4 CryptoWars tournaments announced
Tags: Ethereum, Gaming, Blockchain, Esport, Experimental

Dear community and CryptoWars fans! You probably heard that our first tournament was so successful it ended up being a #FAIL — We had so many users producing so many transactions that the whole network exploded causing downtime, bugs, time warps, and almost World War III. If you want to read more about what happened, press here.

On the bright side of life, this first approach taught us a lot! And now we’re ready to give it a second try… so let’s get to it:

Four 7-days long tournaments will be held, each tournament will have the name of an amazing blockchain game that gave us NFTs worth thousands of dollars to give to our community as prizes.

First tournament: the “it’s definitely gonna break” tournament.

From January 2nd at 6PM CET to January 11th at 6PM CET.

$940 in prizes for the TOP 5 ( 1st: $375, 2nd: $260, 3rd: $190, 4th: $75, 5th: $40)

$375, $260, $190, $75, $40) Special Prize provided by: Axie Infinity

Second tournament: the “it should break less” tournament.

From February 26th at 6PM CET to March 5th at 6PM CET.

$940 in prizes for the TOP 5 (1st: $375, 2nd: $260, 3rd: $190, 4th: $75, 5th: $40)

Special Prize provided by: Zombie Battleground

Third Tournament: the “it should work alright” tournament.

From April 8th at 6PM CET to April 15th at 6PM CET.

$940 in prizes for the TOP 5 (1st: $375, 2nd: $260, 3rd: $190, 4th: $75, 5th: $40)

Special Prize provided by: The Sandbox

Fourth tournament: the “if it doesn’t work well, we go develop a shrimp farm on EOS” tournament

From May 7th at 6PM CET to May 14th at 6PM CET.

$940 in prizes for the TOP 5 (1st: $375, 2nd: $260, 3rd: $190, 4th: $75, 5th: $40)

Special Prize provided by: Blockade Games (Creators of Neon District)

FAQs

Who wins?

Who ends up with more Tournament Points on each deadline.

Villages will be wiped before every tournament?

Yes, tournaments start from scratch.

If I signed up for the first tournament, do I have to sign up again for these 4?

No, you’ll automatically receive an access code in your inbox for every single tournament. If you haven’t yet subscribed to any tournament, do it here.

Prizes in cash?

Winners will receive their prizes in ETH — There’s also a special prize on each tournament for the best attackers, builders and traders.

When will the winners be announced?

5 days after the end date. Why does it take so long? because we want to make sure the winners didn’t cheat. The team has to manually check this because we’re currently in alpha. In the future, this will be done automatically.

What about the referral program?

We have a unique and amazing referral program, you will get a personal link, and will get money for every single player you referred that ends up in the TOP 100 best players among the 4 tournaments. Get as many players on board as you can, and your chances of winning will skyrocket!

When you sign up to play the game, you’ll get your personal referral link by email.

Can I play from mobile?

Yes! Go ahead! Just paste your access code in the login screen (the same one you used in desktop)

How do you run such a complex game on the blockchain? No Metamask?

Thanks to Loom, check this post.

Can I cheat or use bots?

In the tournaments, bots usage is not allowed, any suspicious users will be banned. When we release the MMO version, bots will be accepted and encouraged!

One account per person, no exceptions. If the winner made it to the TOP5 by creating several accounts and battling/trading with them, it’ll be disqualified. We know this is not optimal or decentralized, this is an alpha test of the mechanics and balancing, in the future, this will be solved by tech with no humans involved.

Playing with friends will be accepted in the future, for now, targeting one account and attacking it with your friends, is considered abuse and won’t be awarded.

To conclude, any kind of abuse, exploit, or multi-account strategy, will end up in users not being awarded.

Can I use my skins or starter packs?

Not in these tournaments, we can’t let users use their NFTs or ERC-20 yet because there’s no safe transfer gateway from side chain to main net — it will be solved soon thanks to plasma cash.

Is there a CryptoWars wiki?

Yes, find it here.

Where can I ask questions and engage with the community?

Telegram and Discord are the best channels to get answers and meet other gamers. If want you want it to keep up to date and find out about future tournaments, follow us on Twitter.

In the near future, tournaments will work with prize pools, each tournament will have a number of available slots (how many players can play), a start and end date, and an entry fee that will go from really low to really high, so everyone’s happy (0.01, 0.05. 0.1, 0.25…¿100 ETH?) — these fees will compose the prize pool and Experimental will take a cut to finance its operations.

Now, friends, go build your village, summon your army and fight to death for Quantum Dust!