Bits about Splinterfest
The first Splinterfest is over... Unfortunately, I can't say much about it, because the team decided to not broadcast live the event (it would have been mostly during the night my time anyway), but rather keep the initial impressions for those who bought a ticket and attended the event, and they will publish recordings of the event at a later time.
The first stream (which I saw this morning) regards the second day of the fantastic Open Tournaments held at Splinterfest - called the Coliseum of Chaos - which had some juicy land plot rewards for the winners. If you haven't seen it, here it is:
The stream starts with the ending of what seems to be the QA session of an in-person Town Hall meeting.
From what I read, more recordings will come up during this and the following weeks. This is something Weird Beard put in discord:
We will be releasing the panels that were recorded throughout the week/weeks after Splinterfest. It was a choice to allow for players at the event to hear the exciting content first.
Tournaments tomorrow will be streaming starting at 12pm PDT tomorrow on both YouTube and Twitch.
The tournaments he's referring to are the ones I talked about at the beginning and the link to the recording is up there.
Rented Out for the End of Season
Back to our regular Splinterlands world.
I decided to rent out my cards from my main playing account for the rest of the season. The bot brought my account to Diamond 1 without any intervention on my part, so thank you Mr. Bot. Quite spectacular evolution, I must say...
Even though there are almost 4 more days to the EoS, I decided to play it safe and rent out my cards now.
From my own experience, the competition during the last 2, maybe even 3 days grows exponentially, and it's a higher risk to drop from Diamond 1 than an opportunity to reach Champion League.
Next season I might play tactically a little better during the mid-season period to see if we can attempt to reach CL3, Mr. Bot and I.
The bot's performance is comparable to mine. Maybe I was a day quicker last season. But that's a variable. I also won more chests, but also played until the last day. Another variable. But I was also able to do so much more with the time saved this season.
That strengthens my decision to keep the bot running going forward. The difference is that from next season we will both play the account. But the bot will do the grinding work.
Since I'll leave the cards rented out until after the EoS, I won't play next season during the first 2 days or so, at least not in the Wild format. That isn't a big loss, because competition is high at the beginning of the season. I might play in the Modern format before all my cards will be usable since I'll start Modern from Silver 3 as I usually prefer to, so I shouldn't have any issues winning.