SBC Awards is now in its fifth year of rewarding and celebrating the very best in sports betting. The awards recognize the achievements of operators and affiliates, as well as suppliers from across all the major disciplines including payments, marketing, platform providers and data.

”We are very pleased to be given the award for ”Best DFS Product”, marking what has been a defining year for Scout, firmly establishing ourselves as the leading supplier in this space. It feels especially good knowing that the award is given based on votes from operators and suppliers sports betting industry” commented Andreas Ternström, CEO of Scout Gaming.

About Scout Gaming Group:
Scout Gaming Group is a licensed and regulated provider of B2B Daily Fantasy Sports and pool betting. The company offers a flexible and customizable network based Fantasy Sports solution with support for most sports and leagues through an in-house StatCenter which also provides real-time information to players. Local sports can be provided on request. The Group has approximately 70 staff and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with development and operations in Bergen, Norway and Lviv, Ukraine. Sales, support and product management is handled from the office in Malta.

The Michigan state house has voted to legalise fantasy sports gambling in the state. The bills that were passed in the parliament legalise fantasy sports gaming as well as create a statutory framework to regulate the field.

Republican Representative Brandt Iden sponsored the bills, citing the example of Indiana.

“I don’t believe that excludes anybody from the marketplace,” he says. “We want serious actors who can come in and operate these games and make sure they are benefitting players in the state of Michigan. These fees are consistent with other states and I’m happy with where we’re at.”

Steve Brubaker is an attorney representing Small Businesses of Fantasy Sports Trade Association. He says the bills $50,000 registration fee is too steep for smaller fantasy gaming businesses.

“The companies that will pay that price to operate in Michigan are two: Draft Kings and Fan Duel.”

Brubaker says the model of Colarado—specifically its tiered registration fee structure—would be a more suitable model for Michigan.

The New York State Gaming Commission (NYSGC) has quietly stopped the regulation of daily fantasy sports websites operating in the state.

The NYSGC deleted all references to the DFS industry from its website. A NYSGC spokesman said it no longer had a role in regulating the contests. The move could lead to chaotic results, with one commentator predicting New York to become of the Wild West of daily fantasy sports industry.

In late October, the New York State Supreme Court issued a ruling that DFS contests were illegal gambling under the state constitution and could not be defined as games of skill. The court basically made void the 2016 law signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo that legalised and regulated DFS games.

The industry is likely to remain unregulated till the state appeals against the ruling.

An anti-gambling group had also moved the court, arguing that DFS could only be legalised by a public referendum to change the constitution.

The current situation is a bit problematic: DFS is illegal in New York, but offering it has been decriminalised. It remains illegal, so it cannot be licensed or taxed.