplace. The most important aspect of BTS integration is probably the zero wait time confirmation that will eventually allow gamers to transfer money for their daily activities.
Regards
Thanks, @Xypher
And what about this question:
Do I need to pay anything to enroll a team and become a participant? If so - how much?
What is your business model? Who funds the rewards?
And if CS:GO is so popular, I'm sure there are already online tournaments like yours.
What USP did you achieve by doing it with BitShares?
1. Currently entry is free to participants. Each team comes with 5 participants and they are allocated a BTS wallet (the fee for which we pay).
2. Rewards and operations are currently sponsored by the people we endorse. Currently FMV is our key sponsor and am trying to reel in more people.
3. Cs:GO is indeed popular, but the crypto-integration is relatively new. In addition, this gives them an early taste of our E-sports betting platform and in-game item marketplace. The most important aspect of BTS integration is probably the zero wait time confirmation that will eventually allow gamers to transfer money for their daily activities.
Regards
That's good.
You should advertise it clearly then that participation is free but still you can win something. It's an important piece of information for the user.
Thanks, @Xypher
And what about this question:
Do I need to pay anything to enroll a team and become a participant? If so - how much?
What is your business model? Who funds the rewards?
And if CS:GO is so popular, I'm sure there are already online tournaments like yours.
What USP did you achieve by doing it with BitShares?
1. Currently entry is free to participants. Each team comes with 5 participants and they are allocated a BTS wallet (the fee for which we pay).
2. Rewards and operations are currently sponsored by the people we endorse. Currently FMV is our key sponsor and am trying to reel in more people.
3. Cs:GO is indeed popular, but the crypto-integration is relatively new. In addition, this gives them an early taste of our E-sports betting platform and in-game item marketplace. The most important aspect of BTS integration is probably the zero wait time confirmation that will eventually allow gamers to transfer money for their daily activities.
Regards
That's good.
You should advertise it clearly then that participation is free but still you can win something. It's an important piece of information for the user.
interesting, I was under the impression freebieservers had more influence. in the end 0 teams signed up...?
interesting, I was under the impression freebieservers had more influence. in the end 0 teams signed up...?
(https://i.gyazo.com/497729b44436d51e19ad64ed3f56c39f.png)
We've been solely focusing on gamebet.gg for the past few days. This is metric from 2 days of taking sign ups.
I decided not to move forward with the tournament until we launched 2 key projects (gamebet & gambit) as they use Bitshares heavily and it made no sense to have the tournament until the projects were launched. I'll get back to promoting Bitshares as these pieces fall in place.
We had close to 400 bets being placed in our alpha test mode. I'll share metrics later.
Regards
interesting, I was under the impression freebieservers had more influence. in the end 0 teams signed up...?
(https://i.gyazo.com/497729b44436d51e19ad64ed3f56c39f.png)
We've been solely focusing on gamebet.gg for the past few days. This is metric from 2 days of taking sign ups.
I decided not to move forward with the tournament until we launched 2 key projects (gamebet & gambit) as they use Bitshares heavily and it made no sense to have the tournament until the projects were launched. I'll get back to promoting Bitshares as these pieces fall in place.
We had close to 400 bets being placed in our alpha test mode. I'll share metrics later.
Regards
Thanks as always for providing us the info :)
I just saw this great project today, @Xypher awesome
do you have the plan for the prediction market's backend?
I have thought something like this before, here is my way:
1. issue 16 smart assets: BET1, BET2, .... BET16, reserved by USD.(or CNY/TCNY, because lack of USD now)
2. the initial price is both 16CNY/BETX
3. after 1st round, there are 8 winers and 8 losers, change loser's price to 8CNY/BTS.
4. enable force settle.
5. after the period of force settle, start a new round, disable force settle, change all 16 asset's price to 8CNY/BETX
as a player, for example I bet BET1 win BET2, I should borrow BET2, and sell BET2 for BET1 at a price from 0.5~2.
the benifit for this is you can reuse these assets, everyone should ask for settle, because the price allways /2
I have test the whole steps in test chain, it's run perfectly.
[/shadow]426#msg274426 date=1453793460]
sorry,it's my misunderstanding,
I thought you are developing a prediction market.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1341388.msg13681240#msg13681240
I'd appreciate some love here :)
I just saw this great project today, @Xypher awesome
do you have the plan for the prediction market's backend?
I have thought something like this before, here is my way:
1. issue 16 smart assets: BET1, BET2, .... BET16, reserved by USD.(or CNY/TCNY, because lack of USD now)
2. the initial price is both 16CNY/BETX
3. after 1st round, there are 8 winers and 8 losers, change loser's price to 8CNY/BTS.
4. enable force settle.
5. after the period of force settle, start a new round, disable force settle, change all 16 asset's price to 8CNY/BETX
as a player, for example I bet BET1 win BET2, I should borrow BET2, and sell BET2 for BET1 at a price from 0.5~2.
the benifit for this is you can reuse these assets, everyone should ask for settle, because the price allways /2
I have test the whole steps in test chain, it's run perfectly.
(https://i.gyazo.com/c3ae1df61de2faa3b262b36810ff976d.png)
Had a very warm welcome both within bitcointalk (unusual?) and gaming communities.
I'll put up the social media pages for the project today - and have an article up on medium.
Sincere gratititude to everyone that's come out and spoke for us at BTC Talk - you guys are the best :)
Just some stats
We had 500 bets worth close to (on-site token) 6600 USD placed and the house winning has been highly profitable so far.
I am in talks with a number of marketing avenues and will soon be working with them to get the hype up over the weekend.
Regards
Edit : very tempted to jump right into the fee discussion, but I owe it to the company, team and the investors to work on promotions so bam.. following it closely none the less!