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About Karate Combat
What is Karate Combat?
Karate Combat is a real full-contact karate league with actual fighters and actual events, broadcast free, and a fan game built on top of it. The game half is called Up Only Gaming: before each event, fans predict and vote on the fighters, and correct calls grow a holding of the league's token. The sport is the product, and the game is a way of watching it more attentively. The official site is karate.com.
How to play Karate Combat
Download the league's app on iOS or Android, or use the web version, and play alongside an event. Before fights you vote on outcomes and back the fighters you favour; during the event you follow along and see how those calls land, climbing leaderboards against other fans. The league has extended the same format beyond its own events to other competitions it partners with. Its own layer-2 chain sits underneath the whole thing, but the app is the only surface most fans will touch.
Karate Combat tokenomics & earning
The token is KARATE, and the mechanism has one unusual property. In the league's own framing you cannot lose what you hold by predicting badly. A wrong call simply fails to grow your stake. That design choice keeps the format clear of wagering, which is why it sits in a games directory. The holding itself carries risk: the token's value moves with the market like any other.
Our verdict
Karate Combat is a real full-contact karate league with a fan game built on top of it. The game, called Up Only Gaming, runs alongside the league's events: before the fights, fans predict and vote on the fighters, and correct calls grow their holding of the league's KARATE token. You play in the league's app on iOS or Android or in the web version.
What works is the design of the stakes. In the league's own framing you cannot lose what you hold by predicting badly; a wrong call simply fails to grow your stake, which keeps the format clear of wagering. Leaderboards against other fans give each event a competitive layer, and the format has been extended to other competitions the league partners with.
The thing to understand before playing is what kind of game this is. There is no fighter to control: the sport is the product, and the game is a way of watching it more attentively. The KARATE token runs on the league's own layer-2 chain, and its market value moves like any other crypto asset.
It is best suited to martial-arts fans who already follow the league and want something to do during an event. Anyone looking for a fighting game to play should look elsewhere.
This is our own editorial assessment. We do not score games — ratings come from players.
What we checked and when
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- Live The game was online and active when we last checked it.
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Karate Combat pros and cons
What we like
5 pros- Prediction game tied to real full-contact karate events
- A wrong call does not cost what you already hold
- Leaderboards against other fans
- Playable in the iOS and Android app or on the web
- The league's events are broadcast free
What to watch
3 cons- There is no fighter to control; play is prediction and voting only
- Niche martial-arts theme with a narrow appeal
- The KARATE token's market value moves like any other crypto asset
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Funding rounds2
| Round | Investors | Amount | Date |
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| Funding round | +5 | $18M | — |
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