BoliesTV, the competitive streaming system for video games, has been making quite a ruckus with a peculiar platform for multiplayer gaming and streaming. What BoliesTV offers is unlike the other options out there. BoliesTV is oriented specifically towards competitive multiplayer gaming, eschewing single-player and troll streamers other systems are known for.

On the upside, BoliesTV allows gamers and viewers to wager on the results of their matches, thus making it the ideal system for organized tournaments, where competitors can get immediate, assured payoff for their victories.

This, however, leads to a few questions — the main one being: Which games would best benefit from the BoliesTV model? Looking at the current competitive landscape, there are a handful of popular games where players or tournament organizers would do well to turn their heads towards BoliesTV. Some examples include:

Hearthstone

Blizzard’s juggernaut card game and the current to-go game for virtual CCGs, Hearthstone is both a competitive milestone and a common appearance on streaming channels.

Hearthstone competitions aren’t uncommon, and one of the most-often requested features for the game is a proper tournament mode that would allow organizers to use the game itself to host their competitions. Alas, such a mode doesn’t yet exist, which gives BoliesTV a bit of an edge by allowing organizers to somewhat automate at least the payments each player gets, while giving the audience a way to bet on their favorite players.

Considering wagering isn’t uncommon in the TCG world (led by Magic: The Gathering in physical form,) Hearthstone is a perfect fit for the BoliesTV environment.

DOTA 2/League of Legends/Heroes of the Storm

MOBAs are the most competitive genres around and one that attracts millions of players and a just as big audience on a daily basis. Log onto Twitch any day of the week and you’ll see people streaming these games and even more people watching them.

The purely skill-based design of these games makes them perfect for competitions, which has led them to become the de-facto eSport.

Considering the rabid fanbase each professional team in this game has, BoliesTV would only enhance the competitive aspect by facilitating a payout for both teams and their fans.

FIFA Games

This is a hit franchise amongst core gamers and has a huge potential when it comes to BoliesTV. While you’ll rarely ever see FIFA matches on streaming sites and many hardcore gamers consider this franchise a terrible one, there’s one detail among the actual (and, let’s be honest, rather big) FIFA fanbase that stands out: FIFA players are, more often than not, football fans.

And football fans are both extremely enthusiastic about their team preferences and no strangers to fantasy football leagues. BoliesTV’s wagering system lends itself to recreating fantasy leagues, which will no doubt attract many FIFA fans.

Overwatch

The most-loved team FPS game, Overwatch is among the titles that show the world that Blizzard could be the kings of competitive gaming. The colorful, creative team shooter has an extremely passionate fanbase, with huge fan communities established all over the internet praising the worldbuilding of the game, its gameplay, and its competitive aspect.

With the Overwatch League constantly making the rounds on Twitch, BoliesTV would be the perfect platform for newer teams or gamers who are serious about their gaming to show off their skills in hopes of making it to the big leagues.

Counter-Strike Global Offensive

The Counter-Strike franchise is often credited as having started the multiplayer craze among PC FPSs, particularly on a team aspect. And while the good old Counter Strike 1.6 isn’t as commonly played today as it used to be, Valve’s 2012 follow-up Global Offensive has taken that spot, regularly attracting more than 300,000 players a day.

Its huge following and the competitiveness among its scene makes Counter-Strike:GO, along with other cooperative/competitive FPSs perfect for BoliesTV.

Call of Duty series

Another Team FPS, the Call of Duty series is known for releasing a new title almost every year and selling millions of copies of each without fail. And along with its huge sales, the Call of Duty series has a huge fanbase, with some of the better teams and players gathering huge followings.

Other team FPSs like Unreal Tournament or the Halo series would just as well be great fits for the platform.

Street Fighter/Tekken

Fighting games are common staples among competitive players, with some gamers dedicating themselves to the genre, while game designers often strive to make such games as fair as possible, by giving each character an equal chance at a victory so that in the end skill prevails over luck. Since matches in these games are always 1v1 or 2v2,

The BoliesTV approach of allowing both small and big teams to participate makes it the ideal platform for such tournaments.

Non-standard multiplayer games:

While all the games listed here so far are competitive and considered esports, not every game played on BoliesTV needs to be. In fact, there are certain multiplayer games with strong followings that could benefit from the smart contract system ruling BoliesTV.

For example, the Civilization series could well be used to pit rulers against each other with a set payoff in the end. About any multiplayer game can be played on BoliesTV, after all, and there’s no reason to limit yourself to the staples of the market.

Single-player/Cooperative games

BoliesTV’s system doesn’t even require games to be structured in matches to work. Among single-player gamers, there are huge communities dedicated to faring better and better or finishing the games quicker each time and BoliesTV could well lend itself to speedrunning or efficiency tournaments.

For example, a competition could be set where two players start a single-player game (say, Undertale, Shovel Knight, or Cuphead) and whoever finishes it first wins. Alternately, two teams of Monster Hunter players could start a hunt at the same time and award a prize to the team that kills the monster in less time.

The highlight you need to grasp is that games don’t need to be multiplayer nor competitive by design to be allowed on the BoliesTV framework. You can make a grand entry on the platform with your preferred game.

(NB- Bolies is pronounced as BOO-LEES)