Announcing the ZenSports Gold Foil Cup Live - Thousands in Prizes!
Last Saturday evening, Splinterlands and ZenSports worked together to bring you the first massive live Champion tournament sponsored by the sports betting app and esports tourney hosting platform. The three hour event following DYGYCON was a huge success, with live viewership consistently in the hundreds and tons of incredible prizes given away.
@xawi was the ultimate victor in the double elimination Kickoff Cup, with an impressive 9 wins in a row, coming back from a defeat in her first round to beat @jrvacation in the finals!
@tanzofett, Jacob from Zensports and myself (@chrisroberts) were also surprised to have been joined for most of our live commentary by the one and only @aggroed, co-founding Splinterlands wizard in residence and CEO. We had a great time breaking down the Champion battles, making strategy and outcome predictions. Champion strategies are tough to keep up with!
Next up... The Gold Foil Cup!
Note: The tournament is called the Gold Foil Cup because of the GFL Chanseus Prize. Gold Foil cards are not required to participate.
MORE DETAILS FROM THE ZENSPORTS BLOG
Gold Foil Cup Prizes
In addition to $1000 in tournament prizes (awarded through the ZenSports app), there will be a Legendary grand prize... a 1-BCX Gold Foil Chanseus the Great, with a current trade value of around $1000.
There will also be an exclusive NFT trophy minted on the ICON blockchain and provided by ZenSports to the winner.
The Kickoff Cup tournament was such a success that the teams of both ZenSports and Splinterlands are eager to bring you the next weekend event. In fact, we're excited to announce that next weekend on Saturday July 31st, you'll be able to watch the Gold Foil Cup. Unlike the Kickoff Cup, this tournament will be played with Gold League limits, allowing more players a chance to play and win!
It's not too late to get in on the Gold Foil Cup as a player! 16 of the 32 total player spots are reserved for the top 16 finishers in the Kickoff Cup, which means there are 16 more spots up for grabs in next weekend's historically high payout Gold League tournament!
How to Get in the Game!
This weekend, there will be 2 Gold Foil Cup Qualifiers run through the Splinterlands tournament interface and hosted by @clove71. 8 players from each of these Qualifier tournaments will earn a spot in next Saturday's Gold Foil Cup.
Qualifying Tournaments:
Qualifying Tourney 1 - Friday July 23rd, 6:00pm EST
Qualifying Tourney 2 - Monday July 26th, 6:00pm EST
@clove71 will be live streaming both of the above Qualifiers, and the top 8 finishers in each will secure a spot in next Saturday's Gold Foil Cup: Chanseus Edition!
Additional details can be found HERE ON THE ZENSPORTS BLOG.
We hope you all can come out and support this fantastic new tournament initiative by watching the action live! We know you'll have a great time, and you may even win something!
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Great initiative, but once again, the people who live on the other side of the world don't even get a chance to take part.
I hope this will be taken into consideration some time in the future....
That is so true..
I understand your frustration, but for this type of tournament, and almost all events that require many hours of manual hosting, they will take place during the day in the United States.
First of all, thousands of dollars in prizes are being provided by ZenSports (a US-based company) for these tournaments, so they get to decide 100% when the tournaments will take place.
Splinterlands created anytime tournaments long ago as a solution to this problem, but these ZenSports tournaments are designed to attract as many spectators as possible, and that could not be done if we were trying to run them in the middle of the night. I would never even consider hosting (which involves many hours of work) in the middle of the night. If they wanted to hold a tournament in the night, I would instead recommend that they use the built-in anytime tournament interface.
The first week's tourney was originally scheduled for 2pm EST, but they did not realize when scheduling that it was in direct conflict with DYGYCON. As soon as they learned that, the tourney was rescheduled for immediately after DYGYCON. This time, the players were able to vote between 3 different choices for the day's time and they overwhelmingly chose 5pm EST.
I can't speak for ZenSports, but I can say that I would not host a night time tournament. However, if I were a tournament player on the other side of the world, I would absolutely consider waking up for the 2-3 hours of tournament play with such awesome prizes involved. 😀
Sorry I can't guarantee that there will be more live tournaments at times you like. Perhaps one day when our team is expanded or we find new tournament partners in new parts of the world this will change.
I get all that... it's just a bit frustrating.
And getting up in the middle of the night is not an option, due to personal circumstances.
I think these guys are US based, correct? This is just starting! I'm SURE the guys at Zen Sports will add events for different time zones as popularity grows for SPL on their platform!
Excellent, I would love to participate in these tournaments, but the truth is that I think my deck still lacks a lot of power.
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