Hi… I’m Victor Bond, CEO of Sport:Next.
Let me tell you a big story, about human beings, about sports competition, and about the very near future.
From the beginning of human society, sports competition has been exclusive, meaning that only a very limited number of people can even qualify to enter serious competition… to join a team… because teams and competitions are by definition limited in size. And of those people that do make the team, half or more rarely play when the game is on the line.
This has meant that the vast majority of people of all ages who would like to play serious competitive sport has been excluded or has quit, to their massive detriment.
Our crises of obesity and loneliness are only two of the consequences of this exclusion.
Beyond this, the time is soon coming that human meaning itself will be in crisis, as Artificial General Intelligence robs most of us of our primary income and basis for meaning: work.
The limitations of conventional competition – limited access and team size – have been obvious burdens for thousands of years… but they are no longer necessary.
New technologies – Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence – can now release competition from these limits.
Teams and leagues can be unlimited in size and anyone and everyone who wants can qualify to play on any team [or “tribe”], regardless of level, from school to the professional and world ranks. And all play is infinitely flexible SOLO play.
We know that this sounds completely insane, but it is in fact inevitable once one sees how to do it… and we at Sport:Next see how to do it.
With Democratic Sport, we will usher in a new age of sports competition that is perfect to address our present and future crises.
Fully athletic virtual reality sport will combine with artificial intelligence support to enable everyone that wants to play racquet sport at every level in the world. And racquet sport is more than twice as popular as soccer.
What we call “Digital Athletics” combines the athletic with the digital in a way that enables anyone who can swing a racquet to fully participate.
Beyond this, because it is digital, we can detect players’ calories burned and apply their EFFORT to their performance score to enable anyone to make a meaningful competitive difference by just PLAYING HARD, regardless of their skill level.
Further, we can convert those calories into dollars, disbursed from a sponsor-supported fund, that pays each player, based on their effort.
Which means that most players will play every day, to their physical and financial health and society’s benefit.
Our patented Democratic Sport System can fairly calculate and compare the scores of different sized teams [or “tribes”] to determine the winners.
So, we will still have winners and losers, but – unlike our present system – EVERYONE will be able to play and meaningfully contribute every match and every day.
And we will offer all of this to each player for a $100 a year subscription, at a 75% margin, because it is a digital service.
Over 350,000 people already have VR headsets and copies of our game – Racket:Next – so they will ONLY pay $100.
But those who need to buy a headset and the game can get them both for only $220… $100 less than the Nintendo Wii, that sold over 100 million units.
This mass adoption will usher in a new era of sponsorship and advertising that will eclipse what we have today.
However, based ONLY on subscriptions to U.S. – based young players, Democratic Sport has a Total Addressable Market of $4 billion, and a global market to everyone of over $400 billion.
We will be in profit in year one and will clear $50 million by year 3, based on $½ million funding.
We will go to market in schools and universities, then expand to every organization and geography on earth.
Every start-up wants to change the world.
This one actually will.
Come join us, and make a difference for EVERYONE.
