Splinterlands Town Hall Summary - March 16th, 2022 - 10AM Eastern!

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

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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
  • Balthazar Research Report - Splinterlands: The Spleeping Giant
• 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

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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

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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

Confirmed Sponsors

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Epic Lake

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Child Of The Forest - Storytelling

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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 👀

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• Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022
  • Team Updates 👀
  • Warner Music Group Representative 💥
  • Q&A ⚡️

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• Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
  • Warner Music Group Partnership 💥
  • Unbound Nation & YGG Intros/Updates ⚡️
  • Other Company Updates 👀

Next AMA - Wednesday, March 23rd, 1PM Eastern (6PM UTC)