Splinterlands Town Hall Summary - May 9th, 2022

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Town Hall Summary

Speakers:
- Aggroed (CEO)
- Chatter (Director of Growth)
- WeirdBeard (Tournaments/ESports)
- 16bit (VP of Sales)
- Nateaguila (Creative Director)
- Ellemnian (Concept Artist)
- H4liax (Human Resources Director)
- RoyalEagle (Support Lead)
- Doogie (VP of Project Management)
Main Topics:
- Eye Candy 👀
- Company Updates ⚡️
- Q&A Summary 💥
Recording:

Timestamps:
- 01:20 - General Intro
- 04:10 - Chatter Update (Director of Growth)
- 08:45 - WeirdBeard Update (Tournaments/ESports)
- 11:00 - 16bit Update (VP of Sales)
- 19:00 - Nateaguila Update (Creative Director)
- 29:40 - Ellemnian Intro/Update (Concept Artist)
- 36:15 - H4liax Intro/Update (Human Resources Director)
- 44:15 - RoyalEagle Intro/Update (Support Lead)
- 1:05:40 - Doogie Update (VP of Project Management)
- 1:13:30 - Q&A
- 2:02:25 - Townhall Shoutout
- 2:04:30 - Closing Remarks

💥 Company Updates 💥

Development Updates:

Ranked Reward changes are in the testing stages
- Estimating to be released for the first season in June
SPS Validator Node license sale should have details released soon
Right after Ranked Rewards will be Modern/Wild
- Modern/Wild development is mostly done, just need to merge Ranked Reward changes once final

Tournament/ESports Updates:

Still a few weeks out from releasing any announcements on what the team has been working on
- New tournament mode
- New tournaments with sponsors
Team is in Maintenance mode until the releases are out
- All Noob tournaments have been relabled as "Beginner" now

Marketing Updates:

RAD AI partnership helping Splinterlands team activate micro influencers
Potion partnership - App rewards users for completing certain events
- Daily quest, buying spellbook, etc...
Team has a conference almost booked every month of this year
Splinterfest is in the final stages of being planned
- In the contract stage still
- But most likely will be in Las Vegas, NV in September
- Looking at the HyperX arena

External Guild/Scholar Updates:

External Guilds = Groups/organizations that come together and get in on Play To Earn games
Team has developed some tools to help Guilds and their Scholar programs
- Discord Bot
  - Goes into a Guild discord server
  - Populates stats of each member in the Guild and a bunch of other things
- Script for scholar accounts to have their earnings automatically sent to the main Guild wallet/account
Goal is to increase Guild presence in the game
Team is thinking of creating a generalized Guild Leadership channel or Discord server for all Guilds to partake in and help each other

Creative Updates:

Team is wrapping up most of the assets needed for the new Ranked Reward changes
Most of the new Ranked Reward card art has been created and being finalized with stats and abilities
- See Eye Candy to see options for one of the new characters!

⚡️ Q&A Summary ⚡️

Red Days:

Market goes up and down --> circle of life
Splinterlands team will continue to build and if you believe in this project, then market prices don't matter as much

Guild Brawls:

Brawl economy revamp is being done in the background, but no timeline on this yet
New Gladiators are under consideration as well

New Ability:

Reflect Shield (Team is thinking of maybe a better name)
- Negates damage from Reflection-type abilities
- Safeguards from Blast damage, Thorns, Magic Reflect, Return Fire

Market Fees:

DEC market fees goes mainly towards Credits Market purchases
- Seller receives DEC when selling a card
Team also buys DEC every day to have enough liquid DEC for these conversions

Tournaments:

Team is looking to require KYC for only specific tournaments to increase competitive integrity
- Will probably be the bigger prized tournaments and tournament sponsor tournaments
Not ALL tournaments will require KYC though
Tournament creators can choose whether they want to require KYC during the tournament creation stages

Chaos Legion Legendary Summoners:

Anticipated order of release:
- Life - Grandmaster Rathe (Moriarty95)
- Fire - TBD (Jacekw)
- Water - TBD (Davemccoy)
- Earth - Immortalis (Cyguy)
- Death - Astral Entity (Cryptoreaper)
- Dragon - TBD (Red Panda)