Football Has Always Been Better With Something to Play For

Bragging Rights Have Always Been Part of Football

Football fans have been inventing ways to compete with each other for generations. Workplace prediction sheets used to get passed around before a big tournament, families would run score competitions during the World Cup, and fantasy football eventually turned perfectly normal adults into people willing to spend twenty minutes debating whether a £4.5 million midfielder from Bournemouth represented “good value”.

Then football video games took things to another level. A FIFA night with friends could start as a perfectly relaxed evening and somehow end with accusations about controllers, lucky rebounds and somebody being told they were “not actually good at football, just good at FIFA”. The winner, naturally, would remember events differently.

That kind of rivalry is part of being a football fan. It is competitive without needing to be serious, and it gives everyone something extra to talk about long after the match itself has finished. Sometimes there might be a prize involved and sometimes there is not, but nobody really wants to lose.

The Best Football Games Last Longer Than One Afternoon

There are plenty of football games that give you a quick burst of entertainment. You make a choice, follow one result and then it is done. There is nothing wrong with that, but it was not what we wanted to build.

FOOTiPICKS is about giving football fans something they can follow over time. The interest should build, the rivalries should develop and the conversation should continue as the season moves along. That is where a good football competition really starts to come alive.

A Quick Game or Something You Can Follow?

So, What Exactly Is FOOTiPICKS?

FOOTiPICKS is an online football pick game for football fans. At its heart, the idea is deliberately simple: you make football selections, follow the results and compete against other people who think their football knowledge is better than yours.

We could probably make that sound much more complicated if we wanted to, but the appeal is in keeping it simple. The competition is what matters. Your choice means more because other people are making theirs too, and suddenly a match you might normally have ignored becomes one you are genuinely interested in following.

There is also the very real possibility of watching somebody you know make what looks like a ridiculous selection, only to sit there with increasing annoyance as it actually comes off. That is exactly the sort of thing people remember.

FOOTiPICKS is not being built around the idea that football fans should constantly be spending money. It is being built around the idea that football fans enjoy competition, rivalry and having something extra to play for. That is a very different starting point, and it is central to what we want the game to feel like.

The Group Chat Might Be the Most Important Stadium of All

Every football competition between friends eventually develops its own language. There are running jokes, old screenshots, terrible predictions that refuse to die and one person who will absolutely never be allowed to forget something they said three seasons ago.

That is why the social side matters so much. FOOTiPICKS is designed for people who enjoy football together, even when they are not sitting in the same room. Your mates might be spread across the country, but the moment the results start coming in, everyone is back in the same conversation.

Somebody starts celebrating too early, somebody else goes quiet, one person insists they were unlucky and another becomes completely insufferable. This is the stuff we like, because a football game should create reasons to talk rather than simply giving you another screen to look at.