Last week I had a @RisingStarGame contest and put up a Rare instrument card as a prize, R99 Flame Guitar.
Let's take a look at the rules for entry from that post:
In order to qualify for this giveaway, please leave a comment with your Rising Star username and tell me who your favorite guitarist is or your favorite guitar solo in a song.
If you leave an especially great comment, I'll upvote and send you a slice of PIZZA too! I'll also be sharing my answer to that question when I post the winner announcement.
Entries will be accepted until November 24, 2021 and I will select one winner for this Rare card giveaway.
Next, let's see how many entries included the requirement to share their favorite guitarist or guitar solo in a song: 11. It appears the most popular response for favorite guitarist is Jimmi Hendrix.
My own favorite guitar solo is from the Michael Jackson song Beat It. There is a really great backstory to how this iconic guitar solo came to be and you can read about it here or watch a short video about it here. The solo was performed by Eddie Van Halen and almost didn't happen at all as Eddie hung up on Jackson's producer, Quincy Jones four times because he thought it was a prank call! Shockingly, Eddie took no credit on the track, declined payment, and even re-arranged the middle of the song. This is one of those amazing stories from the music industry that makes you wonder whether things would have turned out a lot differently had all the stars not perfectly aligned to produce such a memorable track.
Card Giveaway
R99 Flame Guitar:
Congratulations to 
New Pack Opening
Let's open up another three packs of cards today. Just like last time, if one of the Rare cards are duplicates for me, I will giveaway the Rare card!
Pack 1:
Pack 2:
Pack 3:
Looks like I received a duplicate Rare card so read on to see what you need to do to enter today's giveaway!
Let's take a look at the four Rare cards:
R114 Gold Mic: +50 Luck
R109 Trevor: +100 Fans, +3 Luck, +125 Skill
R112 Bodhran: +50 Luck
The Gold Mic and Bodhran are duplicate rare cards for me. The common cards included a Buster, Cheap Car, two Jacks, Mid Range Decks, and a Mid Range Tour Bus.
My current RisingStar stats are as follows:
2025 Fans
661 Luck
2916 Skill
70 Cards
I have been steadily increasing my level in Rising Star and am now at Level 39. I am trying to quickly get to Level 50 so I can get and use the Millionaire Card. Most of my missions are the Saturday Headline in the Home Town Zone because of the large amount of Starbits and XP that are rewarded each time.
Two great investments I made that are helping my progress along is the Pizza Box and Coffee Cup cards so I don't waste any pizza slice or coffee boosts that I receive along the way. I highly recommend you purchase these two cards to speed up your progress!
New Giveaway!
As I mentioned earlier, if I got a duplicate card I would give it away. That duplicate card for the giveaway is the R112 Bodhran In order to qualify for this giveaway, please leave a comment with your Rising Star username and tell me the strangest instrument you have ever played yourself, or seen someone play in a live performance.
If you leave an especially great comment, I'll upvote and send you a slice of PIZZA too! I'll also be sharing my answer to that question when I post the winner announcement.
Entries will be accepted until December 4, 2021 and I will select one winner for this Rare card giveaway.
The winner will receive a R112 Bodhran RARE instrument card:
New OneUp Token & Content Curation
If you haven't heard the news, Rising Star is now a curator for the new OneUp token! OneUp is a token for crypto gaming content so make sure you are including the #OneUp tag in all your Rising Star posts to get those extra tokens! For more info about this new project, check out Flauwy's post here: https://www.1up.zone/@flauwy/1up-a-new-hive-outpost-for-playtoearn-blockchain-games-and-nft-assets
Orions Peak Gaming
Another newcomer to the second-layer token gaming curation scene is OPG. Simply add the OPG tag to your HIVE gaming posts and you might get curated and even receive some OPG tokens too! Just from my gaming posts, I've been sent so many tokens for my content that I have reached the OPG token richlist and am now earning additional weekly rewards! All this is possible by adding the OPG tag and making great Hive gaming content!
HivePIZZA
I found out about @RisingStarGame through the @Hive.Pizza project where there are many other aspiring Rising Star players. We're always looking for more crypto gaming enthusiasts to interact with, so feel free to check out our Rising Star Discord Channel.
I am also very active in the @Splinterlands guilds within the HivePIZZA community and welcome you to join our Splinterlands Discord Channel too! Check out my latest #BrawlReport here: https://www.splintertalk.io/@shauner/shauner-s-17th-splinterlands-brawl
Good luck everyone!