Editor's Note: This article comes fromDappReview（ID：dappreview）, Author: DR Little Partner, reprinted by Odaily with authorization.
Editor's Note: This article comes from
, Author: DR Little Partner, reprinted by Odaily with authorization.
Football is undoubtedly the sport with the highest production value, the widest audience and the greatest influence in the world. No religion in the world can match football in terms of distribution and number of believers. Recently, blockchain and football have become very popular. Some blockchain projects have reached cooperation with European football giants. Some have helped clubs issue coins, some have issued NFT collection cards to players, and some have opened voting rights to fans... Successfully attracted To attract the attention of old fans in DappReview, we tried two football dapps. The blockchain really gave football fans a dream of being a football manager. Of course, it is just a dream at present.
How to truly realize that the fans are the masters? Some internationally renowned football clubs see possibilities on the blockchain. Recently, FC Barcelona announced that it has jointly launched the Barcelona Fan Token ($BAR) with ChiliZ, a blockchain sports and entertainment fan interaction platform. 300 million Barcelona fans around the world can directly participate in voting decisions on club affairs by holding tokens.
Prior to this, 6 clubs including Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain and Atletico Madrid have reached cooperation with ChiliZ. Who is ChiliZ, the company that has won La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, and Turkish Super League championship teams in one fell swoop? Is the fan token a pioneering work or a gimmick? Let's take a look.
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Giant Harvester ChiliZ
When it comes to ChiliZ, friends who are concerned about the blockchain application industry may be familiar with it. Back in June 2018, Binance invested in ChiliZ, a blockchain-based sports competition platform. Through this, many people know this blockchain project from Malta. This team with a background in the online gambling industry made a high-profile entry into the sports industry in the second half of 2018, announcing the start of building a blockchain-based fan interaction system Socios.com, through which fans can purchase the native token Chiliz, and then use it to buy teams Fan Token.
Fan tokens are issued in limited quantities, for example, FC Barcelona will provide fans with 40 million Barcelona Fan Tokens (named $BAR), each worth 2 euros. Fans with tokens can vote on club colors, stadium music and logos, friendly matches, charity lineups and more.
In January, fans of soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo's club Juventus used the Socios platform to vote on the song to be played when a home goal is scored. In the first vote on the platform, fans have chosen Song 2 by British band Blur as the song to be played when home goals are scored.
The club raises funds directly from fans and obtains most of the proceeds without paying any equity price and does not touch the interests of the shareholders behind it. Fans who pay money can also get the pleasure of participating in decision-making. Why not do such a thing? In September 2018, the Ligue 1 giant Paris Saint-Germain, which has superstars such as Neymar and Mbappe, took the lead in reaching cooperation with Socios, followed by Juventus, the Serie A champion with superstar Ronaldo, and then the first signing of the Premier League. Team West Ham United... plus the newly joined Barcelona, fans can already see 7 top football clubs in the world on the Socios App.
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No matter how small things are, the fans have to decide
We tried to buy a fan token on Socios.com, and found that the App is very friendly to Chinese users and supports Simplified Chinese. Below the main interface, there are five tabs: "Home", "Wallet", "Hunting", "Information" and "More". Among them, "Hunting" is an AR game, similar to "Pokemon Go". Socios.com will obtain the player's geographic location, and the player can collect free $CHZ and fan tokens every day.
We found that only five clubs are currently issuing tokens, of which Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, Atlético de Madrid and Roma have fan tokens worth 2 euros each, while Turkish giants Galatasaray’s tokens are more affordable Some, as long as 1.5 euros, after all, they are not teams from the five major leagues. The token issuance of Barcelona and West Ham United still needs to wait for official notification.
At present, one $CHZ is equivalent to about 9 cents in RMB. In the "Daily Hunt" of the "Hunting" interface, players can collect 3 $CHZ every day, worth 20.7 cents. From the map, the three $CHZs are scattered in the three neighborhoods around me. Given the current epidemic situation, I will definitely not be able to get them without a pass.
Recharge $CHZ worth 2 euros to the App wallet address, try to click "Get Fan Token", and you can get the first fan token in your life. It just so happens that the Juventus club is conducting a second round of voting. The content of the vote is, what functions do you want to add to the Juventus APP: food delivery to the stands, augmented reality, quizzes and payment functions. Each person can use up to 200 tokens to vote, and the current voting progress is more than half. We see that the biggest appeal of fans is to add the payment function.
Let's take a look at what "big things" other giants have to ask fans to decide: Paris Saint-Germain is asking fans for help on what information to put in the captain's armband, and Atletico Madrid wants to help the team's striker Morata choose a teammate with him Taking photos, Galatasaray was having a hard time deciding what to choose for the team's entrance repertoire... After watching the voting activities of these teams, it's such a big deal, just launch a twitter vote Well!
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Socios: The Ancient Membership System
Although most of the current votes are weak, these limited-edition fan tokens are indeed very attractive, but we hope that the fan tokens can truly belong to the fans, rather than old leeks hoarding coins. Interestingly, the name of Socios.com is taken from the names given to their members by the two traditional powerhouses of La Liga - Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Real Madrid and Barcelona belong to one of the few membership clubs in the world, and their members are also called "Socios", which is a Spanish word meaning "partner". Want to become a member? Required when paying. Real Madrid's 2018 adult membership fee is 145.49 euros (free after 50 consecutive years of payment), and Barcelona's 2018 adult membership fee is 180 euros. Therefore, the annual dues income of these two clubs from members is basically between 10-20 million euros.
But money is not everything, Real Madrid and Barcelona's Socios may be the most difficult qualification in the world. Both clubs currently have the same hard rule for new adult members: they must be immediate family members of existing adult members. Only when you meet this condition can you enter the Socios shortlist, so wait in line.
Socios.com is equivalent to extending the membership to the whole world. Of course, fan token holders cannot run for the member representative committee or vote for the club chairman or even self-recommended as the chairman like the real Socios. Otherwise, with the voting level of Chinese fans, Elect two Chinese chairmen for the La Liga duo in minutes. But this does not prevent Chinese fan token holders from adding some Chinese elements to the loudspeakers of the Bernabéu and Camp Nou, and arranging the square dance Divine Comedy every minute.
The open, transparent, and non-tamperable features of the blockchain can allow the membership system to take advantage of it again. It can protect the voting rights of the majority of fans holding coins and return the team to the fans. In time, it may not be a dream for everyone to be a football manager. . For the club, the combination of membership and blockchain is also an efficient brand promotion plan. In-depth interaction with fans can not only improve fan stickiness, but also expand the team's global influence.
In addition to issuing blockchain fan coins, major clubs are also seeking deeper interaction with fans on blockchain football games.
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Sorare: an idle football "game"
Compared with ChiliZ who takes the elite route, Sorare firmly believes that "a single spark can start a prairie fire", and has already cooperated with 38 football clubs. Most of these clubs come from outside the five major leagues, but there are also giants like Juventus and Atletico Madrid joining them. Among them, Juventus just joined in February. On the day of Sorare's official push, it also showed a rare card of Ronaldo in a high-profile manner.
But when I, a 20-year-old fan, enter Sorare full of joy, it is difficult to admit that this is a game. The player cards in the game are all NFT, which are divided into three types according to their rarity: unique, super rare and rare. There are five card slots on the game interface, corresponding to the midfielder, forward, defender, goalkeeper and substitute. This is strange, isn't there 11 people in the starting lineup of a football game? Am I playing 5-a-side football?
According to the rules, I can choose 5 cards from 15 rare cards as the starting deck. To select 5 players from a bunch of unknown players, I can only rely on my eyesight. When I gather carefully selected players in Together, when planning to enjoy a pure football game, I found that I was thinking too much. After everyone "showdown", they can go back to their homes and find their mothers.
Did you find out, this is actually a "placement" game. After putting the player card of a specific position into the corresponding card slot, there is no need to do any operations, we just need to wait for the result of the game. Here comes the important point, the so-called game result refers to the personal results of the 5 members in your deck in real games.
The specific assessment indicators include: game duration, goals, assists, shots, passes, saves, steals and many other professional indicators. These indicators are multiplied by the corresponding coefficients and then added together to get the player's total score. If the player gets a red card or Yellow cards will also have corresponding penalties. These data are all crawled from the football data website. A simple example: a striker played 80 minutes in a game, had 2 shots on target and completed 5 passes, and the score was 80 x 0.02 + 2 x 2.00 + 5 x 0.03 = 5.75. If he is sent off with a red card in the 81st minute of the game, then the score is 5.75-5=0.75 points, and the sum of the scores of the five players will be used as the team score to participate in the weekly league competition.
In the talent recruitment section of Sorare's official website, I found that this team from Paris, France has only three people, and is currently urgently recruiting developers and game designers. Seeing this, the old fans sighed, we are still far away from a blockchain football game that can be played.https://dapp.review/
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