You might say I have a massive conflict of interest in this thought, because yes I do...I want nothing more than 
Hive account@steemmonsters to succeed and promote similar type of projects in the future and make this the new and organic Github of brilliant ideas like this game. Yes of course I own SteemMonsters cards, and yes I plan on entering contests and seeing how I fair in them. I have no delusions of this affecting me too much really ever because I am a small fish in the scheme of things there, but hope to grow over time with the game as thousands are also in the same situation as me that are involved in the Steemit platform.
I cannot stress enough, that with some significant backing by Steemit Inc there can be a consolidation, a coalition between Hive account@steemmonsters and Steem Inc that could create a fever pitch of excitement with advertising among those already loyal to your brands and making it an aspiration or goal of many others to join in to find ways of garnering their stake in the project. The co-creators of the SM game 
Hive account@yabapmatt and 
Hive account@aggroed have remarked the sentiment that they would like to have a prize or prize pool that is newsworthy creating buzz inside and outside of the tight-knit Steemit universe. This of course accomplishes scores of great things at once and the beneficiaries are potentially all of those from the tiniest of game player that could get a tiny award from Hive account@steemmonsters doubled (or potentially more if Steem Inc really kicked up the multiple), to the stalwart winner of a tournament or a specialized game say for example "gold only" tournament should they happen in the coming weeks? Having a prize pool in a grand style of say, $5,000 to the winner, etc. also promotes the ability to pay deeper into the tournament finishers allowing the monsters reward pool to be worthwhile and not having to think that say for example, "A dollar isn't much of a payout, it doesn't buy a booster pack?" But if that is doubled then for the previous run of alphas $2 would definitely buy a booster pack.
I would urge 
Hive account@ned and all of those that are closely linked to the corporation to take a very, very long and legitimate look at this concept and it would be compelling to me to hear the the reasons (in opposition) to such a mathematically insignificant amount (of say $1,000 prize pool hypothetically to match weekly when the games do start) to double that from the massive coffers of Steemit Inc that has supported vigorously and quite successfully other great projects within the platform as well. I be stunned to hear counter-arguments to how SM is possibly even more is not an instant injection of capital and interest in the overall Steemit economy plus incentivizing those that have fed the 500 ton monster in the room taking up a lot of space at Steemit Inc rent free at the in the minds of the centralized planners of the platform at the moment.
