Interview With @Yabapmatt On All Things Tournament Related

coruscate (76)in #steemmonsters • 6 years ago

Hi Friends!

I was super excited to have the opportunity to sit down with Steem Monsters Co-Founder @yabapmatt to discuss everything tournaments related. In fact - He gave me a sneak peak of what the tournament screen could look like! It's so fresh off the press that not even @aggroed had seen it yet.

What We Chatted About...

Before jumping into some of the more technical aspects of tournaments - let's get high level for a second. For those who are new to Steem Monsters - can you give us a quick run down on what the tournaments are and how they are different from what is going on right now?

How often will there be tournaments? Is it all day every day, or just on the weekends, or what? And will players be slated to play against their level of players, just as they are in the testing phase?
Will only Steem Monsters host tournaments - or will other dApps, groups or communities have the opportunity to form their own tournaments?
Will some tournaments have an entry fee?
What kind of tiers will there be for tournaments? Will there be opportunities for people to earn at various levels?
Will the gameplay be similar in tournaments as they are in battles (mana cap, rules of combat, assembling your team after seeing your opponent etc.) - or will you guys be throwing us different curveballs?
Will prize money come in the form of STEEM, SBD, fiat, cards/packs?
Can you give us a sneak peak of what the design concepts for the tournaments will look like?
Will tournaments be set and forget, or will you need to be live on the game to play?
Will the leaderboard be wiped clean at the beginning of every season?
As I understand it, the prize money will come from 1/3 of the revenue from weekly booster pack sales. What if there is a really slow week or month in sales? How do you plan to keep the prizepool fairly consistent so the public does not loose interest? Will you have a reservoir of prizepool savings to compensate for it?

Will tournaments always be individuals playing each other, or will there be guild wars?
Ok... now for the question everyone has really been waiting for? Will @rustle ever be made into a Steem Monster??
How have beta booster pack sales been going? Are you selling as expected, faster, slower?
Once tournaments are live - how will that help springboard your marketing efforts?

Sneak Peak at the Tournament Page

Matt was cool enough to share the very first preview of what the tournament page could look like! Of course things may change - but you can see that it is clearly and intuitively designed. People will be able to open the tab - see the countdown timer to when the next tournaments are happening, quickly view how many players are allowed, the entry fee, host of the tournament etc.

Rustle As A Steem Monster?

Just to job your memory...

Ok... now for the question everyone has really been waiting for? Will @rustle ever be made into a Steem Monster??

@rustle made a guest appearance in our interview and although Yaba can't promise anything... he definitely did not rule out the possibility of Rustle eventually becoming a monster. He even mentioned that maybe there could be a design contest or something.

I think @trisquelwhare who designed the above card to share on the @steemmonstershow would have a good headstart on that!

Love Everything Monsters? Catch the Steem Monster Show LIVE Every Wednesday!

For all you Monster fans out there... @littlescribe and I host the @steemmonstershow every Wednesday where we chat about all things Steem Monsters. We have a super fun group of regular's - from newbies to people you wish you could beat on the leaderboard alike. We love having @o07 chiming in with his thoughts and opinions every week. As our in house Maverick - he does a great job of bringing his experience to the show and helping us all improve our game.

We always meet in the Contest Kings Discord and stream to Vimm, Twitch and YouTube. Check out the @steemmonstershow page for the weekly announcement and details on how to find us.

New to Steem Monsters?

I hope that this interview helped to break things down in a way that feels more approachable. As a non gamer turned Monster fan, I get that sometimes all the strategy and technicalities can feel a little overwhelming. If you have any questions at all about Steem Monsters - leave them below and I'll do my best to help.

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The Interview

Here you guys go. Enjoy.

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I hope that both newbies and more experienced monster fans alike found this interview helpful. Love you guys and I look forward to chatting with you in the comments below!

Xo, Lea

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6 years ago in #steemmonsters by coruscate (76)

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hendersonp (71) 6 years ago (edited)

This is a part of a post I did only what I think of the tournaments and the experience I have as a player of other collectible card games, SM is still very young and there is sure to be a long way to go and learn, but it is always good see how they behave and what games already have great success, excellent interview @coruscate your very cute as always :)

"I am not an expert in marketing or strategies for a collectible card game to be successful, but I am going to comment on what I have seen that has worked in other games and how I think the steemmonster tournaments should be.

The tournaments (beginners) for the first invoker levels (LVL 1 to LVL3): I consider that there should be no prizes in STEEM or SBD, only steemmonster packages.

The (amateur) tournaments for invoker levels (LVL 4 to LVL 6): I consider that the prizes should be half reinforcement packs and half in crypts.

Tournaments (experienced) for invoker levels (LVL 6 to LVL 8): I consider that the prizes should be half reinforcement packs and half in crypts, (only that the amount of reinforcement packs and the prize in crypts should be be considerably older than the amateur tournament).

These first three tournaments must have modest prizes

Quarterly tournaments, would be open tournaments (but would require to pay a certain amount of SBD or STEEM to enter) regardless of the level of invoker, these tournaments if they would offer prizes in STEEM and SBD and could also create a special card for participants and winners, but with a 1:10 ratio of the annual tournament in the total amount of the prize, suppose that the annual tournament has a pot of 15,000 SBD, the quarterly tournaments would have a prize of 1,500 SBD. In these tournaments you could play with special requirements such as that the team includes at least one gold monster or do not accept legendary, a tournament could be just common, in short everything that can occur to the creators of the game, Clearly they should announce the format well in advance.

Annual tournament, you should program the existence of some requirements to participate, but not levels in the summoners if not in the quality of the player, a requirement could be to have a minimum number of battles played or also have reached a minimum number in the classification throughout the year, this tournament should have a pretty big prize, it would be fantastic to see an ad that says (1 annual steemmonster tournament $ 25,000 in prizes), apart from having enough publicity on social networks so more people join to the game.

I do not think there should be tournaments of only gold cards or of only alpha version, that would encourage a very small group to buy letters only for economic benefit and steemmonster would be spending resources on a very small group of people while the vast majority would feel Excluded."

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