Season's greetings 🏀 hoops fans
A full day of NBA action plus your Locker Pack Stress test strategy
gm Thursday,
A jam packed night of NBA action last night! What a way to welcome back basketball!
I was fortunate enough to attend Celtics-Knicks at the Garden, a 2OT thriller the C’s bumbled away. I did not see any Top Shot advertising, sadly.
Top Shot was watching JB go wild too:
Unfortunately my Celtics lost in the end, everyone was just exhausted, it was plain to see. Nevertheless, I was lucky enough to win a Playoff Pack from the Rookie Year Showcase! I’d be happy to keep that trend going, and take a pack for every Celtics loss this season.
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Movers and Losers
General Advice
Locker Pack Stress Test
Today will be the second opportunity to exchange Trade Tickets for a Locker Pack, the drop was delayed from Monday. It starts at 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern. 10 Tickets gets you one 10-moment Locker Pack.
How are you approaching this drop?
I won’t be participating in this drop but here’s two reasons why you might want to (if you already have the Tickets that is, trade ins are closed now):
If you missed out on the first Locker pack, and want to see what it’s like, that’s a solid reason. Where you don’t want to be is with too few Tickets, either have 10, and trade them in, or 0. The reason is the Tickets are fungible (all worth the same amount) but since your trades are likely based on S2 moments, they’re worth 12 Collector Score points.
If you traded in players on teams you don’t have a bonus for, and want to hit the lottery for your team’s players, that’s respectable.
When the first moments from this season drop (or the Archive Packs for example) the moments are only worth 2 CS points. That should be the standard redemption for a Trade Ticket going forward. Today you’re looking at a guaranteed 120 point CS score from this drop.
If you’ve never scored a Legendary pack, and never enjoyed the thrill and wanton gluttony of uncorking ten moments in a row, today’s drop is also a pretty good substitute for that experience.
One final perspective: When will the next 10 common moment drop happen? Nobody knows, and maybe never again. Or maybe it will be frequent. I wouldn’t leave today’s pack unopened but it is historic in it’s way. Maybe it will be viewed that way one day.
Links for Thinks
C.R.E.A.M. get the money: Once Upon a Time in Shaolin was purchased by PleasrDAO from the government who had seized it from Martin Shkreli.
From a few days ago, this blog on scarcity and rarity for Top Shot in S3 is worth a read.
Wen last night’s packs?!