Features

SportCore is our sport microsite product. For more information or to arrange a demonstration contact Toby Russell.

Out-Of-The-Box Solution

Designed for minimum integration effort and maximum flexibility, SportCore is a simple and cost-effective way to deliver sport content to your users.

Quality Content From Leading Sports Providers

Quality sports content from companies including Reuters, Opta Sports and Infostrada are updated throughout the life of the event that the microsite covers.

The presentation of these components can be controlled using Cascading Style Sheets. Typical components include:

• Live match centres
• Comprehensive match results
• Latest news stories prioritised by our editorial team offer higher quality than a standard newswire feed
• Engaging photo galleries
• Team areas containing player profiles, team news, pictures and results
• Event background information
• Interactive Flash graphics
• Venue profiles

Brandable Content

SportCore also includes content you can customise to integrate with your branding, including navigation and banner ads to provide a consistent user experience.

Custom Content Components

Components are HTML content fragments that we automatically distribute to your own systems giving you the finest level of control over your sport content.

Example components include

• Latest news
• Results summaries
• Latest pictures
• Group tables

If you have a specific content or presentation format requirement please contact us.

Hosting & Delivery

Microsites can be served in one of two ways:

Hosted

Your microsite is served from our high capacity, load-balanced web cluster, part of our HostingCore service. This is a fully managed solution that requires no technical infrastructure or staff on your behalf.

Delivered

Content is delivered to your servers using your preferred Internet protocol. This method of delivery is more suited if you have your own technical infrastructure and want a greater level of control over how the microsite is served and integrated with other content.

Interactive Features

For an even more interactive microsite user experience, we offer a range of competitions & games designed to encourage repeat visits and drive page impressions.

Fantasy Games

Players choose a fantasy team from the players and over a series of game rounds score points based on the performance of their players during the event. The overall winner of the game is the player who at the end of the event has scored the most points.

Sticker Book Competition

'Sticker' images appear throughout the microsite. Each sticker features an image of a person within the tournament. Players collect stickers and add them to their album. The aim of the game is to collect all the stickers required to complete the album.

Predictor Competition

Players begin the competition with an allocation of points. Each day, the players gamble points against the final outcome and the score of matches. Points are won and lost based on the accuracy of a player's predictions. The winner of the competition is the person with the most points after the final match.

Forums

Discussion forums allow users to discuss the ongoing event.

Polls

Regularly updated polls allow users to vote on topical issues.