I enjoyed another record-setting season, but without the formal tracker service from 
Season 179 proved to be even more successful as 
Finally for the Survival Bracket, I kept it simple with a hands-on approach to Bracket XI, the most populated expert bracket for the biggest automated payout. Running the bot every 24-27 hours, I could maximize the recovery of my collection to start each session as freshly as possible to maintain a strong winning percentage and reward share.
Ranked Report
Modern Performance
My amazing modern scholar 
Wild Performance
In Wild, the 
The ultimate goal is to open both league promotion rewards for Champ 2 and 1. I'm not even spreading out the energy use, so extra daily rewards is a moot point. I'm sure the bot could get me to 4300 rating in much fewer than 100 battles, so maybe it is a better strategy to maximize Modern battles played. I'll have to be more conservative with opening the major loot chests early in the season to spread out that extra energy loot!
The bot dipped from 71.4% in S178 to just 63.2% in S179, winning 72 of 114 battles. The collection was largely the same, although new cards in the format through airdrops and promotions can swing gameplay from season to season. In S178, it took 84 battles to climb 900 rating, so it is reasonable to expect both league promotions in under 60 Modern battles. 40 battles is a considerable savings for 50K Glint. Sorry Altumns, left a bunch of battles on the table!
Survival Performance
In Survival, I took 7th place (rating & rPts) in Survival Bracket XI with about 7.9M rPts. 
Off the screen in 9th place, 
Quite a contrast in Survival style and setup. I can imagine people with FLEETS of Chaos Legion sets lined up to battle for hours. I know even with my 1of setup, it can take about 3 hours of constant searching and playing to get through a session of 75 battles. Sometimes the session ends if there are 4 losses in a row, sometimes it ends if the client fails to find multiple times, and sometimes it ends if the scholar is hungry to play more Modern battles, nom nom nom!!!
Tournaments Report
Again with the 
Altumns placed in the Top 4 in SIX events and in the Top 8 in another SIX events, making at least Top 8 in 12 of the 25 events during S179. There are some juicy prizes in the Top 8, with four wins over 1500 SPS. He managed to take first in two events: Wild Advanced GF out of 49 players and Wild Expert out of 117 players!
The tournament scholarship is going better than I ever could have dreamed since Duce is no longer fleeing a third of its tournament battles! I don't wake up in a panic over what tournaments I need to submit before getting ready to start my day. And the best part -- we averaged 755 SPS from each event in S179, winning 18875 SPS from 25 SPS DAO events.
Ranked Rewards
| Ranked Play Wins | Tokens Received |
|---|---|
| Modern SPS Rewards Claimed | ⭐48944.868 SPS |
| Wild SPS Rewards Claimed | ⭐1542.536 SPS |
| Survival SPS Rewards Claimed | ⭐11605.308 SPS |
| Season Rewards Claimed | ✨3,282,981 Glint |
Season 179 showed a small regression in Modern and an increase in Wild, mostly because of the small changes in total battles played. Based on the 508 wins from 816 battles in S179, I got 96.3 SPS/win and 60 SPS/battle in Modern, up 16 and 11 respectively, from S178. Comparatively, my Wild ranked splits are more modest. I barely cracked 1.5K SPS with 74 wins in 114 battles. In Wild, I got 20.8 SPS/win and 13.5 SPS/battle, which are darn close to the S178 averages.
In Survival, my share of the SPS pool decreased from 14.5K in S178 to 11.6K in S179, which is sad to say now because the SPS is completely gone. But it makes sense while the team thinks about new Survival strategies, because I don't think the current system was winning too many fans, just obedient players. Anyway, it proved to be a good training ground for the Modern Brackets, even though I don't like what happened with the expert bracket minimum limits during the proposal phase.
Well, the huge pile of Glint will cheer me up. Over 3.25M Glint was earned from ranked play in S179. There's also an additional 350K Glint for Top 10 on the Modern ranked leaderboard and 50K Glint for Top 100 on the Wild ranked leaderboard, bringing my final tally close to 3.65M Glint. That's sure going to buy a lot of loot chests! I might even save some Glint for my avatar -- just kidding -- the extra Glint will get spent on more energy!
⭐ SPS Report
| Type | ⭐ Amount |
|---|---|
| Staking Rewards | 1788.331 |
| Validator Rewards | 1670.814 |
| Ranked Rewards as above | 62092.712 |
| Brawl Rewards | 418.239 |
| Land Rewards | 24264.132 |
| SPS DAO Tournament | 18875.02 |
| NET SPS | 109109.248 |
For the 2nd straight season, I'm over 100K in Net SPS with a 3K increase from last season! DuceCrypto brought in over 109K SPS across six main streams: Staking, Validating, Ranked, Brawl, Land, and Tournaments. Ranked led the way with just over 62K SPS from the three formats combined. Modern accounted for nearly 79% of the total SPS earned from ranked play. Wild was about 1.5K SPS.
The total seasonal rewards for staking (holding staked SPS) and validating (delegating staked validator nodes) both finished around 1700 SPS for Season 179. Brawl provided an additional 420 SPS, so I got about 4K SPS from staking, validating, and brawling combined!
SPS from my 12 occupied plots stayed around 24.2K, making for some bountiful harvests during S179. I do expect a dip in my SPS output over the next few seasons, as I get my land reorganized and reoptimized after consolidating into #PandonReach Region 41. My goal of becoming resource self-reliant is going well as I focus higher PP into fewer premium plots. If I can finish a second deal soon, I should be mostly moved out of the Northeast into my new home by the end of the weekend.
I'm looking to trim quite a bit of the DEC tied up as stake for my common plots to invest into Escalation, and I might have a few extra land workers for sale when the consolidation concludes. It should be a considerable savings to my bottom line to be able to realize all of my SPS and Aura gains without the tax of buying resources to make each harvest!
Finally, a season-best 18875 SPS from tournaments also helped contribute to the mind-melting SPS total of 109109 SPS received in Season 179. Of course, not all of it gets locked away as staked SPS. I pay out a good share to my scholar for his outstanding work playing Modern and tournaments through the help of the 
Although the SPS price is still slipping, I continue to HODL most of my stack, while I buy Escalation packs with the winnings from my two alt accounts. Even at the low spot price of 0.00455 USD, the 109109 SPS is valued at over $496. That's a lot of ice cream money!
Of course, a big thank you for the time and effort that
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