Thank you for giving me the opportunity to answer to this question =-).

Let's explain the idea behind esbl.
I have been using gosubet and liquidbet for a long time, and I was very happy with them, but I felt like some new features would be great.
We had also a private betting league by mail using excel with my friends (with 10$ under the table), but you know, excel ...
And we were like "damn, we should have a unique website to do this".

So I don't say we have a lot of very new and cool features for the moment, we worked mostly on the design (make the betting efficient and enjoyable) during the past month. But the point is, we are committed on this exact subject, to create a centralized place for fantasy esport (we won't make articles, organized events, post news, etc. ; too many great websites for that).

And I hope that a lot of websites will use our betting API (starting next week).

viOLetFanClub

Korea (South)390 Posts

November 01 2011 23:48 GMT

#107

The rumor flying around is that if you guess the winner successfully of 100 games straight, Kevin Riley himself will sign his bandana and hand-deliver it to you while riding a rainbow unicorn.

eSBL

United States83 Posts

November 02 2011 00:22 GMT

#108

The rumor flying around is that if you guess the winner successfully of 100 games straight, Kevin Riley himself will sign his bandana and hand-deliver it to you while riding a rainbow unicorn.

You are far behind the awesomeness of the 100 games prize.
Just sayin'.

luxx

United States140 Posts

November 02 2011 00:48 GMT

#109

But why should you join our league when you already have all those great betting modules on community websites (someone said liquidbet, yeah we are big fans too)? Fantasy esport will be our only focus, we will listen to everything you suggest and add new challenging entertainment as often as possible.

Any plans to provide an API?

eSBL

United States83 Posts

November 02 2011 01:04 GMT

#110

On November 02 2011 09:48 luxx wrote:

Show nested quote +

Any plans to provide an API?

Of course. The bets on the main page are already using (a part of) the API (with the biggest available design).
We just have some cross-domain security issues we want to resolve first.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=277206&currentpage=6#106

Kentredenite

United States220 Posts

November 02 2011 01:16 GMT

#111

Awesome thing.

However, I ran into a problem. I clicked on a thing to bet, but then I closed the window that came up (the one that asks you how much you want to bet) -- now I can't submit a bet for that match since it says that I either submitted a bet already, am not logged in, or the bet is closed.

eSBL

United States83 Posts

November 02 2011 01:26 GMT

#112

However, I ran into a problem. I clicked on a thing to bet, but then I closed the window that came up (the one that asks you how much you want to bet) -- now I can't submit a bet for that match since it says that I either submitted a bet already, am not logged in, or the bet is closed.

Thanks for reporting.
I'm not able to reproduce this error. Can you send me a PM with the browser you are using ?
Did this error continue after a refresh ? None choice for the bet are blue ? If there is one, was it a choice you made ?

SargonTheGreat

United States217 Posts

November 02 2011 05:14 GMT

#113

On November 02 2011 07:59 eSBL wrote:

We had also a private betting league by mail using excel with my friends (with 10$ under the table), but you know, excel ...
And we were like "damn, we should have a unique website to do this".

But aren't I correct that your esbl will not deal with real bets, just the 100 starting points you mentioned?

eSBL

United States83 Posts

November 02 2011 07:08 GMT

#114

But aren't I correct that your esbl will not deal with real bets, just the 100 starting points you mentioned?

It's not in our todo list for the moment for a lot of reasons, it might never be and it won't until we feel like we have provided everything for the fantasy part.

To be honest, we just don't want to deal with all the legal bullshit. I prefer working on the API, mobile app, new modules, etc. than dealing with swindler.
It's a solo project for the moment (despite the design and daily updates), made mostly for our own pleasure (but we love you guys, use it !), so don't expect anything "real money" for the moment.

Sorry for those who expects this a lot. But feel free to put your friends on your rival list and add the $10 under the table =-).