Rivals’? The Telegram Anime Soccer Game and Airdrop

It’s arduous to make a Telegram tap-to-earn sport stand out as of late, with numerous Hamster Kombat clones vying on your consideration. However utilizing the license from a beloved Japanese anime and manga sequence—about soccer, no much less—is one fascinating option to shift the vibe for a Telegram tapper.

That’s precisely what Captain Tsubasa: Rivals has carried out, with the tap-to-earn sport racking up hundreds of thousands of gamers since its latest launch, probably because of the truth that lots of people will likely be conversant in the model. The Captain Tsubasa manga sequence, which follows the rise of soccer participant Tsubasa Ozora, has offered over 90 million copies, with a number of reveals, motion pictures, and different video games being based mostly on the franchise.

Now the franchise has expanded with Captain Tsubasa: Rivals, a Telegram tap-to-earn sport that shares a variety of DNA with mega-hit Hamster Kombat, however shakes up the method with its acquainted license and engaging paintings. Right here’s what you should know in regards to the sport and airdrop plans.

What’s Captain Tsubasa: Rivals?

Captain Tsubasa: Rivals is a tap-to-earn sport on Telegram that means that you can faucet on characters from the franchise’s wealthy historical past—and, in a really primary method, construct a soccer crew with recognizable gamers.

Screenshots from Captain Tsubasa: Rivals. Picture: Decrypt

In actuality, it’s little greater than a Hamster Kombat clone the place you faucet on a picture and use the in-game forex you get—on this case, balls—to purchase upgrades that may earn you passive money, shortly making the precise tapping half pretty redundant. Rivals doesn’t actually do something new as of this present model, but it surely has a distinct environment and vibe from Hamster Kombat.

Wasn’t there already a sport with this identify?

The easy reply is: sure. The extra complicated reply is: sure, and issues are about to get very complicated.

Captain Tsubasa: Rivals is definitely a blockchain-based browser sport with an NFT assortment. It’s mainly a Tsubasa-themed Prime Trumps-style sport, the place you possibly can improve or purchase NFTs which have increased scores to win extra. It launched in early 2023.

It has a linked token on Ethereum scaling community Polygon known as TSUGT, which could be earned by taking part in the sport. However that token is outwardly separate from the Telegram sport, and won’t be the token that’s ultimately airdropped to gamers.

Formally, the Telegram sport is known as Captain Tsubasa: Rivals on TG—or Rivals on TON in some instances—however there’s sure to be some confusion when two apparently separate video games mainly share the identical sport, and can every have their very own token.

How you can play Captain Tsubasa: Rivals on Telegram

When you’ve performed a tap-to-earn sport earlier than, then you recognize precisely what to anticipate right here with the captain. You faucet on the participant in the midst of the display screen, and every faucet will provide you with a ball. In fact, you possibly can spend these balls to improve what number of balls you get from every faucet, or what number of instances you possibly can faucet in a single session earlier than you run out of power.

Screenshots from Captain Tsubasa: Rivals. Picture: Decrypt

Or, for those who want, you possibly can spend your balls on upgrades resembling new gamers on your crew, teaching enhancements, or stadium upgrades that generate passive earnings whereas the sport is closed—for as much as three hours. Given how way more profitable that is in comparison with tapping, that is successfully the perfect technique to get probably the most balls.

There’s additionally a every day combo reward that pays out 5 million balls if you buy or level-up three particular upgrades each day. Our daily-updated information will let you know the most recent combo, letting you rack up hundreds of thousands of additional balls with little effort.

When is the airdrop?

Captain Tsubasa: Rivals launched with the promise of a future airdrop, and already supplies the choice to hyperlink a pockets from The Open Community (TON), however there may be virtually no particulars on when that may occur or how the distribution will likely be determined.

We do know that it will likely be a brand-new token that will likely be distributed to Telegram gamers, and never the present TSUGT token that was created for the opposite Captain Tsubasa sport.

TON remains to be the most certainly community for the token launch, given the pockets connection characteristic and in addition the truth that most different main Telegram crypto video games—like Notcoin, Hamster Kombat, and Catizen—have launched on the Telegram-aligned community. Nonetheless, there are some indicators that the builders might be contemplating different choices.

A latest rebrand modified the sport’s title within the mini app and on social media from Captain Tsubasa: Rivals on TON to Captain Tsubasa: Rivals on TG, although the official web site nonetheless reveals the previous identify as of this writing. The builders additionally just lately acquired BNB-based funding from Binance, which might sign plans to launch on Binance’s chain.

That’s simply hypothesis for now, but it surely’s one thing to look out for as the sport proceeds nearer to its eventual airdrop.

Edited by Andrew Hayward