Quiet Time in Topshotland | Friday, July 2nd, 2021
It's Friday, and there's lots going on outside of Dapper's world
Welcome to the reigning, undisputed, undeniable weekday champ - Friday!
The Bucks beat the the Hawks last night to take a 3-2 lead. Without either star playing, I just hope they can come back to close out the series. Yesterday’s game felt like a snoozer.
Topshot hosted a live stream last night. Instead of the #TopshotLive show of the past, this one was called “My Moment” show.
If it’s your birthday today, happy birthday to you! Hopefully there’s a pax drop this afternoon.
Buyers and Sellers
-5,000 buyers
Remember this blog post? “Six months ago fewer than 5,000 collectors had a moment in their collection” and yesterday 6,615 collectors bought one too.
Movers and Losers
General Advice
Just a reminder we can be critical of the things we love.
I’m not sure what Topshot needs to do at this point - balancing the demands of the userbase vs. whatever their internal goals are.
What I do know is that we’re in the midst of one of the more exciting Playoffs, we’re guaranteed an unheralded new team as champion, and the excitement is palpable in the NBA. Not to mention the palpable excitement around NFTs overall.
Somehow, Topshot is in both of these spaces and apart from both of their hype. It’d be impressive, if it wasn’t such bad news for collectors.
Perhaps we should have foreseen this. I blame the botched All-Star weekend on Topshot as the first missed opportunity, and we the community have been slowly drifting away from shore ever since then.
I don’t want to complain without offering solutions. I also think if Topshot wants to create lots of moments and lots of packs, that’s fine. How to marry the two?
It’s the moment combinerator. Sorry to bring it up again, it just feels so obvious! Last playoffs we had a Conference Finals set, and The Finals Set.
This year, CF sets have been rolled into one, with a mouthful of a name (And Then There Were Four, or ATTW4). You can see why a collector might prefer something labeled the Western Conference Finals set, right?
Maybe it’s a staffing issue. To put out five moments from a game, with a sixth one as a reward for every game in the W/ECF might take more resources and time than the team has right now.
Still, for the collector experience, I feel it better encapsulates the important moments from the journey of the series than the six moments we’ll get from each Conference Final.
Don’t get me started on the multi-queue…..so what, Collector Score matters not a lick anymore?
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