This is a Pre-Alpha Case Study - Pick 'Em
UFC Fight Night on Fox Sports: Dan Henderson VS Vitor Belfort. See www.ufc.com.
Date: Saturday, November 7, 2015
Televised: Fox Sports 1 for Prelims & Main Card. Prelims - 8 PM EST, Main - 10 PM EST
Game Card: Main Card (No prelim fights for case study; currently 6 fights)
Entry and Payment Deadline: Friday, November 7 at 11 PM EST
Required to Play: 125,000 OCTO & 1 OCTO Trading Card Token representing one fighter on the main card. This is roughly $5 worth of OCTO and a $5 trading card for a total of a $10 game.
Purchase OCTO at the DEX or the OCTO Swapbot at https://swapbot.tokenly.com/bot/FrameLAlife/octo-by-wwwtheoctopartycom#choose
Purchase the OCTO Fighter Trading Card Token on the DEX. More info coming this week on this part. All tokens will be created and available before the deadline. Message me on LTB with any questions regarding this :)
Enter Your Picks HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pHTNT0WQ_RSUzilUZM-Z3DODtdCFNfKFvrH6lEnGCLA/viewform?usp=send_form
Send Entry Payment & Fighter Card Token to this Counterparty Address: 19q9PyzDzRD371mL6tfogLNtK8oU4jdASj
http://blockscan.com/address?q=19q9PyzDzRD371mL6tfogLNtK8oU4jdASj
*OCTO has been delisted from Bittrex this week. You can no longer purchase OCTO on this exchange. Please check your Bittrex account and withdraw any OCTO you have on their exchange.
OCTO is currently building a team to bring Fantasy MMA to the Counterparty platform. However, unlike normal Fantasy Sports games, OCTO is going SOG style. We are going to incorporate trading cards into the fantasy sports game. Now, not only are users wagering currency, they will also wager a collectable trading card.
In theory, you could play a trading card that represents how the fight ends, such as Knockout, Technical Knockout, Decision or Submission, and reward players extra points for each fight that ends via those options. You could even have this become more specific by choosing a specific submission such as Triangle Choke, Armbar, Kneebar or Rear Naked Choke. When you have these options, not only does the card have betting value, but since there are so many options to end the fight, and different players may choose different options, it could affect the game's outcome, even if the player did not necessarily choose the general criteria correctly.
In this case study, we will keep it super simple. To enter, players must pay a specific amount of OCTO, and also must purchase a card that represents ONE fighter who fights on the MAIN CARD (not the FS1 Prelims). When a player purchases the trading card token representing the fighter, if that fighter wins their fight, they will receive a 5 POINT BONUS. If the player chooses a trading card token for a fighter who loses their match, they receive ZERO BONUS. IF the player chooses a card and the fighter DOES NOT WIN but DOES NOT LOSE and the MATCH IS A DRAW, they receive a 3 POINT BONUS. This is done this way, because it's easier to track than how many fights ended in multiple different options. The next Pre-Alpha Case Study we will attempt to try one of these options.
Typical Fantasy MMA Pick 'Em Rules will apply. The trading card token for 1 fighter will alter the outcome of the points by rewarding a 5, 3 or 0 point bonus.
SCORING CRITERIA
Selecting the correct Fighter Who Wins - 10 points
Selecting the correct Method of Win 5 points
Selecting the correct Round of Win 5 points
Selecting the correct Minute of Win 5 points
Bonus for selecting all of the above 4 criteria correctly per fight 10 points
RULES FOR DRAWS - You must pick the last round and the 5th minute in order to receive points for a draw - If you choose draw and do not pick Round 3 or 5 and minute 5, you will NOT receive the points. PAY ATTENTION. RULES FOR DECISION WINS - You must pick the last round and the 5th minute in order to receive points for a decision - If you choose decision and do not pick Round 3 or 5 and minute 5, you will NOT receive the points. PAY ATTENTION. SPLIT DECISIONS WILL STILL COUNT AS A DECISION
We will only choose fights from the main card. This will not include preliminary fights so that the point talley and creation of OCTO Fighter Trading Card Tokens are easier.
The main card includes: Main Event - Henderson VS Belfort, Teixeira VS Cummins, Almeida VS Birchak, Oliveira VS Hallmann, Burns VS Magomedov, and Maldonado VS Anderson. Only these 6 fights are allowed this time.
IF there are any changes this time to the card before it happens, that specific fight is voided from the points total for both players. This is only to avoid having to recreate the picks. It's easier and fair to void that fight and only allow points from fights that had no changes due to fighter injury, pullout or cancellation of that fight. This time we will not add any replacement fights, so if 1 fight is canceled for any reason out of the 6, then we only count points from the other 5 fights that actually happened. This could potentially hurt players who chose an OCTO Fighter Trading Card, by causing them not to receive their bonus.
Enter HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pHTNT0WQ_RSUzilUZM-Z3DODtdCFNfKFvrH6lEnGCLA/viewform?usp=send_form
Send Entry Payment & Fighter Card Token to this Counterparty Address: 19q9PyzDzRD371mL6tfogLNtK8oU4jdASj
http://blockscan.com/address?q=19q9PyzDzRD371mL6tfogLNtK8oU4jdASj
When you submit your picks, it gives you the option to view the results after you have submitted.
We will create the OCTO Fighter Card Tokens and post to the DEX this week. Payment must be submitted by 11 PM EST on Friday, November 6th.
This is pretty short term because I do not want way too many entries on this first test run.
Good luck! Pick your winners. Results will be pulled from www.ufc.com. The single winner will receive payment on Sunday November 8 of all incoming OCTO and cards. Please give us some time to tally the score. We will make all the results public via the google spreadsheet and of course you are able to view results after you submit your picks. Please DO NOT submit picks and then not pay. Anyone who submits picks without payment will be removed from the game prior to the start of the fight card on Saturday.
Let me hear your thoughts and suggestions here!
