A predictions application to compete with friends, co-workers or strangers sweeps Francea during the Soccer World Cup: it has been the most downloaded for 25 consecutive days among the free ones and has more than 5 million participants. Your address is https://mpp.football/.
Martin Jaglin, one of the co-founders, explains that the triumph of MPP (Mon Petit Prono), in which participants add points according to the results of the matches and the teams’ odds, is based on «a very easy concept», which «does not involve money» and which «connects people».
«We all like to give our opinion and bet on the competition,» he says about a game in which anyone can participate, where the motivation is to win and which you can «talk about over coffee with colleagues in the morning in the office, or with friends on WhatsApp.»
Revenge of the rookies
Who would have dared to predict a 0-0 in the Spain-Cape Verde match? Answer: 10,129 players.
MPP is the revenge of those who know little about football, since the prediction experts face people like Maëva, who guessed the tie between Uruguay and Cape Verde justifying that «it was pure instinct, nothing thought out.»
Maëva also highlighted some of the comments she receives online for being a woman: «It makes me laugh at the haters who complain that women don’t watch football all year and suddenly they beat everyone by betting without knowing,» to which she responded ironically that it is a «feminine instinct.»
However, he sees no animosity in MPP, where players from the 7 to 77 years and there are 30% women and where it is not common to see hateful comments because everything takes place in a healthy environment, since nothing is gained, and that is the achievement of this application, which unites people, according to Jaglin.
The co-founder explains that the prize of the game is «to beat 3.4 million people in the same game» and that means there is a «commitment until the end on the part of the players since everyone has the pride of not losing.»
A game that unites
Another player, Martine, shared her experience and stressed that the game allowed her to create more connections with your coworkers and in his running club, since «forecasts are excuses to talk and laugh at each other.»
Jaglin explained that the ad-supported app it’s free so that anyone can sign up and not leave behind those who are not fans, who compete with their family or companies without knowing much, but who enjoy the game.
He also highlighted that the MPP communication team mixes football with humor, highlighting on social networks the «anti-heroes», who are last in the classifications and those who fail with their predictions, or the surprises of the World Cup.
The 104 matches of this World Cup give rise to many bets, surprises and, above all, possibilities of recovering from bad streaks and being first in their league.
EFE Agency.
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