📚📝Diary of My Splinterlands Journey Week 52📝📚 (🎁🧧Giveaway inside🧧🎁) - Lux Vega launched (and sold out 🤑). 45% of Splinterlands team let go 😭.

Hello to any of my readers and "Dear (weekly) Diary" 😜

Well, as expected of any week that has an End of Season in the midst of it, a lot more activity is to be expected. I think I'm pretty used to it and seasoned by now. However, that still means quite a bit more to deal with than usual 😜. I'm sure everyone loves this part of the season the most as that means a chance to get a bonaza of prizes from the EOS Reward chests.

In the wider world of Splinterlands, we've had the launch of the LUX VEGA sale and also some sobering and bad news for the Splinterlands ecosystem as a whole.

But before I go into detail...

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A brief introduction before I start though...

Good Day to all Splinterlands players! (and people of HIVE! 😜) I've made it a point to blog about my weekly progress and experiences in Splinterlands/HIVE in my "weekly diary". Splinterlands & HIVE are what I'd consider to be my entry point into the World of Crypto, and I intend to use this as a means to look back on the path I've taken in the years ahead.⏳⏳⏳

This is now the 52nd consecutive week writing in my Diary (of sorts) detailing my Splinterlands Journey ever since I started this game. Of course, this also marks another weekly giveaway! 🎉🥳🎊

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No week goes by in Splinterlands without some news event happening though. And here's my pick of some of the most interesting ones in my opinion. 📰📰📰

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🗺️🧳✈️Updates on my Splinterlands Journey🗺️🧳✈️

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Both my main and alt accounts finished the season in the Gold League as usual, albeit playing most of the season in Silver 1. This gives me the best value for rental spent in terms of competitiveness and EOS Rewards chests.

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Unfortunately, my rewards this time round were DISMALLY TERRIBLE 😭. With an total chest value of $2+ and $1 respectively, I think this is the WORST rewards I've ever gotten. I guess this is just not my season. It looks like Lady Luck has completely abandoned me this time round 🤣. I hope she returns soon! 💔

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My quest for more Gold Foil Legendary cards from my rewards chests continues on ("Greed is Good!" 😈). It's a 0.008% chance, at base level, to pull a legendary gold foil, in case you were wondering 😉. Here's to more jackpot strikes in the future (i hope) 🤞🏻🍀🤞🏻🍀🤞🏻🍀.

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My Tower Defense packs trading has been going really well though. I haven't had the time to calculate the exact numbers but the last week but I basically sold 125 packs and using those proceeds eventually rebought 187 packs 🤑📈. A net gain of 62 packs, which is about a 50% profit!

I do not really spend all those profits though and everything is reinvested back into placing (lower) bids for said packs again 😉. Therefore, it's a fluid situation which ensures that I extract maximum value from my holdings.

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🏆💰🎁Splinterlands News🏆💰🎁

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Lux Vega finally launched and each of them will cost 1 MILLION DEC 🤑😱. Unfortunately, this is only open to those who managed to get their hands on a special Splinterfest Las Vegas token, so I can count myself out of the running 😜.

This is the FIRST EVER Neutral Summoner in the game and she is basically an upgraded version of Kelya. I'm very sure we'll see a lot of her in the days ahead.

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https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@splinterlands/to-the-splinterlands-community

In other news (as referenced from the official announcement post link above), Splinterlands recently announced they were letting go of 45% of the current team. 😭 It seems like the Bear market and the recent earth shattering collapse of FTX has darkened the outlook for the crypto industry. 💸

In order to protect and ensure the long survival of Splinterlands through what is expected to be an extended Bear phase, some drastic measures had to be taken unfortunately. Whilst I do agree that this is a positive step to safeguard the future of the game, it is still something that no one likes to see happen. 😭

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Weekly Chaos Legion Sales Tracker

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And now, for an update on the number of Chaos Legion packs sold thus far. About 33.4k sold since last week. That is an amazing sales figure! 😄

Here's the current count (as of the moment I'm writing this post) of the number of packs sold, and we're 641k away from the 11 million mark! Which also means everyone has a chance to get in now and grab more packs for the remaining airdrops! 😜

My fingers are crossed! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 Hopefully I'll get some amazing luck for the next round! 🍀🍀🍀

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✨🎁✨Weekly GIVEAWAY #52✨🎁✨

✨🎁✨Choose One of these Reward Cards✨🎁✨

_{Instead of continually going through my list of common reward cards I can afford to give away each week, I've decided to let YOU CHOOSE WHICH YOU PREFER! 😜
This is probably more helpful, especially for new players who join my giveaways, as they can then finetune their decks with what they need (if they're lucky enough to win 😉🍀).
Of course, all these options are while stocks last, if I'm unable to offer you the card you've chosen should you win it, I will send you one of these cards in the list instead. They are all very useful for new players, and even veterans who level these cards up to high levels will find them pretty strong too! 👍💪}

📖✨🎁Rules for Giveaway🎁✨📖

_{This Giveaway will last until the next week's post, with 1 random lucky winner being picked. All winners in my Giveaways will also receive a slice of 🍕PIZZA🍕 token.
All you need to do to participate is to COMMENT and leave your Splinterlands name if it is different from what you use to post.
Winners will have to acknowledge their win within 48 hours by leaving a comment in the winner announcement post. This is so I don't send cards to non human accounts. (I'd strongly recommend you to FOLLOW me so that you can keep yourself updated should you be one of the winners 😉)
In cases of non responses, prizes will be forfeited at my discretion.
I will also be VERY grateful for any UPVOTES, FOLLOWS & REBLOGS. 😍}

🤑💰🍕Added Bonus of PIZZA Token🤑💰🍕

_{I will use my staked 🍕PIZZA🍕 to share a slice of 🍕PIZZA🍕 with anyone in the comments who also FOLLOWS & REBLOGS my post in the interests of spreading the Word of Pizza 🤣🤣🤣
Just let me know if you've done that so I can easily keep track. 👍
Any fellow 🍕PIZZA🍕 connoisseurs who !PIZZA me will also receive 🍕PIZZA🍕 back from me. 😊}

🥇🏆🎁WINNER of Previous Giveaway #51🥇🏆🎁

🎉🎉🎉@marleyroots CONGRATULATIONS!🎉🎉🎉

_{Please send me a message on the comments section to acknowledge (and auto enroll you for the next giveaway 😂 unless you wish to opt out) before I send the card to you.
(P.S, I might take some time to reply and send out the cards sometimes 😅. So all winners, please be patient, as long as you reply and acknowledge, I WILL definitely get it done 😜.)}

📣🍕SHOUTOUT to HivePizza📣🍕

_{The guys over at PIZZA DISCORD have been very helpful throughout my Splinterlands journey. I strongly recommend that you guys check it out if you haven't already done so.
PIZZA is an active gaming and creative arts crypto community on the HIVE blockchain. Popular games on HIVE like SPLINTERLANDS, RISING STAR, EXODE, HASHKINGS, WOO, BANG!DEFENSE have their own PIZZA communities here.}

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_{Don't miss out more events that are always being organised. Join the PIZZA DISCORD. Even if you aren't interested in the 💰🍕🎁GIVEAWAYS & AIRDROPS💰🍕🎁, there is a vibrant and friendly community there awaiting you.}

_{Here's to wishing everyone all the best for the upcoming week 🎉🍀.}

_{To any new players who wish to explore the world of Splinterlands, do feel free to sign up with my REFERRAL LINK😊.}