For education
Turn the moments students and alumni already care about into a year-round engagement channel.
Universities, college sports offices, alumni teams. Fanzava builds a branded bracket and prediction league around the fixtures your community already follows, giving you a weekly reason to be in front of students, alumni, donors and supporters.
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The challenge
You know this challenge.
The engagement that spikes and fades.
Finals, derby matches, alumni weekends, major tournaments: your community is fully tuned in. Between those moments, keeping students and alumni connected gets much harder.
The alumni database the inbox can't quite reach.
You have the names, the emails, the relationships. Campaign updates, event invitations, fundraising messages and sports news are all competing for attention in the same crowded inbox.
The community that lives on platforms you don't control.
Your clubs and sports programmes build genuine community on social media, and most of that engagement happens somewhere the institution doesn't own the audience, the data or the experience.
What changes
What changes when an institution runs on Fanzava.
A weekly habit built around your fixture calendar.
Prediction rounds and brackets run on the rhythm of the season: the tournament windows, the derby matches, the fixtures your community already follows. Students and alumni come back every week for something they already care about.
An alumni channel they actually open.
When the weekly bracket email is the one alumni open, the announcements you tuck inside it (events, giving campaigns, sports news) land where people are already paying attention.
First-party data on a community you usually only see in moments.
Every signup, every weekly engagement, every prize claim, captured by you, owned by you. The kind of direct relationship with students, alumni and supporters that's hard to build through any other channel.
How it works
Built for the way institutions operate.
Branded with your institution's identity. Run brackets for tournaments, prediction leagues for season-long competitions, or both. Embed inside your existing student or alumni portal through SSO if you have one, or run it as a standalone hub. Tables across year groups and departments.
Designed for institutions like yours.
Coming soon: real customers, named as they arrive.
Pricing
Pricing and access.
Smaller institutions and individual departments start free and upgrade to a paid plan when they want their own branding. College sports offices and institution-wide rollouts run on an enterprise licence with white-label, dedicated support and integration with your existing systems.
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Due diligence
Questions institutions ask.
Can we run tournament brackets for our students and alumni?
Yes. Brackets are core to the platform, for any tournament structure: the World Cup, the Champions League knockouts, a tennis Grand Slam, or your own intervarsity cup. Run them as standalone brackets or alongside season-long prediction leagues.
Does it embed inside our existing student or alumni portal?
Through one of two paths. The hub runs on a custom domain (for example predictions.youruniversity.ie) that can be linked from your existing portal, with SSO carrying users across without a separate login. For deeper integration directly into portal templates, full API access from Pro upwards lets your IT team render leaderboards in your existing front-end framework.
Can we use the weekly emails for alumni giving and event communications?
Yes. Weekly emails support configurable announcement blocks, so you can tuck giving campaign updates, event invitations, sports announcements or alumni news into the email your community is already opening. The announcement sits alongside the predictions content; both arrive in the same email.
How do you handle privacy and where student data is kept?
Enterprise tier supports data residency in the European Union or Australia (a United States region is on the way): your students' and alumni's data lives on disks in the region you nominate. Multi-tenant isolation is built into the architecture; no query, API or background job returns data across hubs without explicit authorisation.
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Ready to give your community a weekly reason to come back?
Athletics or institution-wide rollout? Talk to our team →