🗳️ DAO Proposal: Weekly Free-to-Enter Tournament Sponsored by the DAO
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Proposal Type: Community Engagement and Retention
Status: Pre-Proposal (Seeking Feedback)
🔍 Summary
This proposal seeks DAO support to sponsor a weekly, free-to-enter tournament aimed at boosting community participation, engagement, and visibility of Splinterlands. Each week, players will compete for Conclave Arcana packs and unique bonus prizes like Yabba’s Pickle and Rebellion packs awarded to specific finishing places.
Additionally, we request Splinterlands development team support to expand the tournament duration to up to 5 days to accommodate a larger pool of participants and to ensure that everyone has a better chance to experience the event.
🎯 Purpose & Goals
The goals of this initiative:
- Increase player engagement through consistent, low-barrier competitive events.
- Promote newer set (Conclave Arcana) by distributing its packs as rewards.
- Introduce a fun and shareable community tradition (like the “69th place pickle” prize).
- Promote more accessible modern cards by excluding promo cards and focusing on the core and reward sets.
- Accommodate a larger player pool by expanding the tournament duration to 5 days.
📋 Proposal Details
We propose a weekly, free-to-enter tournament sponsored by the DAO with the following structure:
🏆 Prize Structure (per tournament)
- 1st place: 3x Legendary Conclave Arcana Packs
- 2nd place: 2x Legendary Conclave Arcana Packs
- 3rd place: 1x Legendary Conclave Arcana Pack
- 4th–8th: 1x Alchemy Conclave Arcana Pack each
- 9th–32nd: 1x Standard Conclave Arcana Pack each
🎁 Bonus / Fun Prizes
69th place: 1x Yabba’s Pickle
Finishing places ending in 0 starting from 40 (i.e., 40, 50, 60, 70, etc.): 1x Rebellion Pack each
- This includes participants finishing from 40th to 100th place, with a Rebellion Pack awarded to each position that ends in "0" (i.e., 40th, 50th, 60th, 70th, and so on).
⏱️ Tournament Structure
Duration: 5 days (to accommodate more players)
- Each day will reduce the number of players by 60%, ensuring a gradual elimination process that keeps the tournament competitive while giving participants more time.
Tournament Type: Ghost Card Tournaments (Open Tournaments)
- All core and reward cards will be allowed, but promo cards will be excluded. This makes it easier for newer players to compete without facing overpowered cards that are harder to access.
Format: Bronze Modern Format Tournament
- Excluding promo cards will allow the event to focus on more accessible and balanced gameplay if they started playing modern.
💰 Budget Request
We estimate the weekly prize cost as follows (assuming market values at current prices):
- 6x Legendary Conclave Arcana Packs
- 5x Alchemy Conclave Arcana Packs
- 24x Standard Conclave Arcana Packs
- 7x Rebellion Packs (from 40th to 100th place, as described above)
- 1x Yabba’s Pickle
We request an initial 1-month trial sponsorship broken down as:
- 24 Legendary Conclave Arcana Packs
- 20 Alchemy Conclave Arcana Packs
- 96 Standard Conclave Arcana Packs
- 28 Rebellion Packs
- 4 Yabba’s Pickles
All prizing can be sourced directly from DAO-held assets.
🧠 Rationale
- Low cost, high impact: A small number of packs can support consistent weekly engagement across the entire community.
- Casual-friendly: No entry fee removes any financial barrier.
- Community-building: Quirky prizes (like Yabba’s Pickle at 69th) add flavor and social shareability.
- Balanced format: Excluding promo cards in a modern format simulates and promotes the early steps into ranked play.
- Increased duration: A 5-day tournament schedule will allow more players to participate and make the tournament more enjoyable without forcing players into time-crunches.
- Promoting Conclave Arcana: By offering packs from the new set as prizes, the tournament helps promote Conclave Arcana and highlights its importance within the Splinterlands ecosystem.
📈 Success Metrics
- Number of unique participants per week
- Social media mentions/shares of the tournament and “Pickle Prize”
- Community sentiment (via feedback polls or Hive comments)
- Engagement growth over time
- Feedback on tournament duration and format
🗳️ Voting & Governance
This is a pre-proposal. If there’s positive community feedback, the full proposal will be submitted to the SPS DAO Governance Portal for voting.
Link: https://app.splinterlands.com/governance/proposals
📣 Call to Action
Do you support a weekly, community-driven tournament like this? Let me know in the comments!
✅ Would you participate in these tournaments?
✅ Any feedback on the tournament structure or prize setup?
✅ Should we go monthly instead of weekly?
If this post gets strong support, I’ll finalize the proposal and submit it for DAO funding.
💬 Comments & Feedback
Comment below or reach out via Discord (Splinterlands server) if you have questions or ideas. I’d love community input before submitting the official proposal.