I am glad to announce to the Scorum community that Kofpato and I, with the support of Fnemoto, will be sponsoring the first ever Scorum soccer tournament here in Africa.

At first, the idea seemed unrealistic and unachievable. However, having strategized properly, we were able to come up with a tournament which wouldn’t exceed our budget.

The idea of hosting a Scorum tournament is definitely something in the minds of many but when Kofpato shared the idea with me, I thought it was achievable. Since we both are Africans who love Scorum so much, we decided to go against all odds to make the first event a reality.

At first, Kofpato wanted to host the event in Ghana and so we decided to make a few research about the possibility of hosting one on a decent pitch and making a huge Scorum publicity.

After making research, we discovered that it will cost a lot to host the event either in Ghana or Nigeria as lots of things such as printing hand bills, posters, football bibs and jerseys, cost of renting a football pitch, and other costs were put into consideration.

Also, we thought of handling the event in such a way that decency and decorum will be maintained so we decided to rent a private soccer pitch.

In view of the fact that Nigeria has more users than Ghana at the moment, we both agreed on hosting the first event in Nigeria in other to obtain attendance and participation of Scorum writers and new users.

N.B:

We admit the fact that due to the current state of the economy, not many people will be willing to travel for the event hence we have invited footballers from Namo FC which has two players already on Scorum. The footballers are Kaystone01 and El-Capitan. Namo-Fc will help influence the attendance of fans and potential Scorum new sign ups.

Preparations

In other to put some professionalism in this tournament, I am currently supported by El-Capitan, who has been MIA on Scorum due to so many reasons which are: his travel to the Kano, a northern part of Nigeria, his traditional wedding, ongoing works at his jersey shop and management of 3AD Bar, a prominent bar in Ogun state.

We are currently setting up things such as cameras needed to record the event, printing of hand bills, and locally creating awareness.

It's important we put scorum out so as to have more people create value and activity on the platform.

Here’s a picture of me during a visit to his jersey shop

Unfortunately, team jerseys are pretty expensive to make now. I’m still in talks with him to help source for jerseys on which we can print Scorum on for the match.

Match Ball, Referee and Players safety and care

El-Capitan also helped order for a soccer ball which was paid for by Kofpato and I. It feels good to be a contributor to community projects when you know all you are doing is a risk.

On the day of the match which is yet to be decided on, there will be an invited health team which will be for the welfare of the players. We also have a referee willing to officiate at the tournament.

Promotional materials

These are samples of the hand bills which will be shared to people in the community before, during and after the match to publicize Scorum.

Jotmax is currently sourcing for jerseys alongside El-Capitan. There was a surge in price of sports materials earlier this week due to increase in import duties on goods imported into Nigeria.

Local jersey companies have also increased prices due to the high demand on local sporting clothing.

Sample of Jersey we hope to provide

Location

The proposed pitch is a private pitch at Toll Gate Area, Sango Ota, Ogun State. The area sits on the boundary of Lagos and Ogun State. It was picked above other pitches due to security and calmness as local stadia/pitches can be sometimes prone to uncontrolled crowd and hoodlums on the move can disrupt matches for money known as street tax.

Proposed dates of tournament

Taking into consideration that we cannot impose time or date on the community, we ask that interested members of the community pick a date between next week and the 30th of this month.

Players will present members of the Scorum community. Kofpato will be present on the day of the match hence it is going to be fun. ⚽🏅🎗🥉🎖🥇

Sponsorship/Advice

Kindly share your advice with the us on how you think we can make this better.

Also, feel free to join in as a sponsor/supporter of this pro-scorum event.

Benefits to Scorum

It is no news that soon, the betting platform will be launched. We will leverage the event to market the blogging and betting platform to attendees of this event which includes the footballers. This is an effort to put scorum in limelight here in Africa as we intend to share this not only in Nigeria and Ghana but in Gambia where we have a new reach.

Although the event is fully funded bt Kofpato, and Jotmax, we will work hand in hand with ScorumNigeria, ScorumGhana and ScorumAfrica to make this a possibilty. Community is everything.

You know very well that events like this will cause a massive adoption in a long and short run.

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