Sportsbet's Bitcointalk Sports Fanatics League (BSFL) – 5000+$ rewards


After a successful World cup pilot project, we're happy to inform you that the forum PVP competition is back and will be bigger, longer and better than before!
This time Cro2 team is introducing the Sportsbet's Bitcointalk Sports Fanatics League (BSFL)!
For now it will run throughout 2023 and will have 2 seasons, but the plan is for it to become a multi-year project, with seasons potentially lasting for a whole calendar year.


General competition format

• A multi-league PVP H2H system in which players play against each other every round for points like in football (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw).
• Points are earned by predicting sports results/situations/events throughout the week.
• If you played our World Cup competition you know roughly what to expect but his one will have more sports with majority of questions still being football.
• The plan is to have 2 ‘seasons’ this calendar year, to gauge interest and to introduce everybody to the competition format, promotions/relegations system etc. 
• At a later stage the plan is to host a yearly competition with 20 teams per league, 38 rounds in total and promotion/relegation playoffs at the end of the season. 
• There would ideally be 3 leagues in total, so 60 players maximum.

Schedule for 2023

In the first year, the leagues would occur during the following dates:

Season 1

• 13.2. - 28.5. (15 weeks) – 14 teams per league, 3 leagues (13 rounds, 1-legged competition) – 42 players maximum
• Start date is the CL knockouts week (13.2.), end is the last PL games/CL final
• 3 teams will be relegated to lower divisions, 5 teams promoted from 2nd to the 1st division and 7 teams promoted from the 3rd division to the 2nd division
• Bottom 2 teams will be relegated directly and 11th v 12th will play a 1v1 decider for the 3rd relegation spot in the 1st week of Roland Garros
• Top 3 teams will be promoted directly from the 2nd Division to the 1st one, and positions 4.-7. will play 1v1 deciders (4v7, 5v6) for 2 remaining promotion spots.
  3rd league has 7 promotion places (5 direct, 2 playoffs – 6v9, 7v8)

Season 2

• 5.6. – 31.12. (30 weeks) – 16 teams per league (30 rounds, 2-legged competition) – 48 players max (42 existing players, 6 new players entering in Division 3)
• Start date is 2nd week of Roland Garros, end is final round of games in the calendar year
• We will probably keep the same promotion/relegation format, to be decided after Season 1 finishes.

Promotion/relegation system visually









Prizes and buy-ins

• There will be a buy-in fee of 2.5 mBTC for the 1st Division spots. Other divisions are free to play but rewards are not as attractive as in First Division. Check our dedicated sign up thread for more details.
• You are not guaranteed a first division spot. This is an elite competition and first division is the place where you all want to be.
  For the first season we will select first division players from those willing to pay the fee and giving priority to high ranks that are active in Sportsbet sponsored pool threads.
  Good placement in our World Cup competition is also a plus as well as active account on Sportsbet.io.
  This part is unfortunately a bit subjective and selection will be done after careful consideration and double checking with Steve.
  This competition is intended to last multiple seasons and our goal is to have 20 people in first division so there will be promotions.
  No need to be sad if you did not make a cut for first division this time around, do your best in lower divisions and earn a promotion.
• The 1st Division rewards will come mostly from Sportsbet's sponsorship fee (5.000$ for Season 1).
  The collected amount from 1st Division participants and a minority of the 1st Division's budget will cover the 2nd division, which will be free to enter.
  The 3rd division will be free to enter as well, and rewards will be some free bets, amount dependent on the final placement.
• Top 3 players in the 1st season of Division 1 will receive invitations to 'beers with Steve/poker with Steve' event, where they will be able to meet Steve and some other members of the SB's team.
  We plan to have similar rewards in other seasons as well.
• Almost every member will get a portion of the prize pool and the prizes are purposely set like that so that throughout the competition there is always something to play for.
• To make it even more engaging we will add weekly free bet rewards for the player with most correct answers in each league (30$ for 1st league, 20$ for 2nd, 10 for 3rd league).
  Only one player per league can claim the weekly reward - if more players have the same number of correct answers, they will play a H2H decider in the next round.
• The funds will be escrowed and in control of the Cro2 team, and you can see the prize distribution below (we will modify if we receive more money from Division 1 buy-ins).
• The rewards will be transferred to BTC at the start of the competition and paid out in that amount later.

Rewards distribution









Competition rules

• There will be a questionnaire for every round and it will consist of 10 questions – the Bitcointalk's World Cup participants already know how it looks like.
  Majority of the questions will be football-based, with some other important events mentioned as well. After every round the points will be calculated and according to fixtures list, the P2P duel will be resolved.
  The player with more correct answers will get 3 points for a win, and if the players have the same amount of correct answers they will be rewarded 1 point each.
  Example – if you win the duel with 7-5 result, you'll still get 3 points. If you win with 2-1 result, you get 3 points as well.
• The questions will be about the upcoming week's sports events and the answers need to be submitted before the 1st game of the round starts. We will be using Google forms for that.
• Forum rank Full Member and higher can participate (Trofo and cryptofrka excluded from the competition).
  Some exceptions will be made, Sportsbet will make some spots available for newly registered members that are active on Clubtalk chat or some other SB platforms.
• Initial league placments will be decided by us and Steve following before mentioned criteria.
  We are aware that some members will probably feel that it is unfair, but half of the Division 3 participants will get promoted – so just play along and have fun.
  Remember, it has the potential to run for multiple years and all divisions have rewards.
• If we don't get 42 players, the 3rd Division will be smaller and we'll revise the promotion spots.
• The players that will be in the Division 1 in every following season will always have to pay the buy-in fee.
  The minimum buy-in fee will be 2.5 mBTC with potential that it gets increased in case the reward pool gets bigger in the future.

General remarks

• We would really like to create some connection between the BTT community members. Therefore, we'd like this thread to be a combination of banter, sports analysis and general feedback.
  We will purposely introduce occasional questions about cricket, NFL, e-sports, baseball etc. to bring more visibility to important sports events and milestones.
  We encourage you to discuss about it and offer your analysis/opinions here.
• Sportsbet will also have some extra rewards for most helpful or active participants, Steve promised to drop by occasionally and rain some free bets.
• We hope we'll all have a lot of fun with this, it is a test version of the competition that will run throughout 2023 and if there will be enough interest & hype around it, we're sure that it will span through multiple seasons.
• We know this is a lot to take in, especially if you did not participate in our Wold Cup completion thread. Feel free to check that one for some info as well.
  We are here to answer all your questions and everything will be very clear once competition starts and the few rounds are completed.
• For now just make sure to sign up in dedicated thread because the spots will be limited.

Feel free to write your feedback and let's have a fantastic sports 2023 season!