Universal Cryptocurrency based on Ethereum for Play-by-Play Strategy Prediction Game for Sports and esports.

RankingBall is an innovative gaming platform that unlocks a new future for sports and esports, transforming fans from idle spectators to fully engaged participants. RankingBall has developed the first skill-based game using real-time data from live sports and esports events. This allows players to participate in RankingBall games while watching live matches, to have fun by competing with other players, and to earn rewards based on their performance. RankingBall’s user reward and loyalty program are unlike any other, as they are based on our blockchain ecosystem. With these features, we are ready to create a unique gaming platform and lead the world of sports and esports.
We’ve been running open beta tests for the last four years during sports events in major leagues like the Korea Baseball League, Major League Baseball, English Premier League, and National Basketball Association. Based on the tests and feedback, we are ready to launch the all new RankingBall Platform in April 2018. We’ve already secured partnerships with major sports media in Korea such as KBS, KBSN and SBS, and are in talks with ESPN and CBS, in the US. In the growing esports field, we’ve been carrying out closed beta tests with big names such as League of Legends, Counter Strike: Global Offensive, and DOTA 2. We’ve already secured a partnership with Player Unknown’s Battle Grounds, and will be launching our official service globally in the first half of 2018.
While up to now RankingBall has been running as an independent platform, it’s been built for collaboration and cooperation with game developers and publishers, streamers, and media. Attractive incentives, made possible by our blockchain ecosystem, encourage them to leverage RankingBall’s full potential. Sports/esports Media such as KBS, SBS, ESPN, and Twitch can incorporate RankingBall’s platform into their own to offer a whole new layer of gaming features to viewers to generate engagement and additional revenue. This model has been tested and proven, working with KBS and SBS, two of Korea’s largest terrestrial broadcasters for three years. RankingBall will launch as an independent platform in April 2018. Partnerships with ESPN, CBS, and Twitch are also expected to be in place in the second half of 2018.

Additionally, RankingBall’s incentives and excitement can go beyond streaming. Viewers or players will be able to create or enter tournaments for a fee and compete head-to-head against their peers for prizes. RankingBall provides automatic matchmaking and creates smart contracts, enabling them to easily set up tournaments between two players or among many. Major game publishers can also tap into this service to promote their games, by giving players around the world greater incentive to compete and share.
RankingBall will issue its own blockchain-based currency, RankingBall Gold (RBG), which improves convenience for players and makes games more fun, while also increasing the efficiency and security for our platform. RBG is a decentralized ERC20 token on the Ethereum blockchain. It enables us to develop a new and innovative cryptocurrency ecosystem within the platform, using smart contract technology.
In addition to the cryptocurrency based RBG, we will also allow players to buy RankingBall Silver (RBS) through in-app purchases on Android or iOS. In time, these two currencies will be linked. Players can create or participate in contests using either RBS or RBG. For the former, the entry fees are paid in RBS, base rewards are paid out in RBS and RBG as bonuses. For the latter, entry fees and rewards are both paid in RBG. RBS can only be used within the RankingBall platform. However, RBG can be withdrawn and used outside of the platform via a multi-signature wallet and external exchange. It can also be used as an incentive within the platform (e.g. bonuses for RBS contests) or outside (e.g. rewards for playing games using linked Steam or Cheering for streamers on Twitch).
Now, the gaming industry, including online and mobile games, esports, sports betting, casinos, and other forms of gaming, is at the forefront of the innovation brought on by blockchain technology. Blockchain sits at the intersection of many of the existing problems concerning player matchmaking, payments and rewards, regulations, licensing, copyright and distribution, and data and statistics provision. Rapidly applying the benefits of blockchain technology to its ingenious and innovative gaming service, will soon make RankingBall a leading platform for Sports/esports.
Ultimately, RankingBall can act as a bridge platform on blockchain ecosystem where gamers, sports/esports media, and game developers/publishers are interconnected so they can create and share new value on their own platform. Therefore, RankingBall will realize its final goal of being “a leader of gaming platform on the blockchain ecosystem”.

RankingBall is a play-by-play strategy prediction game. We spent the last four years analyzing the pros and cons of fantasy sports, sports i-gaming and esports platforms in North America and Europe. We took the data and worked to incorporate all the pros into one innovative gaming platform. RankingBall quantifies the numerous real-time events that happen in a game and reflects them in a scoring system. In addition, its interface is modeled after bingo, one of the most popular games around the world, reducing the learning curve for players to near zero.
Market Solution and Leading Features

• With RankingBall, players can easily connect their play-by-play predictions to live events on TV, streamed online or mobile, or in a stadium.
• We are ready to disrupt the sports/esports gaming market by targeting millennials and focusing on their wants: real-time interaction, more exciting, and strategic game UI & logic, optimized scoring & reward system, and dynamic data visualization.
• RankingBall is optimized to make the gameplay fun in and of itself, rather than focusing solely on monetary rewards.
• We’re the first platform of our time to make real-time interaction possible by integrating live data. To do this we had to optimize each data source, the game logic, our scoring system and the broadcast delay for each sport and broadcaster. Existing sports i-gaming and fantasy sports have so far failed to do this.
• The world’s first esports real-time data feed makes spectator gaming (second screen) possible. This adds a new layer of fun to streaming.
• Our new and innovative reward system and spectator games are built on a cryptocurrency economy.
• Blockchain technology makes RankingBall’s decentralized player matchmaking and rewards system possible. These are integrated into smart contracts, allowing RankingBall to expand into P2P skill matching games and create a new ecosystem for esports media, game developers, and ad sponsors.

Tokenized Economy Diagram of RankingBall

Token Sale
ICO Parameters

• Token Name and Symbol: RankingBall Gold, RBG
• Token Contract Address: will be announced 48 hours prior to the Crowdsale
• ICO Start Date: June 4, 2018 (UTC 00:00)
• ICO End Date: June 24, 2018 (UTC 23:59)
• Token Exchange rate: 50,000 RBG = 1 ETH
• Maximum Sale Goal: 30,000,000 USD
• Minimum Sale Goal: 3,000,000 USD
• Minimum transaction amount: 0.1 ETH(5,000 RBG)
• Maximum transaction amount: 1,000 ETH(50,000,000 RBG)
• Bonuses
  2018.06.04(UTC 00:00) ~ 2018.06.04(UTC 23:59) the participants will get a 20% tokens bonus
  2018.06.05(UTC 00:00) ~ 2018.06.06(UTC 23:59) the participants will get a 15% tokens bonus
  2018.06.07(UTC 00:00) ~ 2018.06.10(UTC 23:59) the participants will get a 10% tokens bonus
  2018.06.11(UTC 00:00) ~ 2018.06.17(UTC 23:59) the participants will get a 5% tokens bonus
  After 2018.06.18(UTC 00:00) the participants will get a 0% tokens bonus
  (Sale goal will be fixed in ETH using the exchange rate of June 1 (UTC 00:00))

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For more information, please visit the links below:
ANN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3122116.0
Token Website: http://rankingball.io/
Play Site: https://rankingball.com/
Whitepaper: https://www.scribd.com/document/372502435/RBG-White-Paper-English-v0-981
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RankingBall-410057692761968
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RankingBall
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rankingball/
Telegram: https://t.me/RankingBall

Author: Tosin David
My BitcoinTalk Profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1180815
Disclaimer: This article was published in terms of the bounty campaign. I am not a project team member or its representative but a supporter of this incredible project.