Let's allow the market to decide worth. Again, we aren't living on ideals here, neither yours nor mine. Reality likes to piss us off.

Also, I don't agree that it doesn't offer anything new. Reward potential without any risk profile whatsoever is an attractive model, no? It becomes even more attractive when we consider that a single Steemsports payout is like 10,000 times the payout of your average "dust" curation reward.

The question here is "how to grow (voting) influence?", and consider now that less than 1 out of 10, randomly chosen, 13+ years old, people enjoy blogging. How to attract? How to retain?

Low effort for reward is a good starting point, IMO. Basing the reward on a topic that is a common interest is pretty much a no-brainier. Enter Steemsports.