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Sportsbet's Bitcointalk Sports Fanatics League (BSFL) – 5000– 14000+$ rewards



Currently running Season 7


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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.

Competition rules

• The plan is to have 2 ‘seasons’ this calendar yearThere 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, to gauge interestwith some other important events mentioned as well. After every round the points will be calculated and according to introduce everybody tofixtures list, the competition formatP2P duel will be resolved.
  The player with more correct answers will get 3 points for a win, promotions/relegations system etcand 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.
• At a later stageThe questions will be about the plan is to host a yearly competition with 20 teams per league, 38 rounds in totalupcoming week's sports events and promotion/relegation playoffs at the endanswers need to be submitted before the 1st game of the seasonround starts.  We will be using Google forms for that.
• There would ideallyForum rank Full Member and higher can participate.
  Some exceptions will be 3 leagues in totalmade, so 60 players maximumSportsbet will make some spots available for newly registered members that are active on Clubtalk chat or some other SB platforms.
• The 4th Division still has spots open.
• The players that will be in the Divisions 1, 2 and 3 in every following season will always have to pay the buy-in fee.
  The buy-in fee will be defined at the end of each season and will be paid out of the season rewards if possible.
• If you fail to participate in more than 2 rounds in a season, you will be removed from your league and will be able to rejoin from the lowest Division next season, if there is space left.
  This is decided because we want to make the competition fair to everybody - if you don't play often, some opponents get easy points while others do not.
  

Added rules

[REMOVED IMAGE] 1.) Please install Telegram Bitcointalk bot. You will get notified every time we tag participants for important info.
2.) Please submit your answers on time. Failure to submit on time in this season means instant loss.
3.) Please submit all the answers, and submit them with possible outcomes. When you give free points in your H2H questions to your opponent, it isn't fair to all other league members.
4.) To deal with the situations from points 2) and 3), we are forced to introduce some penalties.
Each team that fails to submit answers on time or submits the answers in a way that is not in accordance with competition rules will receive a 1 point deduction – not for that round but from total points won in the league.
We think the penalty is fair to keep the league competitive, and you can always ask in the thread if you don't understand some of the questions.
5.) If you repeatedly fail to submit the questions on time and in correct format, there's a high chance that we will be forced to remove you from the competition.
The competition is becoming more serious and with the plans Sportsbet has for it going forward, we all need to do our part to make it fair and exciting. You were doing that most of the time so we aren't worried, and we thank you for it.

Schedule for 2023Tiebreaker implementation added (8.5.2023)

• In a situation when players have the same number of points the following methods will be implemented to rate them.
  

General rules about questions

InSports Grading Rules – Following will be taken in consideration unless otherwise stated in the first year, the leagues would occur during the following dates:question itself
* The questions are always about male sport/teams/athletes, unless specified otherwise
* Football question are regular time, no extra time or penalties unless stated otherwise
* Cards in football are counted both on pitch and off pitch. Yellow card is one point, red card is 2 points. Second yellow is one point. Meaning any player can accumulate maximum of 2 points.
* Player props, like goals scored or assists are for the purposes of our competition are counted as valid even if player did not play a single second of the game.
* Forfeits in sports like Tennis or loses due to technical problems in eSports are counted as regular ML wins.
* If there is only one possible outcome before the deadline, the question will be voided and all potential VAR used on that question cancelled.


Season 1VAR rules: (29.6.2023)

-  Can be used to change answers in any round before that round's deadline
-  Can be used 3 times per season
-  Send us your desired changes over PM or write in the thread and tag both Trofo & cryptofrka, this is up to your discretion. If you trust us, better use PM to not clog the thread and give possible info to others. If you are playing against us maybe it is better to post in thread to avoid possible frictions
-  You can use VAR for free inside 10 minutes of your submission on Sunday or Monday, not on Tuesday
-  After you spend your challenges don't come and ask for more, whatever happens there are no more changes left for you












Schedule

Season 7

• 13.2. - 28.5. (15 weeks) – 14We start Season 7 with 64 teams per league. Divisions 1, 2 and 3 leagues (13 roundshave 18 players each, 1-legged competition) – 42and Division 4 has 10 players maximum.
• Start dateWe feel that 3 paid Divisions with 18 players is the CL knockouts week (13soft spot for BSFL, so no league expansions are expected for the foreseeable future.2.)
  Therefore, end is the last PL gamespromotion/CL finalrelegation format will stay pretty much the same as it was in S06.
• Bottom 3 teams will be relegated from Division 1 to lower divisions, 5Division 2. Top 3 teams will be promoted directly from 2ndDivision 2 to Division 1.
  15th team from Division 1 will play a 1v1 decider against the 1st division and 7 teams promoted4th placed team from Division 2 for the 3rd division to the 2nd divisionspot in Division 1.
• Bottom 23 teams will be relegated from Division 2 to Division 3. Top 3 teams will be promoted directly and 11th v 12thfrom Division 3 to Division 2.
  15th team from Division 2 will play a 1v1 decider against the 4th placed team from Division 3 for the 3rd relegation spot in the 1st week of Roland GarrosDivision 2.
• TopBottom 2 teams will be relegated from Division 3 to Division 4. Top 2 teams will be promoted directly from the 2nd Division to the 1st one, and positions 4 to Division 3.-7. will play 1v1 deciders (4v7, 5v6) for 2 remaining promotion spots.
  16th team from Division 3 will play a 1v1 decider against the 3rd league has 7 promotion places (5 direct, 2 playoffs – 6v9, 7v8)placed team from Division 4 for the spot in Division 3.
• Division 4 will have double rounds - so players will play each other twice.
  We're accepting new players until the start of BSFL, meaning Sunday May 18th, 18:00 GMT.

Season 28 announcement

• 5Season 8 will almost certainly mirror Season 7.6. – 31.12. (30 weeks) – 16 teams per league (30 rounds, 2-legged competition) – 48 We will just look to add a few more players max (42 existing players, 6 new players entering ininto Division 3)4.
• Start date is 2nd week of Roland GarrosJust a side note, end is final round of games in the calendar yearSeason 8 isn’t yet confirmed, we go season by season and get extensions based on BSFL forum metrics. These are really good so there’s no reason to doubt BSFL will not reach Season 8.
• We will probably keep the same promotion/relegation format, to be decided after Season 1 finishes.

Promotion/relegation system visuallyThere are some new rules we are introducing.

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• LMS format will become a regular side event in BSFL. It will work similar to the EUROS and will consist of all standard BSFL league rounds (currently 17).
  Points earned in these rounds will be accumulated and the one that survived all rounds and has the highest total will be pronounced as the winner. If there are more people with the same amount of points, they will equally share the prize.
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• All those that have 2 points per round or less will be eliminated, if everybody has 3 or more points, those with the next worst result will be eliminated (those with 3 points, or 4 if nobody has 3 etc).
  A player that fails to submit is automatically disqualified and his points do not count in that round's quota - meaning that if there is a player that did not submit and the round's minimum points is 3 - all with 3 are eliminated.
• There will be buy-backs, the fee will be increased every 5 rounds. The buy-backs will be 0,25 mBTC after rounds 1-5, 0,5 mBTC after rounds 6-10 and 1 mBTC after rounds 11-xx.
• You will have to survive the last round to be able to claim the reward. Everybody that survived all rounds (excluding the winner(s)) will share the additional 500$ freebets pool equally.
  In case that nobody has more than 2 points in the last round, those with the least number of points will be eliminated. If that still does not leave us with a winner, there will not be any eliminations in the last round.
• If there is only one player remaining after the buyback deadline at any point before the last round, he will be the winner and the freebets will be shared among those that lost to the winner in the previous round.

Beat The Mafia side-competition

• In every round you'll be able to challenge one of us (or both of us!) for a winner-takes all sidebet. The rules for this one will be fairly easy:
• We have deposited 20mBTC to a separate escrow address.
• If you want to compete against us, you'll have to notify us in the thread
• For your challenge to be valid, you need to pay 0.5, 0.75 or 1 mBTC to the separate escrow wallet before the deadline.
• If you lose, Mafia keeps your money. If you win, we pay you 2x your stake to the wallet of your choice.
  In case of a draw, the challenger picks either the return of the stake or another challenge.
• You can challenge us as long as there is money on the escrow, but we reserve the right to stop the competition between any round.
• A maximum of 5 challenges will be taken per single BSFL round, on a first come first served basis.
• The sidebet will work like a regular BSFL H2H duel - so each H2H question will be graded directly between the challengers.

Prizes and buy-insLate submission penalties

• There will beIn case of late submission, the player loses the duel with a buy-in feescore of 2.5 mBTC for3-0 and gets 1 'total points' penalty - it is the 1st Division spotssame rule that we had so far. 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 guaranteedTo add to that, if a first division spotperson has 1 missed submission at the end of the season, his reward will be reduced by 20%. This is an elite competition and first division isIf he has 2, the place where you all want toreward will be 50% less and 3 means automatic disqualification and no reward at all.
  For the first season we will select first division playersThe deducted rewards from those willingsuch players will go to pay the fee and giving priority to high ranks that are active in Sportsbet sponsored pool threadsnext season's budget.
• Freebet rewards will be decreased in 10$ increments - every missed submission means 10$ less reward, 3 missed submissions means no reward at all

Good placement in our World Cup competition is also a plus as well as active account on Sportsbet.io. Evil fee
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

• In case a member got disqualified in any of the previous seasons and our goal iswants to have 20 people in first division so there will be promotionsjoin again, he is returning from the lowest possible Division.
  No needThe initial penalty for participating again is a 1mBTC 'evil fee' that is returned to be sadthe player at the end of the season if you did not make a cutthe player submits the answers for first division thisall rounds on time around,.
  If he fails to do your best in lower divisionsso, evil fee is kept and earn ashared between all the teams that secured promotion from the lowest Division in that season.
• The 1st Division rewards will come mostly from Sportsbet's sponsorshipIf a player gets disqualified again, each subsequent time the evil fee (5is doubled, so becomes 2mBTC, then 4mBTC etc.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. Logo rewards
The 3rd division will be free

• Every team that achieves promotion to enter as well, and rewardsDivision 3 will be some free bets, amount dependent on the final placementreceive a team logo.
• Top 3 players in the 1st season of Division 1 will receive invitationsThere are no plans 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 rewardslogos in other seasons as wellDivision 4 but you can make them individually.
• Almost every memberAll clubs that receive logos will getbe required to make a portion of the prize pool and the prizes are purposely set likeshort 'team summary' post - you can see how they look by clicking on any member's name that so that throughoutalready has a logo in the competition there is always something to play forleague table.

Selling your spots

• To make it even more engagingBased on the results of the poll we ran at the start of Season 05, we will add weekly free bet rewards forallow selling of BSFL positions.
• That means that are going the player with most correct answersSuperleague way in each league (30$ for 1st league, 20$ for 2nd, 10 for 3rd league)BSFL and from Season 6 onwards it is possible to buy/sell your spots in the leagues.
  Only oneExample – if a player per leaguewants out, he can claimsell his spot to the weekly reward - if more players have the same number of correct answershighest bidder. Also, they will play a H2H decider in the next roundplayer could say he’s willing to buy a Div1 club for x mBTC, and wait for offers. All transactions need to be done through PM and announced on time.
• The fundsWe will be escrowedallow for both position switching and in control of the Cro2 teamposition selling, and youmore info can seebe seen on this link. A club that is bought pays 1 extra buy-in fee for the prize distribution belownext season (we will modifyso, if we receive more money from Division 1standard buy-insin is 1mBTC, for that club it is 2mBTC).
• The rewards willClubs can be transferred to BTC atsold only in a short period between the startend of the competitionseason and paid out inthe rewards payment, that amount lateris usually around 2 weeks because the Cup final is always the formal end of the season.

Rewards distributionPromotion/relegation system visually

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Competition rulesPrizes and buy-ins

• There will be a questionnaire for every round and it will consistbuy-in fee of 10 questions –1,5 mBTC for the Bitcointalk's World Cup participants already know how it looks like1st Division spots, 0,75mBTC for the 2nd Division spots and 0,3mBTC for Division 3 spots.
  Majority of the questions will be football-based, with some other important events mentioned as wellDivision 4 remains free to play. After every round the pointsCheck our dedicated sign up thread for more details.
• The rewards for top 3 Divisions will be calculatedcome from sponsorship rewards and according to fixtures list, the P2P duelbuy-ins and will be resolvedbalanced accordingly.
  The player with more correct answersDivision 4 will get 3 points for a winbe free to enter, and if the players have the same amount of correct answers theyrewards will be rewarded 1 point each.
  Example – if you win the duel with 7-5 resultsome free bets, you'll still get 3 pointsamount dependent on the final placement. If you win with 2-1 result, you get 3 points as well.
• The questionsAlmost every member will be aboutget a portion of the upcoming week's sports eventsprize pool and the answers need to be submitted beforeprizes are purposely set like that so that throughout the 1st game of the round starts. We will be using Google formscompetition there is always something to play for that.
• Forum rank Full Member and higher can participateTo make it even more engaging we will add weekly free bet rewards for the player with most correct answers in each league (Trofo40$ for Division 1, 30$ for Division 2, 20$ for Division 3 and cryptofrka excluded from the competition10$ for Division 4).
  Some exceptions will be made, Sportsbet will make some spots availableOnly one player per league can claim the weekly reward - rules for newly registered members thatthe freebet grading are active on Clubtalk chat or some other SB platformshere.
• Initial league placmentsThe funds are in control of Cro2 on our escrow wallet.
• The rewards will be decided by ustransferred to BTC at the start of the competition and Steve following before mentioned criteriapaid out in that amount later.
• The eventual small difference in payment due to tx fees will be added/deducted from the reward for the Division 1 champion.

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 hasRewards distribution



The rewards for the potential to runLMS will be 10 mBTC + rebuys for multiple yearsthe winner and 500$ in freebets for all divisions haveother participants that survived the final round.

Some notes and explanations are below:

• We feel we’re in a good place now both with the rewards amount and with the number of players, so in the next few seasons we’ll probably make only some small corrections when/if needed.
• If we don't get 42 players,Total budget for the 3rd DivisionSeason 7 will be smallerin excess of 14.000$. Sportsbet provided 9.000$ in BTC and we'll revise the promotion spots collected 45,9 mBTC in fees from Div 1, Div2 and Div3 participants, 2.38 mBTC in Season 06 penalties and 1.05 mBTC in club selling fees.
• The players thatWe will be in the Division 1 in every following season will alwaysonce again have a big freebets budget to pay the buy-in feeadd to that – over 3.
  The minimum buy-600$ in fee will be 2total across multiple leagues and competitions. 5 mBTC with potential that it gets increased in case the reward pool gets bigger in the future.
• So, total prize pool in USD value at the beginning of this season is over 14.000$ (plus all the LMS rebuys) and an additional 3.600$ in freebets.

Cup schedule will be updated on the link in the 3rd post of the thread at a later date.

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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 20232024 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 20232025 season!


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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!