subject: A Sports Bar Where Almost 12 Million Sports Fans Hang Out [print this page] A Sports Bar Where Almost 12 Million Sports Fans Hang Out
FanIQ.com is the most interactive sports site in the world with 11,900,503 registered users (till December 2010) who hang around at the sports bar to "get live scores, talk trash, and play games". FanIQ's journey began in 2006, and since then there has been no looking back for the sports bar.The immense popularity that FanIQ has today is because it enables its registered members to engage with sports and other fans in new, more fun ways. Sports fans on FanIQ can compete against each other to prove their sports information via quizzes or trivia, broadcast their previews, reviews, and/or views on sports news and hearsays, and unite with like-minded sports fans to cheer for their common favorite sports team or sportsperson and even root against their rivals.After arriving on FanIQ, sports fans sign in and most straight away check in to their favorite sports bars, which, just like real sports bars, are a place to meet friends and other sports fans for a game and get live scores, talk trash (or be a quiet bar visitor, your choice), cheer for a team, make bets, buy virtual drinks, and win awards.If you do not want to be a passive bar visitor, there is a lot you can do. One of those fun things that you can do is cheer for your favorite team. To do that, you are required to check in to your favorite sport's bar. Once you have clicked on "check in", the very first thing that you will see is a screen asking you to select a team to cheer by clicking on the name of your favorite team. After you have made the selection, click on "check me in" and you will be inside the bar, where you can get started talking about the game (and remember that smart comments earn respects inside FanIQ bars) and cheer for your team by making comments in front of the fans of your favorite team's opponent team!Inside FanIQ bars, there is a tab by the name of "Bar Games", where you can place virtual bets on who will win, predict total score, and/or accept a public bet.Then there is the news tab, where you can read what leading sports media channels and experts are saying about the game.FanIQ has become the sports site of choice for nearly 12 million sports fans. If you have not joined the party yet, odds are FanIQ will impress you, too. TechCrunch, the leading technology media company founded in 2005 by Michael Arrington, one of Time Magazine's world's 100 most influential people, wrote a news story about FanIQ on November 20, 2008, starting with these words:"FanIQ, a sports site that focuses more on entertaining its users than bogging them down with the stats and opinion pieces found on the likes of ESPN, has had a landmark year. The site launched in 2006, but hasn't really hit its stride until now: since January, the site has grown by over 2000%, recently hitting as many as 2.4 million unique users and 1.5 million registered members."The news story of TechCrunch says towards the end: "The site (FanIQ.com) has raised around $3-5 million in funding (the exact amount was not disclosed), with investors including Vantage Point Ventures, Peter Thiel, Paul Martino, Keith Rabois, and Jeff Fluhr."To read the complete news story, this official website link of TechCrunch can be visited: http://techcrunch.com/2008/11/20/faniq-keeps-fans-in-the-game-membership-jumps-2000-this-year/If you are a true sports fan and haven't yet joined millions of sports fans on FanIQ, you wouldn't want to miss out on the sports fun that was missing from the online lives of sports fans before FanIQ. Joining FanIQ also increases sports knowledge of sports fans, so you wouldn't want to be left far behind from sports fans on FanIQ.FanIQ
