Earn Some Free NFTs in Splinterlands This Friday!

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Splinterlands has been experiencing an uptick in activity as the cryptocurrency bull run, and interest in blockchain gaming and NFT's continues to grow.

Over the past two weeks, and continuing this week, @davemccoy has been organizing Spring Training tournaments in Splinterlands. These tournaments are free to enter, limit the power level of what cards are usable, and reward participants with free NFTs based around the Splinterlands universe. You can read his post announcing the tournament on hive.blog.

The tournament provides an easy opportunity to engage in a lot of matches over two days, which lets you better hone your strategy for future matches.

I'll spend some time with a basic walk-through of Splinterlands, followed by a step-by-step guide to entering in the tournament, and creating your Wax Wallet which is where you will be receiving your NFTs.

What is Splinterlands?

Splinterlands is a blockchain based digital card game built on Hive where you create a team of a Summoner and Monsters. The native token of Splinterlands is Dark Energy Crystals ($DEC). You can trade for DEC on LeoDex, TribalDex Diesel Pools, Uniswap, or Cub Finance.

All of the cards you accumulate from in-game rewards, opening up packs, or purchasing from the marketplace are yours to keep and sell. Plenty of people have been able to gather more and more cards over time and end up with some very valuable collections.

After launching and finding a game, you will take a look at and understand the rules of the match, and then go ahead and field your team. You can pick any of the cards you own within the rules of the match, and send them off to battle your opponents team. You can't manipulate the match as it is going on (yet), so you're job is to consider what your opponent might do and try to be a step ahead.

By default, Summoners and Monsters will take their actions by the order of their individual Speed. Monsters that have an attack (Melee, Range, or Magic) will hit the first monster on the opponents side of the field. Certain abilities and match rule sets can, and often do, change these default behaviors. Here's an example of how the Monsters on each side will attack, depending on their abilities:
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Each match has completely different set of rules from the one that you played previously.
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For example, in the match above, we have to consider:

  • Match Rule: Earthquake: Non-flying Monsters take 2 Melee damage at the end of each round.
  • Reverse Speed: Monsters with the lowest Speed attack first and have the highest chance of evading attacks.
  • Mana: A total Mana of 17 can be allocated amonst your Summoner and Monsters.
  • Available Splinters: The Splinters are the factions of Splinterlands, akin to colors in MTG: Fire, Earth, Death, and Dragon.

Keeping these circumstances in mind, I have to go ahead and put together a team of Monsters that will be able to defeat my opponent. This was the team that I decided on:
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Summoner:

  • Brighton Bloom: This Summoner gives my entire team flying, which means that Earthquake does nothing to me.

Monsters:

  • Unicorn Mustang: A beefy, hard-hitting unit that reduces magic damage taken by 1.
  • Manticore: A beefy, hard-hitting unit with reach, which means that he can attack from the second position even though he is melee.
  • Brownie: Provides 1 Speed to the entire team. This was a pretty big misplay, because Reverse Speed means that the slowest monsters attack first, and have the highest chance to dodge.
  • Furious Chicken: This is a 0-mana cost card that is put in whenever a slot is available. I like to put the chicken in the back, to absorb any hits from monsters with Sneak.

Signing Up

You can sign up for Splinterlands here. Note: I included my referral link which allows us to both receive a free card after you purchase your Summoner Spellbook.

The Summoner Spellbook is most likely the first thing you'll end up buying on Splinterlands. This enables you to complete daily quests, earn Dark Energy Crystals, and ability to purchase Booster Packs. I am not positive if purchasing a Spellbook is necessary for entering the tournament. The cost is fairly low, being around $10 if you go with Credits, or 10,000 DEC. The DEC 'soft peg' is $1 for 1,000 $DEC. Currently, DEC is trading slightly below the peg, and purchasing via Credits will save you some time, and avoid any potential slippage.

Entering the Tournament

At the top of the homepage, click on the Events button (the little castle).
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Hit Ctrl/Cmd + F and look for Spring Training.
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You can then hit "Enter" on the next screen, and a pop-up will come up mentioning the 3 $DEC fee. This fee will be refunded to you after the tournament has concluded. Simply hit "OK" and now you are a part of the tournament.
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I tend to add the tournament to my calendar, as I can be fairly forgetful.

That's it! You are now registered to participate in the upcoming tournament.

The tournament will play it in two rounds, each consisting of a number of battles that'll be determined by how many players participate in the tournament. Once the tournament starts at 8 PM EST on Friday, you will have 24 hours to field all of your teams for the first round of battles. This will take some time, as there will be a few hundred participants. It may be worth familiarizing yourself with the various rulesets before starting the process. Make sure you get all of your matches in as rewards are based mostly on participation, so don't worry if you think your cards won't get you enough wins. After 24 hours, the second round will begin, and you'll have another 24 hours to field your teams a second time. Anyone who fails to field automatically loses their battle (which can work out in your favor).

What do the NFTs look like?

Some of them are based around official Splinterlands cards:
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While others provide some utility (like the raffle ticket and points card), or are just fun collectibles to showcase your participation:
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Receiving Your NFTs

To receive your NFTs, make sure you join the TeamPossible Discord. There, you can navigate to the '#nft-room-spring-training' channel and follow the instructions on how to receive your NFTs.

You will also need to register an account on wax.io. Once you create your account, you will see your wallet ID on the right hand side.
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This will be the wallet ID that you send over to @davemccoy to receive your NFTs.

In Conclusion

Hopefully this was a helpful introduction to Splinterlands if you've been thinking about playing (you should, I'm new to the game and it's a blast). If you end up playing, or already are, you should definitely jump into these tournaments as it's a fun way to get a little collection of NFTs going.

If you have any questions about starting up in Splinterlands, feel free to ask them below. I am pretty below average in the grand scheme of things, but I can try to answer any basic questions you may have as a new player.

Here are some useful Splinterlands links for people starting around:

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Thanks so much for posting this! I have a friend who's been playing these, I think, but I don't think they knew about the other NFTs!

!LUV 1

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You're welcome! It's a great opportunity to go ahead and pick up some NFTs that aren't gated by the power level of your cards.

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Wow, you really came a long way understanding the game and ecosystem in such a short time. You even pulled out the correct PNG graphics for each card level (using peakmonsters?). Did you create that info graphic with the attack arrows? Well done!

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It helps that the game has been lots of fun! I love playing TCGs, but digital just never worked for me as there's no real ownership involved. I have spent a lot of money on MTG, and still own those cards and could sell them if I wanted to, and that's pretty important to me.

I actually went through the cards section and took screenshots of the cards. I just went to over to PeakMonsters... that would have saved me quite some time 😅. I'll definitely be using that next time.

I did create the graphic with the arrows! I was trying to explain in writing how attacking works, and it ended up coming out like a bit of a mess.

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Just keep it up. This is good stuff!

And I love that messy info graphic. ;-)

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awesome job of explaining the tourney and you do a fantastic job of putting the whole post together! I'm honored you would like the tourneys enough to tell everyone, thank you for doing this! :)

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No problem at all, thank you for taking the time to set everything up!

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Look at this fucking "bro club" dickface. The richest wallets of SL, constantly feeding the other richest wallets of SL, with endless ass licking circle-jerk tickles of their buttholes. Both on-chain, but especially in their special circle-jerks on discord, which can be controlled even more precisely and to their every wish and command - a place where they hold the keys to everyone else's future and are willing to oppress, silence, harass and group bully others to their liking in secret, while still maintaining a cult following with their two-faced smiley faces. The main weapon of their choice at teamshithole - building a discord technological enslavement grid, where they get to choose who can and cant speak, when they can speak and to whom, and in what context, where they have a "facade" of democratic decision making, while his whore mistress controls everything in private by constantly manipulating it all (including your limp dick).....

Don't you fucking dare have a fucking opinion that goes against uncle dictator dave and his whore mistress and @bestpartnerever. If you dare say anything about the dirty entitled whore who started out by pimping herself for crypto pennies, you will find yourself in a discord prison, with a life sentence to serve. Amazing what an entitled vagina can reap in rewards, from an obsessed pervert and limp dicked old man. You get to become unstoppable reward pool raping mega whales and SL multi-millionaires, by using "money" (in whatever form that takes) taken from others, "aka" other "communities" and individuals (by cheating them directly) to seed fund your success, and then greed compound it endlessly.

The dictator in chief, and leader of the pack of the "cult of Dave" and his mistress "bee-a-cheetah-cunty-thief-princess.....He sure does love @ilovepoorpeople! After all, that's how he tried to make his name from day one, by trying to enslave all the penny chasing "small fish", while promoting himself as "leader of the pack" once again....seems that someone has a huge ego and desire to control others and enforce their will on them though putting themselves at the top of every pyramid that can find/create. But of course, with a bribe system of promises, so that all the minions you control can worship you, and keep coming back for more. The perfect feeder system of "poor people".

I clearly remember the days, where you all acted like such virtue-signalling anti-reward pool rape victims.....but now, you have become the very thing you rallied and virtue-signal against.....HMMMMMMM, I WONDER WHY. FUCKING TWO-FACED HYPOCRTIES. Keep raping that reward pool, while trying to deny others with your control freak attitude, harassment and bullying campaigns - and all for your own self-interest and that filthy CUNT CRYPTO WHORE.

However, the real reason why he really loves "poor people" so much, is because he loves to control them and then entrap them into his enslavement grid guild, and no other reason. Out of pure selfish reasons and nothing else. The bribe system...always works when you find the right desperate people. The ponzi bribe system for "poor people". It never stops, when you make others rely on your "charity". Your love for "poor people" really touches our hearts...all that generosity generated by the cult of dave.

C'mon poor people, come kiss uncle Dave's feet so he can feed you.....the perfect charitable dictator. Have you been taking notes from the "elite" Sir? Oh yes you have, since you have directly copied the enslavement control model for your own self-interest, and the interests of your special circle-jerks of mother fuckers who sat back and watched the abuse in amusement while under the spell of the poisonous witch (and still do to this day, as you all still think its hilarious, as continuously mock and shame your victims at any opportunity you get) - The whore mistress that you have a permanent boner for. .. She pimped herself out like a cheap crypto whore for pennies under your "guidance" in the early days of your "schemes" on this blockchain. Then you turned that server where you conducted those operations and "schemes" into the teamshithole guild....And you were always there right behind her sniffing her panties everywhere she roamed, while constantly drooling at the mouth at the thought you might one day get to stick your limp dick in her. Congratulations, on finding the most wicked and poisonous witch on the blockchain, who tries to maintain that "innocent princess" persona.....but fails miserably like the fucking filthy whore that she is. She does have tremenedous success however, at getting her mangina body guards to do her manipulative dirty work for her while she hides in the shadows - magina wankers that is. They all line up to take turns at sniffing her panties.

And the "bro club" constantly slapping dicks with each other in public, while both abusing every part of the rewards system they can in private - or should I say in "secret". The "cult of Dave" and his gigantic monopolised guild structure where he has installed himself and head dictator and oppressor, with his whore bee-a-cheetah-cunt mistress by his side, who organised the rigging of matches and tournament/leaderbord results to hoard an immense amount of in-game assets - and most importantly the filthy scandal where they cheated their way to the top of the ladder, by using other peoples accounts to "flee" to their own accounts on the battlefield - you found the perfect foil (pardon the pun), in another desperate third world slave (you being his mentor), all at my direct expense.....not only that, but then also abusing, harassing and bullying them if they dare question anything directly, or anything they do or say on discord in general in your controlled mafia guild, and then conducting private kangaroo courts to drag peoples names through the mud, all while instilling a deep seeded hatred through brainwashing techniques into your disciples - the very tactics that all cult leaders use. The result of that abuse, is more power, influence and control, and more hateful abuse towards anyone who questions anything that either you, or you whore mistress get up to - in the "guild for the little people" - to those who dare question anything (the obvious to anyone with half a fucking brain cell) you then compound that abuse in the form of never-ending mud slinging lies in the shadows of discord (your DMS are bombarded with this hideous trash) to further enforce the beliefs of the disciples, ad in the plan of the "cult of Dave". The mangina panty sniffing supreme leader of the reward pool rape gang. And those kangaroo courts were held in secret, while the "accused" was completely stripped of any access to any parts of the guild he previously had access to, and was completely unaware that it was taking place. He was however eventually made aware of it in a twisted and disgusting attempt by the assigned gestapo agent "pigface stasi", in a "private" conversation where he demanded that the falsely accused was asked to "apologise" to the fucking disgusting bullies and thugs, where he was given an ultimatum and NO OHTER CHOICE. The verdict was already in - guilty as charged. There was no official word on what the "charges" actually were, there was no ability for them to defend against those "unknown charges", and the abusers and thugs themsleves were the judges and executioners. In other words, you charged your victim, with the crimes you yourselves committed. How's that for a twisted bunch of psychos. It is however thre nest way, to cover up your own crimes, by using as a cover story to play the victims of what you yourselves created.

Uncle Dave has created the perfect enslavement grid, by using bribes and "charity" and the "poor people" card to enrich himself. After he abused all of those "poor people" to the maximum possible threshold - after he milked that dry as much as he posssibly could with his lame promises of riches, he then started a GIGANTIC BOT FARM TO CONTINUOUSLY RAPE THE REWARDS POOL....Because there just weren't enough third world slaves around anymore. And the irony of that? Of course is that he was vehemently anti-bot publicly when he had those players playing for him, but then changed when that all changed. But that was the only reason why he changed his mind....Had nothing to do with his "principled" anti-bot rhetoric when self-interest came into play. Funny how that works.....

YOU are a mother fucking disgrace, and you did it all for your permanent boner of that filthy whore mistress that you are obsessed with...That's right folks, this piece of trash garbage, not only did all of the above, but he also trampled on the rights of others and the very existence of another "member" of his own guild. A founding member, that he purportedly told was his "friend", while he was shoving knives in their back and organising cheating and rigging of matches WHILE THEY WERE OFFLINE BEHIND THEIR BACK. Well, he sure did fuck that "friend" hard and good, and threw them under the bus, all for the direct benefit of himself and his whore mistress.

Can you please explain why all of these third world slaves LITERALLY CALL YOU "COACH"?...What were you coaching them in? Sounds very shady, when you consider all of the events that took place - oh yes folks, he "coached" them alright....coached them in match fixing - both he and his entitled vagina whore mistress of teamshithole. And that is how the bribe system works in this wonderland of the teamshithole mafia guild.

Add to that all of that abuse, harassment and gang bullying and you have a wonderful recipe for success. And this all happened, while you were in the full knowledge that your target was under the most intense stress in the time of a life threatening illness. Thats what super mother fucking pieces of trash that you truly are. And to this day, ZERO FUCKOING REMORSE or regret for any of it...In fact you would do it all again - that's how fucking pathetic you all are.

You chose self-interest, greed and that filthy vagina and her direct self-interest, over another persons life. And you continued with that attitude even when that said person was on their death bed and fighting for their life.

You are a fucking disgraceful human being and a total piece of garbage - and always will be, as you continue to control the narrative and refuse to show any fucking remorse for anything you both did, at the direct expense of another individual and their interests. Apparently only the cult of dave, and their interests matter at teamshithole.

That, is how fucking disgraceful you are. THAT, is who you are.

GO TO FUCKING HELL YOU LIMP DICKED MANGINA - Both you and your poisonous filthy whore mistress, or as you prefer to call her - your @bestpartnerever, and more recently "@queenofmonsters". The wallet of one of the biggest rewards pool rapists in the game - yet somehow, they have the "respect of the community". I guess everyone want a piece of that sweet sweet SPS action, no matter how it came about. And that's only a small portion of the "empire" of "poor people", dictator.

Hello Coach

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YOU DISGRACEFUL MOTHER FUCKING TURDS

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