All new herosphere.gg — THE esports prediction & fantasy platform

As our platform rapidly grew to over 250.000 registered users since its first start last year, we have gained a lot of experience in what a state-of-the-art esports prediction platform needs to deliver. Based on our experience and user feedback we have disassembled our platform and looked at all of its sections. Much had to be reworked and repurposed or even thrown out entirely. We then rebuild everything from scratch and are happy to have set new standards. Today we are able to introduce the all new herosphere.gg!

What’s new?

It was very important to offer a simple and clean user interface which ensures a flawless navigation through herosphere. It displays the relevant content to the user and melts into the background, allowing the focus and excitement of esports to take the front seat.

We stayed within the familiar brand and colors but added a more modern and clean touch.

Meanwhile our back-end development team focused on rebuilding the back-end using top-notch frameworks and packages, adhering best practices and coding standards to deliver a fast paced and secure infrastructure for the best eSports betting experience to our users.

Due to our partnership with Abios Gaming, one of the worlds most trusted esports APIs, with very detailed data and broad coverage of matches we are able to offer more exciting games and fully automated and significantly faster contest handlings. As a result, we are expanding our pool of featured games on herosphere by Overwatch, which will accompany CS:GO, Dota 2 and League of Legends.

Within those games we are able to offer more contests with up to 13 different modi (a modus could be “50% x 2” for example so the players have a chance to double their buy-in or the winner takes it all etc.) and a variety of buy-in amounts.

Existing user accounts are automatically merged on to the new platform, previous account balances are certainly credited as spheres, the new virtual currency until our own Cryptocurrency PLAY is fully integrated on herosphere.

Users have now the chance to bet on matches but also to participate through fantasy elements.

Adding fantasy prediction

Fantasy gaming gives you the opportunity to draft your own dream team consisting of five players of your choice and significantly improve your score accordingly to their real life performance in the game.

In fact the results of match prediction and fantasy will both be counted together with points, making up the final score of a user.

The score is the sum of all points. Depending on each game, points are given for right match results and the ingame performance of your team members on the fantasy element (eg you get points for kills or lose points for deaths). The point system is of course different for each game and is always explained under the “info” tab for each contest. Each user is then ranked on the final amount of points. Based on this, payouts (spheres) are performed.

In the rare case of users having an equal score, the player with more exact bets and the higher account level will also be ranked higher. The more spheres you gather, the higher your account level gets. Once reached a certain level you can’t drop from it anymore.

Spheres can be exchanged for awesome new prices like gaming equipment, skins and other goodies in our shop, which currently is being remastered, in order to ensure and maintain our standards and offer the best possible user experience in every aspect of our platform. Within the next few weeks the shop will open again and spheres can be redeemed.

What’s next?

Thanks to this state-of-the-art set-up we now have a solid base to continuously add more and more features on top and grow the platform to the number one go to esports prediction & fantasy platform.

This relaunch was the last major step in preparing everything for the integration of PLAY and proving the blockchain use case true. We are confident to update you on this within the next weeks.