We’re back with anther Dark Forest Arena: Grand Prix on a 🔥 new map!
Grand Prix: Week 2 drops at 12 am UTC, Sat, June 11 at arena.dfdao.xyz.
Week 1 Recap
The first Dark Forest Arena: Grand Prix was a huge success.
Plus:
- 1 sad Velorum thinking he won.
- 1 happy Velorum actually winning.
Week 1 Prize Distributions:
- $100 to first place winner Velorum
- NFTs to players who finished 2–6
- POAPs for all players who finished a Grand Prix
Week 2 Details
By popular demand, the Grand Prix is returning for another week.
The rules are the same as the previous round. You must get from the 🍼 planet to the 🎯 planet as fast as possible.
The map will be announced right before the round starts. Be warned — it will require some different skills than last week.
Competition Time
From 00:00 UTC Saturday June 11 To 00:00 Monday June 13 UTC 2022
If you want to see time this is for your timezone, check here.
Rewards
$100 xDAI for the player that submits the best time.
Top 6 receive a 🏆 NFT.
Everyone who finishes a race gets a 🙌 POAP.
New Time Tiers
Players can now achieve a Gold 🥇, Silver 🥈, or Bronze🥉tier times.
These are tiers that anyone can achieve by beating the relevant cutoff.
Gold 🥇: under 30 min
Silver 🥈: under 60 min
Bronze🥉: under 90 min
There are no rewards for tiers, but we hope that achieving a Tiered time will provide options for newer players to see themselves improve.
Client Updates
- Our 2 min feedback survey appears at the end of the race. Your feedback is crucial to helping us improve the Grand Prix experience!
- We have made Grand Prix onboarding a 2 click process: 1. Click
Race the Grand Prix2. Choose or create wallet. - Added (an improved) Repeat Attack and Upgrade Manager plugin to the embedded plugins for easy use.
- Improved Tutorial flow to allow skipping and exiting.
- Transaction concurrency has been increased from 3 to 10 for more bulk transactions.
- Added Artifact data to foundries (when artifacts are deterministic)
As always, if you want to run your own client, follow these instructions.
Gameplay Tips
Check out @ClassicJordon’s thread on Grand Prix gameplay tips!
Watch Velorum’s stream of his best runs.
Gitcoin Grant
If you ❤️ the Grand Prix, please consider donating to our Gitcoin grant.
Every dollar counts and helps us get quadratic funding matches!
Disclaimers
- Once again, this is experimental software and certainly has bugs. We are building in public as part of our web3 journey. Please report any bugs you find!
- If this competition has a game-breaking bug, we reserve the right to cancel or redo the Grand Prix.
