The process and challenges of building a virtual competition for the tournament in Brazil

Over the past months I have been building a virtual competition, for one of my clients, for the tournament 2014 in Brazil.

1. Full integration and signup to the game through Facebook
2. Multi-language setup
3. Choose your own team of players from the 32 competing countries, with countries only represented once in your team.
4. Update your team until the start of the tournament
5. During the tournament your team scores according to real data coming in from a sport result data provider. Team scores are calculated by a fixed rule set.
6. You have 3 substitutes that you can deploy during the tournament to optimize your team or replace players that have been eliminated
7. You play for a specific country or you can join or create a group to compete against each other with friends.
8. Team ranking is provided on country and group level.
9. Social sharing, invites and posting to Facebook

The project had its challenges and I plan to dive into some of those areas in the future, as soon as the tournament is over ;)

Cheers
Alex