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Here at the eGenesis office we have a good bottle of champagne ready to go if Bitcoin hits $574, half of it's all-time high. I'd like to extend the celebration into the virtual world by giving away 1 BTC if that happens. I'll do this in the form of a Tug tournament with several winners splitting the 1 BTC prize. The tournament will have no entry fee. We'll use the current price as reported by Coindesk to determine when the event launches.

Tug is a 2-player strategy game that takes a few minutes to learn - there are plenty of players online that would be glad to show how it works.

I believe that Dragon's Tale is the longest-running Bitcoin business in the world, in continuous operation since October of 2010. (See posts on this forum to verify that.)

Teppy

Only $10 left in the bitcoin price to reach $574
There's is already a bump going from last few hours so I guess that target will be achieved very soon
Keep your champagne bottle and 1btc ready to distribute :)

By the way, why $574 ?

Awesome promotion.
Also I would like to say that the co players in this game are very much helpful and supportive towards new players.

When I joined I didn't knew where to go after completing level 1 ad one of the peers helped me out instantly.

Hopefully I can get to that point where I can receive this share. :)

I heard many times about this game but I actually never played Dragon's Tale before.
Will it be OK to create new account for the sole purpose of using it to participate in that tournament/giveaway?
Or only accounts created before this announcement will be eligible to participate?

I would suggest you to re-read the first sentence in the opening post, and you should find out why OP has chosen $574.

Yes, creating a new account is fine for the tournament, but just a single account per player.

Teppy

I've been meaning to log back into my account after a long hiatus from DT to finish off a couple of challenges to get my avatar to level 8. Curious to see how things are now compared to when I last played 3 years ago.

Great

How we will get this prize there, we have to post our username into this thread or you will announce another giveaway thread there, i hope today we will see this price for bitcoin.

Dragon's Tale is a 3D world: There is a tournament board on Xinren Tang (the beginner island) - when the price hits $574 I will trigger the tournament. You click on the board to sign up, and then just play others in Tug. You'll see a current leaderboard as you play. (I realize that all of this can be a bit overwhelming if you haven't been in the game yet, but any of the other players can get you up to speed quickly.)

Teppy

Looks its nearly to happen i will drink too if it will happen and i hope i am the one who get the give away..
1 btc or few btc giveaway is enough for me..

Very nice giveaway, I played Dragon Tale long time ago but I didn't have much success. I don't remember username and password I used in that game.

I think I will try to instal it again and maybe this time have more success, Dragon Tale is interesting game, a bit hard. I saw how much money people won there with some jackpots ans other thing, just unbelievable.

Well good luck to players, lets the best win this nive giveaway.

Teppy you should smoke away 1 btc worth of cigars instead, it's fun and will be entertaining for newbies who joins/plays at dragons tale. ;D

Dont you think that it should be in the games and round section instead of in this gambling section?
Anyway, it is $571.40 now at coindesk so I think you will do the giveaway sooner and it is a good time for me to learn about Dragon's Tale because I have no experience about this before :)

I'll take part in this if it happens, I use to play Dragontales all the time!

The price right now looks reducing from 570 back to 566 so i think now the price will not hit ate 574 just now maybe in the next day we will see much higher price than the price you mention. better to buy a bear and wait while you are drinking..

this is some nice giveaway if btc hit 574$ but why that certain price?
how does this price makes you happy :D?
regards.
-Katerniko1

Op said that it's the half way to bitcoins highest value,I assume that's it

If it will hit sir i hope you can find my name i will online my account in dragon tale. may i ask what is your name account in dragon tale.. so that i can find you fast.. My account name is the same as my username here.. i am stuck in lever 3 because dont have funds.. so if i am lucky to get the giveaway i can continue it again..

It sounds great to get some coins for free, at the moment has been crossed that price limit and now it is over $574 at the moment and now i am also waiting what is going to happen next.

I think its already hit in some trading site i found one in yobit its 578 value right now and i think you risk your 1 btc and giveaway them into random member of dragon tales.. and drink few champagne .. good luck for those who lucky will receive it..

It doesn't matter how much the price is at other exchange sites
The thing that matter is the price at Coindesk which already hit $574. If we see Today's high at coindesk then its $574.43
So, just waiting when the giveaway will be started so I can participate

the tourney is open for sign-up. It will start in an hour from now.

$574.43 on CoinDesk - I have triggered the tournament; it will start in 45 minutes and last 4 hours. Anyone can feel free to post leaderboard updates in this thread. (I will too if I can, but I have family commitments in about an hour.)

Teppy

Are there any details for how to access the game? I've only played DT for about 20 minutes and started on that original island.

Make a new acount and try to get to a player who is lvl 5 or above they will explain u some basics tho game is dead most of time but u will find someone

Gl

Now Bitcoin has crossed the 580$ level and this made me curious to know the current status of this 1 Bitcoin's giveaway.Is this still available of already has been distributed in the game.Any update will be much appreciated to know how to move.Actually I just want to be sure before jump in this giveaway.

Dragon's Tale is quite confusing game and really hard to understand how to get start there, i just made a new account and looking for how to play there and increase my rank on this game, from my suggestion some kind of giveaway for forum members would be more attractive as i think.

And by tomorrow welcome back 600$. It has already pass the 574 mark, so is this giveaway still active?  And who are the winners?
Im so happy if im one of the chosen winners.

already $590 now ;D

This game required to download .exe file and i am afraid to install this file on laptop because there is some possible to get hacked, i have question is that game has safe to play from this software or any kind of flash version available to play online from web browser.

I don't think this giveaway promotion is over as it was started just yesterday.I hope we are not late to the party.I tried to play but didn't understand at start how to play.Now I will wait patiently to see if promotion is going on then will start again playing.It is good way to encourage new players to best games.

I did not play the giveaway bit someone maybe come up and give out the result but the tournament last only for 4 hours and it ended iam sure by now so u all have to wait again for few years to get di (teppy) happy and do another giveaway.

Here are the tournament results. I'll give them exactly as the game reports them, and then explain what everything means below.
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Results for $574 Bitcoin Tug Tournament

For Tug:
    For the BTC 1 Power-8 at 1/2 pool by Full Rank:
        IcePick won BTM 502
        Willem won BTM 188
        deviant won BTM 188
        shinjo won BTM 36.66
        Joes won BTM 36.66
        CryptoCuz won BTM 36.66
        jhackers won BTM 2
        Glutton won BTM 2
        tonyjung won BTM 2
        Kjell won BTM 2
        KriZ won BTM 2
-------------------------------------
Ok, so first off, it lists the "Game Set" which in this case is Tug. (Sometimes a Tournament has multiple Game Sets, but this one had just one, and that consisted of only a single game type, Tug.)

It then describes a "Prize Hopper" and a "Distribution Mechanism." In this case the Prize Hopper held 1 BTC, which in Dragon's Tale terminology can also be expressed as "1000 BTM." The Distribution Mechanism was Power-8 at 1/2 by Full Rank. Power says to distribute the most to whoever came in first, and then a fraction of that amount to 2nd place, and then a fraction of the 2nd place amount to 3rd place, etc. The fraction used in this case is the "1/2." Power-8 says to try to make the distribution to 8 players, though in the case of a tie that number can increase. As long as at least 8 players participated and had some sort of win, it won't decrease.

First place got about half a Bitcoin as expected. There was a tie for 2nd and 3rd places, so the system pools those prize amounts (about 250 BTM + 125 BTM = 375 BTM) and splits that total among those that tied for 2nd.  Same with 4th, 5th and 6th places. Finally, there was a 5-way tie for 7th, so it takes the prizes for 7th and 8th place, sums them, and splits that among all 5 people that tied for 7th. Finally, it normalizes all those amounts to add up to 1 BTM, which is why first place got 502 BTM instead of 500 BTM. Decimal values less than 1 BTM are not shown above, but the total amount distributed was within a few satoshis of 1 BTC.

57 people participated in the tournament, and 10 of those got prizes. I recognize most of the names above, but not all, so I hope that at least some of the prize money went to new players. I had a great time running this tournament - I'd like to do more of these! If we did the next one when we hit $700, would that give everyone enough time to learn Tug?

Teppy

Looking forward to these type of tournament di.

Good luck all who gonna come and try to learn the game.

Great promo by the guys here, very generous. It's good to see, most bitcoin gambling sites would never do anything like this.

Owners - I salute you.

If I understand teppy's post in #34 correctly, the tournament has been held already and 10 persons (it seems there are 11 names listed  ???) have got a total of 1 bitcoin.

Yes the tournament is over and yes the bitcoin is distributed its same like a limited number of player will win..and like i mention i did not play the tourny so i have no idea how many player won

Well it hit $572 so who won ?

Better to scan it first in kaspersky if you there's suspicious files in the installer.. honestly i already tried to play this game but never had any problem in my laptop.. the advantage of this game for me they are giving high enough rewards to play..
I am always playing in rise pond which is easy to play and you can win easily.. also in ostrich you can win their easily but i never had any profit in ostrich..

Never install an .exe, which is coming from a trusted source. Better try web based games.

Yeah these days most games are browser based. Even if you use a virus scanner it might not detect the virus because it could be 0 day.

This game been around for a long time. Glad to see its still going and their is a good player base to it. I may have to download it and give it a try. I've heard the name many times, but never tired it out before

I can understand your caution but let me assure you after playing this game for several years that Teppy is not laying in wait to hack your bitcoin wallets.  It's a casino, and an absolutely addictive and fun environment.  You will hand over your btc all on your own.  Or maybe you'll get a huge jackpot, withdraw it all, and never be heard from again.  I've seen both happen many times.

So is there will be a second give away like Di (teppy) say when btc hit 700$?

lol yeaaa people too suspicious and speak it loud about harm software installed in our pc .
will be beeter if you guys read a little bit about how dragon tale repputation etc.
AFAIK they are old enough survive in bitcoin gaming site, i will no doubt to install this game . i assure this too.

Yes, there will be a second 1 BTC Tournament like I promised, starting later today.

However, I think that instead of Tug I'm going to use the newest PvP game, "Zhanlue," which is a simultaneous-play version of Connect-Four. It was released last week. Everyone did make their accounts already, right?

I'll configure things later today and announce the times and how prizes will be distributed.

I'll run a third 1 BTC Tournament when Bitcoins hit $1000.

Teppy ("Di")

If you could post a video demo of the game "Zhanlue", it would be helpful for the new players as well as to old players who haven't longed in for ages lol.

lol these tournaments might become more frequent lol bitcoin pruices growing amazingly atm only been a couple weeks since last tourney if I remember

Ok, the Tournament is launched. It's again a freeroll meaning that the cost to enter/play is well under the amounts of free Bitcoins that you can get for free in the game. (Dragon's Tale doesn't support zero-bets, so I just set the cost-to-play to be arbitrarily small, in this case 1000 SAT per game.)

I've broken it up into 3 tournaments, 8 hours apart, each with 350 BTM in prizes. Each will be 8 hours after the previous one, so that people in various time zones can participate.

The first will start at 8:00PM EDT (8.5 hours from now.), then the next one at 4:00AM EDT tomorrow, then the third one at Noon EDT tomorrow. You can participate in multiple tournaments, but may not play in one tournament with multiple characters.

Glad to answer any questions about Zhanlue. Wiki entry is here: http://www.dragons.tl/mediawiki-1.16.5/index.php/Zhanlue

Teppy

ow looks like there's a new tournament.. inside the game.. why you announce it here why don't you try to post it in the main thread of dragontale here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1392.0
And looks like you are the owner of the thread..  but any way i will give it to try..

Well ? Who won ? Is this even legit ?

Why you giving away cooen dude.

Yes the tournament/game is legit, you can still participate(you'll have to download the game first).read teppy's post carefully.

I really wish this game wasn't a .exe, I can't install that one my Chromebook.  I've always been interested in trying Dragon's Tale, but I don't have a computer that can run it.  How hard would it be to make a web version of the game?  I would try it out in a heart beat if there was a web version.  I'm disappointed that I am going to miss out on this tournament too.  Thanks for the giveaway anyways!

I think it did so. then what you have done? did you give away 2 BTC in dragon's Tale because it already hit 574

The Tournament is over i guess. Di (teppy) or someone else will sure post the results.The tournament was in 3 time zones with each tournament had 350 btm (0.35 btc) pot. And yes di give away 2 btc so far one at 574 and one at 700.

Glad to know that you are being so generous to have the 2nd give away so fast. I have not play dragon's tale but i have heard it long ago. It has been around when btc is around $50 and i even saw video where someone manage to win 20btc in a few minutes. I may try it out one day as i really like this idea of gamble + game.