World’s first race-to-earn model combines fantasy team management with esports

COVID-19 introduced many issues to a halt, motorsports included. Though disruptive, the ensuing digital actuality boosted the sims racing expertise, a actuality pushed by common drivers now making an expertise in digital occasions. This checklist consists of System 1’s Digital Grand Prix, The Race: All-Star Sequence and eNASCAR featured on ESPN, FOX and different main TV broadcasters.

Though this preliminary frenzy has since subsided with the reintroduction of dwell races, sim-racing has confirmed helpful in scouting new expertise and provoking totally new communities by blurring the road between the actual and digital world.

With the world transitioning from pandemic to endemic, the query to the business turns into, “how can this momentum be carried ahead when the world is ready to attend dwell occasions as soon as once more?” Happily, the reply isn’t far off, with blockchain expertise and the larger metaverse presenting society with a brand new tackle actuality.

As this market pushes new all-time highs, the 2 worlds are believed to intersect in a brand new style of digital racing that rewards gamers for his or her participation, in flip spurring on engagement and constructing fan loyalty alongside dwell occasions.

Additional advancing this new digital area is AnteFame, a platform believed to be one of many world’s first hybrid esports and fantasy league choices. Right here, gamers are invited to take part in a race-to-earn mannequin that intently resembles the play-to-earn phenomenon that has taken over the gaming business.

“After the successes of NBA TopShot in basketball and Sorare in soccer (soccer), we’re excited to convey new ranges of gameplay to motorsports and collectible platform,” AnteFame shares.

The undertaking, outlined as a mix of a membership and play-to-earn recreation, has acquired preliminary help from ART Grand Prix, WRT, US Racing and different world-class groups identified for producing legendary drivers, together with Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel and Theo Pourchaire, amongst others.

Reaching excellence via ardour

In AnteFame, gamers can construct their dream group to accumulate collectibles from drivers in varied motorsport disciplines, beginning with F1, with new rewards up for grabs weekly. As a World Fantasy Motorsport group administration league, gamers will maintain digital buying and selling playing cards that double as NFTs that may be bought, traded and received. Drivers’ efficiency in every race in the actual world will decide the rating of a participant’s group. Due to this fact, the higher a participant can scout racing drivers, the higher their group will carry out and the extra rewards they’ll obtain as tokens and NFTs.

Nevertheless, in contrast to different fantasy groups, AnteFame takes a hybrid strategy, enabling gamers to compete to a degree the place they will change a driver on their group with themselves and instantly affect their group’s efficiency by collaborating within the digital races.

To additional bridge digital and real-world races, AnteFame is working with Maserati, the luxurious Italian automobile producer identified for the longest racing heritage. Winners will take pleasure in a Maserati driving expertise with one F2 driver at Maserati HQ and racing monitor to completely immerse themselves within the model’s heritage.

Following this information, AnteFame is internet hosting a contest for an opportunity to get behind the wheel of a Maserati Levante MC Particular Version. The ensuing contest exists as each a celebration of the Maserati spirit of reaching excellence and a rewarding alternative for AnteFame members.

To take part within the competitors and be part of the membership, AnteFame is releasing NFT “passes” organized in 4 tiers, with a complete of 6301 Rookie NFTs, 3333 Confirmed and 333 Veteran NFTs and 33 Legend NFTs passes, every of which provides the chance to take part within the recreation, take pleasure in varied ranges of rewards and personal collectibles that might be tradable on OpenSea. 

Launching the collectible market

On March 18, the corporate is launching its market for NFT go house owners to start scouting their drivers’ NFTs and constructing their groups; and gamers might want to personal ANTE tokens to try this. A personal sale of the ANTE token is underway for early adopters on a “first-come, first-serve” foundation.

Launching the Fantasy League 

On March 20, AnteFame might be on the Bahrain Grand Prix for the non-public beta launch of the Fantasy League, a spotlight for the group over the following 12 months.

The undertaking group goals to onboard 5000 gamers to their racing ecosystem in 2022.