There's no doubt that we’re very excited! The Master’s Challenge is our first
own tournament and we’re proud to present you a roster of
participants that promises finest gameplay as well as thrilling matchups. Thanks to everyone participating & supporting The Master’s
Challenge!
Please note, that
you are still able to sign up until Friday, October 27th
at 1pm CEST! To do so, here you go!
The Master’s
Challenge will be casted by everyone’s favorite Dipshit. The tournament will be fairly long and thus the stream will be split as follows:
- The group stage will be casted on Sunday 28th at 3pm CEST live on Twitch! This time, Dipshit will be joined by one or more special guests. For instance, BetaDwarf's CEO Baboonlord will join Dipshit for some games!
- The final stage will be casted on Monday 29th at 7pm CEST live on Twitch!
Halloween Update and changes to the economy system
Update 49 hit last
Wednesday. There were a lot of changes introduced, but also Skins and
a brand new Expedition map! Sadly, we see the community being frustrated about
some of the changes.
Many of these
changes came very suddenly and we feel sorry for any inconvenience.
We're still learning a lot of things regarding communication. In the
end, most of us are game developers ;)
We’re listening,
watching and feeling you! We’re still open for feedback (good
or bad), suggestions and adjustments. We're not just sitting around, but are working hard on adjustments. Our team has discussed changes, taking feedback and
various suggestions into consideration. We already announced some of our future adjustments here. Additionally, we will go into more detail in our Monday blog post.
Please do continue
to give us feedback and suggestions, let us know your results from
Expeditions via Discord, Steam forums or Reddit! But please do so
in an objective manner and detailed. That one sentence: “These changes are just bad” reflects your thoughts and feelings, but
doesn’t give us a lot to work with.
That being said,
we’re looking forward to your thoughts, feedback and discussions!
Another Master answers
Many of you remember
the interview with Dipshit about Minion Masters and its competitive scene. This week, we got Salbei22 for an interview! We
talked about Monday Night Masters and his opinion on the state of
Minion Masters in the future:
Hey Salbei, nice
to have you! You’re a known streamer in our community, but for
those who still don’t know you, would you introduce yourself
please?
My name is
Sebastian, am 35 years old and live in Germany. I picked up Minion
Masters around March and immediately got hooked. I just could not
stop learning and improving. The game really rewards you for smart
decision making and skill intense timings and even after my roughly
1000 hours into the game I still learn new tricks and interactions!
I started streaming
my daily sessions about 3 months ago and fortunately became quite
popular in the community. One day Sinilil (you probably know him from
casting the King Puff Cup) approached me with the idea to broadcast
our own Minion Masters league. We started to toy around with the
idea, got PalaceOfDreams (an insightful, high level player) on board
to do the casting and here we are now.
You’re running
the Monday Night Masters for the 4th week
now. Could you explain what it is?
Right
now we are broadcasting a trial run of the planned league, and yet we
managed to get 18 high profile players to provide us with
entertaining games. We held a survey among those players if we need
to ban potentially problematic cards, but ended up without any bans –
so the tournament is as competitive as possible without any
restrictions. Due to the nature of the format you will not get away
with playing only one deck all the time.
The
players are aware what the opponents played in the past, and thus are
able to react with their deck choice, to potentially counter what
they expect to see. This also adds another layer of strategy.
ShadyHobos
for example is known for his triple Zeppelin cheese deck – which
usually wins because of the combination of a timed push plus the
surprise factor. The Poker term “going ALL IN!” describes this
pretty well.
What new does the Monday Night Masters bring to the competitive scene around
Minion Masters?
The
one big edge we got over the other competitive Tournament names in
the Minion Masters scene is our preparation time.
Since
players have about a week of time to play their game, it is a lot
easier to overcome scheduling issues, which usually are problematic.
Also we have more time to prepare the visuals for the show this way.
I
can spend about 4 days of work to prepare the show – and people
really appreciate the extra effort spend towards the small
animations, videos and on-screen deck lists.
Let’s take a
look in the future: What do you guys plan for the Monday Night
Masters?
The
initial idea was to create a League style tournament where the
participants battle each other weekly. Just like a football or soccer
league. Right now we are still experimenting with the format, while
also trying to figure out how much workload the players and our team
can handle. We decided to set the initial hurdle low for the trial
run, but we can definitely branch out bigger from here. My dream
would be to broadcast the show multiple times a week.
I already asked
Dipshit that: Where do you see Minion Masters in 2 years?
Minion
Masters is highly skill intensive and very enjoyable to watch being
played on a high level. It has got huge potential to become the next
big thing in the eSport scene, since it is highly accessible for the
masses and easily observable. This is its major strength in my eyes.
Everybody can follow what is happening on the screen – even people
who never played the game themselves can understand what is going on
and get immediately hooked. I am certain the game will become a smash
hit!
Thanks for the
interview, Salbei! If you want to leave some shout-outs, feel free to
do so.
Thanks to B4dhabit – wherever you may be now. Back in the day he was streaming and helped me to understand the game. Go check out his YouTube channel and his tutorials. Decks in there are outdated by now, but he still did a fantastic job explaining the basic principles of the game to us.
Of course a shout-out to FFA, Dipshit and their King Puff Tournament! You guys do an ungodly amount of work in just 2 days of time and I highly appreciate your work!
My Casters Sinilil and PalaceOfDreams, and of course the MNM Participants for providing us with those amazing games! You guys rock!
I would also really like to thank my fellow Twitch streamers Videogamer77 and ShadyHobos for all the kind words and moral support. Go check em out!
Last but not least, a shout-out to my loyal viewers! You guys motivate me to keep coming back and do what I do
Oh and BetaDwarf for creating this amazing game!
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Let's leave it at that. We wish all of you a nice weekend and are looking forward to The Master's Challenge!
Cheers from BetaDwarf
