Play to Airdrop in Draftables Pre-Season Tournament

Fans of American football, this one’s for you: Avalanche-powered franchise-building game Draftables is warming up to launch the Pre-Season Tournament this Friday, June 27. If you’d like to win some exclusive crypto rewards, including a token airdrop, then you may very well want to sign up and get ready to participate. Here are the important bits revealed so far that you should know before the competition is officially live.

What Is the Draftables Pre-Season Tournament?

The Pre-Season Tournament is a competitive leaderboard-based season in which players attempt to accumulate the highest number of points by getting as many wins as possible. It’s the biggest tournament yet for Draftables, a tactical football management game in which you can take on the role of an owner, coach, and general manager of your own franchise.

As you’re winning matches, you’re not only earning points that go towards leaderboard prizes, but you’re actually earning airdrop points for the upcoming $DRAFT token, an ERC20 token that will power a variety of interconnected sports gaming experiences. Points from matches also go towards the game’s own staking platform, which is designed to reward early loyalty supporters by providing early access to airdrop rewards, limited edition cosmetic items, as well as various incentives from partners at SocialFi platform The Arena.

Next to earning $DRAFT airdrop points through gameplay, there will also be other avenues to earn more off the field, including by doing social quests and participating in live events while becoming an active member of the game’s blockchain gaming community.

This all means that there will be 2 leaderboards to climb: the In-Game leaderboard, and the Staking Site Leaderboard. While the first leaderboard takes into account your performance in ranked matches, the second one tracks both gameplay and social quests, making it the official rewards hub “and the centerpiece of the tournament’s reward system,” according to documentation on tournament structure. It does very much seem like gameplay is an important factor here, so instead of focusing on social quests, you will want to actually play to airdrop and do your best to top the In-Game Leaderboard, because the highest-ranked players from that ladder will get “massive $DRAFT point allocations” and actually end up getting “a huge edge in the final rewards distribution.”

That being said, you can expect to see daily and weekly challenges rotate throughout the competition to earn $DRAFT points from. The developers will attempt to keep things interesting by providing a varied set of in-game challenges, creative challenges, and social challenges.

In-game challenges revolve around winning matches, getting match-winning streaks, and reaching certain stat milestones. Creative challenges encourage the creation of user-generated content such as highlight reels, team logo designs, and more, while social challenges will require to join their Discord server and follow the game on X as you try to promote the blockchain title across social media platforms.

Next to competing for a bigger token airdrop, players can also look forward to about 9 limited edition jerseys that can only be earned during this Preseason. These exclusive NFT prizes will be allocated across the Partner Jersey Collection and the Hiro Collection. While the latter is the studio’s own set of limited edition jerseys, the former will include branded home and away jerseys from Avalanche and The Arena, alongside one from VaporFi and another one from AiCE ARENA.

The rewards don’t stop there either, as you can also look forward to unlocking the ability to create user-generated jerseys. For this Preseason, the best performers will be able to get a glimpse at the full toolset the team is developing to power the game’s open, player-driven economy. This means that by finishing this tournament among the best players, you will earn the Designer Role, giving you the opportunity create your own jersey through a direct one-on-one collaboration with the game’s design team, who will take your concept and turn it into a proper NFT. Once the 1.0 version of the web3 game officially goes live, your jersey will go live too as a collectible that anyone can mint. Every time someone mints your jersey, you will earn a share of the revenue.

Whether you’d like to win jerseys, earn the opportunity to make your own, secure a $DRAFT airdrop allocation, or all three, then you can look forward to competing in Draftables starting June 27 on your web browser, Android or iOS device, or through The Arena App Store.

How to Sign Up for Draftables Pre-Season Tournament

You can sign up for the Draftables Pre-Season Tournament via a web browser or Arena Social using your email address or crypto wallet. If you go email first, you have the option to connect your wallet afterwards in the “My Account” page. You will need to connect your wallet anyways in order to gain access to the staking dashboard, which is what will allow you to actually start earning $DRAFT points, according to the official sign up guide.

The staking dashboard is not live at the time of writing, so you can head on over to the game’s official website in the meantime and sign up first to be ready to go. You may also want to check out a recent livestream to learn more about how the game works.