In partnership with BetOnChart, Stox this summer brought World Cup victory to thousands of tournament participants.

The Stox World Cup Tournament lasted from June 1st until July 15th 2018, spanning the duration of the football World Cup and awarding real token prizes.

In its biggest ever tournament so far, Stox offered a BetOnChart-sponsored prize pool worth $250,000 in cryptocurrency prizes, with the 500 top-ranked Stox holders winning $30,000 in real token prizes.

The Perfect Team

As every football fan knows, putting together a winning team is essential for success. For our World Cup tournament, we partnered with BetOnChart to bring Stox token holders a prize-packed tournament.

BetOnChart’s powerful platform combines lucrative in-play sports betting with the immediacy of a live match experience to allow participants to instantly place wagers on minute-by-minute action throughout live sporting events.

This highly successful partnership enabled Stox holders to make real token predictions at every stage of the tournament, risk free, enjoying great entertainment value, plus huge prizes.

Non-stop Action, Non-stop Wins

Every step of the way, as national teams battled it out for the win, Stox holders were able to get a piece of the action, earning a reward for each correct prediction, based on the size of their contribution.

The initial, $150,000 prize pool, was comprised of a combination of CHART and STX tokens. In total, 500 prizes were awarded to the top ranked participants on the leaderboard, collectively worth up to $30,000, with the 1st place winner earning a total of 1,500 STX, plus 2,500 CHARTS.

The first game of World Cup 2018 saw Russia face off against Saudi Arabia

The level of participation was staggering and a total of 176,000 votes were cast. The opening match of the tournament, between Russia and Saudi Arabia, garnered 7,903 votes, while approximately 6,000 voted on the final between France and Croatia.

The final match of World Cup 2018 saw France taking the Cup over Croatia, with the wisdom of the crowd being correct

In all, 85 million STX were put forward, with the Croatia vs England match, on which STX holders placed 3.75 million STX, being the prediction with the greatest STX volume.

Throughout the tournament, the wisdom of the crowd proved to be a successful predictor of the winning team, correctly anticipating the outcome over 70% of the time. In the opening match, 75% correctly predicted the result of the Russia vs. Saudi Arabia match, while in the final, the wisdom of the crowd saw 61% correctly predict the outcome.

1 Minute, 1 Winner, 100,000 USD!

Stox hosted its largest single prize during the World Cup

One single winner, mikvol88, took home the greatest prize of all, earning an unprecedented $100,000 for predicting the exact moment when the first goal in the final between France and Croatia would be scored.

Mikvol88 received a whopping $100,000 in ETH equivalent for his correct 4,800 STX prediction that the goal would enter the net in the 18th minute of the match. The winning payment has already been sent to Mikvol88.

Numerous special promotions and giveaways were awarded throughout the tournament. Stox holders got the chance to win 100 STX for correctly predicting the final and semi-final, with each correct prediction earning 50, non-withdrawable STX. In addition, 5 raffle winners were sent official national world cup jerseys for correctly guessing the outcome of the semi-final. Check out our feed to see the lucky winners announced on Twitter.

The Stox World Cup Tournament was a resounding success, generating buzz and breaking records with the exceptional level of participation and the generosity of the prizes awarded for the winning predictions.

Now, we’re looking forward to topping it, with our next sponsored tournament, Stox Cup VIII, which is running from 18th July to September 2nd. Each Stox platform member will receive 100 non-withdrawable STX to kick start their predictions and can win prizes worth 15,000 real STX tokens for ranking 1–150 on the leaderboard.

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