A New Dimension To Top Shot 🌅
The First Mint
Featuring A New Pack Format, KD Hype, Challenge Corner and More
gm, NFT people — hope you all had an excellent weekend! The NFT market is ripping, Top Shot is rolling, and the good vibes are flowing!
Let’s get into all the action from a BUSY last few days:
A New Pack Format 📦
Ready to have a chance of pulling a Rare or Legendary moment in your packs? Our cries have been answered!
Top Shot released a blog on Monday detailing a new pack format — allowing users to potentially score massive wins out of more accessible packs.
The Standard and Elite packs dropping on Thursday will feature a new set called ‘Game Recognize Game’, with moments hand-curated and narrated by Kevin Durant — while also including both S3 MGLE and Holo Icons mixed into the pack list!
Details:
🚨KEVIN DURANT | SET DROP🚨
We got:
✅Double pack drop
✅New drop format
✅Collector Score utility
KD SET:
📦6x "hand-picked" moments
📦Title: "Game Recognize Game"
📦10,000 LE each
PACK DROP:
🔹Thursday Feb 3
🔹10am PST for "ELITE"
🔹12pm PST for "STANDARD
Full Details⬇️ 1/5 https://t.co/hFjuDfSCfp
This seems like a massive W, on several fronts.
From a pure pack perspective, ripping them just got even more exciting. Even the small chance of pulling a HUGE moment makes all the difference!
Additionally, Top Shot has introduced yet another utility — with users able to purchase multiple packs at a time based on their CS:
Standard Pack Queue (no CS requirement) :
1,000+ Collector Score = 2 packs per transaction
3,000+ Collector Score = 3 packs per transaction
5,000+ Collector Score = 4 packs per transaction
Elite Pack Queue 10k CS requirement) :
10,000+ Collector Score = 1 pack per transaction
25,000+ Collector Score = 2 packs per transaction
50,000+ Collector Score = 3 packs per transaction
100,000+ Collector Score = 5 packs per transaction
Finally, we also got more airdrops given out to the community, with holders of several different sets getting rewarded.
Don’t let the chance at landing a rare/legendary moment in a common pack distract you from the economic impacts of this announcement
CS Score ⬆️
Holding a variety of sets ⬆️
Drop Bonus for Moments Owned ⬆️ (some won’t like it, but economic impacts are positive)
P.S. to members of the Nine Lives Lounge — KD will be popping in the Discord to chat at 2 PM TODAY… So that’s pretty freaking sweet!
Top Shot seems to have really found its groove over the last few months — and this is yet another extremely positive development for the community. Hats off to Dapper!
Sorry, Chiefs fans!
Challenge Corner 🏆
The first legs of both the Holo Icon and MGLE Challenges expired on Monday, with 71 and 392 completions, respectively.
The DeMar DeRozan holo reward currently sits at just under $4,000 as of this writing, and one collector was blessed with that luck we all dream of:
Still shaking after opening this. Can’t believe it. @DeMar_DeRozan #NBATopShotThis https://t.co/emEj03o6lC
The second Holo Icon and fifth MGLE challenges launched on Monday, with Ja Morant and Anthony Edwards up for grabs. Low ask for the challenges currently sit at $18,000 and $3,000, with three days to complete.
Finally, (sheesh we’ve got challenges on challenges!) we also got another Flash Challenge Monday night, with an MSFE of rookie Jalen Suggs as the reward. Details here. Also, great to see Suggs himself hype up the challenge on social:
What's good, @nbatopshot … Excited for tonight's Flash Challenge !!!
Complete it to win one of my Moments! 🔥
https://t.co/2GXJAjad0r https://t.co/EUTlNWNUiK
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