Axie Infinity: Battle of the Guilds!
Today, ZenSports is proud to announce the first Axie Infinity tournament we’ll host in our app! Axie Infinity: Battle of the Guilds will celebrate the most significant part of the Axie Infinity ecosystem: guilds.
The tournament is on March 5, 2022, at 8:00 PM EST and will feature total prizes of 5,000 USDT plus 5,000,000 SPORTS tokens.
Eight guilds will each submit eight players to compete in the event. We have already invited six guilds: SuperWhale, Axie Academy, Generation Axie, Axie School of Scholars, Yield Guild Games, and Swordfish Guild. The last two guilds will be selected and announced leading up to the main event. Interested guilds can apply to participate in the event here.
All participating tournament players will enter the single-elimination bracket with random seeding. Guild members may end up playing each other, but that will be part of the fun. 🙂
The tournament prize pool of 4,500 USDT and 4,000,000 SPORTS tokens will be distributed directly to the players, while ZenSports will send 500 USDT plus 1,000,000 SPORTS tokens to the guild with the highest average placement amongst all players.
ZenSports will also provide a custom NFT Trophy to the tournament winner, minted to the Ethereum blockchain and customized with Axie, participating guilds, and ZenSports combined branding. Check out the NFT Trophy we made for the CryptoStache Classic.
The tournament will be streamed live to the ZenSports Twitch, Theta, and Facebook channels. Specific Axie creators, which we will announce later, will stream the event to their channels in English, Portuguese, and Tagalog.
Axie Infinity has 2.7 million monthly active players and is one of the largest blockchain games in the world. We’re thrilled to have their permission to host Axie Infinity tournaments within the ZenSports app, and are confident that this will be the first of many successful Axie tournaments that we’ll be hosting in ZenSports.
EMP Money is the headline sponsor for the event. You can learn more about their pegged algocoin, which tracks Ethereum at a 4000:1 ratio!
Tournament Summary Details
Prizes: 5,000 USDT + 5,000,000 SPORTS Tokens. Specific prize pool breakdowns can be found in the ZenSports app (head to “more” -> “play”.)
Date & Time: March 5th, 2022 @ 8:00 PM EST
Format: 64 players, single-elimination, bracket-style tournament in the ZenSports app. Organization will take place in the ZenSports Discord.
Sponsor: EMP Money
Streams: Twitch, Theta, Facebook + Axie content creator hosts.
Tournament Rules
Challenges: Players will initiate matches as direct challenges on Axie Infinity. The lower player (on the ZenSports bracket display) sends the challenge.
Glitches: If a match is to glitch, the winning player is to decide whether to replay the match or not.
Check-in: Players must check in the axie-battle-players channel in the ZenSports discord 30 minutes before the event.
Match Timing: Players must wait to begin matches until instructed by a tournament organizer. Players may send challenges immediately after each match without the tournament organizer’s discretion.
Results: When a match concludes, players must post the results in the #axie-battle-players channel in the ZenSports Discord.
Tardiness: Players who are more than 15 minutes late for a series or a match, as deemed by the tournament organizer, forfeit their opportunity to plan in the remainder of the tournament.
Names: Players must change their name in the ZenSports Discord and on the ZenSports app to their Axie username.
Cheating: If there is any suspicion of cheating, the tournament organizer team will pause the series/match and decide how to proceed.
Match Pause Rules
Players may request one pause, up to one minute, in each best-of-1 series.
Players may request one pause, up to 3 minutes in a best-of-3 series.
Players may request 2 pauses, up to 5 minutes, in all best-of-5 series
Players may request 3 pauses, up to 7 minutes, in all best-of-seven series.
Axie Gameplay Rules
Players may use as many Axies as needed throughout the tournament. Swapping Axies in between matches is allowedes
Players may not send Axies to other players during the tournament.
Stream Rules
ZenSports’ stream will be on a 2-minute delay.
Player’s streams must be held on a 5-minute delay.
Stream Viewing: Players cannot view any tournament or non-tournament stream during the event.
Any “hosts” (commentators provided by Superwhale) will be required to stream the event via a screen capture of the official ZenSports stream.
Tournament Round Format
Winners Bracket: Best of 3
Semi Finals: Best of 5
Grand Finals: Best of 7
Tournament Software
ZenSports will use our mobile app for tournament bracket software. All players will be required to register on the ZenSports app and change their display name to match their Axie Infinity username. Players should only register if their guild leader and ZenSports have approved them.
ZenSports will send prizes via our app no less than one week following the event. Players can withdraw funds once they have successfully passed KYC verification.
Future ZenSports Axie Infinity Tournaments
We hope you are excited about the Battle of the Guilds! We hope to make this a regular, monthly event for the Axie and ZenSports communities and keep continuous and fun opportunities for guilds, regardless of size!
ZenSports has been hosting esports tournaments for the past 12 months, specifically focusing on Splinterlands, a blockchain card-trading game that saw tremendous growth in 2021 and has over 600,000 monthly active players.
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