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Wir freuen uns, dass der ehemalige Esportler und heutige Berater Niklas Timmermann zu unserem Advisory Board dazu stösst. Er ist ein absoluter Gewinn für Blocksport, der mit seinem Netzwerk und seiner Erfahrung wichtige Impulse setzen kann.

“Bereits zu Beginn meiner ersten Führungsrolle im Werksteam von Alternate aTTaX 2010 wurde mir bewusst, wie wichtig eine tiefgehende Verknüpfung zwischen der Organisation und ihren Fans ist, um langfristig am Markt erfolgreich und präsent zu sein. Blocksport bietet in meinen Augen eine fantastische Möglichkeit, diese Beziehung deutlich zu vertiefen und so einen großen Teil zum Erfolg eines Teams beizutragen. Ich freue mich daher sehr, das Team rund um Semih und Vladimir tatkräftig unterstützen zu können”, sagt Niklas Timmermann.

Bio:

Die Bildzeitung bezeichnete ihn einst als “virtuellen Michael Schumacher”. Als ehemaliger Welt- und Europameister im Rennspiel Need for Speed ist Niklas seit 2003 im Esports unterwegs und agierte dabei nach dem Ende seiner professionellen Spielerkarrie 2010 als sportlicher Leiter für diverse Esports-Teams. Während seines juristischen Anwärterdienstes 2016 machte er sich mit seiner Firma E-Native als Berater für Esports selbstständig und war ebenfalls als ehem. 1. Vizepräsident an der Gründung und Umsetzung des Esportbund Deutschland e.V. beteiligt. Seit April 2019 hat er alle bestehenden Projekte in die Skillshot überführt.

The Belgrade-based semi-professional Rugby League club RLK Crvena Zvezda (Red Star Rugby League) joins Blocksport to launch its own mobile app solution to strengthen its brand and position with its Serbian and global fan community. Red Star Rugby League was initially founded in 1956, within the Red Star Sporting Society and recommenced playing rugby league in 2006. In 2021, Red Star Rugby League will celebrate its 15^th year of continuous rugby league, and its 65^th anniversary in the sporting society. There is no better way to celebrate that milestone than with a brand new app to bring our growing fan base closer to the action!

Red Star Rugby League has been a leader in the expansion of the game, working in close cooperation with the Serbian Rugby League Federation. Red Star’s fan base is now one of the strongest in European rugby league and their Facebook following is actually larger than one of the Super League clubs in the top tier of the game in England! This shows the commitment of Red Star Rugby League to their social media brand. Red Star Rugby League’s plans for the future are very strong, and the management is building the club for a professional future.

Red Star Rugby League, as our biggest European Rugby League Club is committed to developing gamified fan engagement, and will now be able to offer its fans a special “one-stop shop” for sponsor and partner promotions, access to live streaming, statistics, ticketing, memberships, merchandising offers and special “app” only content.

Blocksport’s white label club app will offer Red Star Rugby League’s fan community an innovative way to interact with the teams, players and sponsoring partners. The mobile solution will allow fans to influence club-related decisions within polls and access exclusive benefits through team-related fan games. Red Star Rugby League and its sponsoring partners can provide unique experiences for fans’ in-app activities and successful completion of fan missions.

Vladimir Liulka, Blocksport’s Co-Founder and CEO, says: “We are welcoming RL Belgrade Rugby League Club as our first client from Rugby sports. Blocksport is fully committed to deliver the sophisticated fan app for RLK’s community and helps the club to activate and engage their fans!”

Colin Kleyweg, Managing Director of Red Star Belgrade Rugby League Club had this to say on the partnership: “Our club is very proud to have signed this agreement over three years with Blocksport. We are constantly seeking to innovate and grow our social media presence and develop robust revenue streams that power the continued growth of our rugby league team. We have very big plans for the future. Deals like this with Vladimir and his team make us more confident that our processes are moving in the right direction. Dobro došli u RLK Crvenoj Zvezdi!”

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About Red Star Belgrade Rugby League Club

Red Star Rugby League presently play in the Serbian Rugby League Federations Prva Liga and in the Balkan Super League. In the last 4 seasons, Red Star has won an impressive 11 trophies across 4 competitions and held a 1,000-day unbeaten streak over its fiercest rival, Partizan 1953 Rugby League. In 2022 the club is seeking to move to a professional league to continue its robust growth and to assist in the development of internationally capable Serbian players.

The Esports Expert, previous Vice President in IBM and Co-CEO of ESL, will support Blocksport’s key management in business development and the company’s growth strategy.

Vladimir Liulka, CEO about the engagement of Heinrich:

“Heinrich is an industry-recognised growth expert with strong traction in the esports market. We are happy to see Heinrich among our Board Directors and we have no doubts that his know-how and insights will accelerate our company’s growth. Welcome to our Team, Heinrich!”

Heinrich Zetlmayer, Board Director, about his Blocksport engagement:

“Glad to work with the Blocksport team to support fan engagement for esports and other sports. Esports and other sports teams want to engage more with their fans and fans want to engage deeper with their teams and that needs to be better supported.”

About Heinrich Zetlmayer

Heinrich Zetlmayer is an accomplished digital investor and growth expert with a unique background in esports and blockchain as former Co-CEO of ESL. He is the founder, CEO and managing partner of Blockchain Valley Ventures (BVV) and a partner with mas management and advisory ltd.. Heinrich has a unique wealth of experience as previous Vice President in IBM, Co-CEO of ESL, and former leader and Senior Partner of Arthur D. Little’s Global Operations Practice.

Sportradar, the global market leader in sports data intelligence, has selected Blocksport as a member of the 2020-2021 cohort for its startup accelerator, Acceleradar.

Designed to support innovators around the globe, the Acceleradar program gives Blocksport access to Sportradar’s data to enhance its mobile apps platform and the technology that powers it. The associated technologies include machine learning, artificial intelligence, and immersive media. In addition, the team at Acceleradar provides one-on-one coaching and mentoring to Blocksport Team.

As a trusted service provider to more than 1,000 companies in over 80 countries, Sportradar serves as the official partner of the some of the most respected and widely-followed sports leagues in the world, including the NBA, NFL, NHL and NASCAR, as well as soccer giants FIFA and UEFA. It is also the only provider entrusted to work with the US sports leagues in an official capacity to distribute sports data (NBA and NHL) around the world for betting purposes. The company monitors and delivers insights from more than 400,000 matches annually across 60 sports categories, having developed the industry’s most proficient software while setting new standards for speed and accuracy.

“Their data feeds will improve our traditional sports data coverage within our mobile apps platform and accelerate our development with the delivering best in class data-driven technologies by Sportradar”, said Vladimir Liulka, CEO and Co-founder of Blocksport.

The Gaming Expert and Co-Founder of BIG and Mousesports will support Blocksport’s key management in business development and product strategy.

Vladimir Liulka, CEO about the engagement of Tom:

“Tom is an experienced expert in the esports industry. His gaming background and understanding of the gamer will help us to improve our value proposition and to increase the user experience. Additionally, his unique access to a professional network of betting platforms, brand, gamers, influencers and streams could also boost our expansion.”

Tom Lemke, Senior Advisor, about his Blocksport engagement:

“Blocksport enables esport teams to fast-track their digitization efforts and fully capture their audience without having to build their own tech. It is a turnkey solution for teams to create their own exclusive content and monetize it! I am excited to work with Blocksport to help teams all around the world gain additional revenue streams and actually own the data from their fans. Teams must start to lessen the dependency on sponsorship income and Blocksport is the perfect solution to enable just that!”

About Tom Lemke

Tom has been an avid gamer ever since he played Super Mario Land on his Gameboy. Tom’s track record lies mainly within the sports betting industry where he helped to create a total of 3 esports betting platforms. On top of that, Tom co-founded 2 of Germany’s biggest esport teams: Mousesports and BIG Clan. In 2019 Tom founded his own company “Skillshot Consulting” through which he advises non-endemic companies how to advertise within the gaming & esports space.

Subhankit is a Graduation Pursuing student, a part-time PubgMobile Coach, and a scrims organizer in the India region. He has organized many tournaments being on the managing side.

“Blocksport has a perfect atmosphere, plans, and leadership to rise in the future. I am delighted to hear that Blocksport wants to create an ecosystem for Esports scene in India. That would be perfect as India’s government is also acknowledging Esports, and so does the youth. I believe with hard work, investment and Blocksport Community, we will develop Blocksport to an enormous extent in India market”, says Subhankit Choudhury.

Rebecca has wide experience in business development, rewards programmes and product development. She is the co-founder and driver behind PROTOUCH SPORTS – a South African-based impact investment sports management business focused on enabling South African athletes to perform on the World Stage. ProTouch Sports owns the #1 Continental Road Cycling Team in Africa and her vision is to revolutionize the professional arm of the road cycling, by building a sustainable business that supports high performance and then, to roll this model out into other sporting codes in Africa.

She has assembled an ecosystem and created a number of initiatives that serve as a platform, to recognise and support talent, build fan engagement and, access innovative funding for high-performance athletes. In addition, she also manages the Phil Liggett Foundation, a non-profit organisation in partnership with Phil Liggett – the Global Voice of Cycling and Conservationist – together with World Tour riders and SA National Road Champions: Ashleigh Moolman Pasio and Ryan Gibbons.

Rebecca is responsible for the growth of Blocksport in the African sports market.

Welcome on board, Rebecca!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-eliot-b6934063/

Zug and Prague, August 18th, 2020

The Czech esports organization SINNERS join the Swiss-based SportsTech Blocksport to launch its own mobile app solution to strengthen its proximity with its fan community.

SINNERS Esports was founded in 2020 with the purpose of establishing one of the first professional esports teams with full-time talent in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The newly founded team aims to make an impact both locally as well as on the international stage.

SINNERS Esports collaborates with some of the greatest talents in the industry develops engaging and entertaining content and is grounded in the mindset to win through enabling its players to perform at their peak. With the support of Blocksport’s mobile app, SINNERS take another important step to underline its commitment towards innovation and gamified fan engagement. Blocksport will be able to strengthen SINNERS fan community and build its brand awareness while offering a unique experience to its fans and sponsoring partners.

Max Euler, SINNERS General Manager, comments on this partnership: “We are really excited to work
with an innovative company like Blocksport to provide an app to our fans. This will be a great tool to
engage our community.

Vladimir Liulka, Blocksport’s Co-Founder and CEO says: “It was always fixed in our strategy to help
young but promising Esports organizations like SINNERS. Looking forward to seeing their fan community
growing with our mobile app solution.”

Blocksport is presenting Martijn Min, our Country Director Benelux.

Martijn, Business Engineer with a sports background, serves the Dutch, Belgium and Benelux’ market and helps Blocksport to grow in the region.

Martijn experiences in several branches in different functions and it makes his appearance a width based and always looking for new opportunities.

The young entrepreneur works with the slogan “Expansion; always, in all ways”. This motto shows the ambitious way of working where cooperation with all companies in the chain is key.

We are happy to present our Ambassador from Argentina, Emanuel Ortega – marketing guru with extensive experience in the gaming industry.

“Due to Emanuel’s eSports network in the LATAM region, Blocksport will be empowering its brand and help local Esports and Sports clubs in innovative fan engagement.”, says Vladimir Liulka, CEO of Blocksport.

“I am very happy to be part of this family. The Esports industry in Latin America is growing by huge steps and Blocksport offers a unique growth opportunity for its ecosystem. I believe that we will succeed in making great positive changes in the region.” – says Emanuel Ortega.

Welcome on board, Emanuel!

About Emanuel Ortega

Emanuel is a marketing specialist with extensive experience in the gaming industry. He worked with high impact projects with different publishers and developers (Including Bluehole/PUBG Corporation and Hi-Rez Studios). Past experience in Sinisters (Chief Communications Officer), Gamurs Group (Engagement Specialist), Uproar (Head of Esports).