Announcement Deluge | Wednesday, July 7th, 2021
As we watch July basketball, Topshot shows us how they're celebrating.
Hello and welcome to Wednesday!
The Suns ran over the Bucks in Game 1 of The Finals last night. Game 2 is tomorrow.
Topshot dropped a bevy of updates last night - let’s unpack:
New playoff packs drop Friday, $14. More on this, below.
The first of the Finals Showcase Quests was announced. Today, show off last night’s scoring leaders. There will be one per game, so at least four Quests to partake in.
Prize? 100 winners will get a Playoff pack for each Quest.
All Quest entries (including from earlier in the Playoffs) count towards an entry for the Grand Prize drawing: a Legendary Pack, or runner up Conference Finals Rare packs.
Your Collector Score now updates live as you buy and sell your moments!
Buyers and Sellers
-6,500 buyers
Movers and Losers
General Advice
As far as my own collection goes:
I bet on the Hawks to beat the Bucks.
So, my many Hawks moments are now less useful than my handful of Bucks moments.
In fact, after the Showcase Quest was announced I filtered my nearly 200 moment collection for Bucks and Suns moments and found a grand total of six. Then, I watched Jeopardy! as dozens of $9 Chris Paul moments got gobbled up.
In the end, I managed to get a 4 digit orange jersey thumbnail for $10 to at least have one ace in hand.
How many types of Quests could Topshot do in the coming days?
Today it’s scoring leaders, and it seems reasonable to assume there will be Quests for assists and blocks. That’s still 1 to 4 more Quests in other categories. Will they just draw from the Finals teams? Most likely. Yawn.
I remembered I have a couple P.J. Tucker moments from his time on the Rockets - according to the original Playoff Showcase Quest rules, that should be eligible for this Quest too.
I’d like as many entries as possible. At the lowest cost possible.
I did complete the two earlier Playoff Quests so I already have two.
I recognize I have an extremely thin hand here - no Giannis, plenty of guys familiar with pine. I will try to complete these first two Quests but if not I’ll scrap my Finalists for Dapper, and play the long odds with my two entries only.
What will you do?
Playoff Packs: I’m no model, but I was named to GQ…
Alongside your live Collector Score, your projected tier for the queue is also visible.
I’m not too worried about scoring on this pack - General Queue is no big insult to me.
But, I absolutely want to be qualified and ready to go for the Rare drop: And Then There Were Four. There’s no timetable on that one yet, but I think it’s coming early next week.
Links for Thinks
Over the weekend, Daryl Morey, 76ers GM, bought a $4K Ben Simmons Holo Icon moment. Jack Settleman, the hardest working 24 year old in crypto sports media singlehandedly drummed up the PR for this coverage.
Forbes’ interviewed the CEO of OpenSea on the state of NFTs.
A new sneaker NFT maker is dropping on Solana. I keep hearing good things about Solana for NFT use cases…I’ll have to dig deeper.
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