THELOGICALINDIAN - The FCF is the democratization of sports with Season v20 accretion to eight teams blame off in the Spring of 2022
Fan Controlled Football (FCF) , the alone able sports alliance that empowers admirers to accomplish the key decisions for their admired team, including calling all the plays in real-time, today appear the closing of a $40 actor Series A advance annular led by Animoca Brands and Delphi Digital.
FCF Combines the Passion and Excitement of Traditional Football with the best of Web3
Along with Animoca Brands and Delphi Digital, added investors accommodate Gemini Frontier Fund, 6th Man Ventures, Jump Crypto, Red Beard Ventures, Spartan Capital, NGC Ventures, admiral at GoldenTree Asset Management, and Sebastian Borget, co-founder of The Sandbox. Additionally, all of the league’s antecedent Seed investors participated, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Talis Capital, Verizon Ventures, Correlation Ventures, and Basecamp Fund.
FCF fabricated its admission in Feb. 2024, featuring four teams endemic by some of the better names in sports and ball including Marshawn Lynch, Quavo, Richard Sherman, Austin Ekeler, Dalvin Cook, and Bob Menery. The alliance has redefined football for the agenda age by accumulation the competitiveness of alive sports, the assurance of fantasy sports, and the interactivity of video amateur into a livestreamed, leaned-in fan experience. Season v1.0 saw FCF become the fastest growing alive sports approach on Twitch with about 10 actor absolute alive views, and one of the top sports Apps in the Apple App Store.
As allotment of the advance fueled by the closing of the $40 actor Series A, FCF today appear two new NFT-governed amplification teams, endemic by leaders of the Bored Ape Yacht Club and Gutter Cat Gang communities, respectively. The two new teams accompany the aboriginal two FCF Ballerz Collective NFT amplification teams that were afresh announced, acceleration the admeasurement of FCF for Season v2.0 from four teams to eight.
The four new teams will all be allotment of FCF’s avant-garde Ballerz Collective, a first-of-its-kind NFT association that will accommodate admirers captivation FCF Ballerz NFTs with aggregation babyminding rights, play-to-earn bold mechanics, and different IRL account and VIP adventures at FCF’s anon to be appear advanced area in Atlanta, GA. The Ballerz Collective NFT teams include: The Gutter Cat Gang, The Bored Ape Yacht Club, Knights of Degen, Team 8OKI.
The four aboriginal FCF teams accommodate the Beasts, Glacier Boyz, Wild Aces, and Zappers. On March 20, the Wild Aces went on to become the first-ever FCF Champions, afterwards acquisition the Glacier Boyz in “The People’s Championship” on a last-second, walk-off QB read-option touchdown alleged by the fans.
Built for the agenda fan, FCF’s amateur are played in a multi-purpose flat amphitheatre in Atlanta and streamed alive on Twitch, NBCLX, Peacock, and DAZN. The accessible nine-week division will bang off on April 16, 2022, with eight teams ample with pro-caliber players from the NFL, CFL, and NCAA programs. Last season’s rosters included Heisman Trophy champ Johnny Manziel and NFL stars Josh Gordon and Robert Turbin.
Sohrob Farudi, Co-Founder and CEO of Fan Controlled Football, mentioned:
“This is a celebrated day for FCF. The abetment of investors like Animoca Brands and Delphi Digital, leaders in web3, added validates our antecedent success and eyes to body the aboriginal pro sports alliance for the agenda age. FCF combines the affection and action of acceptable football with the best of web3, agenda collectibles, and play-to-earn gaming, creating a different IRL meets URL ball acquaintance that was not accessible until now. Many startup football leagues never accomplish it to a additional season, and we are now pumped for Division v2.0 and v3.0 of FCF. LFG!”
Animoca Brands Executive Chairman and Co-Founder, Yat Siu, added:
“We’re aflame to abutment FCF, a alliance that is at the acid bend of bringing Web 3.0 and blockchain to able sports. Having followed its acknowledged and absorbing aboriginal season, we attending advanced to the groundbreaking means that admirers will be able to appoint with FCF in the accessible seasons.”
Fan Controlled Football (FCF) – the alone able sports alliance that combines the affection and competitiveness of alive and fantasy sports with the interactivity of video amateur – is the aboriginal alliance in able sports history allotment admirers to alarm the shots, from branding and cadre decisions to real-time comedy calling. The FCF is the democratization of sports with Season v2.0 accretion to
eight (8) teams blame off in the Spring of 2022, featuring seven regular-season weeks and one playoff week, culminating with the People’s Championship. Regular and postseason play, in accession to absolute behind-the-scenes alliance agreeable is accessible on twitch.tv/FCF and advertisement ally NBCLX, Peacock, and DAZN.
