‘Shrapnel’ Is Giving Away $100K In Crypto To Play This Week—Here’s How To Get It

The expected first-person shooter Shrapnel was launched Available now in Early Access. Via the Epic Games Store and starting today at 4:00 PM, the game will launch its servers for the first time for anyone who purchased one. Extract package access keys (starts at $20).

We posted. Our Shrapnel preview After playing in a special session last week today, and we came away impressed with this little piece of blockchain-based mining shooter. But there's another compelling reason to jump in this weekend: the chance to win the promised $100,000 worth of SHRAP tokens.

Shrapnel developer Neon Machine says it was able to stash $3 million worth of SHRAP ($0.22 at the time of writing, based on the token's market value, per CoinGecko) to promote the game during its early access release for the PC game. The first $100,000 will be awarded during the three-day SHRAPNEL Training Exercise 1 (STX) event.

of Avalanche It will be a game. Give crypto rewards Up to 1,000 top winners in a leaderboard competition determined by placement at the end of the event. The servers will be online Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 4pm to midnight ET.

First place will receive a $10,000 SHRAP, second place will receive $5,000, and third place will receive $2,500. Volume continues to drop, with the bottom 500 finishers taking $50 each in Avalanche-based tokens.

How does it work? Leaderboard placement is based on how much Sigma players can earn and successfully spend in the three-day event. Sigma is a glowing green substance that flows from meteors crashing across the game map, and each crash site is sure to fuel a feeding frenzy for players looking to level up.

Don Norbury, head of Shrapnel Studios, said. Decrypt‘s GG is excited to see how the Sigma-based show during the session will affect players' strategies during games. Will they take what they can and gradually leave with the first extraction ship, hoping to collect a large number over time? Or risk sticking to a later ship to save more each match?

“Someone gets a sigma early and then it takes forever to withdraw early and they're trying to nickel and dime each session?” Norbury said. “Other players might be trying to get 200 or 300 sigma out of each session so they can climb the leaderboards faster. It's part of the player's strategy that I'm really interested in seeing how that plays out.”

A competitive first-person shooter with crypto awards? Norbury says he hopes the studio's concoction will fuel exciting gameplay.

“We want to increase the tension. We want them to feel that the stakes are increasing,” he explained. “Because if they get to the exit point, that suddenly puts them on the leaderboard and in the prize pool. I'm very interested in how even things like that change player behavior.”

Edited by Ryan Ozawa.