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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.

Blocksport has joined the Global Sports Innovation Center (GSIC) in Madrid, Spain.

The partnership shall support Blocksport’s international growth strategy, increase the European Footprint and boost co-innovation within the SportsTech industry.

“It is a strategic step for Blocksport to join GSIC. Cooperation with Global Sports Innovation Center shall bring our social sports platform closer to the European sports world and empower our cooperation with Clubs, Federations and Leagues” says Vladimir Liulka, Blocksport’s CEO.

With over 200 members located in 36 countries all around the world, the GSIC has become a worldwide reference for Sports Industry. Powered by Microsoft, the GSIC is the international ecosystem of companies, public and private institutions, universities, investors, clubs, federations and major players in the sports industry.

Interaction between esports teams and their fans becomes more and more important. Especially the direct communication between emotional fans successful organizations make esports so dynamic and modern.

PENTA recognized this potential and unique characteristic very early and was always looking for new ways to max out new opportunities and be part of the development. With the company Blocksport, the Berlin-based esports organization found a new partner with whom they aim to shape the esports communication in the long run.

Blocksport offers a mobile app solution that allows organizations, such as PENTA, to even more directly get in touch and interact with its own fan base. Thereby, both partners benefit from exciting features, such as a fan chat, fan missions, game data, an up-to-date news feed, a social media wall as well as an integrated shop. The app will be available for iOS and Android within the next two months.

PENTA’s CEO Andreas Schaetzke is looking forward to the cooperation: “Esports is a digital hybrid, that combines many aspects of the modern world. Therefore, our cooperation with Blocksport is a logical step in the digitalization of processes and communication channels. PENTA has a global loyal and emotional fan base. Thanks to Blocksport we will be able to get in touch with all of our fans in an even better way and collectively further bring forth PENTA as a brand and esports in general.”

Vladimir Liulka, CEO at Blocksport, looks forward to the newly established partnership: “PENTA’s fan base includes more than 200,000 people worldwide – exponentially growing. Through Blocksport PENTA and its fans benefit from superb new and mutually beneficial opportunities. We are convinced that PENTA’s growth and fan satisfaction will be even further increased thanks to our app.”

Blocksport participated in CV Labs Incubation Demo Day during a Crypto Valley Week in Davos.

During a Demo Day event, our CEO Vladimir Liulka successfully pitched the vision and mission of Blocksport. More than 100+ investors and guests came to this event to listen on the pitches of blockchain startups, members of Batch#02 at CV Lab incubator.

Blocksport received positive feedback among the investors and experts who participated at CV Labs Incubation Demo Day in Davos.

Our Team says a big thanks to CV Lab Team who organised such a great event and made it happen.

We are inviting all investors, partners and friends to participate at Final Demo Day in Zug which will take a place on January 30th at CV Lab in Zug. Feel free to register by this link.

Stay tuned!

The professional organization “TKA E-Sports” better known as TKA founded and based in Leibnitz, Austria partners up with the Swiss-based SportsTech Blocksport to launch its innovative mobile app solution.

TKA’s professional teams (CSGO, League of Legends, Hearthstone, Fortnite, Tekken, Super Smash Bros.) and players compete in different leagues worldwide. Blocksport’s white label social sports platform will offer TKA’s global fan base a new way to interact with the community, the teams and sponsors. The mobile solution will allow fans 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, participation in fan games and purchases in the shopping world.

Vladimir Liulka, Blocksport Co-Founder and CEO, says: “We are happy to partner up with TKA and start an exciting journey. This partnership sets a further milestone for the fan engagement of the future and the e-Sport market globally.”

Mario Garstenauer, Head Manager of TKA says to the partnership: “We know that digital innovation and interactive communication are important to our fans and a key differentiator for our sponsoring partners. With Blocksport’s social sports platform we can enhance our fan engagement, increase our global reach and provide our sponsors with an additional channel for brand visibility.”

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About TKA

Established in 2003, TKA is one of the oldest and most successful Austrian esports organizations with several pro and semi-pro teams in different esports titles. In order to lead the transformation of the Austrian esports scene, one of their main goals for the year 2020 is to close the gap between them and the biggest renowned organizations in the German-speaking region.

A few weeks ago we have teased the development of an official BIG Fan mobile application. Today, we are excited to announce that the first version is available for download on the Apple App Store! Click here to try it out for yourself!

Developed by Blocksport, an innovative Swiss-based SportsTech and BIG’s partner for digital transformation, the brand new app provides with everything fans needs on their phones. Never miss out again on the latest BIG news, get live match updates, touch exclusive content, access a shopping section, chat with BIG fans and much more from BIG’s favourite players!

Get the app on your iPhone and explore all its amazing features:

• 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.

Statement Balázs Lengyel, Chief Digital Officer
The BIG Fan mobile application is an important milestone for us from both fan engagement and promotional standpoint. Having a hub where our fans have direct access to us, are able to follow the latest news, look for upcoming games of the team and participate in fan games is currently a new frontier in esports where we are planning to take the lead. We want to be a BIG fan to be a rewarding experience, which is something our new mobile platform will play a significant part in achieving. I’m looking forward to continuing building our connection with our fans with such a powerful tool on our side!  Although the application is only available for iOS as of now, we will be expanding to Android in the near future, as well as adding multiple new features for our fans. 

Although the application is only available for iOS as of now, we will be expanding to Android in the near future, as well as adding multiple new features for the fans. Support and feedback can be sent to support@blocksport.io. 

About BIG 

Berlin International Gaming, worldwide known as BIG, is one of the most successful European esport organizations. The German club currently employs teams and players in the titles League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Quake Champions, FIFA and Trackmania. The flagship of the organization is the most successful German Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team around team captain Johannes “tabseN” Wodarz.

With millions of spectators and crowded arenas, Counter-Strike is one of the hottest and most prestigious titles in esport. Since 2017, the German team has been able to establish itself among the world’s top teams and celebrate numerous respectable successes. Besides winning the German championship in the founding year, the numerous fans remember the second place during ESL One Cologne inside the Lanxess Arena until today. 

At the FACEIT Major in London’s Wembley Arena, the world championship in CS:GO, the team was able to secure legendary status for the second time in history, which is awarded to the top 8 placed teams. BIG also competes in the ESL Pro League, the most prestigious international league.