FireFan: Igniting the Passion and Fire in Fans!

FIreFan has finally arrived, and we're pumped by it! Are you ready to get in the game?

So for those of you that know me, you're likely asking 'What's the Deal?  Lynda isn't much of a sports fan or a gamer?'  Well, with that I'd have to say you're right...or you were right! Things have changed and FireFan has arrived!

My goal and my passion is to keep doing good in the world, and I see FireFan being one of the ways I'm going to be able to do that, because yes, I am a United Games Marketing Affiliate with this, and thrilled to be part of this!  There, disclosure made.

But I'm also someone who likes to have a lot of fun with friends, and have found this is a brand new way of doing that, so lets keep moving here shall we?  I have put this step by step explanation together so that my friends (who are as game savvy as I am :(  and invitees won't get frustrated, because this app is like nothing we've ever seen! I hope it helps you to get the most out of this great new game! 

​FireFan is:
- Social, Competitive, Fun, Interactive 
- It is not gambling, so it's something the entire family can enjoy
- You can Play LIVE with friends and Superstars 

FireFan is just hitting the app store, so here's what I can tell you about it right now from my experience over the last weeks of our beta testing.  It's a new way of playing along with sports.  It's not betting, there is no money to be made, so you can get your entire family involved in the fun.  It is free to download, and it is free to play if you want to just use the pregame picks option.  If you want to go live, you will need to acquire tokens.  There will be lots of ways to do that when the last of the beta test is done.  You can get them by watching the advertisements that will be built into the app.  You can acquire them through purchase through Apple Itunes or Google store.  You can get them as rewards for inviting friends, or in some league games.  But that's for later.  It's not even necessary at this point to worry.  Lets just get started. 

Okay  

• You've downloaded the app to your smartphone or tablet from either Itunes or Google. 
• You've entered the reward code RDream
• NOW THIS IS IMPORTANT:  If you pre-registered, log in with the email address and password you set up when you pre-registered.  If you did not pre-register, hit Sign Up. 
• Welcome to FireFan!  Next
• The next screen is going to allow you to choose your user name and upload a picture.  You can choose whatever name you want (no profanity, this is a family game),  put your real name in if you haven't preregistered, hit next.

Now we are moving on to the next screen, #1

Here you're going to be picking the sports that you love to follow!  Remember, at the moment we only have NFL Football and MLS Soccer within the app, but that is going to be changing regularly!
Coming Soon, Watch for:

• National Basketball Association
• for all the European Soccer Leagues
• Major League Baseball
• National League Hockey
• Rugby
• NCAA College Football 

They are all going to be here!!! This app will be incredible!  So scroll through the sports page and click on the ones that you want to follow and join in on!  When you have, hit next.

Step Number 2 allows you to pick your favorite teams.  For now, as I said, it's only NFL.  That will change in the days ahead.  You can pick as many, or as few teams as you choose.  You can go back and add teams at any time.  This is your game.  When you're done, hit next.

Step 3 allows you to connect!  

• The first thing that comes up is the Celebrity list. THESE are real accounts of REAL CELEBRITIES who are participating in this app as we grow and move along.  You can click on your favorites to follow, challenge and engage with in the live games.  The list of interested celebrities continues to grow, so check back from time to time!
• Next along the top you'll see contacts.  Click on that to open up a window that allows you to find your friends that are on FireFan, or invite friends that you know love sports to play with you.  There is also going to be the opportunity to invite your other social media friends to play through Facebook and Twitter.  You can invite, or just move over to the Discover tab to see who's already playing Fire Fan.  Type in the names or emails of friends, and connect if they're already there.
• Now we're onto the NEXT NEXT :) 

STEP 4 is to Join some FireFan Leagues.  There are literally hundreds, and will be thousands to choose from!  So it's up to you!  You can join a few right off the bat, if you see ones that catch your eye, leagues in your area, or leagues for your teams, or you can wait and do more investigating.  You can join and leave leagues at any time.  The next screen is going to ask you if you want to turn on notifications for League invites.  As a newby, I'd leave it on, find out what's being created and get to know new people.  For more about leagues, keep going, there'll be more later!

Hit next and see your brand new Profile Page!

So welcome to your new Profile Page!  You are officially a FireFan.  On your home screen you will see Total Points Earned (this is for all games played ongoing), your followers and you're following.  Going down the screen you'll see:

• Upcoming Games (those that you've used tokens to sign up for)
• My Leagues that you have joined.  You will see that FeeBee has decided to join three of my leagues.  British Columbia FireFan, Diamonds in the Rough, and This Girl is on Fire.  She's a smart player :) 
• Leagues I Manage.   This is VERY COOL!  Here you can create a league of your own, challenge family and friends, have ongoing points tallied to see whose ahead.  You can do this as a family, sitting around on New Years Day watching the game!  You can do this as a bar owner, who wants to fire up Monday and Thursday nights, by starting a league for patrons to become more involved, you can do it with your buddies (from around the globe I might add) who are all fans of the sport or the team.  The options for leagues you can create is endless and so much fun!  Play with it yourself and see! More about that later!
• Below Leagues I manage are My Favorites, the sports you enjoy.  The teams, and sports that you've chosen to follow.
• My Achievements hasn't been revealed in our beta testing, so will update that later. 

So now, lets go back to the top of this screen shall we?  See those three little bars up on the right hand corner?  Touch them and they will take you to this, your home page.

On your home screen, hit the X at the top at any time to go back to your profile.

• TOKEN BALANCE tells you how many tokens you have to play live games with. Feebee has 36.  She can get more by buying them (option on the profile page), or she may watch some in app advertising, invite friends, or win them in a league challenge.  She's pretty brilliant, she'll figure something out. 
• TICKET BALANCE  These are loyalty reward tickets that will later be used in the Loyalty Rewards Redemption center.  They can be used to exchange for t shirts, hats, tickets, travel.  They are based on the Tokens that you have been exchanging to play.
• LIFETIME POINTS: is an accumulation of all the points you gained through your predictions on game play, both pregame and within the app during live play.  It tallies up all games and points being played.   More of this will unfold, as your lifetime points unlock different features for you as the game goes along!​  

As we keep making our way down the screen we see:

• User Profile: Will just take you back to your profile page.
• Firestorm: The in-app chat for FireFan communication.  It's great, communicate with players and celebrities.
• Connect: Lets you look for other FireFans you know, celebrities etc.  
• National Football League: Takes you to the NFL Page, where you'll see all the teams etc.  WE'll head there next :)
• Major League Soccer: Coming, but we hit the app store at the tail end of the season, so we'll see
• Notification:  Any invites or messages that have been sent to you
• My Settings:
• Log Out

Okay, let's head over to the National Football League shall we? Click on that, you find this...

This page is all things NFL!   Scroll across the top you get the Schedule, Team Standings, Teams, News and Depth Charts.

This shot shows what happened Week 13, hit Week 14 (and through to Week 17 at this point), and it tells you everything that will be happening.  How many games, whose playing, where the game is, the time, the channel that is carrying it, it's all there.

Hit the TEAM STANDINGS Tab, and it's up to date with the standings in the AFC East, AFC North, AFC South, AFC West, NFC East, North, South and West. 

Go to the Teams Button, find your team, and it'll give you a list of all upcoming games. As well is the results of games, Roster, News and Depth Charts.

News and Depth Charts are also available on the NFL Page. Everything is in One Place!

So, our girl FeeBee has decided she wants to check out the Dallas Cowboys vs Minnesota Vikings that is happening on December 1st.  That takes her to here!

The game is still a few days away, but you can see that there are a lot of leagues that have set up to watch it.  She's not sure she wants to use any tokens to play with them yet, but she doesn't have to use tokens to go into the pregame Picks screen.  

Ahead of kick off, go into the picks and answer the questions asked.  They vary and are specific to the game, but could be things like: 

• Who will win?
• What will the first play be?
• Who will have more penalties?
• Etc, Etc, Etc.

To play this costs you absolutely nothing but your time, and is a blast.  Different answers offer different points.  I would recommend that you go into each of the upcoming games and do your predictions, whether you're able to watch the game or not.  You can still be accumulating LIFETIME POINTS for the answers you get right!  It's fun, and it's great learning for those of us that are pretty inexperienced when it comes to the world of sports. 

The PLAY button and the STATS buttons are for when the game is happening.  If you do decide to use tokens and play it live, there are more PICKS with every drive throughout the game, so more opportunities to get points on each play. Watch as the drives end for the bright green bar that lets you know 'new picks are available now'.

So FeeBee has done her picks (she's not going to show you, so no one will be able to copy her predictions :) ), but has decided that she wants to see what her own leagues are doing before she signs up for the game.  She goes back to her profile page and discovers that DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH have that game scheduled! (pick shows previous game, ignore that and pretend please)

Does she want to spend 6 of her tokens and sign up to play?  You bet she does! So she hits the join game button.   From here she can also invite friends that she thinks would like to be part of this league.  Everyone in the league has a chance to join the game and play live, for 6 tokens.   

Note on the league:  From this page you'll see

• Games: All games played by the league to date.  Games are set up by the league manager, but everyone in the league can choose to join and play.
• Chat: Like Facebook Messenger, all players can chat back and forth with a game, or just within the league
• Members: Gives you a list of everyone that is currently part of that league.
• Leaderboard: Is an ongoing tally of points collected within the league games played.

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A Little more about Leagues: Leagues are a hoot, and they are so simple to set up! Any player can do it, and it only takes seconds.  

• To create your league just hit the Create League Button under Leagues I manage on your  profile page. 
• Pick a name for it and a league handle.
• You can give it a description, limit the number of players if you choose to, and you can make it public or private!  So if it's just the family watching the game on Christmas Day, set up a league, everyone join it, make it private and have some fun with it!

If you run a sports bar, set it up as public!  Invite patrons to join it.  Set up games as they are available, and ask clients if they want to participate.  You could have a reward of some sort for the games leader for that night, or it could be an ongoing league, where it is an accumulation of the season!  But remember to remind them, they gotta be there to win!  

I am so excited about this app!  You will be too!  For now we have NFL, but just imagine what it'll be like to play on leagues with your friends across the world when the Soccer comes online! 
Or to have fun game with family from anywhere on the continent during the NHL games are on  or WORLD SERIES finals are happening.  This app is going to set Fans on Fire!  Be one of them!

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​One final note, the little dancing FireFan symbol that you'll see dancing at the bottom of your screen opens up a series of options, based on the screen you're in.  It's a quick link to where you want to go, and changes if you're playing live, but a nice streamlined feature to get where you want to be. 

Tons more to be learned as we go along, and will update as we know more, but this ought to get you going! 

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