Bald Sports

Sports contests have always had a capital problem. NFL Survivor pools. March Madness brackets. Fantasy leagues. World Cup contests. Players enter, the pot fills with cash, and the contest can run for weeks or months. Some prize pools can reach seven or eight figures. Then the money does nothing until winners are paid. That made sense when sports contests lived inside old rails. It makes less sense on Base.

World Cup is here and the prize pool finally has something to do. World Cup Bracket and World Cup Survivor start with $10K in combined guaranteed prize pools. Entries are in USDC, spots are capped, and the bag moves every round. Bracket starts with a $5K guarantee. Entries are $25 and capped at 1,000 spots.

Dead capital is a crime. We’ve been playing sports contests wrong this whole time. NFL Survivor, World Cup brackets, March Madness pools, fantasy leagues, whatever it is. The pot collects thousands, sometimes millions, then it sits there for weeks or months doing nothing until a winner gets paid. We have lived through decades of market growth, tech runups, crypto cycles, and AI. Every time we entered a long-running sports contest, we locked the pot away and let it miss the whole thing. But th...

It's the Sweet 16. 23 survivors remain out of 847 in your March Madness pool. The prize pool sits at $135,000. Friday night, the players voted to put it into BTC. By morning the pot is $145,800. And you still have to make your Elite 8 pick by Saturday. This is Bald Sports.