The 1995 Rugby World Cup Final between South Africa and New Zealand was a celebration of the lifting of apartheid. It signaled the emergence of a re-united nation. The massive media attention given to the competition gave South Africa the unique opportunity to show the world that for the duration of the game the nation was united.
-- Robert Chappell - Race, Gender and Sport in Post-Apartheid South Africa
The year 2017 “kicks-off” an equally exciting turning point for the Steem community. Being largely underestimated, the Steem blockchain, boasting the fastest transaction times in its class; coupled with zero transfer fees, is in itself a winning combination by design, and a true technical marvel “under the hood” and on the surface is an equally amazing and supportive community.
The SteemSports team is a microcosm of the Steem community; encompassing talented writers, leaders, community managers, advisors, organisers, designers and developers. More than 20 strong in association; we stand proud and salute the community that has made it possible to arrive at this milestone where we are ready to unveil our beta test web-app as a testament to an alternate use-case for the Steem blockchain and the community that has supported us thus far.
We proudly invite the community to join our beta and help us battle-test our web-app for Steem based prediction market gaming.
Our main value proposition for the Steem community is that we are one of the first apps to create direct demand for Steem and Steem Backed Dollars (SBD) through our recently developed “PAY PLAY” pool option. Our traditional “FREE PLAY” pool will remain as long as there is a demand for it and serves as a transition towards a mainly “PAY TO PLAY” prediction market web application to increase the utility of Steem.
Please join our public beta on https://steemsports.com and try out our interface, PAID GAMES will be coming later this week. Feedback would be appreciated, just leave us a message on the chat within the app.
Proudly brought to you by the @steemsports team.
I like that you are showing the payout status and links for the winners/losers for each game! Way to be transparent and build trust. Excellent job!
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Provably fair gaming experiences is what we are striving for, thank you @mrosenquist!
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Looks slick. I normally don't like to bet on sports, but I think small bets with steem may make the live events more exciting to watch.
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Yea, same here. I never bet in "real life", but sending over a few steem to increase my engagement with the match seems like a fun thing to do.
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We will join you and throw some in as well :)
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Yes we are looking forward to you doing that :) keep a lookout for our PAY PLAY games.
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Have you considered branching into esports? I would be interested in working with you guys with it.
Reckon esports would be a good mix with steem
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Of course! :)
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Oh, e-sports would be really cool to bet on! Hope it is coming sooner rather than later ;)
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Hi, you are welcome to contact @thecryptodrive on Discord or on steemit.chat if you are interested to write eSports games.
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Messaged @thecryptodrive, also made a post about an idea for a monthly steemit esports tournament that I reckon would dovetail nicely with steemsports. heres the link https://steemit.com/steemit/@fiveboringgames/using-steemit-to-sponsor-and-set-up-a-small-esports-tournament-link-to-vote-on-the-first-game-inside
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Awesome, happy to see you guys expanding!
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Happy that we make you happy :)
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Yeah! ^_^ You guys are cool, expanding and just doing your thing just like you promised. I remember back when you guys started, you even took a poll asking if people wanted you to be posting more each day. The majority ruled yes, so you followed through. I am impressed by your business model and wish to follow it for some of my ideas of what I want to create!
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Good job on this! I've loved what I saw with the Beta :)
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:) it will only get bettter.
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good job can see if I won easily and payout i will be getting good shit good shit
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The payouts screen is very useful to see what you have won in the past, it will show Pay Play outcomes as well when those games become live. Bookmark as follows: https://steemsports.com/payouts
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That's great! Looking forward to seeing it roll out! :)
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Looking forward to your continued support!
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Steem on guys :-)
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Likewise!
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WOOT WOOT ;)
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Good job.
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I joined, but I can't access the steemsports chat!
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You have to log in! :)
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I did log in and set my steemit username to activate the chat. I will try again!
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Ok, now it's working!
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Cool, welcome!
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Top quality job to everyone that is involved in this project! Great interface and straighforward to use. Like how the payout breakdown is there too, Seriously awesome work guys!
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Thank you, our development team has been working hard and it will only improve going forward.
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very interesting.
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This is good news for SBD!
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And Steem, don't forget Steem! :)
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Awesome!
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:) :)
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That's a great news! Now many can see why @steemsports was supported despite it seemed to burn money landed out of the system.
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Hi @tibonova, at the time of writing, the @steemsports account has never cashed out of Steem at any point since inception, all payments are internal to writers, editors etc, there have been some charity payouts but that's about it. I think @steemsports is largely misunderstood.
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I think people didn't attack @steemsports because they thought it wants everything for itself but because the users who used it to get money without risk and transfer that out of the system immediately. Everybody knows that it isn't sustainable on long-term.
I know it's a side-effect of starting up things. Someone could complain, but the reality is that new services could start with the freemium model more successfully. Also, there are a lot of requirements when you starting a bookie, that takes time, and you could use this time to build a user base. I've known from your first successful pay play game (the election, if I remember well), that you won't stuck in this phase of your service. The continuous support of whales despite the attacks just confirmed that. It's not difficult to understand you, just requires long-term vision.
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Thanks for your reply, yes thanks for recalling the elections post, it was great fun, that was done with a crude manual script which became the basis for the automated platform we have now.
Regarding players using rewards to cash out of the system, I'm surprised because most of the rewards are in Steem Power which are locked up for a time period, sock-puppet accounts for blog author rewards are a much bigger issue, at least were a huge issue back in the day, I haven't kept tabs on that lately.
Our roadmap and business plan is rather ambitious, @smooth is the only one to have seen it besides my co-founder, which is why you may see @smooth actively defending us and taking some heat for it, since he has the bigger picture. If we can pull off our plans it will legitimise both Steem and Bitshares as formidable forces in the crypto community and likely increase the value of both.
We will reveal our plans over time, sadly there are many copy-cats and it is prudent to hold some cards closely.
I can fully understand how our account value can be a topic of discussion, it is not however even in the top 200 or cashing out as mentioned, we need runway for our project's future, certain licensing and incorporation down the line could cost 15 000 USD which is the entire account value gone, another blockchain project, Open Bazaar has 4 Million USD in funding, we are a drop in that ocean and yet have pulled some cool stuff off.
Personally I'm tired of seeing low post values in general, I don't get envious when others make high post values, when @xeroc had over 40K USD on his Piston post I was amazed and wondered if anyone could top that, and gave me drive to achieve as well. It's good for the outside world to see high post values to take us seriously as a place that influencers and business can take root and build a community around themselves.
Keep on being awesome and looking forward to Steem being great in 2017.
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Looking forward to see where it leads. I see some bright future ahead!
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With such a great team the future is bright indeed!! Keep up the good work!
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Awesome!
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:)
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Always play the play
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and pay the pay :)
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supported n upvoted
Nice game, keep them coming
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We will do, thank you!
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Nice site. I'm tempted to sign up!
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Give in to the temptation!
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steem sports is a favorite of mine
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We are so happy to hear that, thank you.
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I am please you posted this
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Pleasure!!
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If you find a way to create sportsbetting without juice using sbd you will transform the industry.
I cant wait to tell my gambing buddies about it!
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What is this sportsbetting you speak of :) ? We are a Sports Prediction market... we have PAID PLAY options that rely on the skills of the players to pick the correct outcome and hedge their prediction accordingly if necessary to form an optimal strategy and have an opportunity to be a market maker.
Initially we have commissions for market facilitation, 3% for now, however if the Steem Community embraces our project and allows regular games with post rewards to flourish, those featured games can be commission free on the PAY PLAYS side, the demand for Steem to be used as a prediction currency and the positive effect on price could far outweigh the share of the rewards pool we may have, but experimentation will most likely be the order of the day.
Ultimately, our ability to innovate depends largely on the pushback or support we receive from the community.
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Very interesting. While there are posts on Steemit about how bets are bad for Steem and rewards pool, you are expanding the services.
Interesting, again :)
Registered, of course.
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Lol, these are not bets :) ...they are pedictions. Yes we are creating demand for Steem and Steem Dollars, not may other places you can spend them. Thanks for registering and joining the movement, cya!
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:) OK, predictions then :)
And we get awards for predicting right. Cool with me :)
Take care!
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:) Yip you get rewards for correctly predicting...start dusting off the old crystal ball.
Take care as well.
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Wow, pretty slick already. Keep up the great work!
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Thanks for your long time support @tuck-ftheman!
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amazing!
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:) :)
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It is great that you are making a website and trying out the Steem blockchain somewhat independently from Steemit! Signing up later tonight to check it out :) Looking forward to testing some paid bets when they are coming.
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Looking forward to your signup, this adds another layer of decentralisation, should the Steemit site ever be temporarily down you could still play your favourite prediction game! Pay Play games are coming Friday if all goes well.
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I love SteemSports. Great work guys...big hug!
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Thank-you we love our fans!! Big hug back! :)
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hmmmm i like this idea. to many bot accounts were just upvoting.
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We don't really have control over the bots, anyone that has access to the Steem blockchain can set the bots to autovote us, luckily the bots don't seem to take part in the outcome votes and are only in it for the curation rewards.
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