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Exclusive wallpapers for PERKS/DONATONS
Get Messi or Ronaldo caricature wallpaper. Decorate your computer screen with an 1024x768 pixels wallpaper, plus, get a facebook cover photo.
Also, you will get a 10 EUR G-Coupon towards purchasing a copy of the game, after the pre-order period on our website ends.
Get Messi, Ronaldo, Ibrahimović, El Shaarawy or Rooney caricature wallpaper. Decorate your computer screen with an 3425x2569 pixels wallpaper (A2 for printing), plus, get a facebook cover photo.
You will still get, of course, your Sector Ball/12 Touches Table Soccer Game, with a set of **EXCLUSIVE** stickers for the players! These stickers will not be included in the initial package, you can only get them now, while our fund raise period is still on. So contribute now and we will include these personalised stickers along with your copy of Sector Ball.
Oh, and not to forget, here is a G-Coupon code for your friend ....
Choose ANY player you and we will have a professional caricature of him done especially for you! Can be Kaka, Tevez, Hart or any player you really, really like! You will get a 3425x2569 pixels wallpaper (A2 for printing) and also a facebook cover photo.
You will still get, of course, your Sector Ball/12 Touches Table Soccer Game, with a set of **EXCLUSIVE** stickers for the players! These stickers will not be included in the initial package, you can only get them now, while our fund raise period is still on. So contribute now and we will include these personalised stickers along with your copy of Sector Ball.
Oh, and not to forget, here is a G-Coupon code for your friend ... We help you take the fun to the next level, and give you another 20 G-Codes to invite your friends to play Sector Ball with you in tournaments.
Choose ANY player you and we will have a professional caricature of him done especially for you! Now the fun bit! Send a photo of yourself and you'll be right next to your favorite player in the caricature! It's going to be you and Persie, Hagi, Balotelli or any other player you'd like to have as a friend! The wallpaper with the caricature will come in a 3425x2569 pixels (A2 for printing) size and you'll also get a facebook cover photo.
You will still get, of course, your Sector Ball/12 Touches Table Soccer Game, with a set of **EXCLUSIVE** stickers for the players! These stickers will not be included in the initial package, you can only get them now, while our fund raise period is still on. So contribute now and we will include these personalised stickers along with your copy of Sector Ball.
Oh, and not to forget, here is a G-Coupon code for your friend ... We help you take the fun to the next level, and give you another 20 G-Codes to invite your friends to play Sector Ball with you in tournaments.
- The pre-made drawings (Messi, Ronaldo, Ibrahimovc, El Saarwy or Rooney) will be sent only after the payment is processed and after the person confirms the chosen player.
- Customers who chose 100 Euro or 300 Euro contributions, will need to email their favorite player and a personal photo (applicable for the 300 Euro contribution) and we will send the caricature back, by email, within 2-7 days from confirmation. The number of participants is limited so avail of this offer while it is still available.
Would you like to have your very own dream team? FC Barcelona, AC Milan, Manchester United can now be your teams with the help of our football game, Sectorball. Apply the stickers on your players and voila! Your team is ready!
A little taste of history
Some of our most cherished stories start with the phrase “Once upon a time “ and come to a more or less abrupt conclusion. This is not the case with our story. It refuses to end because it is a story about football, passion, tradition and human nature in general. It connects continents and is a tale more than a 100 years in the making…
Somewhere in a far off land, our ancestors invented a way to reduce the craving for playing football during the cold winter months. It was the year 1900. The game was coined “Gombfoci”, a rather self-explanatory term, which describes a game played with buttons from coats upon a kitchen table. It spread like wildfire and soon came to be well known in such far off lands as Spain, USA or Brazil. These people changed the rules and by this created a new game called “12 Touches”, which later became an even greater success than its predecessor. (Geraldo Cardoso Décourt’s, in 1928).
Detailed history on wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button_football
The path from amateur to professional game playing and sportsmanship took some time, until the early championships were established in the Americas (in 1950’s Brazil), as well as in Europe, where the first European championship took place in 1958, in Hungary. The Brazilian Football Table Game laid the foundation, and was on a collision course with its sibling, Sector Ball, the original Hungarian version. Both of them had Federations, shared almost identical game pieces, but were strikingly different when it came to their rules.
Have you ever met someone who has been playing this game for more than 50 years? We did! Don’t be mistaken! We aren’t talking here about a game which is purely for the older generation. It is a game cherished by a universal age category, starting from the young to the old. There are thousands and thousands of registered players and the numbers are going to go through the roof after we will succeed in making this project happen. This is a project that will be remembered for quite some time to come, by players who will have been charmed by it… And the best thing is that you can play an active part in writing this game's history.
The project
Our mission and vision is to unify the two games in one box. Same board game, two approaches. East meets West on the same "soccer pitch": Sector Ball Table Soccer game vs. 12 Touches Brazilian Game. Pretty awesome, if you ask us!
Why? After talking to some of our members from our local board game club, where table soccer competitions are held regularly, we discovered that people like both games but expressed a desire to experience a board game which combines both of them. Playing at professional level is very difficult and involves a lot of training and is sadly not possible in the majority of cases to train at home. The main reason for not being able to practice at home is the size of the table, which is 180 cm long by 120 cm wide. Our idea is to give them the means to practice wherever they choose to, given the smaller size of the board, and when the moment comes; they will effortlessly conquer their completion in tournaments.
This project is designed for home users. Many of us remember playing an older version back in the day. The quality of its components was quite bad but nevertheless, we played a lot, and occasionally it even happened that our parents joined in. We organized championships in the neighborhood and we had a lot of fun. Days upon days of endless joy!
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We want to revive these times and build a community. People who want to play this game at home are the people who want to have fun by competing with their friends face-to-face, share real emotions! It is destined for those who choose to do this instead of playing in front of the computer.
PLEASE don't forget to tell your friends about this so we can keep the momentum going and make these as awesome as they can be!
The project is set up to offer the “offline” players diversity by giving them an alternative to computer games. We also aim to provide clubs with another reason to organize good championships with skilled players. We strive to bring different generations together by engaging parents and children in sharing the passion of playing this game, thus creating excitement and joy around the table and giving them the opportunity of playing soccer even in winter time. This will give supporters the chance of playing the role of their favourite players on the pitch.
The G-CODE or the online system ...
STRETCH GOALS!
The current pricing is for 2000 boardgame with a complete tournament manager website.
We would like to reach our goal, but wait and see what we'll do with every 5000 EUR!
We will still release the game even if we have to do it from our own budget we will keep up the fight until we succeed!
So here we go!
5,000 EUR: We will randomly select 10 Romanian orphanages and give away one SectorBall game to each one of them.
The goals ...
Our primary goals are to produce the first board games and to build the online community for social reasons. We set the goal of producing 2.000, corroborated with ample actions in at least 5 countries. In this way we can get the ball rolling and initiate the movement.
The online system provides an environment where people can register, create tournaments, upload results, make comparisons, interact with other communities, exchange collectibles, and inform themselves about the official competitions - advanced or professional tournaments, organized by the International Sectorball Federation (ISBF).
"SECTORBALL is a football game that you can play from dawn til dusk."
Our expectations are high for the future, that’s why we need 30.000 euro to fund the design, online software, concept, prototypes, marketing, commercial, production of initial games and the creation of the online community. We are totally dedicated towards this project, because it is real and it is happening as you are reading these lines. We need to raise funds to create and accelerate the making of this new community. A brief summary business plan can be available upon request.
Commercial and marketing strategy ...
At first glance, you might ask yourself “How can you be sure that you can really make this happen?”. We will give our best to succeed or die in the attempt (metaphorically speaking of course)! We possess the needed know how because we are in a constant dialog with gamers, because we track the gaming habits and trends through countries, because we work with very talented designers, programmers, copywriters and creative people. It is also important to note, and should not be overlooked that most of us are confident businessmen with over 15 years of experience. In the worst case scenario, the game will be made and will follow a steady development. Not depending upon primary marketing fail or success, the Game will exist and we need you beside us! You will be proud to say that you gave a chance to a unifying concept that is quickly spreading around the world.
The idea is pretty simple – if people play, the game is required. And people play!
How the money will be spent.
No doubt you've noticed the surprisingly large sum we're requesting to finish SectorBall. Believe it or not, this is actually cheap for a boardgame, and the only reason it's even this cheap is because we will also cover some costs.
Here's the breakdown of how the money will be spent:
3000 EUR: Staff Salaries - 3 people for 2 months
1500 EUR: Desiger team for all the design elements
12000 EUR: Printing 2000 boardgame, paper part
10000 EUR: Website with complex database system behind for tournaments organizing, etc.
10000 EUR: Plastic parts of the game, players, ball, etc for 2000 games
1500 EUR: QA Testing
500 EUR: Bar codes and CE code
2700 EUR: IndieGoGo and Payment Processing Fees for 30000 EUR
1000 EUR: Shipping the games
3000 EUR: Advertising online
1000 EUR: Other unknown expenses
The game ...
Inside the box, there will be two games containing:
• 2 teams for a total of 10 players
• 4 goalkeepers, 2 for Sector Ball and 2 for 12 Touches
• 2 type of soccer ball, one for Sector Ball and one for 12 touches
• The board, 60 x 90 cm (we still dream about 100 x 70 cm)
• The score board
• 4 mm margin for the board, plastic, to keep the players and the ball on the field
• Hour glass for measuring 10 minute
• 10 unique codes for registering on our website, for you and your friends
• Rulebooks for Sector Ball and for 12 Touches
• Stickers for each player
The board is the same, only the rules are different. The rulebook will be translated into 6 languages at the beginning (English, Spanish, German, French, Hungarian, Romanian), with the help of the community, the soccer fans.
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Aren't you curious about a few rules? There are 2 x 10 minute game periods, no offside, players can mark valid goals only from opponent side, and the rest is like in real soccer.
Sector Ball: Each player has one turn. If he can pass the ball from the button to a valid "sector", 4.5 cm, not touching other button, there is an extra move. If he can again pass to the next button in the same way, again he has an extra move. This can continue until he fails to pass or have a valid sector and the ball is on the opponent side, where he can shoot. The player asks the opponent to place the goalkeeper and then he shoots to score.
12 Touches: Here we talk about maximum 12 touches per player. This means if a button touches the ball and the ball does not touch the opponent button, then he can continue again with the same button or with another button. One button can pass maximum 3 times, then you must play with another button. Once the foe fails, by the ball touching the opponent button, he loses the next move. But if the ball is on the adversary’s side, he can ask to shoot a goal! Opponent can place the goalkeeper!
F.A.Q.
1) I just made my contribution on a perk with more than one options. How will I know when the box will arrive?
Once our funding goal is met, we will contact you via email to verify your postal address and to let you know when we will ship.
2) When will you release the game?
We scheduled to have the game ready to be released at Spiel 2013 in Essen-Germany in October 2013.
The production of the game will be done by Germany's largest manufacturer ensuring the highest quality of the components.
3) Shipping Cost for perks or for pre-order?
The game will be dispatched to EU delivery and very soon will be available in stores in EU. For USA and Canada the game will be delivered via postal services. We have a flat shipping cost for EU, USA and Canada which is included in the Perk levels.
4) How can I pay?
Payments are processed through Paypal which ensures the security of your transaction. That does not mean that you need to have a Paypal account or that you have to create one. You can use any Credit Card. All of the payment will go through this website.
5) How will the online registration work?
Yes, that is a good question. We will try to give you an answer as short as possible, but that may take some time. There will be G-Codes (unique codes) in the game. There will be 10 codes, 1 Master Code and 9 Friend Codes. The person, who will buy the game and will handle the championships with his friends, will register with the Master Code, and this is the moment when he becomes a "tournament organizer". He is the one who will register his own friends, who will become his own players.
The tournament organizer will be able to create championships (group based, rounds based, swiss) and to add the scores, the markers (optional), the minute of the goal (optional) and other details that will be important in a game. At the end of the championships he will have the possibility to print out a diploma for the 1st-6th place.
The system will award experience points (XP) for each tournament in which a player can participate. For ex.: If you play a tournament with your friends, you receive 1XP for the game and 1XP for each point in the competition. If you have won 6 times and had 2 ties, you get 6x3 + 2x1 = 20XP, meaning a total of 21XP points.
These points will accumulate in time and you may reach, let’s say, 250XP points. The system will monitor the points and we suggest groups from the same areas to meet and organize larger contests.
Each year a European championship will be held where the best players in Europe will be invited. This contest will be the basis for the invitation. In the same time the best players will be invited to learn the professional version of the game and to participate in professional championships.
6) This game is same as Subbuteo?
Subbuteo is an another style. We play with buttons (somewhere in 1900-1950 the game used to be played with coat buttons).
Initially it was in 1905 the game GOMBFOCI - a hungarian style, then in time it became widespread all over the world. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button_football)
From this version people in Brazil made the 12 Touches (most popular), 3 Touches, 1 Touches Fotbal de Butao, which started somewhere in 1920 or around.
Also in time Subbuteo was made together with and other soccer game. Why? Because people like to play soccer and so do I :)
I have played SectorBall since I a was child, and since then 30 years have passed. Then it was a period when I did not play at all, but I started again in 2010.
I play it at a professional level. But as our main problem is that we do not have any new players, I thought it was time to get out a smaller version for home playes. The goal is to teach new people to play, to organize tournaments for them, to meet them online using a well structured website and then invite the best boardgame players to bigger tournaments to get professionals. This is behind this game and I hope we will succeed. Of course is a hard investment which I don't have (it is more then 30K) but I believe I will find people who will support this game.
COMMENT PLEASE!
I want to hear everything about what you want from this game!
Feel free to contact us at info@boardgamesoccer.com or visit our website at www.boardgamesoccer.com
