I won 2nd place in the first #InLeoShowdown in Splinterlands

Yesterday was a fun evening for me! Hive account@splinterlands and InLeo co-sponsored a live tournament, hosted by Hive account@infidel1258. Hive account@psilence joined as well to co-host and later on Hive account@blazekos showed up as well.

We played 2 brackets and I had a really great start to the tournament, I won all my matches until the finals, where I faced flowless. The fun part is, that I actually beat flowless in the earlier elimination stage of the tournament, but he made his way up until the finals via a 2nd chance bracket. Great work from him to come back!

In the finals we played one RNG match, as we had the Explosive Weaponry ruleset, which often results in people picking Conqueror Jacek. We both did! I tried to put in a good amount of Reflection Shield and Coeurl Lurker as a Taunt-Tank. In case he didn't play Jacek, I think this could have saved me the win in 1st match. In the end, he won this round, which I think was a lot of RNG for both sides.

Our 2nd match was quite tricky, as we has Thorns + Super Sneak + 12 Mana only ruleset. I usually play Water or Life in this case. My immediate idea was to play Ilthain + Pelacor Conjurer, so in the front I am protected against all types of damage. However, I made some bad decisions afterwards, as I went for melee attack with some meatshield in the back. I did that, because Stitch Leech can actually survive Thorns in some cases, because it has Life Leech and regains the damage it takes from Thorns.

However, I miscalculated badly, because Tide Biter with reach from the 2nd spot attacks as a Sneak in this ruleset. And with the Reflection Shield, he didn't take any damage taking out my entire team. I thought he would need at least 4 rounds to kill my Pelacor (Divine Shield + 8 Life).

But it honestly didn't matter so much, because I didn't think to reach the finals anyhow. Of course, I wanted to win, but it simply didn't work out.

gg to all my opponents as thanks a million to all people involved in planning, hosting and running this tournament. I would be super happy to see more of this in the future, it has the possiblity to lift my beloved Splinterlands to a new level of visibility and fun.

In addition to 35 USD in LEO, I also got 3 Rebellion packs. Unfortunately, they turned out to contain only 3.5 USD of value after opening them. But this also doesn't matter. MORE LIVESTREAM TOURNAMENTS, PRETTY PLEASE <3