Announcement: Steem Fantasy Premier League

Introduction

Welcome fellow Steemians to Steem Fantasy Premier League!

As some of you Football (soccer) fans out there might be aware of, the Premier League is starting next weekend! I am personally quite a fan of it and have been following it for many years now.

Ever since 2011 I have also been a member of the Fantasy Premier League. That's where the logo above is from which @satchmo used and gave a Steemit touch to it. Thanks for that! The site is free to register and use and will be a requirement to join this League so make sure to click the link and check it out!

Last year due to my Steemit activity I was not able to follow the League as much as I would've liked to and it really showed in the end results:

So I figured I'd combine the two and create the Steem Fantasy Premier League for this year and have more Steemians become active through the platform on it! I also think these posts will bring on great amount of discussions, predictions and a lot of excitement about the games to make them a lot more fun to follow. That's what the Fantasy Leagues are there for in the first place!

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Rules for joining the Fantasy League

There will be some rules to sign up as to fight any sort of abuse.

1. You have to link your Fantasy Premier League account with your Steemit account in the comment section to be a part of the League. The code to enter the league will be made public but excess accounts will be removed if they do not qualify the rule requirements. This is to eliminate a single person entering many accounts to increase chances of winning.

2. Your Steemit account must be older than 1 week from today when this post is made and have some normal activity on it that doesn't look like its just an alt account that is being used only for competitions and other tournaments. This will be judged manually by me and I reserve the right to remove suspicious ones if I feel the need for it.

These are all the rules so far, if anything new comes up I will either update it in this post or include it in the next post which should be during Gameweek 1 next weekend.

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Prizes

All the rewards in SBD from the SFPL posts will be kept in "Savings" on my account until the end of the Season and then distributed to the winners.

1st place will receive 30% of the total SBD.
2nd place will receive 15% of the total SBD.
3rd place will receive 10% of the total SBD.
4th-10th place will receive 3% each of the total SBD.
11th-23rd place will receive 1% each of the total SBD
24th-48th place will receive 0.5% each of the total SBD making it 100% of the SDB rewards.

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What you need to do now to get started:

Go to https://fantasy.premierleague.com and create an account. If you already have an account but it gives away personal information you wouldn't want made public on the platform, feel free to create a new one.

It looks like you may need to select your players in the squad before you are able to join any leagues. Once you've done that go to the tab "Leagues" and press "Create and join new leagues->" "Join a league->" and then "Join private league->" where you enter the code: 2208835-521697

After you've done that, remember to post a comment here with your Fantasy account name and it will be linked to you for the tournament. Players that fail to do that until Gameweek 2 will be kicked out of the League.

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Feel free to ask any question in this post about it, I'm happy to help.