https://i.imgur.com/v3bGAwi.jpgUnikrn Creating First Crypto Gaming Platform with CME AquisitionUnikrn's long-time tournament partners, ChallengeMe.GG, are joining the company to be the platform to bring life to full-blown skill-based betting in the near future. The platform will be powered by UnikoinGold, owned by Unikrn and operated by the same genius team that gave CME the meteoric rise it’s seen to date.
Unikrn’s users know CME as the innovators that brought esports and gaming its first regular crypto prizepools for tournaments and ladders. Since last year, CME has been offering regular CS:GO competitions with UKG payouts.
CME will continue its operations as a matchmaking platform which enables both casual & skill-based competitive gaming across tournaments, ladders, leagues and direct challenges with friends. Once integrated into the Unikrn platform, CME will extend the utility of UKG with buy-in tournaments to start as soon as this May and other skill-based, blockchain-powered challenges coming in the near future.
In addition to currently live CS:GO, Dota 2 events will be added shortly, with the following features immediately available in the US and EU:
- Fully automated 128 tick CSGO servers: Best quality servers, games are started and completed automatically with detailed stats pages and game results.
- Quickplay Matchmaking (1v1, 2v2): Automatically find other players, loosely based on skill. No anti-cheat required.
- Competitive Matchmaking (1v1, 2v2, 5v5): Automatically find other players based on their skill level. Earn and improve skill-based rank with anti-cheat requirements to protect every game.
- Open Lobbies (1v1, 2v2, 3v3, 4v4, 5v5): Setup private or public custom lobbies and invite friends. This is particularly popular with Twitch Streamers. CME is the easiest place for streamers to setup viewer games quickly!
- Direct Challenge: Challenge anyone on the platform by sending them a custom direct challenge.
- Fully automated tournaments (for up to 1024 teams) & ladders: Join several daily tournaments to win Unikrn, CME and partner prizes.
- Raffle System: Earn raffle tickets by completing missions. Bronze, Silver, Gold tickets are used to enter daily, weekly and monthly giveaways ranging in value from €5–500, including sponsored prizes by partners.
- More: Detailed and customizable player stats pages/profiles, missions system, achievements, match stats with demo file downloads, match ticker, Twitch integration, friends list, chat, map veto/voting, and more are already live on the site.
This acquisition will also lead to the integration of the Unikrn Wallet into CME’s functionality so users will be able to enter tournaments, make trades and use UKG on the CME platform with cutting-edge technology, always-instant process time and no transaction fees.
Since the tournaments will be integrated with UKG’s native platform, fans will be able to donate their earned UKG, contribute Jackpot winnings or convert skins to UKG to help increase prizepools for community tournaments.
By merging, we are in essence creating the ultimate community, skill-based and crowdfunding platform for esports tournaments. An all-in-one platform to engage, challenge, match and reward gamers of any level.
The synergy also means Connekt users who earn UKG just for playing and winning ranked CS:GO, League of Legends or Dota 2 games will be able to use those earned tokens to enter tournaments, skill-based challenges and anything else CME offers.
Skill based betting is available with prize pools seeded by Unikrn and 50% of entry fees and donated UKG expanding the prizes further. Player just need to sign up and play hard to take home big prizes daily. Soon this will be expanded to direct head-to-head challenges; bet on yourself against any player on the robust CME platform.
"Joining forces with Unikrn was the ideal match for us,” Said Simon Seefeldt, CME’s CEO. “Instead of doing our own ICO, we can take advantage of the best gaming crypto has to offer: UKG’s ecosystem and technology. Combining the brand-power of Unikrn and UnikoinGold with our world-class tournament & matchmaking platform will provide esports enthusiasts from casual to pro a place to enjoy, compete and be rewarded for playing their favourite esports titles."
This puts Unikrn on the precipice of another historic breakthrough for blockchain utility in esports and gaming. Unikrn was the first to create blockchain-powered gaming Jackpots, the first to allow users to earn by playing games, the first to power crypto prizepools in community challenges and the first to offer a skin-for-cryptocurrency exchange.
Rahul Sood, Unikrn's CEO, said "CME’s platform is beyond its competition, and with their technology and Unikrn’s userbase, endemic reach, brand partnerships and existing product lines — as well as UnikoinGold, the largest token in esports and gaming history — users are about to see a digital casual-competitive landscape well beyond anything to date conceived."
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