Splinterlands Town Hall Summary - February 23rd, 2022 - 2PM Eastern!

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Town Hall Summary

  • Speakers:
    • Aggroed (Co-Founder)
    • Yabapmatt (Chief Product Officer)
    • Chatter (Director of Growth)
    • Nateaguila (Creative Director)
    • WeirdBeard (ESports Manager)
    • PhilippH (Unbound Nation Guild)
    • KnightAV (YGG Guild)
    • Drewlongshot (Director of Accounting)
    • 16bit (VP of Sales)
  • Main Topics:
    • Warner Music Group Partnership 💥
    • Unbound Nation & YGG Intros/Updates ⚡️
    • Other Company Updates 👀
  • Recording:

  • Timestamps:

    • 03:50 - Intro
    • 05:50 - PhilippH Intro/Update (Unbound Nation Guild)
    • 11:50 - KnightAv Intro/Update (YGG Guild)
    • 17:05 - Warner Music Group Partnership
    • 30:40 - Waka Spiritblade Promo
    • 42:20 - Weirdbeard Update (Tournaments)
    • 45:45 - New Chaos Legion Airdrop Monster Reveal
    • 47:35 - Drewlongshot Intro/Update (Director of Accounting)
    • 55:10 - 16bit (VP of Sales)
    • 1:06:20 - Q&A
    • 1:58:35 - Closing Remarks

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💥 Company Updates 💥

Warner Music Group Partnership:

  • Splinterlands and Warner Music Group are going to work together to build blockchain games
  • Team is in the early phases of still working out all the details of this partnership
  • Warner was going to build blockchain games with somebody either way
    • Splinterlands team wanted to be that company
  • Splinterlands team overarching goal is to always bring value to SPL assets and the community
  • This partnership will start a completely separate, independent team to build these games
    • Will not take any existing Splinterlands team members away
    • All current team members are still 100% focused on building Splinterlands
  • Potential opportunities with this partnership:
    • Integrate existing SPL assets into the new games
    • Have some artists decide if they want to work on SPL as well
    • Establish a relationship to advertise to their audience
  • Can't guarantee that the new games will be built on the Hive blockchain
    • However, Warner liked the ease of use and readability usernames/wallets that Hive offers
    • Splinterlands will be promoting and pushing for Hive

Waka Spiritblade Promo:

  • The Waka Spiritblade will be available for sale Thursday, February 24th at 12PM EST
  • One of the first steps to get different audiences more interested into Splinterlands and blockchain games
  • Narrative team immersed Waka Spiritblade into the Chaos Legion story

Dev Updates:

  • Team is organizing resources to make internal teams to focus on specific projects
    • Matt is heading up the SPS Validator team to get it done faster and continue/maintain it
    • There is a Land Expansion team being ramped up as well

Tournaments:

  • Tournament restructuring is still in-progress
  • Starting new, very low level tournaments to increase the activity of tournaments at the lowest leagues
  • Team wants to try to encourage players to compete mainly with other players in their same league

Unbound Nation Guild:

  • Started in November, 2021
  • Scaled to 1,100 scholars in December
  • The guild is looking for community support that wants to help this new guild to get started
  • Can get in contact via Website, Twitter, or contact Philip via Discord (PhilippH#6728)

YGG:

  • Currently have 16 SPL guilds and around 200+ SPL players
  • Every Saturday YGG runs a community challenge and lives streams it
  • Governance proposal has gone through to open the remaining Untamed packs
    • ~1000 a week potentially
  • Currently recruiting competitive players to join their guilds
  • Can get in contact via Website or Discord

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⚡️ AMA Summary ⚡️

Vouchers:

  • Team plans to require vouchers for every promo going forward in some way

Waka Spiritblade Sale:

  • Giving Waka the poison ability was to incentivize the demand for players to buy it
  • Anytime something is unbalanced, the team will review it and make updates as necessary

TeraBlock Integration:

  • Integration to TeraBlock is complete, looking to possibly release next week
  • Collaboration was announced earlier this year
  • Benefits:
    • TeraBlock bridge is more reputable compared to the SPL makeshift bridge
    • TeraBlock will be handling all the support/bridge issues
    • They have experience working with other chains
      • Will be easier to get DEC & SPS supported across multiple chains
  • Current bridge exists between Ethereum and BSC on their website
  • Once integration is released, you will be able to send DEC/SPS with these chains and in-game

Fiat-To-Crypto Gateways:

  • Team really wants to improve the gateway of getting fiat into the game for crypto
  • Transak service was released a couple weeks ago
    • Can purchase large amounts of DEC or SPS with Credit Card or Bank Transfer
    • Available for everyone other than US residents
  • Matt would like to add additional services to give players multiple options

SPS:

  • Private investor distributions end in April
    • 3 more distributions left
  • SPS airdrop ends at the end of July
    • 1.1M tokens are being airdropped every day
  • Riftwatchers can only be bought with SPS & Vouchers only
  • SPS governance will require SPS to vote on proposals

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🔥 EYE CANDY 🔥

Carnage Titan Reveal


Carnage Titan Wallpaper


Waka Spiritblade Story Concept

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Recent Announcements

Warner Music Group Partnership Announcement

  • This partnership will give select WMG artists opportunities to create and develop a unique, play-to-earn style blockchain game in a mutually beneficial partnership for music fans and Splinterlands players alike
  • Please note that this new partnership will not take away from or add any latency to the Splinterlands’ roadmapped releases
  • Part of this partnership will include building a new team to lead the development of this new game

Waka Flocka Launch Details

  • Waka Spiritblade NFT will be released for sale at 12pm EST / 17:00 UTC on Thursday, February 24th, 2022
  • ALL Waka Flocka cards purchased will be MAX LEVEL (11 BCX Reg Foil / 4 BCX Gold Foil)
  • In-game price is 5000 SPS and 500 Voucher tokens

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