About PlayID
The story behind your ticket.
PlayID began as a verified identity card for esports players. Today it's growing into a full esports platform — find events worldwide, get tickets, and walk in with a single QR.
DESIGN AWARD 2025
Winner
Recognition
iF DESIGN AWARD 2025 winner
PlayID was named a winner of the iF DESIGN AWARD 2025 — one of the world's most established design competitions, judged by an independent international jury — in the Service, System & Process Design discipline.
View the winner page at ifdesign.com →- Award
- iF DESIGN AWARD 2025
- Discipline
- Service, System & Process Design
- Category
- Service Design
- Clients
- Hopae Inc. · KeSPA (Korea e-Sports Association)
- Design
- Ri Choe, Jaehoon Shim, Kyuhyun Choi
- Based in
- Seoul, South Korea
The idea
The Olympic accreditation card, digitized for esports.
PlayID is an innovative digital platform designed to streamline the esports ecosystem. As online competitions and young players are core characteristics of esports, the industry faces major challenges in identity verification, efficient competition management, and integrity.
By digitizing the accreditation card system used in international sports like the Olympics, PlayID solves these challenges through an intuitive mobile platform. The platform enables instant identity verification, seamless tournament registration and comprehensive record tracking — all accessible through a single tap.
— Official project description, iF DESIGN AWARD 2025
The card
One card. Only what an event needs.
The PlayID card is a single identification document — designed to show exactly what a competition or venue needs to see, and nothing more.
Genre
A universal card design that covers every game genre — from MOBA to racing.
In-game ID & team
The handle and team a tournament actually checks — unnecessary personal details stay off the card.
Player info
Name, nationality, and position — the core fields international athlete IDs carry, on a single document.
e-Signature
Each card is signed by its player — a unique signature bound to one verified identity.
The platform in action
Verified once. Recognized everywhere.
The verification PlayID was built on — the same check now behind every ticket sold here.
A QR that proves it's you
Every card carries a rotating QR code that refreshes every 30 seconds — a screenshot is useless to anyone else.
Check-in at a glance
Organizers scan the code, see the verified card — name, team, match — and approve entry on the spot.
Signed by the player
Players sign their own card on screen — in their own hand, bound to their verified identity.
Present with a tap
Hold your phone to the reader — identity confirmed in a second. Nothing typed, nothing shared beyond what's needed.
PlayID today
From a player's badge to everyone's ticket.
PlayID is built by Hopae, a digital identity company — the same verification team behind every ticket sold here.
- 01
A player's digital ID
PlayID launched as a mobile identity card for competitive players — one verified credential for entering official competitions.
- 02
Competitions and records
Verified identity made tournament registration a single tap and match history portable, so a player's record follows them from event to event.
- 03
Now: events and ticketing on the web
PlayID is coming to the web — event discovery and ticketing for everyone, with every ticket backed by the same verified identity. Seats go to real fans, not bots or scalpers.