Topic: 🏆Maharaja of Bitcointalk🏆 $600 Prizepool tourney(Free entry) by Sportbet.one (Read 1073 times)

Perhaps now might be the time to lock this thread, or, if you are planning to keep the thread open, at least change the title to read "closed" or similar?

I take the blame for it. I had tried to make the competition with as much freedom to players as humanly possible. Continue gambling on their own sportsbook and with any stake they like. Sorry about not being able to conclude the contest and release the prize to the winners. Hopefully, I can find a resolution to that. That being said, let me be transparent on where I went wrong and how to take care of things if need be in the future.
With that being said, let me get to the issues that caused disruption of event.
- Should have taken some assistance while conducting. I was inspired to do it alone while having a regular and demanding job. I just couldnt keep up with the tasks after a few days. Should have asked for assistance from fellow forum members or my friends IRL.
- Even after I missed a few days calculations, I thought I could just catch up to it on my free day. Only to realize that some sportsbooks have expiry on the betslip urls. Which meant that I couldnt calculate the ROI, even if I wanted to, that became a huge challenge and I just couldnt consider going through it.

With that looming over my head and my job demanding 12 hrs work a day. Just had to put the contest as an afterthought. Should have been quick to call that and be transparent. Along with real life events (moving out, multiple family members deaths due to COVID). I couldnt keep the contest running. It is irresponsible of me for not being transparent on the spot and clearing things on how things were going on at the moment. I hope it never comes to that again. I will write personal notes to all contestants seeking my apology and see if we can ever come to a resolution.  

You may not have been paid to run a competition, however, your thread still contains the information that the there is a prize for the winner.  This alone enticed users to enter (note - that means entice users to gamble).  Regardless of their (gambler's) own outcomes, you have had a lack of transparency in the running of this competition.  Even now you're not providing information.

Yes, I was aware of it from the moment he woke up until he finally participated in the signature campaign. I'm actually no longer interested in discussing and bringing up his behavior, @vennali just left what this tournament had created without any information being provided. Although I've also said before that I may not be the winner, but as a user who hosted this tournament then @vennali should be able to provide some info that looks fair to know.

I have been wanting to update on the situation and what exactly happened to give it a closure. Keep in mind that I wasn't getting paid for conducting the tournament. I was trying to bring the sports betting community together and I had put in the time and effort to device a tournament and create all the content for it. By the end, I had failed to keep up while handling it alone.  I am to be blamed for it. Sorry for all the inconvenience caused by me. Will hear an update about it shortly.

Hi guys! I realise it's been a year since our competition has stopped due to the inactivity of the topicstarter... But I noticed recently that he keeps posting on the forum... I didn't qualify for a prize because I lost my bankroll, but I've placed over 60 bets in these competitions nevertheless... I don't want to seek justice, just want to hear something from vennali, and maybe from those who also played with their money...

I'm probably not the only one who doesn't have the motivation to go back and audit their wagers from more than six to eight weeks ago.  Besides, with my freebitco.in wagers, I'm not really sure anyone else can come along and review my bets, so it's just the various screen grabs people would have to rely on.

Congratulations to whomever manages to sort through the mess and is declared the winner.

Well that is easy then, ask them if they are still willing to pay out the winners and if affirmative organize among yourselves and proclaim winners.

I dropped out of the contest after just few games since I saw that score updates were lagging and was immediately afraid this would happen. I organized some contests with much smaller scopes and I know how much of hassle they were to grade. I believe vennali simply became a victim of underestimating the amount of work that needs to be put in projects like this and how that work gets multiplied with each day you lag behind. Now it will be even tougher to grade.

My proposal, everybody grades his own tickets and posts ROI here, somebody then just checks top 3 or whatever to see there was no foul play.

Few hours ago I got a response from the sponsor (Sporbet.one) and they told me that vennali didn't claim the funds since he became inactive after the contest ended.

This has become very messy.

Has anyone been in-contact with the sponsor and confirmed one way or the other as to whether or not any prize money changed hands ?? Or, it was just an undertaking with payment to be made once a winner was declared?

Yeah right I guess there's no point in counting them all anymore but if to find out who won it might be good too although maybe no prizes will be credited as long as the vennali doesn't come back.

Hopefully there is information that can be obtained from Sportbet.one regarding this tournament.

The bet slip on the related gambling site may have disappeared, but calculations can still be made by checking the screenshot evidence and checking it on the football live scores and results service.

I've checked some links yesterday and unfortunately it seems that all the betslips from Stake are not anymore available, so I think it will be very hard to verify the outcomes of the 14 pages/275 posts of betslips  Moreover there are now very little chances to hear again from Vennali or sportbet.one IMHO 

I could tally things up if needed since everything is posted on the betting thread, the only thing we need is OP's presence since he's the one behind it all.

Anyway Sportbet.one seems to be active recently so I gave them a pm and hopefully we'd get a response.

It seemed to me that I expressed myself rather unambiguously ... No one blames the regulars of this thread, since, as I already mentioned, the responsibility lies solely with OP. And I cannot judge without knowing for sure all the details of the circumstances, we can only reason, until new facts are revealed + but just because you see little sense in it doesn't mean that this guy didn't take advantage of the double benefit (money for running the competition and money intended for the winners). I mean that he could find this rather large amount so attractive that the threat of red tags for him receded into the background, (by purchasing a new account with neutral feedback).

What do you mean? We have been both victims and culprits of this so called "scam"? To be guilty you need to know you are doing something wrong and I don't think anyone here had any doubt about this game and vennali. He looked like to be a serious guy and I don't see the point of doing that because now the reputation of the sportsbook and his own reputation are hurt. Moreover you seem to accuse the bookie but how do you know they didn't send the prize to him and he kept it for himself? (This is just a question, I'm not implying he did it)

It is likely that in certain circumstances, neutral feedback should be changed to a red tag, (if the regulars of this thread do not get unambiguous answers). I remember how this competition started, and it looked like this thread was under the auspices of the Sportbet.one. Now, it really seems to me that this was some kind of trick to save a couple of marketing dollars, since no one in their right mind would do it for free (considering how OP has repeatedly emphasized the importance of Sportbet.one). If so, then each member of this thread through the fault of OP became for some time a "shill" for this bookmaker.

^{p.s. In any case, let's hope that the regulars of this thread did not waste their time and effort on this competition in vain, and all expectations will nevertheless come true} 

If I had known it would end up like this I would have probably stopped betting when I reached the required bet amount and to be honest, I'm very sorry to spend my balance on Sportbet.one. But by the way, if they cooperate then at least when the OP doesn't make an update at least the prizes are still available on Sportbet.one as a sponsor and also, at least there are updates or any information made from the sponsors right, about the prizes that might have been prepared? instead of ending it like this, it's not clear where all of them are, where is the prize, who is the winner, etc.

I have no idea since Sportbet.one didn't post anything on the announcement thread.

I tallied up all the bets you've posted on the entry thread, after 25 bets your ROI is 8.94%.

Given the OP has been offline since the last post was made six weeks ago, I have placed the following on their trust feedback page:

Ran a competition "The Maharaja of Bitcoin" claiming there was a prize sponsored by Sportsbet.one but no winner was announced and the OP vennali has been off line since the end of May, 2021.

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Can anyone recall if Sportbet.one actually sent @vennali prize money, or, they just promised to pay the eventual winner?

Lol, I participated in this contest when the OP informed about the sponsor and I am willing to join. I don't care if I lose but at least this contest ends more clearly, I've been waiting every day for the updates I hoped for the past few days, but I prefer to forget about this contest after I no longer see any updates. Also, I didn't get any info from sponsors regarding this competition, even though I was using the site until I spent my budget there.