Steem Monsters Tournaments Update
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Many people in the community have expressed feedback about the entry fees that we implemented for the Steem Monsters sponsored tournaments. In the announcement post we mentioned that the entry fees were there to limit those tournaments only to "serious players", but in retrospect, we should have clarified that a bit more.
The reasoning behind the entry fees for the tournaments with higher card level limits was that only players with higher level cards would really be competitive in those tournaments, and we wanted to avoid a situation where lots of players with lower level cards entered just because it was free and had large prizes.
That would really not make for a good experience for either type of player. The players with lower level cards would not really have a chance and those with higher level cards would have to sit through much longer tournaments unnecessarily.
After seeing the community's response to this, however, it is clear that there were better ways for us to address this concern than to add entry fees for everyone in those tournaments. As a result, we are putting in place a new system which we hope will address the community's concerns while still avoiding having large numbers of players in tournaments where they're not competitive.
From now on, tournaments sponsored by Steem Monsters will be free to join for anyone who is currently in the league specified by the tournament or higher.
This means, for example, that a Gold League tournament will be free for any players with a current rating of 1,900 or higher. Players whose current rating is lower than the tournament's league may still join, but they will be required to pay the fee.
Please note that this only applies to tournaments sponsored by Steem Monsters and created by the @steemmonsters account. Any other tournaments will require the fees set by the tournament creator from all entrants.
Additionally we will be refunding anyone who has already paid a fee to enter an upcoming tournament that starts after these changes have been put in place. This may take a day or two so please be patient.
Other Tournament Changes
We have also made the following, smaller changes to the tournament system based on player feedback so far, and we have many more to come over the coming weeks:
- Entry fees will now be automatically refunded when leaving a tournament
- Players will not be able to enter Gold or Alpha card only tournaments unless they have at least one Gold or Alpha Summoner and at least 5 Gold or Alpha Monsters.
- We have removed the two-minute delay between each tournament round. Since each player has up to 5 minutes to enter into the next battle anyway, this additional time was unnecessary and just made the tournaments take longer.
- We have made a few changes to the tournament list screen to make it easier to filter tournaments and identify which ones you have already entered.
Off to a good start
As you can see after only the first few days we're at nearly $1,000 USD paid out and will reach over $5,000 in the first two weeks! We're looking forward to watching this grow over time as tournament sponsors join us to show case their good and services to our thousands of players.
Good luck out there and happy hunting for loot!
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I think in the tournament section of the Steem Monsters website under "WHEN" there should not only be the date and a time but also a countdown, because the start time varies depending on ones whereabouts, and it's partly somewhat cumbersome to find out the corresponding local time to the given time at the Steem Monsters site.
I believe the times listed under "When" are in local time, not the server time. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.
It can well be that you are right! I didn't take part in one of these automated tournaments so far, that means it was just a guess the given time was of a certain time zone always. Even better if local time is shown!
@jaki01 Its in the local timezone, but i would still prefer to see a timer with it. :)
I'm glad you've seen the light on this one. This seems like a reasonable compromise until DEC come out.
Now the seeding really needs to be fixed.
Thank you for listening and making these changes. Impressive.
I love this update. The SM team has shown this community, once again, that they value our feedback. We appreciate the hard work you both have put into the game and into making this community even stronger!
@yabapmatt, thank you for your time in coding this piece into reality (and being there for the community).
@aggroed, thank you for listening to everyone's input.
Now, going to have to find more spare time to raid the loot! :)
$10,000+ in payouts first month easy. Tournament hype all around the community. So much easier for players to create and participate in them now. The steemmonsters team is doing amazing things!
Played my first two tourneys finally. It was real fun awesome job team. 👍
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Great changes. Nothing more to say.
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곰돌이가 @glory7님의 소중한 댓글에 $0.004을 보팅해서 $0.019을 살려드리고 가요. 곰돌이가 지금까지 총 3353번 $40.000을 보팅해서 $41.802을 구했습니다. @gomdory 곰도뤼~
Awesomeness! Glad to see the changes and im glad to see that these tournaments will continue to be improved upon, its going to be EPIC & LEGENDARY!👹😎❤
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Check out my new Bitmoji, I love it! Go Steem Monsters ! Keep up the great work @yabapmatt and @aggroed !