Even though my Splinterlands experience is secondhand through my daughter, she came into Splinterlands only after a lot of blogging experience. For this reason it was really easy for her to create quality and entertaining posts about Hive gaming, but she also lacks the knowledge of a lot of the mechanics and inner-workings of Splinterlands because 95% of her Hive energy is devoted to blogging-related stuff.
I do wish there was more Hive-blogging and Splinterlands crossover, these two things seem to host the most activity on this blockchain. I think the inverse is also true, many Hive-bloggers also know very little about the gaming side of our blockchain.