• Popularized by several streamers, the Club Pro mode of the FIFA video game allows you to compete 11 against 11 controllers in hand

  • With his start-up IFC, Tristan Lécuyer gives everyone the tools to organize a tournament easily.

  • By using Web 3 tools, he aims to transform these teams into real professional clubs, with management of player contracts, bonuses, sponsorship...

If 20 Mint took it into his head to set up a pro football club at the start of the school year, it's because of him.

Tristan Lécuyer co-founded IFC two years ago to organize 11 vs. 11 tournaments, and offered our community to set up their own pro club.

What he means by pro club is not necessarily what you have in mind.

Explanations live, during 20 Mint au Carré, our Twitch show.

You co-founded IFC for International Football Competition.

What kind of competition are we talking about?

Tournaments organized in the FIFA video game, in "pro club" mode.

It is a still little known mode where each player controls a single footballer in the game. A team will therefore be made up of eleven human beings where each one evolves in a unique position on the field.

And IFC is an application that allows you to manage tournaments in which these teams participate...

During the confinement, we said to ourselves that we were going to organize tournaments ourselves because we saw that this mode produced a lot of emotions but that the existing competitions were organized in a very underground way, often canceled without us know why.

So, for two years with my partner Antoine, we built a competition ecosystem, a mobile application that allows anyone to organize their tournament.

The players have a history, a prize list, statistics.

They can consult their ranking, their calendar, a bit like on the

L'Equipe

site to follow Ligue 1.

Because with this game mode, we embody the same virtual footballer throughout the season?

Exactly.

In fact, at the start of the season, everyone configures their avatar with physical and technical attributes to be able to be the best in the position they will occupy in their team.

It's a very rich game mode.

This is the ultimate football gaming mode.

Why ?

You play it with your friends: there is a huge community aspect.

Everyone knows each other.

It's a real niche community of several thousand players in France but also in North Africa.

Beyond gaming, there is a whole management part when you build a team: time management, management of egos, sponsors, communication, etc.

And finally the clubs which develop best are those which know how to make speak about them.

In fact, it's exactly the dynamics of a real football club.

Except that at the end, the match takes place on the screen and not on the lawn.

Managing the schedule, is it that complicated?

Yes.

Most of the most competitive teams meet three or four times a week to play.

That's how we develop strategy, technique, placement on the pitch.

When discussing with GMs – general manager, team captains – the performance is like a game of chess, except that the players are constantly on the move.

And you said to yourself that web 3 could improve this functioning?

It was the players themselves who asked us for developments, without necessarily using the term Web 3, but by proposing solutions to the problems that prevent this game mode from developing.

For example, having the ability to sign contracts between a player and a team, to solve the problem of the player who, under cover of anonymity and the absence of repercussions, is going to leave the project after two days because he fed up or that he has found a more interesting club.

It is detrimental to a project when it is being built.

A smart contract [irrevocable contract that can be activated on the blockchain] could solve that.

The team and the player agree on the duration of their union and how the rewards will be paid to the player over time.

After fifteen games played, for example,

we recover a certain number of tokens.

If the player goes through with his contract, he has a certain bonus.

That's for the carrot.

But what about the stick?

What is the risk of a player who leaves after two defeats, believing that the bonuses to be won will not be huge anyway...

Everything will be visible and registered on his profile associated with his analysis.

Players who jump from club to club will no longer be able to hide it.

After a while, they will get spotted and they won't find any more clubs.

You also imagine assigning licenses.

What do they consist of?

By October, we will effectively separate our ecosystem into two spaces.

An amateur space, the one that currently exists, without wallet or blockchain.

People play their match with their friends, they spend quiet evenings, have fun.

It's the amateur world to draw a parallel with what we know in football.

The second space will be accessible via licenses (for players and clubs), which will take the form of NFT.

The club license is a kind of Kbis, a certificate of existence.

This will allow anyone to own a football club and develop it with blockchain tools, to see it evolve as competitions progress, to recruit players, etc.

If the person is fed up, he will simply have the possibility of reselling his club.

You had created your start-up in a web 2.0 context and you now fully embrace the logic of Web 3. What do you like about this environment today?

I love the fact that the tools offered by the blockchain allow new entities to professionalize.

The fact that someone who would not have had access to professions where there are eleven people to manage can do so via the Web and their club project is very interesting.

All of a sudden, he can develop management skills and be confronted with rewarding issues. In general, it's the community aspect around these innovations that I like.

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