Hello everyone. Today in the Social Media Challenge I am going to tell you about my experience in the Splinterlands tournaments. For this I have been participating in a lot of tournaments for a while, mainly in the silver league since my cards are of adequate levels for that league but I also participate in the gold or diamond league to try my luck, but in those not even with luck wins xD.

I usually participate in tournaments organized by Splinterlands directly since in them it is not difficult to recover at least what was invested since, as you can see, up to position 256 the investment is recovered and there were 205 participants. In this case the tournament is sold as for modern format silver level NOOBS and has low entry requirements. After much participation in these tournaments I have realized one thing that greatly affects the experience and that is that they sell it as for beginners but there is no upper limit of power above and of course a person with 25K of power can do little against another who have 1300K of power as is the case of the winner of the tournament. That is why I think that a good system would be to make several categories and limit access also by maximum power, since otherwise the thing is very unbalanced and does not encourage anything to play and participate. I even get the idea that if you have more power than you should, they would give you the option to choose cards with which to participate until reaching the maximum power allowed, this would add a lot of strategy to tournaments.

This is another tournament in which I participated in which I was 125 out of 280 and won 3 SPS and taking into account that it cost me 2 SPS to enter the tournament, it went well so I encourage you to participate.

In line with the above, another thing arises that from my point of view should be improved so that the tournament experience is more pleasant and that is that you have 24 hours to send the battles but then after those 24 hours you cannot see in the history of the tournament the battles so there are many that you cannot see unless you know how to handle the game's API, which is not available to everyone. I say this because I understand that the best way to learn is to see where one fails and for that it is best to visualize the battles, but if the game does not facilitate it, it becomes more difficult.

Another thing I would like to comment on is the SPS stake requirement in order to participate in tournaments. I understand that they want to make the token useful, but the amounts they ask for seem excessive. In the tournament in the photo they ask for almost 5K of SPS, which at today's price is about $500, taking into account that the prize for being first is $6, that requirement seems excessive to me more than anything because if it were lower it would encourage the people would rent or even buy cards to participate but they are that barrier to entry and they wouldn't even consider it.

After commenting on my opinions about the tournaments, I am going to show you my experience in the last one I participated in. It is one organized by Peakmonsters in which they asked for PKM to participate and in the prizes there were letters so it was quite interesting.

Peakmonsters, for those who don't know it, is a tool page for Splinterlands where you can rent and buy cards among many other things, if you like Splinterlands and you don't know it I recommend visiting it.
The tournament is still active but I did not pass the phase, I only won 6 battles of the 14 that were in the round, so I was left out. Below I show you the battles that a clan mate @javivisan was able to extract from the API. Try to guess what the outcome of the battles is.

Obviously my opponent wins, damn cat, if you don't know them better because he is one of the best summoners in the game but when you see him in front of you, all you have to do is pray.

In this case I won because thanks to the battle condition my shooters attack from the front line and that made me dodge the thorns of his Windeku.

This one was even and until the end I wasn't sure but I finally won, and that was because my creatures were faster and had more life.

Another cute kitten, I was close but in the end the cat took the prize.

It can't be, another one and another time I was close, if I hadn't used so much magic maybe the result would have been different.

This one was close but the ability of my splinter did a lot of damage to the rival and I took the victory. The rest of the battles are similar and I'm not going to bore you any more with them. I hope you have gotten an idea of ​​what the tournaments are like and that if you like them, you can participate.