Splinterlands Sunday!: Tournaments for DEC!

I continue to enjoy playing Splinterlands as the game continues to evolve and engage a larger community within Steem. I have taken a liking to do some experiments to see how best to improve my collection and earnings within the ecosystem. A couple of weeks ago, I decided to sign up for all the tournaments during a weekend to test how well I can do and what benefits I could get from doing so. In addition, I wanted to see if my hours of playing on the ranked side have helped on improving my competitiveness in actual tournaments where many of the best players play often.

The rewards from tournaments had recently changed to provide Dark Energy Crystals (DEC) instead of Steem. While I was initially skeptical on the change, I also realized that expanding the use and ways to get DEC is a smart way to broaden the economy as well. Now that we are also able to buy cards on the market with DEC, I think the change is not really an issue. Also, Steem should really be used for powering up despite the lack in incentive to do so given recent prices. In the long term, Steem will be a scarce assets to have it only for the economies forming within the ecosystem. While some tournaments have been added for other tokens and even cards as rewards, the majority continue to be in DEC.

It was a challenge to get in to playing all the tournaments given some of the timing which is made for players around the world to be able to participate. There were a few that I could barely remember as I woke up just to play them from my mobile device. However, I can overall say did I did quite well for a weekend of effort! With a total payout of 14,900 DEC, I was able to place in 7 out of 14 tournaments. Not a bad ratio considering the amount of DEC earned. I generally did either really well or really bad as my best placement was 3rd place while my worst was 86th without winning a game often. While some only got me 300 DEC for an effort, others were quite great with up to 6,000 DEC for one tournament.

I think the major take away from the experience is that tournaments are well worth playing as there is really nothing to lose for most of us. I have also seen that my Gold Foil cards are clearly under par for most of these tournaments as most battles were against higher level teams. I recognize this as a missed opportunity to ignore accumulating gold foil cards early on as my card pack openings were not as good from a Gold Foil perspective although I did get two Legendaries. Now, it seems as it is too expensive to even consider buying some of these Gold Foil cards given their prices in the markets. I am happy that I was able to get all of the Rare Summoners at least which allow me to play in these tournaments at least.

This also leads to the other learning in that it ultimately comes down to luck of the draw when playing tournaments. If you are matched against a good player with a solid collection, you will be very challenged to place well. However, there is still a number of players that join from all levels as well. I have also seen how some players do quite well with low level teams as some of the players that play in the high ranked divisions often forget how cards lose their abilities at lower levels or how some are limited at the cards that can be used there. It happened to many a few time where my Earth team was not as strong in Silver Division matches as I have grown accustomed to.

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Given my continued divided results, I continue to be in the Top 25 of players gaining rewards from tournaments which is great! I see it as an excellent way to provide a path to improving our collections while also enjoying some of the competitiveness. I often have mixed feelings as I often struggle to get winning streaks in ranked play only to find me placing well in tournaments. With the game continuing to evolve, it will be interesting to see how players continue to get great opportunities to grow and compete in these tournaments. I cannot wait to see how the tournaments will continue to expand and engage the community!

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