Everyone is crazy about it without even knowing how the the plan would work.
We intend on licensing WarBall,
not building our own teams. The NFL, CFL, UFC, WWE
sports companies would be interested as would original content
streaming companies such as NetFlix, Amazon, etc. . This will
offload the costs. We could, however, build our own international league if
broadcast companies provide the production money (FOX paid the USFL $150M upfront for example).
Licensing is phenomenally profitable as our pitch deck and business plan shows.
However, when I think about WarBall , and the non-profit league, the NBL, it's the proverbial
disruptive, cutting edge version of football. True enough. And so you're gonna get some flak. But it
also has deeper impact socially, as a merger of cultures. Literally
East meeting West. Lessons could be learned from the past and present, cultures better understood, taking the best from both. So that's one highlight.
Another would be getting
females involved playing football. Our rules, where you have to use a weapon against a disablement device * or MMA move first before making a block or tackle, makes skill more important than size or strength. The day a 110 pound women, using the weapon's first rule to her advantage, overcomes a huge offensive lineman and sacks the QB, little girls and all the world will rejoice.
Making
a sport safer for our youth (if you see our pitch deck, the data shows a
10-30% decline in football youth programs) is another high point. We have eliminated high speed collisions for the most part by our rules of engagement. We can even eliminate tackling and blocking for youth leagues, and rely strictly on disabling devices to make tackles and block.
We have had just two practices. Up until then, the game was largely in my head, though there has been many one on one test sessions. Finally seeing it in a team format validated the concept. The biggest hurdle was to gauge
player enthusiasm and if the visuals were as attractive as I anticipated. The
fighters were enraptured, and the visuals were amazing. My friends at these practices were new to WarBall and are not martial artists or weapons experts, so the visuals will someday be greatly improved with experts (and females) in these fields.
We started looking for seed money to compensate these types of athletes
to facilitate this. With this
seed money we will make high quality promotional film, we can take it to investors to help fund our test games. We have nurtured many high level contacts at large sport and broadcast companies over the last two years.
Next, we will have first round financing for test games to show our viability/profitability and we will license the sport to one of them.
Last, our merchandise sister company 84 Brand (dormant for now but viewable) non profit sells warrior and Buddhist clothing with partial profits returned to the areas they are manufactured. We hope as WarBall grows 84 will become a world wide success catering towards the world's 1.5 billion Buddhists, large base of martial artists and eventual WarBall fans. The 8 stands for the eight virtues of the Samurai, the 4 is the four noble truths of Buddhism. It is implied if you wear the 84 logo you are chivalrous (8) and compassionate (4). And, you love WarBall.
https://www.budshido84.org for more info
More practically speaking, we have provisional
patents for our helmets, football weapon, nano enabled 'smart sleeves' and process patent pending on the WarBall game itself. It may not be much but I am proud the 3/4 scale football field I single-handedly built (with one sprinkler) on my property during Covid, not knowing what else to do.
* see the pitch deck for info on the disablement devices