As you may already know we are based in Argentina and we are building an amazing Dapp which is an Ethereum World Cup prediction game. Each player will predict the World Cup matches and will receive an ERC 721 token which "holds" its predictions.

The player will then compete for a prize pool at the end of the tournament (when comparing the predictions with real results) or he/she will be able to sell the token during the tournament on a secondary market (we are building an exchange for the game)

Although all the team has been involved in criptos since 2015 by trading and investing ICOs, it is our 2nd project related to Smart Contracts. Our first project was just something internal to test Solidity on our own and learn from our mistakes by coding, coding and coding.

After our first experience, we decided to build a great thing bringing together an extra co-founder whose knowledge in Smart Contract was extremely developed. We went on a roadtrip to La Patagonia and while driving, we realized to build Cryptocup with ERC 721. Although it is a different game, we were really inspired by Criptokitties, the job they did is amazing and they opened new ways to code in Ethereum.

Once we came back, we started coding the Smart Contract (started in January 2018) while thinking a way to be ready on time, solving the legal stuff, auditing the contract and promote the game.

The ICO was the first big idea as many companies are raising huge amounts of money. However, we believe it was not the best way to do it for many reasons (please, understand this is just our opinion for our project)

Too much time promoting the ICO in order to be successful. We need to focus on our Smart Contract. If there's no Contract, there's no game.

We prefer to grow organically as users might become much more in love with the game. We would also like Devs from industry to involve themselves to check the coding as we believe this is the first time users are customizing their own tokens and it might open new ideas for new projects.

Although we can conduct an ICO to raise 500k, unfortunately the ecosystem might feel it as scam. We actually don't need more money than that for a game (that's our opinion, maybe we are wrong, we'll see at the end of the World Cup ;D ).

ICO will incentivize us to increase coin value, but that’s not the same thing as producing effective dapps.

As good things take off on its own (and you also need a bit of luck), while working we started to contact people from the industry in our country and luckily we got a small investment to pay for the legal stuff and the audit to be sure that everything will work perfectly.

We are very proud of our decision as it is a natural way to grow.

We hope everybody will enjoy the game, wish you the best of luck to win a % of the prize pool and hope you have fun playing it.

Finally, we expect to join some new advisors to the team as fortunately people from the industry are finding the game very interesting.