Sorare is a fantasy football game where you can play with official blockchain cards and earn prizes every week. We are backed by a world-class team of investors, supported by gaming giant Ubisoft and already trusted by 40+ football clubs, with many more coming soon.
The basic idea behind the Sorare fantasy football is that you, as the player, becomes a football manager of a virtual club. You get to buy players from other clubs, assign them to your teams that participate in virtual leagues, and sell them off to other clubs when you no longer need them or you need to raise funds (in other words, turn a profit).
Your club (or clubs, if you can own several) can play in several blockchain football leagues on the Sorare platform. And that also depends on the reputation and the capacity you build over time. To play in a league, your team has to comprise five members, and you can replace each as you need to, especially to win.
Now, let me back up a bit and explain one critical aspect of the Sorare blockchain fantasy football game. The players you have in your club are only digital cards that represent actual players in the football leagues happening in the real world.
And that means the performance of the team of digital cards you put together depends only on the performance of each player in the real world represented by the cards.
But how exactly do you win or lose in Sorare?
Depending on how a team member plays in the real world, you win or lose points. In particular, every action they perform contributes to your team earning or losing points. If a striker, for example, scores a goal for their real-world team, your fantasy team earns a particular number of points. The same goes if your goalkeeper saves a goal or a defender wins a foul.
Your team loses points if the players make mistakes on the pitch. For example, they receive a red card or commit a foul. There is a long list of actions that wins or loses your team points.
The more points a player earns, the more powerful their card becomes, and if the majority of players in your team increase the power of their cards, then that allows you to enter your club into superior leagues. Also, if the power of the cards grows while in your possession, it means that you can sell them at a higher price than at what you bought them at.
How does one buy the cards in the game Sorare?
When you sign up on Sorare, you are given ten free cards, which you can use to build your first teams. But to acquire potent cards, you need to either win some or visit the Transfer Market and buy from other managers through a bidding process.
Of course, it goes without mentioning that you need to buy cards that represent players that you believe will give you an edge in whatever league you want to play.
It is important to point out that Sorare does not just create these cards. The company follows some necessary procedures, which include signing contracts with the teams whose players appear on the cards. Some of the major clubs that Sorare has signed contracts with include AS Roma, Schalke, Atletico Madrid, and Porto.
In late February 2020, a Sorare Juventus contract was signed, and now a card standing in for Cristiano Ronaldo and other players from the team can be purchased at the Transfer Market.
Now let’s look at the creation and securing of the cards, which is very critical because only one Cristiano Ronaldo must exist in the entire Sorare blockchain football league system. And this is where the first use of blockchain technology comes in.
Indeed, before I take you through the process of joining and using the Sorare, let me explain the two ways in which the platform leverages the blockchain to give gamers a great user experience.
How Sorare uses the blockchain technology
The first and, in my estimation, the most critical way the platform is using blockchain is to create and secure the profile of players in the form of cards that cannot be counterfeited, destroyed, or manipulated in any other way.
Of course, digital cards have always been susceptible to duplicating and cloning. They have also been easy to edit or even delete arbitrarily. To prevent these ruinous activities, we have always relied on central authorities to manage our digital assets, including those we accumulate in games.
While this has worked for the most part, it has limited how we own and manage the assets. First, a gamer claims ownership to assets as long as the central authority agrees and backs up the claim. And given that most of the gaming platforms do not have a working relationship with other similar platforms, one can’t move their assets to another platform unless the original platform not only lets them but also facilitates the process.
The cards created on the blockchain attain an independent existence. Once you acquire a card, you become its true owner. No one else exercises authority and control over them. You can do whatever you want to do with them. And thanks to the immutability nature of the blockchain, a card cannot be duplicated, altered, or deleted.
Meanwhile, the technology provides transparency so that when you decide to buy a card from another gamer at the transfer market, you are sure of its authenticity and history. And that is because you can check its history on the blockchain before you even decide to buy it.
For this purpose, Sorare chose the Ethereum blockchain, which is the most used blockchain for building and running third party decentralized applications (dApps). Indeed, all the cards exist on this blockchain, and that makes them independent of the Sorare platform. In a nutshell, Sorare uses blockchain for licensing and creating players.
The second way Sorare is using the blockchain technology in its architecture is as the foundation of its payment system. Indeed, the first successful use case of the blockchain is supporting digital payment methods.
Of course, a lot of trading, as well as other forms of transactions, happen on the Sorare platform. The Ethereum blockchain, through its native crypto ETH gives the platform a payment method that is more suitable than the traditional payment methods.
The crypto payment method comes at an almost negligible cost for the transaction. And it also supports micropayments, and this is primarily because transactions can cost nothing.
The process of using the Sorare platform.
The first step, of course, is to sign up on the platform. I found this to be a straightforward procedure. All you need to do is to input your email address, your chosen username, and a password.
After that, an email is sent to your inbox for you to verify the account. And that is basically it as far as signing up goes. With the account ready, you are a manager with a virtual club that needs to be filled with players (cards).
As mentioned earlier, your new account comes with ten free cards (basically players). I noticed that almost all of them are not well-known names. Nevertheless, you are supposed to use this group of cards to form your first team and start playing in the rookie league, where every new manager starts.
If you perform well in the rookie league, you start collecting points and also win more players to your team. With more players, especially those with high power, you can begin qualifying for higher leagues. And that means you start transitioning from a rookie manager to a more professional one. Indeed, it is the power of the players that help you climb up the ladder.
However, you cannot rely only on winning players to move ahead in this game. There is another option for signing up new players to your club. And that is buying them from other managers on the Transfer Market. This gives you the ability to acquire players who can give you advantages in the leagues you participate in.
Of course, you need to be creative the way you go about this, and in particular, you need to have an understanding of how the players in the real world perform and their potential to grow. If you are keen, you can get those who can serve you the best.
To start buying, you need to deposit some money into your platform wallet through the MetaMask browser wallet, where you hold your ETH coins. The MetaMask is a wallet that resides on the browser and is mostly used with Ethereum applications...
The blockchain licensing game assets model provides the fun factor and means to build something that, in the long term, can also turn a profit for you.
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