We’re expanding our offerings of battle modes. The latest is Direct Challenge, where you’ll be able to create a match with minimum wager of 1 UNO and have no restrictions on a PR limit. The winner of the battle will receive 90% of the wager total (i.e. Vicky creates a challenge for 5 UNO, Scott accepts Vicky’s challenge and matches it with 5 UNO; Scott is victorious, Scott wins 9 UNO.) —the other 10% is split into two piles: 5% Burned (taken out of circulation for all time) and 5% added to the Gif Games Treasury used for future projects/incentives.
Setting up a Direct Challenge is simple, head to the “Direct Challenge” portal, hit the “Create a Challenge” button, select your squad as you typically would (except with no PR restrictions) and then set the UNO amount you’re willing to wager.
You can also frame the PR Range of your opponent you’re willing to accept (+/- 50 being the default.)
From there, you’ll have 20 minutes for the challenge to be accepted before it needs to be reset. Once somebody accepts your challenge you’re taken into battle the usual way—you won’t gain a lootbox or ENR drops, you’re simply fighting for the UNO being wagered.
The Leaderboard + Extra Prizes
Inspired by BlockBorn’s Season One tournament, we’ve incorporated a leaderboard to track the top UNO earners—ranking will be based on UNO accumulated through direct battles (this takes into account if you lose UNO during battles as well, so the sum of UNO won - UNO Lost is how players will be ranked.)
$300 Cash Prizes + Tickets to Mint
Thanks to our friends over at Blockborn, they are sponsoring the launch of Direct Battles with $300 in cash prizes for those taking 1st, 2nd, 3rd positions over the course of the weekend, the Flash Tournament will end October 10 at 4:00PM UTC, we’ll announce winners early next week after verifying their legitmacy!
1st Place - $150
2nd Place - $100
3rd Place - $50
Additionally, starting October 12, we will begin a live drawing of 10 Tickets to Mint each week, raffled off to those on the Top 10 list of the rankings. Just because you rank on the Top 10 doesn’t mean you’re guaranteed a spot in the Ticket drawing; before adding a player to the randomized drawing we’ll disqualify bad actors and ensure we get community feedback on those found out to be Alt-farming wins.
Distributing the final Tickets to Mint in this fashion will be the way forward until all available slots for minting a new land are fully distributed.
Stickers!!
The future of in-game taunts is on its way…
Launching alongside Direct Challenges: Stickers! To help opponents communicate during battle we’ll be launching with the above stickers, and periodically adding new ones in different updates of the game.
Give them a spin once they’re live!
Classic Battles
Classic Battles will remain intact, we’ll be announcing various changes to the Classic battle flow and a new level-up system for it in the coming weeks––also, we have a very juicy announcement about the future of Tezotopia that we can’t wait to share…
Thanks for battling! Hope you enjoy the Direct Challenges–Blockborn will be adding new bounties specific to Direct Challenges in the future too, so be on the lookout for those soon!