A lot has taken place over the past two weeks or so.
It has been awesome to watch this community grow! I have to say, I learn a lot from everyone who has been active and appreciate it greatly! I want to thank all of the people who have been interested in becoming more active within the SBT community. It has been a fun few weeks. I apologize to anyone in the server or on peakd who would like to see or hear more from @sbtofficial. This has mainly been due to a new addition to my family at home. Some of you may already know but a many may not. I did not make an announcement about this mostly because I don't like to glorify my children online. With that I will share a photo of my newborn son Xadien Michael Smith just to show his cuteness. I wanted to share that because it has been a hectic few weeks. My nephews finally left last Thursday. I should be back to having time (aside from kids) to be able to post more frequently.
That is why sbtofficial has been a bit quiet the past few weeks. My wife and I were dealing with the state stepping in from time to time checking on my brothers kiddos. They just needed to make sure they were properly being taken care of. I have to share a bit of information about my wife. She has been a trooper through all of this. Including the recovery. She was in on Friday and out by Sunday the 1st. Not to mention, we still had the kids up until Thursday. Like I stated previously, they finally got to go home to their parents. I hope this time it will be permanent. I know that it was a challenge for them. They learned a lot being in our home with schooling and such. It was a big change for our household having them here. To be honest, I kind of miss the noise. It will take a little bit to get back into the normal groove of things but we are well on our way to do so.
We have some pretty big announcements to make.
Recently, OwlyFarm has added SBT to their giveaways during their streams. If you haven't already check out their twitch... Owly Farm Gaming whose channel will be hosted by @typicalplaya14 @donma and @cmmndrbawang
Streamers who give out SBT during stream -
#SBT has recently been approached for a partnership with #PGM. Users who stake 10 PGM can now use the command !PGM and SBT will be issued alongside of the current rewards that PGM already currently offers. Thank you @zottone for wanting to partner with the SBT community and @bananofarmer for setting all this up. It is greatly appreciated.
To learn more about the partnership, please go to the following post...
PGM x SBT, Send SBT (PGM Post)
In other SBT news
We have witnessed some great new additions to the SBT discord server. From members battling to auctions taking place alongside of the raffles. Tournaments, with members that have powerful battling strategies, inside of Splinterlands. And more ideas flowing through the community from time to time about ways the token can improve inside of the server.
The auctions have already started deploying but may change with time. We tried a daily auction and a weekly auction. I think the auctions might be slightly confusing for some due to the way that it works. A great example of this is when bidding. It may be that bidder do not see the high bid at all times due to where it is located. It isn't directly located inside of the server. Although, it does post to the server. This isn't necessarily the issue. It may be that holders aren't seeing the link inside of the bidding area. Below is an image showing where it is located on the page of the auction.
Time of the auction ending is important to take note of, as well. We are still in the works of setting the auction to suspend bids after the time limit has been reached. For now, please bear with us as we find the right adjustments for the auction layout that we currently have been using. Until we come up with a better system auction endings have to be stopped manually. That means that the current auction holder (@sgt-dan) will have to look through and see who the last bid was. This is only temporary until we find a better solution to our auctions.
BATTLES!!
A few challengers have also appeared inside of the SBT server, as a way to battle for your SBT earnings. A wild opponent has appeared, at random, inside of the general and battle chat channels is ready to send SBT to challengers willing to take 'em on. Keep on the look out for wild @lordanquek @bananofarmer @sgt-dan @cmmndrbawang and (myself) @itzninjafool, where we will post inside of the server at random calling out for challengers. No worries if you don't have a lot of power we will make sure that it will be a fair fight to earn whether you win or lose.
Auction Winner Announcement
This Weeks Auction Winner Goes To @myeong Winning A LVL 2 Gold Foil Deeplurker
Congratulations @myeong!
For those of you that bid late, no worries. There will be plenty of other cards (even GF Deeplurkers) that will be made available for SBT auctions. We are also going to start sharing the links to these auctions on peakd and d.buzz, in case there are holders out there that are not familiar with Discord or simply do not use it. We want to make it fair for all SBT holders to be able to participate. Keep in mind though, the server still has other ways of earning, such as battling other members inside of the server. As we proceed with auctions, we may change a few things but for now this is the best solution for what we currently have to work with. If anyone has any complaints regarding auctions, feel free to reach out to me about the issue that has occurred. Thank you!
Last, but not least, Tournaments
We have had 5 SBT tournaments that have taken place within Splinterlands. We plan to continue tournaments on a regular schedule every week. @sbtofficial will continue creating 24 hour bronze tournaments with SBT as a reward for the tournaments. However, rewards may change. I want to share that because we will be casting a vote for possible extra rewards for the first place tournaments winners. Whether or not that will stay will depend on cost of reward vs player amount who joins the tournaments. Which in this case would likely be cards or SPS/DEC for 1st place winners alongside of the normal 10k SBT amount.
SBT Official Tournament Winners May/7/2022
Thank you!
IMPORTANT NOTE: Splinterlands Battle Token (SBT) is not an official token of the Splinterlands.com game. It is a separate project and is not endorsed by SteemMonsters, Corporation (yet).'