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Dear Liquid community,
Let me introduce you a little project known as the eSport Betting League. https://www.esbl.co is a free betting website for Starcraft 2. Matches are reeled in from all major tournaments so everything is kept up to date. The website provides a points and ranking system so you know how well you're keeping up with the best betters around. The front page has all the important stuff like new matches to bet on. After a quick n easy registration, you've got 100 eDollars to make the magic happen. From there, you're on your own.
Some more words from the guys in charge of the website itself:
To sum up, our league in three points:
1. We're trying to cover as many of the big tournaments as possible (https://esbl.co/calendar/). eSBL can thus provide a centralized betting website. We also plan to expand our coverage to other games (and currently support League of Legends). It’s extremely easy to create new tournaments and matches, and we would be very happy to give an administration account to anyone in charge of an event. Then, you will be able to plug our betting javascript module to your own website, more visit for you and more dynamism for your website.
2. Users can compete against everyone else on the website, and with their friends. Rankings are calculated based on results, risk incurred, etc. You can take a look at a first round of ranking based on a private alpha release at https://esbl.co/ranking/. You can update your rival list at any moment and know how good you are compared to your friends. Are you ready for the competition?
3. Betting is absolutely free; we want to enhance the eSport viewing experience by bringing friends together to compete on their predictions. Indeed, this website was inspired from the emails my friends and I would send each other betting on the outcomes of GSL tournaments. But we believe everything is better with the proper interface.
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. The ranking system is already a nice proof of all the thinking we have put into making esport betting more fun and competitive. The four categories are Accuracy (based directly on your correct and incorrect bets), Efficiency (how much money you made during the period), Participation (to reward those who take risks by betting on everything) and Prosperity (your actual amount of money at the end of the period). The participant of the league with the best score for a category will receive a mark of 100, while the worst member will receive 0.
Oh yeah, one last thing, we thought you might feel alone at the beginning, so we found two pros ready to compete against you. You've probably heard of him: All Killer and North American Terran FXOqxc. In addition, MoMaN, the French Zerg player from the team Virus is going to predict and compete as well. Do you think you have what it takes to compete with these professionals?
Regards,
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Hello,
We are really excited to have our own topic on team liquid, launched by qxc and supported by MoMaN. This is just so cool.
We are expecting a lot of feedbacks from you guys, this community is by far the most interesting and dynamic you can find about Stacraft II and esports in general (we believe it though).
We have a weekly development planning. The next Sunday's update will include :
- The integrated forum : we have decided to wait one more week to launch it because we prefer to centralize all the comments on tl.
- The cross-domain javascript bets, for other website that wants to use our application (the main page and the match pages of our website are actually using it, with the biggest of the three possible designs for bets).
- The removal of the left frame of the website. The design changed a lot as a result of this week's update, and two frames are now useless.
But we will be very happy to add anything you might suggest at the top of this list (or the next one).
I hope you will have as much fun using the website as we had doing it.
Regards,
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Are there going to be prizes or is this just for funzies?
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On November 01 2011 07:20 Draconicfire wrote:
Are there going to be prizes or is this just for funzies?
Prizes will be added for season 2 (which will start in one month more or less) at the end of the actual beta. It will give us the time to check if the ranking system is balanced enough.
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Sounds cool, let's try this °w°
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I'm betting that esports will die when bw players come over.
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I like it, it's like another liquibet 
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Very nice idea. I love it when things like these are made :D
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It looks like a different/better version of liquibet.
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wow nice. Btw why can't I bet on Ryung vs. Yugioh?
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Created account, got confirmation e-mail and linked to a confirmation screen, confirmation screen does not accept my password which contains a period even though the sign-up screen does ): sadness grows in my heart.
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Count me in!
number 1 here I come.
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wow nice. Btw why can't I bet on Ryung vs. Yugioh?
You mean you have issues betting on one of the bet ?
Or you would like to bet on the exact match Ryung vs Yugioh which is a part of the group ?
If it's the second, we have decided to avoid this bets for the moment when they are part of a group, but we are working on a "bet on a tournament/group tree" new module.
Created account, got confirmation e-mail and linked to a confirmation screen, confirmation screen does not accept my password which contains a period even though the sign-up screen does ): sadness grows in my heart.
What is your account ? I'll activate it manually.
Note that the account is case-sensitive (which is a design flaw I should correct).
I'll try to reproduce your issue.
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Sounds cool, I registered.
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On November 01 2011 07:50 MjoLniRXx wrote:
Created account, got confirmation e-mail and linked to a confirmation screen, confirmation screen does not accept my password which contains a period even though the sign-up screen does ): sadness grows in my heart.
Same thing happened to me 
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I'll have to try this out, sounds fun! Btw, Isn't the team Virus dead/bankrupt or something?
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I just create an account with this password : R%%xaP@i8SjT. and no issues for me (period at the end).
Send me a private message on tl with more details please (and you account name so I can activate it).
And again the username is case sensitive during the login (sorry).
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