๐ The #Splinterlands Town Hall was on this week, and it was ACTION PACKED. Each pertinent bit is covered in more detail in separate items below.
Here's where you can check out the whole thing:
๐ First off, Investygator shared details about next Tuesday's release, which will include a new land shop page, the ability to buy stones for merits, and a new ruleset ("Blood and Sunder", which grants all units Corrosive Ward). They talked about how there will be many new rulesets coming over the next few months, which is a great way to keep gameplay fresh.
๐ A lot was said in the Town Hall about improvements coming to Ranked and Reward reworks. Firstly, there is a special release next Thursday Feb 29 that will include the first phase of the new Ranked rework, including the removal of league requirements, inability to DECLINE (you only advance), leaderboards being only in Champ, updates to the ELO system to make them +20/-20 (instead of the crazy +3/-32), and removing the penalty for under-levelled cards.
In terms of Reward rework, they shared that this would be coming in the next few months and that there will basically be a Reward Points shop where players can spend the RPs they earn in battles (e.g. for Chests).
๐งโ๐ซ @NateAguila shared a lot of cool examples of some of the new "player experience" work that is going on behind the scenes, including mockups of some of the screens that'll include better onboarding and learning experiences.
๐๏ธ Not a ton was shared about Land. 
๐ฒ The next Conflict airdrop card was revealed, now that the current conflicts ends in less than a week. Her name is Kei and she's a Dragon Legendary card with a new ability, Hamstring, which reduces her target's melee attack by 1 when she attacks. She also has Ambush, Shatter, True Strike, and Reach!
โค๏ธโ๐ฅ The team put out a post about the Burn event which has been discussed several times. In the proposal, they suggest a burn event where cards, DEC, and Vouchers can each be used to earn points which are then used for random draws for many different prizes. They asked for a payment of $100k from the DAO to run the event (primarily to pay for the rewards). Many in the community asked for a promo card to be included in the event, and Matt responded saying this could be done but then it would probably be delayed to the Halving and would cost more (to compensate for the loss in promo card revenue). A new proposal should come soon.
The proposal can currently be read here: @splinterlands/sps-governance-proposal-hire-steem-monsters-corp-to-build-card-burning-event-and-provide-riftwatchers-packs-as-prizes
๐ผ Right before the Town Hall, the Splinterlands team shared that Soulkeep has been officially sold to Double Coconut, and that they are working to release the game ASAP. This is a fantastic development and a very exciting turn of events for something that largely has gone news-less for a while now. No specific timeline has been shared, but the team seems committed to releasing as soon as possible. The full post can be read here: @splinterlands/soulkeep-sale-announcement
๐ฅ With its $DEC stores continuing to dwindle due to credit purchases, the Splinterlands team burned significant $SPS in the last 7 days. ~2.5M SPS was burned in total over the last week, causing an increase in circulating DEC of nearly 58M.
๐ค In the last 7 days, 8 #Runi have been sold for a total of 1.65 $ETH. The current floor price is 0.228 $ETH.
๐ณ๏ธ The Tournament proposal which is currently live will end in less than a day, and is currently passing with 83% of votes in favor. Looks like we'll finally have a way forward with tournaments!
That's pretty much it. What a week! And with all the incredible stuff happening in the next few weeks, it looks like we're in for a fun run-up to the $BTC halving!
