Town Hall Summary
- Speakers:
- Aggroed (Co-Founder)
- Chatter (Director of Growth)
- Nateaguila (Creative Director)
- WeirdBeard (ESports Manager)
- Bulldog1205 (Community Manager)
- MLGAnakin & Lady Marionette (Community Gaming)
- NicoThePico (Balthazar)
- WafflesKitty (DYGYCON)
- Fidel (General Partner at Side Door Ventures)
- Main Topics:
- Community Gaming & Balthazar Intros/Updates 👀
- DYGYCON Update 💥
- Q&A ⚡️
- Recording:
Timestamps:
- 00:15 - General Intro
- 03:40 - MLGAnakin & Lady Marionette Intro (Community Gaming)
- 16:35 - NicoThePico Intro (Balthazar)
- 35:10 - ESports & Tournaments Discussion
- 47:00 - WafflesKitty Update (DYGYCON)
- 51:45 - Nateaguila Update (Creative)
- 1:10:10 - Q&A
- 1:52:10 - Fidel Intro (General Partner at Side Door Ventures)
- 2:03:30 - Closing Remarks
💥 Company Updates 💥
Tournaments:
- ESports and Tournaments are the gateway to making Splinterlands more mainstream
- Partnerships with Community Gaming & Balthazar are steps towards that goal
- Team has a ton of new tournament types and styles brainstormed and ready to be developed
Balthazar:
- Chief Gaming Officer is headed up by NicoThePico
- Professional level headcoach for top European ESports teams such as Fanatic
- Still work with Professional level League of Legends players
- Balthazar helps promote growth for all GameFi games
- Creates Research Reports for different GameFi platforms
- Opening 250k packs live tomorrow (Check Recent Announcements Section)
- Part of Balthazar gaming platform is building a guild
- Starting 3000-5000 new scholar opportunities with the cards
- Any scholar that joins Balthazar will receive $100 in the Balthazar token after 12 months of being a scholar
- Balthazar has long-term faith in Splinterlands and want to grow with the game
Community Gaming:
- All-in-one ESports platform that offers efficient blockchain payment technology
- Working with APIs to integrate into specific games as well
- Largest hosted tournaments consisted of a Riot tournament and a $25,000 Valorant tournament
- Splinterlands has been working with Community Gaming for about a year now
- Hosting the Splinterlands Summoners Weekend this weekend with a $10k SPS prize pool
DYGYCON:
- This upcoming DYGYCON is most likely the biggest one yet to be hosted
- DYGYCON is a bimonthly virtual convention where you can connect with the crypto community
- Features several booths hosted by different projects
- Opens: Friday, March 18th
- Main Date: Mar 19, 2022 | 2PM - 5PM EST / 7PM - 10 PM UTC
Fidel - Side Door Ventures:
- Fidel is a General Partner at Side Door Ventures (VC Firm) and is a big player/investor in Splinterlands
- Owns a large amount of cards and land
- Has only sold assets to buy more cards
- Plans on continuing to buy more and more Splinterlands assets
- Side Door Ventures loaned the 1M in card packs to Balthazar to fund their scholar model and help build an ESports program
General Team Updates:
- Next promo/collaboration is with a Professional Sports Athlete
- All collabs are like a snowball and make next collaborations/partnerships bigger
- Team has a ton of ongoing discussions going on that can't even be revealed yet
- Team plans on releasing an updated Product Roadmap in the next week or two
⚡️ Q&A Summary ⚡️
Waka Promo Card:
- Lesson learned, going forward, new collabs will be sold exclusively in Splinterlands
- Unsold Wakas on Atomic Hub are going to be brought into Splinterlands and sold in the in-game market
- There will be a burn timer as well for those that remain unsold
- More news on this should be posted shortly
Riftwatchers:
- Team is aiming for Riftwatchers to be released around Q3
- Riftwatchers will only be able to be purchased in SPS
- Sales will go into the SPS DAO
- Vouchers will most likely be integrated into the Riftwatcher sales as well
Land:
- To reiterate, there is an entire team dedicated to Land development
- Team would like to tie Guild activity with Land to add extra incentives/benefits for being in a Guild
- Both summoners and monsters will most likely have to work the land
- Not defined how many cards will be required per plot yet
- Either way, Land will lock a large amount of cards into land
Modern/Wild Ranked Formats:
- ECR will be the same/shared for both formats
- You can only earn rewards in one of the formats
- Whichever format you finish the highest in will be the one you receive end of season rewards for
Splinterlands Merchandise:
- Not a pressing priority, but team would love to increase the amount of Splinterlands merchandise available
- Want to be able to be bought with DEC or SPS
- Current merch initiatives include Splinterlands tabletop game, physical cards, and plushies
- Also have posters that the team can provide for those who want to hang around
Skins:
- Creative team met recently to address how to introduce new skins into the game
- Don't want skins to confuse players on what the cards actually are
- Introducing a ton of skins could frustrate new players so it is being taken into consideration very carefully
- Future skins could be rewards through tournaments or gameplay, bought with vouchers, or given out as giveaways
NicoThePico + Aggroed League Of Legends Stream:
- It was mentioned initially as a joke, but Nico offered to stream a League of Legends coaching session with Aggroed
- Aggroed's favorite LoL character is DJ Sona
- Aggroed is the infamous toxic LoL player, which is why we need to stream this
🔥 EYE CANDY 🔥
Common Tundra
Epic Lake
Child Of The Forest - Storytelling
Hill Giant - Concept Skin Art
Recent Announcements
250,000 Chaos Legion Pack Opening - Balthazar
- Opening by Balthazar, one of Splinterlands biggest guilds
- Date: Thursday, March 17th, at 9AM EST / 1PM UTC
- Will be streamed by Bulldog1205 and NicoThePico
- NicoThePico was a former professional LoL coach
Past AMA Summaries
- Wednesday, March 9th, 2022
- Company Updates 💥
- NFTy Arcade & PeakMonsters ⚡️
- Eye Candy 👀
- Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022
- Team Updates 👀
- Warner Music Group Representative 💥
- Q&A ⚡️
- Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
- Warner Music Group Partnership 💥
- Unbound Nation & YGG Intros/Updates ⚡️
- Other Company Updates 👀