Of goalkeeper, Cardinal Péter Erdö; Four Defense with Aveline, Dolan, Ambongo Besungu and Farrell; midfield with a couple formed by Osoro and López Romero; The bands for Sarah and Tagle, and in Punta the most media, pizzaballa and parolin. Thus, with humorous tone, The online game ‘Fantapapa’ invites you to create a football team with favorite cardinals to become the Next pontiff.
“Neither money is not betting on anything, just glory, recognition and, perhaps, a Post of Vaticanist in a newspaper.” With this welcome text, the Italian ‘online’ video game designed by Mauro Vanetti and Pietro Pace offers the possibility of creating a team of 11 ‘Papables’ online, as a football team, to play in a league created with friends or enter an existing one to compete with other online users.
The model follows that of other very popular similar games in Italy such as the ‘fantacalcio’ or the ‘fantasanremo’, of online leagues in which users have to guess the best calcium players (Italian league) or encourage themselves to hit the winners at the Musical Festival of the San Remo, with a system of scores based on the criteria of the media.
Although registration to participate in ‘Fantapapa’ have closed with the start of the conclave, there have been more than 100,000 users who have registered in the portal, while the novelties, scores and winners can be followed in their channels in social networks that, only on Instagram, already have about 7 thousand followers.
How do you play? After registering, users have to choose a team of 11 cardinals from among the 133 that participate in the conclave. In the goalkeeper’s position they must choose the one they consider less ‘papable’, while the captain will be his main commitment to become the new Pope and, therefore, in the successor of the Argentine Jorge Bergoglio, who died at 88 after more than 12 years as Supreme Pontiff.
How to play a ‘Vatican League’
To achieve points, the creators of the web have generated a system that quantifies the number of mentions that the cardinals participating in the conclave receive in the main media, Italian and international, as well as in the ‘pools’ of journalists. Each mention in a recognized medium adds 50 points to the candidate.
On the sidelines, if a user hits and captures the next Pope, he takes 1 thousand points, while his bet as goalkeeper, or as the least ‘papable’, finally ends up dading, the penalty will be 1 thousand points for the participant. Finally, if the chosen one in the conclave is in the 11 holders that the user has aligned, 500 additional points will be taken.
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With this system, each user adds points and winning positions in the classification, according to their chosen ones they will be more or less important in the race to take the position of Holy Father.
The conclave that must choose the successor of Pope Francis begins this Wednesday, May 7, with the closure of the 133 voters cardinals in the Vatican Sistine Chapel. According to the main media, everything indicates that the option will be to look for a moderate and after three foreign potatoes, the Italian wing presses so that the next pontiff is again from the country or at least return to the secularized Europe. EFE