After the success of the Bitcoin Bowl, FanDuel is back at it, offering prizes in cryptocurrency for fantasy sports!

in cryptocurrency •  7 years ago 

Want to win some FREE Cryptocurrency, give the latest contest from FanDuel a try!

FanDuel is a daily fantasy sports contest where users can draft players and compete against other users for the chance to win prizes.

In this case, the prize is cryptocurrency!

For the Bitcoin Bowl, which was a fantasy football contest, the prize was paid out in Bitcoin.

I wrote a little about it at the time here:

https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@jrcornel/looking-for-a-way-to-pick-up-some-bitcoin-without-forking-over-the-cash

For this latest contest, the prizes will be paid out in Dash.

Some specifics:

The contest itself will be based on the NBA and be known as the Crypto Cup.

It is set to launch on February 22nd.

There will be a free contest and a pay to play contest.

Users will have until the start of the first NBA game on Feb. 22nd to enter their lineups for either contest.

An example of what setting your lineup looks like can be seen here:

The paid contest will cost $3 USD to enter.

Ironically, FanDuel is not accepting cryptocurrency as a form of payment, only dollars.

Prizes Breakdown:

For the free contest, the payouts are as follows:

2 Dash paid to the winner.

1.5 Dash paid to 2nd place.

1 Dash paid to 3rd place.

.5 Dash paid to 4th place

For the paid contest, the payouts are as follows:

15 Dash paid to the winner.

10 Dash paid to 2nd place.

5 Dash paid to 3rd place.

4 Dash paid to 4th place.

3 Dash paid to 5th place.

2 Dash paid to 6th place.

1 Dash paid to 7th place.

Dash is currently changing hands for about $700 per coin.

Which means, if you win the free contest you could pocket roughly $1400 worth of cryptocurrency for the cost of a few minutes setting up your lineup.

Not sure about you, but I plan on giving it a whirl.

The link to the contest can be found here:

https://www.fanduel.com/crypto-cup

I watch basketball anyways, so this will give me the opportunity to earn a few coins for my time.

I am not going to post my team here though for you all to critique. ;)

Remember, it's free to play and get those lineups in by the 22nd!

Stay informed my friends.

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Wow!!! I'm totally in!! I am a huge fantasy junkie (especially football) and a user of Fan Duel in the past. This is an amazing development. It would be awesome to earn Crypto through fantasy winnings. It is a great way to promote the Crypto market and I can see this as a way to encourage new people to start getting involved in crypto. I think that all it takes is a proper introduction to the market and a little education and people can start navigating and becoming more involved. I am super excited about this development. I don't currently have any Dash so this would be a great way to get it in my portfolio. Thanks for sharing!

Agreed! Do you play fantasy basketball?

I have done a few seasons of fantasy basketball in the past. It was fun because of the variety of statistics that you get to play around with. This would be a great incentive to get back into the basketball side of things. I do fantasy baseball and hockey as well but Football is my passion. I'm a statistics lover.

I agree. I have tried a few different fantasy sports, but football is by far my favorite.

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  ·  7 years ago (edited)

I had been asking myself for a while, "when will daily fantasy sports add cryptocurrencies as a payment option?". I even had ideas creating on my own sports handicapping contest, with the daily fantasy/poker tournament style payout structure. Then today i stumbled across one that exists already. Rats, Looks like someone beat me to it. 😂

https://calvinayre.com/2018/01/19/business/winview-paid-entry-sports-prediction-contests/

Also had read about the token ico exclusivly for DFS, Nolimitcoin.

https://nolimitcoin.org/#home

Pretty interesting coin, but i think just accepting BTC and co would open some floodgates.

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this is pretty awesome and a chance for everyone to earn.
Keep it up

Thank you so much for letting us know about this contest :) @jrcornel

You got it, are you going to play?

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A good opportunity to earn some money

My thoughts exactly, plus it might be fun. :)

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Thanks for sharing

Wow this very good news.I am surprised for this success.I appreciate that
Thank you very much

Seems interesting so i will have a think about it.

Now we need draftkings to start this & accept cryptos for payment :p. Cryptos are perfect for fantasy sports. Thanks for sharing.

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I love this ....Cant wait to participate
But am still waiting for a music contest i love music more
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Looks interesting, but it appears that site is down. Anyone else getting this:


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It might be blocked in your region? Some places don't allow daily fantasy sports...

So it seems.

Thanks for sharing! FanDuel is a blast, will definitely give this a shot 💯

Glad to hear it. Maybe I will end u posting my lineup as we get closer to the deadline. :)

There’s some good bargains on there right now, especially as we have some guys coming back from injuries. Like Carmelo’s looked good coming off that ankle sprain

I am looking forward to when the Suns play and Elfrid Payton is listed, he's been putting up monster numbers since the trade. Might be able to be had for a bargain still.

Yeah man, and I think Clarkson a perfect fit in Cleveland, like him a lot too. Great to have another NBA dude on here, just earned yourself a follow

great job...keep it up..

I hardly watch the NBA it's an amazing contest though but I wish football also could be considered too

Perhaps if this catches on, it will. :)

It will be amazing buddy

thanks for the information and very useful post so I also know that there will be a contest

Very gooooood thanks

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THanks for sharing, I knew the banks will look for ways to control crypto currencies so humans will always be enslaved, people coming back to them for loans which is one of their major trick in making profits.

My dash would instantly be sold and I'd buy $1400 of steem.. I'll have to fire up my FanDuel but actual daily basketball is a real grind and time sink because of the quantity of stats and analytics. Three kids definitely doesn't leave enough time.

Thanks for the post. Now if I onlt knew anything about basketball, I could make some Dash.

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sadly I try to access the website but i get this :( (i'm from romania maybe that can be a problem ?

Is there an NBA contest like this in steemit? All I saw were football and racing contests. Maybe someone should initiate this one. OR maybe this already exist and I just don't have idea it does.

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