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Berlin, Zug, 24/04/2020 

German esports organization PENTA announced its brand-new mobile application PENTA NOW which launched on Android and iOS platforms today. Through PENTA NOW fans get access to special features including direct chats with PENTA’s star players.

The application was developed in partnership between esports organization PENTA and Swiss-based SportsTech company Blocksport. With the newly released application, PENTA aims to move closer to its fans by offering more opportunities to connect with the organization and its players. PENTA’s fans will be able to follow all of the organization’s updates through the implemented social media feed, the so-called “Social Wall”. Furthermore, direct chats with professional players will be enabled to further increase the engagement with PENTA’s fans all around the world. The app also offers the possibility to vote on upcoming games and therefore gives users the chance to prove their knowledge.

Andreas Schaetzke, Managing Director at PENTA, says: “We are very delighted to finally release our brand-new app PENTA NOW. We put a lot of dedication and passion into this app to make sure we can deliver something special for our fans to allow them to learn more about PENTA and our players. I truly believe that we accomplished all this with our new app. Of course, we also want to reward our loyal fans and I am looking forward to several cool giveaways we will host to say ‘thank you’. But my first ‘thank you’ obviously goes to Blocksport for that amazing job they have done!”

Vladimir Liulka, CEO and Co-Founder at Blocksport, comments: We are proud to have PENTA as our client. Our app builds an exclusive channel for clubs to push their fan engagement and brand awareness to the next level.”

More cool features will be added over time, such as an improved chat system, more in-depth statistics, additional fan missions, club merchandise. Also, the app will be updated regularly to offer the best possible experience for all users.

Zug, April 23rd, 2020

The professional eSports organization Furia, founded and based in Brazil, joins the Swiss-based SportsTech Blocksport to launch its own mobile app solution to strengthen its proximity with its South American fan community.

Furia is a fast-growing CSGO organization that has been founded in August 2017 by Jaime “raizen” Pádua. Today it is building a professional environment for the players and creating a thriving ecosystem including a Furia female esports and Furia academy. With the support of Blocksport’s mobile app, Furia becomes the first South American esports club to take its first steps to underline its commitment towards innovation and gamified fan engagement. Blocksport will be able to strengthen its fan community and build its brand awareness while offering a unique experience to its fans and sponsoring partners.

Blocksport’s white-label esports app will offer Furia’s growing fan base a gamified way to interact with the community, the teams, players and sponsoring partners. The mobile solution will allow fans to influence club-related decisions within polls, play team-related fan games and access money can’t buy benefits. Furia and Sponsors can reward fans with exclusive discounts and unique experiences for their in-app activities and participation in the global community creation.

Vladimir Liulka, Blocksport’s Co-Founder and CEO, says: “We are delighted to have signed with Furia, one of the most innovative and forward-thinking esports organizations in the world. Welcome on board, Furia!”

Jaime Pádua, Furia’s CEO and Founder, comments on this partnership: ”Furia is 100% excited to be a partner with Blocksport. We believe it will be a long and reliable partnership. Our fans will engage even more with Furia!”

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About Furia

FURIA is a premier esports organization with a world-class Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team. Established in August 2017, FURIA has already become one of the fastest-growing organizations in the esports market. The company also stands out for the huge engagement of its fan base and its unique way to create exclusive content like FURIATV, the biggest streaming channel owned by an electronic sports club in the world.

Zug, April 21^th, 2020

The professional eSports organization Team Singularity, founded and based in Denmark, joins the Swiss-based SportsTech Blocksport to launch its innovative mobile app solution to strengthen its proximity with its international fan community.

Team Singularity is an expanding eSports organization, with the purpose of developing successful teams, building a professional environment for the players and creating a thriving ecosystem. With the mobile app, Team Singularity becomes one of the first Scandinavian clubs to take its first steps to underline its commitment towards innovation and new digital trends. Singularity will be able to strengthen its fan engagement and build its brand awareness while offering a unique experience to its fans around the world.

Blocksport’s white-label gamified esports platform will offer Singularity’s global fan base a new way to interact with the community, the teams, players and sponsoring partners. The mobile solution will allow fans to influence club-related decisions, play team-related fan games and access money can’t buy benefits. Singularity and Sponsors can reward fans with exclusive discounts and unique experiences for their social media activities and participation in global fan games.

Vladimir Liulka, Blocksport’s Co-Founder and CEO, says: “Team Singularity is led by experienced management, and we are confident that our mobile app will help Team Singularity to achieve the highest level of fan engagement. Welcome on board, Singularity!”

 Atle S. Stehouwer, Founder and CEO of Team Singularity comment on the partnership: “We are thrilled to partner up with Blocksport as we have been looking for the right company to help us develop a Singularity app that suits our needs and will help us with greater fan interaction.”

About Team Singularity

Team Singularity is a professional esports organization with more than 80 players from 27 different nations, active in 12 gaming titles, operating in EU, NA & SA. The organization is active in PC, console and mobile gaming. The goal is to be the leading talent incubator in the world and to create a strong sustainable ecosystem for talents to thrive within.

Zug, April 14^th, 2020

Yeovil Town Women Football Club is an English women’s association football club based in Yeovil, Somerset, joins the Swiss-based SportsTech Blocksport to launch its innovative mobile app solution.

Yeovil Town Women FC currently plays in the FA WNL. They were crowned Women’s Super League 2 Champions in 2016 and gained promotion to the highest tier in English Football namely, The Women’s Super League 1. Its mission is to play good football, promote female soccer across all age ranges, & to promote Yeovil. Blocksport will deliver its innovative fan app solution to Yeovil Town WFC in order to activate and engage club’s fans community, provide all latest information about club’s life, unique shopping experience, fan games, fan voting and many others.

Vladimir Liulka, Blocksport’s Co-Founder and CEO says: “There is a great team behind the Yeovil Team and we are proud to have them as a client. This partnership with the UK-based football organization sets an important milestone for Blocksport to enter the UK market.”

Adam Murry, A former Director/Owner of AFC Bournemouth, an English Premiership Club and CEO of Yeovil Town WFC comments: “We are very excited to team up with Blocksport and very much looking forward to a continued relationship with them.”

http://www.yeoviltownwomenfc.co.uk/

Stockholm and Zurich, April 1st, 2020

The Esports data provider Abios, specialized in real-time statistics for esports founded and based in Stockholm, is partnering up with the Swiss-based SportsTech Blocksport to support with the best in class live Esports data and statistics as well as analysis of teams, games, leagues and tournaments.

Abios is a B2B esports data company gathering, enriching and distributing engaging statistics, visualisations and odds. The Abios API offers the most detailed statistics and broadest coverage of matches, suitable for all data needs. Blocksport’s innovative social sports platform offers Esports fans a new way to interact and to get closer to the teams. The white-label mobile solutions serve clubs and their fans with live data and statistics and engage fans social games and votes.

Vladimir Liulka, Blocksport CEO and Co-Founder says: “The partnership with a world leader in esports data strengthens our social sports ecosystem significantly. Esports clubs and their fans deserve only the best esports data, and we are ready to supply it from now. We are very much looking forward to a further successful partnership with Abios.”

Oskar Fröberg, Abios CEO and Founder commented on the partnership by saying that: “Abios are thrilled to be partnering up with Blocksport and excited to see all of their unique applications for our data. Blocksport is generating lots of value for the industry by accomodating both teams and their fans in an engaging manner and Abios is proud to be contributing towards this end.”

About Abios
Abios is a world-leading B2B provider of esports data and statistics. Founded in early 2013 Abios now works with companies and clients from all over the world focusing on everything from betting to media. The Abios API is the core product and offers the most detailed statistics and broadest coverage of matches, suitable for any and all data needs. Abios has everything from play-by-play granularity to live data of match events and statistics. Abios currently offers three different packages of data along with tailored solutions. The Abios Widgets provide engaging visual content with no technical overhead. They are seamlessly integrated to provide deep insight into any esports match, whether pregame or in-play. The Abios Odds are a statistically driven feed of probabilities for the most popular markets. Abios also offers a Trading Dashboard to clients looking to set the best possible live-odds.

Contact Abios
info@abiosgaming.com
Mosebacke Torg 1-3, 116 46 Stockholm, Sweden
(https://abiosgaming.com/)

About Blocksport
Blocksport is a Swiss SportsTech specialized in digital solutions for the sports industry. The next-generation social sports platform is used by Esports and traditional Sports clubs to increase and monetize digital fan engagement. Blocksport provides sports clubs with a white-label mobile solution to activate fans globally with a gamified and loyalty-based brand ecosystem that returns cash-backs to clubs/fans, and analyses as well as profiles consumption data across the ecosystem for a higher personalization.

Contact Blocksport
PR@blocksport.io
Dammstrasse 16, 6300 Zug, Switzerland
(https://blocksport.io)

News release | Partnership Announcement

Zug, March 30th, 2020

The professional woman-esports organization Callisto Gaming (Callisto) founded and based in Singapore, joins the Swiss-based SportsTech Blocksport to launch its innovative mobile app solution.

Callisto’s vision is to be the Manchester United or Real Madrid of Esports for female gamers, where they compete on equal grounds with male gamers while thriving in an emotionally safe environment – with more resources and support being given to them to grow.

Blocksport’s social sports platform offers direct access to the Callisto Team. The mobile solution will allow Callisto’s Asian community of more than 500.000 fans and followers to influence club-related decisions and access money can’t buy benefits. Club and Sponsors can reward fans with exclusive discounts and unique experiences for their social media activities, engagement in the Callisto and purchases in the shopping world.

Vladimir Liulka, Blocksport’s Co-Founder and CEO, says: “There is a great team behind Callisto and we are proud to have them as a client. This partnership with Asian-based Esport organization sets an important milestone for Blocksport to enter the Asian market.”

Gen Chia, Founder of Calisto Gaming says to the partnership: “We had always been looking for solutions and platforms that will enable us to have better exposure, along with better ways to engage our fans and follower. And the opportunity came in when we spoke to Blocksport, who are sincere and dedicated to helping our cause and even going the extra mile to attend to our needs. The partnership with Blocksport will not only allow us to have our very own community platform, but Callisto will also be their channel to bring more esports team from Asia to onboard the platform.”

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About Callisto Gaming
Callisto is an esports organization operating across Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan. We compete in top tier games across the region providing talented female players with a platform to perform at the highest level. We have won international competitions in League of Legends and our goal is to become house the best female team in the world and compete in the major championship series.

Callisto aims to build a community that enable more women to have the opportunity and resources to improve and eventually participating in international competitions.

At the same time, Callisto seeks to be the gamechanger in Southeast Asia by establishing its presence through content – which helps the public to understand eSports better and eventually bring female gaming into the spotlight around the world.

www.callistogaming.com

About Blocksport
Blocksport is a Swiss SportsTech specialized in digital solutions for the sports industry. The next-generation social sports platform is used by Esports and traditional Sports clubs to increase and monetize digital fan engagement. Blocksport provides sports clubs with a mobile solution to activate fans globally with a gamified and loyalty-based brand ecosystem that returns cash backs to clubs/fans, and analyses as well as profiles consumption data across the ecosystem for a higher personalization.

Contact Blocksport
PR@blocksport.io
Dammstrasse 16,
6300 Zug, Switzerland

Sophia Antipolis (France) and Zug (Switzerland)

Web TV platform MyTVchain which specializes in live streaming and VoD services for sports industry founded and based in Sophia Antipolis, France, announces today entering into a partnership with the Swiss-based SportsTech Blocksport to offer the sports clubs unique SaaS-based social sports platform with integrated Web TV solution by MyTVchain. In addition, MyTVchain will support Blocksport on further expansion on the French sports market.

MyTVchain offers a private web TV for the sports clubs and former champions based on a freemium model and where sports clubs can add services to their viewers that can be purchased and where viewers earn token while watching videos. MyTVchain’s mission is to help sports clubs generate more revenue from their content, build brand loyalty and accelerate growth in the development of sport club channels.

Vladimir Liulka, Blocksport CEO and Co-Founder said: “The partnership with an innovative Web TV provider such as MyTVchain strengthens our social sports platform significantly. MyTVchain services increase our user experiences and their access to exclusive video content. The sports clubs and their fan communities will be happy to watch the games of their favourite clubs over our mobile app solution. We are looking forward to a successful partnership with MyTVchain.”

Xavier Gesnouin, President of MyTVchain commented on the partnership by saying that: “We are happy to introduce Blocksport social App for our sports clubs that combine information, community management, gamification, consumption and rewarding in one mobile solution in SaaS. We want to give to all our sports clubs, including the smallest the best tools to enhance and increase their fan engagement and ecosystem animation and our combined offer will for sure satisfy all our communities”

About MyTVChain

MyTVChain is the first web TV platform dedicated to Sports Clubs and their Fans and powered by the blockchain. MyTVchain’s mission is to help sports clubs generate more revenue from their content, build brand loyalty and accelerate growth in the development of sport club channels. MyTVchain today is hosting more than 160 Sports clubs’ web TV from more than 50 countries including the French National Olympic Committee TV channel “Sport in France”. More info at www.mytvchain.com

About Blocksport

Blocksport is a SportsTech boutique based in Zug, Switzerland that provides mobile app solutions for the sports industry. Blocksport offers “out of the box” social platform for traditional sports and esport clubs that combines information, community management, gamification, consumption, loyalty rewarding and fundraising in one mobile app solution.

Contact Blocksport                                            Contact MyTVchain

pr@blocksport.io                                                        media@mytvchain.com

Dammstrasse 16,                                                        1501, rte des dolines, Sophia Antipolis

6300 Zug, Switzerland                                                06560 Valbonne, France

Lots have been said these days and now that we all are trying to re-adjust to these new temporary circumstances, Blocksport wants to express all our unconditional support to you. We hope that you, as well as your families and friends, are staying safe and taking all the necessary measures to protect yourself.

As for the sports industry, just this past week recent news caused a massive domino effect with nearly every sports organization and events being shut down or postponed.

As for the sports industry, just this past week recent news caused a massive domino effect with nearly every sports organization and events being shut down or postponed to the foreseeable future. You can read here all you need to know about the impact of this crisis on the sporting events in every sector of the sports industry: competition, marketing, fitness, clubs, equipment and environment.

While this pause in action is not ideal, organizations can take this time to prepare themselves to how to welcome back fans when the time does arise that sports can resume under more safety measures. Additionally, Esports could see an opportunity to grow as one of the only forms of entertainment and sport still currently available. An interesting development was Formula E driver Jean-Eric Vergne, who previously raced on the F1 circuit, suggested an online championship on Friday morning; by Friday afternoon, a race had been organized for broadcast on Sunday in which he’d be joined by F1 driver Lando Norris and more. Here’s How Sports Have gone Dark, but the technology remains plugged in.

At Blocksport, we help clubs and sponsoring partners day to day to engage with the fan community digitally while they staying at home. As Esports sector is booming now and traditional Sports are affected by the shutdown, our SaaS-based white-label app solution is fully ready to help all sports to stay in touch with their fans, keep them engaged, play fan games online and stay tuned 24×7.

Get in touch with us to learn more!

We are happy to announce our first Ambassador from Georgia, Aleksander “Sandro” Chkhaidze – an entrepreneur across various fields of technology and also actively involved in the sports world.

“Due to Sandro’s sports network in the Caucasian region, Blocksport will be empowering its brand and help local sports clubs in innovative fan engagement.”, says Vladimir Liulka, CEO of Blocksport.

“I decided to tie my experience and love of sports with an amazing team of Blocksport. Extremely happy for being able to help the platform grow and onboard new, exciting entities. The emotional bonding that sports have with the fans/community is unparalleled to any industry and Blocksport enables both sides to be closely tied together, greatly rewarding each other. Let’s shape the future of sports and e-sports together!” says Sandro Chkhaidze.

Welcome on board, Sandro!

About Aleksander “Sandro” Chkhaidze 

He is a graduate of New York University, BS in Sports Management. His past experiences include working at Brooklyn Nets/Barclays Center (Corporate Partnership and Corporate Sales), Ministry of Sports of Georgia (Sports Development Department), Football Club Saburtalo. Currently, Sandro is a Co-Founder of Vault Wines and Chief Strategy Officer at KTW Group. Former football player with a big desire to own a sports team in the future.

Following the official release of the BIG Fan App for iOS, we are delighted to announce that the app is now available for BIG fans on Android as well! Head over to Google Play to download it and join the community! 

Experience the true meaning of being a BIG fan with the help of our mobile applications! Fan meets, Q&A sessions, fan missions and dozens of other fan experiences are now available from the comfort of your phone! 

In case you have missed it in our previous announcement, here’s a quick rundown on some of the most important features you now have access to: 

• Check out all the results from all leagues and esports tournaments that BIG plays in.
• View the archive of results with news, stats, leaderboard and details from every match, every competition and each player.
• Be sure to never miss a match again with the “Upcoming games” feature. Check dates and kick-off time for the next BIG games.
• Receive all the information about the BIG squad. Discover stats about your favourite BIG players.
• Learn more about the team and the players with the Social Wall section, updated with the official feeds of BIG. Be the first to know about the latest news about the team or the players.
• Access the BIG official store directly through the app. Find the official BIG fan merchandise.
• Be sure to learn about the next sales and promotions through the Shop section.