Frank’s passion for Cornhole and leading the ACO, along with Ryan’s experience building digital mobile game platforms, led the two down a path to brainstorm what the next generation of mobile multiplayer cornhole could look like.
This game brings together the best experiences of casual gameplay with the competitive edge of eSports and the ACO brand.
“Our goal is to bring people together through their love of Cornhole to a competitive and entertaining mobile game. Nearly everyone has a smart phone today, and that provides a great opportunity to further expand the ACO to a worldwide audience” says founding partner Ryan Eade.
The first release of the game will include an immersive 3D environment with realistic bag physics and a unique toss system that provides more control over the toss while keeping it challenging for players.
The game will also include an asynchronous head-to-head mode that allows you to toss a frame-game and compare your final score to an opponent, either randomly matched or chosen by you. This will drive the leaderboard rankings, which will be organized into national, regional and state views. Our plan is to make this a very connected game that allows players to invite and compete with friends directly in the app.
Future plans for the game include adding in tournament play and competing for both real and digital prizes. The vision is to allow players the opportunity from around the world to be able to participate in an ACO Major, but from the digital cornhole perspective.
“We will work to create a tour that runs in conjunction with the existing ACO Majors Tour by creating ACO Digital Majors that allow players from all parts of the world access to participate” says Cofounder and American Cornhole Organization President Frank Geers.
“We plan to mimic the ACO tournament schedule and connect those events with digital tournaments for fans to take part in,” adds Frank.
Connecting the digital tournaments in-game to real ACO tournaments will provide opportunities to expand competitions to fans physically attending the tournaments and beyond to those unable to be there in person.
Over the last 18 years the ACO Tour has created a system that develops and identifies the best players on the planet, known as ACO PROs. The system crowns a King or Queen of the sport every year on ACO World Cornhole Day, the last Saturday of July.
By creating a program that mimics the ACO Tour, The ACO Digital Cornhole app will be able to develop and identify its own pro players and crown a digital cornhole champion on ACO World Cornhole Day as well.