StarPick, a prominent daily fantasy sports (DFS) portal in India, is breaking its ties with the Indian Federation of Sports Gaming (IFSG). It has announced that it is cancelling its membership, effective immediately, due to differences of opinion between the gaming industry body and the DFS operator.

According to an announcement by StarPick, it had been developing newer formats of fantasy gaming, including the recently released Fantasy MatchUp games. However, these new formats were rejected by the IFSG, forcing the company to withdraw from the organization.

Starpick CEO Trigam Mukherjee explained, “StarPick is focused on engaging the users with superior technology and innovations. However, we believe that that current IFSG charter is not conducive for us as a company to innovate in the fantasy sports gaming space and hence are withdrawing our membership with immediate effect.

“Though fantasy sports gaming and some platforms have been around in India for over a decade, this space is still in its infancy. There has been no real innovation in this space until we launched StarPick in 2018. We believe that platforms such as ours need the freedom to disrupt and innovate to bring new game-play formats to the Indian users in addition to the tried and tested older game-play formats.”