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New Club Partnership
DIR By: SwindonQuin
Date: July 18, 2022, 4:28 am
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HTML https://www.quins.co.uk/article/harlequins-partners-with-socios
Harlequins will become one of the first Rugby Union clubs,
alongside Saracens and Leicester Tigers, to launch Fan Tokens
with Socios.com.
The partnership marks Socios.com’s expansion into Rugby Union,
building on its established and growing presence in other major
global sports including football, Formula One and tennis.
Fan Token holders will be able to access a wide range of rewards
and experiences, from winning signed and match-worn shirts to
getting personal player meet-and-greets.
London, July 18th:Socios.com, a blockchain provider for the
sports industry, is today announcing a new partnership with
Harlequins, alongside two other leading Rugby Union clubs. This
marks its latest expansion into a new sport as it continues
building its global ecosystem of fans from teams and
organisations from some of the biggest sports in the world.
The new Harlequins Fan Token will be accessible via Socios.com’s
fan engagement and rewards platform, providing Fan Token holders
around the world with an array of rewards, new opportunities for
engagement through polls, greater access to their club and its
players, and a community where they can build networks with
other fans.
The Socios.com platform is designed to allow clubs to reward
fans for engaging and supporting their team.
The rewards and experiences set to be provided by the new rugby
union Fan Tokens include being able to enjoy dressing room tours
and enjoy a match on the team bench. They can also attend a
training session with the squad, conducted by First Team
Coaches.
Other rewards range from meet-and-greets with players to
training ground tours across the season, all aimed at bringing
Fan Token holders closer to their club. Socios.com and
Harlequins have already started engaging with key fan groups
around the new Fan Tokens and will continue liaising with fans
and Fan Token holders in order to provide clubs with a new way
to reward and engage their fans.
There are currently 1.5 million fans from over 160 countries
using Socios.com to connect with and be rewarded by their
favourite clubs. Other sports teams and organisations with Fan
Tokens include Manchester City, AC Milan, Juventus, FC
Barcelona, Aston Martin and the Davis Cup. Socios.com has over
150 partners in 25 countries across 10 sports: American
Football; Basketball; Cricket; Football; Gaming; Ice Hockey;
MMA; Motor Sports; Rugby; and Tennis.
As part of the announcement, Season Ticket Members from each
rugby club will be given a free Fan Token to start to enjoy the
benefits of the token-gated community. Fan Tokens will be made
available through a fixed initial Fan Token Offering (FTO) price
of £2 at the end of August, at which point clubs will launch a
tiered community of benefits and rewards.
Steve Morton, Chief Commercial Officer of Harlequins, said:
“We're always looking for ways to offer more to our supporters
and these new Fan Tokens will play an important role in engaging
a growing global supporter base. We're committed to working
closely with Socios.com to bring supporters, no matter where in
the world they live, closer to the game via rewards and
experiences, in conjunction with our existing Member loyalty
programme, as well as speaking to our supporters directly to
continue building an offer that brings them closer to the Club.”
Alexandre Dreyfus, CEO of Chiliz and Socios.com, added:
“Launching in a new sport is always a big moment for Socios.com
and the growth of the platform. The wider rugby community
comprises some of the most passionate sports fans around. It has
long been an ambition to launch in this area and between
Leicester, Harlequins and Saracens, we are partnering with three
of the best-known and best-supported rugby union sides. We are
looking forward to working with these teams to offer a
differentiating way of engaging with their fans.
“More broadly, we’re excited to add three more leading clubs to
our platform’s multi-sports ecosystem, as we continue building
an offer for fans of clubs and organisations in the world’s
biggest sports. We have further updates and developments ahead
for Socios.com as we look to expand and enhance our tokenised
system of fan engagement, access, community and rewards.”
Question, what on earth are Fan Tokens........
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Re: New Club Partnership
DIR By: SwindonQuin
Date: July 18, 2022, 4:36 am
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OK, so basically cryptocurrency.
The more you own the more rewards/opportunities you get from my
understanding, plus they can be traded based on the current
market value or 'mined' from the companies app, but to buy them
you need to first convert you £ into $Chilz crypto currency.
Seems like a lot of hard work, but a revenue stream for the club
none the less.
I cant see many takers from Quins fans, unless of course, there
are lot of tech/crypto savvy folks out there.
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Re: New Club Partnership
DIR By: Adrian
Date: July 18, 2022, 4:39 am
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don't really understand what that means.
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Re: New Club Partnership
DIR By: Quins_on_Toast
Date: July 18, 2022, 4:44 am
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“unless of course, there are lot of tech/crypto savvy folks out
there.”
No such thing. Just scammers on one side selling to
believers/dream chasers/fools on the other side.
Appalling that Quins are doing this. Check the linked thread
here for what has happened to the ‘investors’ in these things
when they partnered with PL football teams.
HTML https://twitter.com/josephmdurso/status/1548964661508198406?s=21&t=g1WbfNOKtpabwAeP2lxTQA
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Re: New Club Partnership
DIR By: honkytonk
Date: July 18, 2022, 4:48 am
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Its a terrible idea
#Post#: 92946--------------------------------------------------
Re: New Club Partnership
DIR By: dinsdale
Date: July 18, 2022, 5:23 am
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Crypto scam, using big name sports teams as the hook to get your
money.
Like most of Quins attempts to use technology, it's a bad
choice, it will fail, and then be gone in a couple of years.
Also, nearly all the reviews of socios.com on Trustpilot are
clearly fake reviews - and the rating is still poor!
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Re: New Club Partnership
DIR By: championes
Date: July 18, 2022, 6:21 am
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Yeah this smacks of "latest thing" and a big mistake.
Crypto is a scammers paradise - and enthusiasm over blockchain
is the most depressing misunderstanding of a thing that's
guaranteed to collapse at the greatest cost to the smallest
investors in recent history.
Not for me.
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Re: New Club Partnership
DIR By: Brown Bottle
Date: July 18, 2022, 6:33 am
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I had a look at the process for withdrawing Fan Tokens and
"cashing out". Laborious isn't the word, plus you need at least
one other crypto account which is compatible with the bank where
you want the cash.
Make one mistake and you lose the lot. If they're actually worth
anything anyway.
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Re: New Club Partnership
DIR By: Rocker
Date: July 18, 2022, 7:02 am
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Sounds like a dreadful idea! 🙄
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Re: New Club Partnership
DIR By: Nico Wilson
Date: July 18, 2022, 7:13 am
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I don't understand it.
I will be applying my "if I don't understand it then I won't be
investing" rule.
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