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B2B Daily Fantasy Sports provider Scout Gaming Group will offer a €1 million guaranteed prize pool on its Premier League Season Game, which will be made available to Scout Gaming’s global network of clients.
The prize pool will offer €200,000 for first place, with a total of 1250 prizes on offer. Scout Gaming’s seasonal game bears similarities to the official Fantasy Premier League game with regards to budget, number of players, and some of the scoring rules, with prizes also available for best manager per month and per game each week.
Andreas Sundal, CPO and Co-founder of Scout Gaming, commented: “We are very pleased on a global basis, for the first time ever, to offer a life changing money prize pool for the upcoming start of Premier League.
“Outside the US, Premier League is considered to be number one Fantasy Game, the official Fantasy Premier League, free-to-play game, which currently attracts between 6-7 millions players and has experienced heavy growth in recent years. On the backbone of that and the general interest from our partners enables us to provide this record-breaking prize sum.”
Scout Gaming will offer markets on a range of sports and leagues, NBA Basket, NHL hockey, an increasing set of Esports, MLB baseball, NFL football, UFC Mixed Martial Arts, Grand Slam tennis, IPL Cricket and football.
Sundal continued: “We have a clear focus on offering the most interesting betting products for player-oriented bets, including both traditional DFS, but also above stated markets and other newly developed products.
“Even after the American reregulation, DFS is an essential product on the American sports betting market – something that is spreading world-wide as well. We are very pleased to so far been entrusted by a couple of leading operators, including for example the market leader in Greece, Stoiximan, the state-governed leading Norweigan operator Norsk Tipping among others.”
