Week 79 of my SplinterDiary📝📚, Pizza 2🍕 Brawl Report⚔️🛡️ & SplinterNews 📰 — "5th Anniversary DEC Burn Event. Win a Tract of Land? 🌍🤑"

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

I would have said the overall crypto market was doing quite terribly this week until today when BTC recovered a little, thus pulling everything up along with it. That puts us back right where we were last week when I made my previous weekly diary post. So back to square 1? 🤣

On the Splinterlands dev side of the game, there has been a new huge Splinterlands 5th Anniversary campaign with some really attractive prizes. There are literally THOUSANDS of prizes on offer and the most spectacular? A top prize of an amazing TRACT of land too! 😱

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 79th consecutive week writing in my Diary (of sorts) detailing my Splinterlands Journey ever since I started this game. I talk about what has gone on my personal Splinterlands playing experience, my weekly Guild Brawl Reports, and also any Splinterlands ingame news. 🎉🥳🎊

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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There hasn't been much to say about this week as I was on a long holiday. I tried my best to play as much as I could whenever I could squeeze in some time, but unfortunately, my total points tally will be quite affected come the End of Season in just a day from now.

However, that could also be due to the phenomena of increased difficulty that I've been experiencing in increasing amounts ever since a few seasons ago. As I mentioned before, it seems like one has to have a max level deck (for their league) to compete anywhere near the top of the league they're playing in now.

I would presume that this is probably due to bots being squeezed out as the game becomes more and more unprofitable to farm, hence affecting rental prices and therefore more people are renting higher level cards. I can't confirm this for sure, but that is just my own experience and observation in recent seasons. 🤔

Hopefully the End of Season tomorrow treats me kindly. I haven't had anything to shout about in awhile.

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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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I have not managed to get any new Nightmare packs to replace all those I've sold. I will wait patiently to get them at the price I want. 🤑

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⚔️🛡️Weekly Guild Brawls Report⚔️🛡️

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With the end of the week comes my latest Splinterlands Guild Brawl Report for "PIZZA 2 The Deep Dish" too. 🍕⚔️🛡️

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I'm still a tad bit short of merits for the next Gladius Case, so that should almost definitely be ready by the time I write my weekly post again next week.

🤞🏻🍀🤞🏻🍀🤞🏻🍀 Fingers crossed for a Gold Foil (Legendary!!!) I hope 🤣🤑 for my future Gladius packs. (or any packs/rewards chest for that matter 😉)

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My main regularly picks up the ✨🏅✨Gold Foil Chaos Legion Only Fray no.12✨🏅✨ while my alt takes up the ✨🏅✨Wild Novice League Fray no. 2✨🏅✨ every week.

Both my main and alt accounts performed very well again this week. My main achieved an impressive perfect score of 5-0 while my alt came close too with a score of 6-1. This was a very similar result as compared to last week too. I'm glad to see some consistency in my own results.

PIZZA 2 Guild managed to finish in 3rd place! 🏆🏆🏆

All our brawlers who participated actually achieved very good win rates and this was an improvement over the previous week where we could barely field enough players and didn't even manage to finish on the podium.

Unfortunately, we're still lacking that consistent manpower and unable to get the rankings that our results deserve.

Great Job from everyone who took part in the Guild Brawls! I'm proud of you all! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

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On a sidenote, we've still got some unfilled frays too so...

BTW, PIZZA 2 is recruiting 😜 and looking for active players who can commit to attending every single guild brawl. Do hop into the PIZZA DISCORD if anyone is interested (or knows someone who is).

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🏆💰🎁Splinterlands News🏆💰🎁

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Who'd have thought Splinterlands is now 5 years old! (well soon, at least) 😱 I missed most of the early years of course and have only been around for about 1.5 year out of those 5. I did enjoy myself playing the game, even if the falling prices have been discouraging at times.

But back to the main news, Splinterlands will be giving out lots of prizes in celebration of their 5th anniversary. Each 10k DEC burned will give the person 1 raffle ticket which enters them into a draw with prizes ranging from plots of land, to runis, and packs of cards all the way back from the Alpha edition!

Not only that, the top 200 "DEC Burners" will even get special titles and and prizes based on their final ranking. The top prize is an astonishing TRACT of Land! It will be interesting indeed to see if any pooled group or whales will attempt to go for that prize with a massive burning of DEC. 🤑

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Even if you think that you might be really unlucky and not win anything at all, all those DEC burnt will not go to waste as it will be added into a future "Guild Power" system whereby the DEC each player contributes to the guild will now "stay" with them. This brings up a whole new range of possibilities with regards to player loyalties to their guilds as a really influential player leaving could deal a huge blow to the guild ranking.

Only time will tell if this is a positive change or not.

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Weekly Riftwatchers Sales Tracker

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Well, CHAOS LEGION IS ALL SOLD OUT! So the next most logical thing to track next are the sales of Riftwatchers.

1,025,009 packs have been sold (as of the writing of my post) out of a total supply of 3 million. There's still almost 500k to the next count of 1.5 million packs sold before we get the next Legendary Riftwatchers Airdrop card. 🚀📈🤑

🤑💰🍕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. 😊}

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

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