gway can you hear me now i can hear you now were you able to hear us
no dude okay so you were middle of like that and then i i was like okay
uh i was like gearing up for my next question and then you just shut off and i
was like okay is it me or is it him and then i started
seeing a bunch of uh thumbs up across the space i was like
crap it's me yeah yeah no you know what i i saw actually
like a banner notification drop and it actually said like
the host is experiencing connectivity issues like that was the first time i've
ever seen like a notification from x natively telling me
that the host is experiencing connection issues
well at least you were aware what was going on i guess yeah
i was aware but i i i figured that you you
didn't know what was going on really no i had no clue so all right we're back
we'll keep this thing going so um you were going over kind of the team
structure and how that plays in and so just to get this clear so obviously we
have a i have a huge audience over on youtube the nft communities but for and
you know this could work against me at the same time but i'm curious
size of your team doesn't necessarily matter as much as time put in slash
skill of your team is that also correct absolutely that's correct so um
and we get this question a lot and i think you know uh generally speaking most
kind of play the airdrop in games there is this rather strong correlation
between like time spent and the amount that you can farm in terms of the tokens
in ai arena it's i think there are many mechanisms at play that prevents
farm-like behavior from being successful so the core game
is competitive and it's not like oh i've spent a thousand hours training
my ai therefore my ai is better it doesn't work that way
your ai can only get better if you as the human trainer is more effective at
the game so you can spend a thousand hours not
knowing what you're doing and your ai doesn't have to improve one
bit so um this whole kind of like farming
attitude i think people are going to really
quickly realize that if they want to do well and if
their goal is to really continue to progress on the
leaderboard you can't you can't farm this you you have
to actually like start to get deep into the game and
just figure out how to play better so that's one thing i would note the
other thing is you can certainly invite many many
people to join your team but what we're going to do is for the
team score we're going to take the average of
the top tier of players on each team and that tier breakpoint we haven't
determined yet we'll determine it closer to when the
first cycle of competition starts because we need a better
estimate of how many players or wallets are in the entire
universe that's registered in order to come up with a reasonable
break point for what's considered to be the top tier
of players on each team i would imagine that that number is
somewhere in the hundreds of players probably like below 500
so what we're doing is we're basically taking the cream of the crop
from each team and we're comparing the best players on each team against each
other um now that naturally begs the
question for some people which is well isn't there
an incentive for freeloaders to just pick the right team and then
maximize their multiplier that way without having to do much in the game
itself and the answer is no because even though
you can pick the right team so let's say you pick
um to join uh johnny's team johnny's team finishes first place
the maximum potential multiplier that you can get
is five times but that's reserved for the best players on johnny's team
and then what we do is we actually rank all the players
on each team and then based your ranking within that team
you get a different multiplier all that's being equal if you
are part of the best team your multipliers on are on average higher than
the other teams but it does not guarantee that let's say
if you're the worst player on the best team
you're not getting a multiplier because very obviously either
you basically you didn't do anything and or maybe you're just the worst player
on the planet for ari therefore you you despite the fact you
played a lot and you still just like cratered on the leaderboard
um so there's a lot of these different mechanics to mitigate
adversarial behavior and we're kind of preventing people from
getting outsized rewards from the system
without actually putting in the time but also
really exhibiting skill so skill is the primary determinant
perfect yeah i just wanted to clarify that too like i said that might work
against me because we have a pretty good size on youtube etc
but uh at the same time just want to make that clarification and
um is there a total amount of the price pool like what are
what is up for grabs for those who do participate so that way it has that
incentive for them to dive in and hopefully compete and show their
skills yeah we are allocating four percent of
total supply uh to this campaign which is quite
substantial uh that's 40 million tokens uh so
nrn's will have one billion total supply um
four percent will be earmarked for this competition
there's actually another four percent that's earmarked for
uh what's called the nrn prize box system and that system is more an
incentive for people who have contributed to our
project in other ways outside of the game through engagement
through community building through being active and helping out with
all things um ai arena ecosystem whether it's some of it has to do with the game
and playing and competing as well but a large part of it is really more
engagement based so it's a two-pronged airdrop you can kind of pick and
choose where you want to make your contributions
we fully understand not everyone's going to be a competitive player
but there's scope for you to get involved in different ways within the
economy that's ultimately beneficial to
um the game the project the ecosystem as well
so specifically for the plate clay to airdrop is four percent of total supply
40 million tokens yeah that's definitely substantial towards
um that comparatively speaking especially whenever most
projects put maybe half a percent or one percent to
the whole airdrop campaign of their project where this is four percent of
the supply going to um the play to airdrop that's why i
think this this could genuinely be one of the biggest play to airdrop
competitions not just like go in and farm it
of the year so i'm super stoked for this so how can people look forward to getting
involved obviously i'm going to be promoting it getting people on my team
etc but what should be the landmark dates that
people look out for as far as sign updates and maybe the start of the
tournament as well for sure um so we're currently in the initial
marketing cycle so this week and next week is um you
know uh completing the announcements around
all of the captains so um you know johnny you guys announced today
yesterday apex announced and then we have six more that are coming
over the next few days um february fifth is the marker where
registration opens we will be making an announcement post
um on where to go for registration is basically
you know a website um and once you register you will have access to the
game however for the first seven days so between february fifth
and february twelfth um you can train your ai but the
competition in terms of the ranked battle arena is not open yet
so on the 12th the battle arena opens for its first cycle and the first cycle
i think will take take place over five days
and you know at the end of first cycle we close the battle arena
so you can continue to train your ai continue to tinker with it whatever
but the competition is is not open so there's going to be three total cycles
taking place throughout february i think will wrap up the first week of
march um and then at the end of that we will
basically take um uh stock of everyone every single
wallet that has registered it's nrm balance at the end and and that in
addition or multiplied by the multiplier that
your wallet has achieved throughout the competition
will determine your final score which then translates into
an actual airdrop amount to be determined and announced
um once we get closer to tge
awesome well i can tell you this way ttoo nexus
the youtube community we're coming for the prizes we're going to come get those
nrn tokens and uh i hope that everyone here
enlists in my squad and we come for the top prizes here because
it's going to be a heck of a competition there's a lot of og's out there we got
some og's on our team some high skilled players so
this is going to be amazing i mean is there anything we didn't cover gway
before we wrapped this thing up i hate that we
hugged before we kind of got to the end here but
uh you know twitter has its ways of throwing us curveballs
it's an occupational hazard you know we know this to be
a mainstay and a feature of um of web 3 operating on on twitter and x but
um no i think i think exactly i was just i was just messaging my team like
does eline even care about this space and stuff
anyway um so i think we we covered we covered a lot of the important
information obviously we're super excited to you know on board
you know the broader web 3 ecosystems who come come on board and
and compete as you mentioned i think this is
in our opinion one of the marquee play to air drop campaigns i think the prize
pool is extremely attractive i think if you do well it is one of
those situations where um i think people are going to be
handsomely rewarded i'm just going to put it that way
and i think it's an opportunity for us to really showcase something very very
different and novel uh and i encourage people to come in
with an open mind uh and uh and experience the full extent of what this
game offers and you know i've i've warned you guys if
you guys going down the rabbit hole i'd be i think you guys you know
individually will be surprised how much time you're going to spend this
in this game because at some point it gets extremely competitive extremely
addictive um so we're we're super excited to bring
this um and put this show on for the broader
web 3 community there's so much more that's coming
for the project throughout the rest of the year we have so many things lined
up that were you know obviously going to wait until the right time to release
and reveal um but yeah we certainly look forward to
it and look out for some of the other captain
announcements that are coming over the next
two weeks uh we definitely want that healthy rivalry
happening happening across different teams and captains so
uh a good little healthy competitive banter between the captains is
what we love to see and uh yeah once once the
kind of competition rolls into play we're going to have like regular shows
and recaps and you know content that we're lining up to
showcase what's happening within the competition all of the little
storylines within teams across teams and the narratives
that are emerging so we're really looking forward to the drama
during the competition as well yeah for sure once all the captains are
out there i think people will see exactly why i think this is going to be
so widespread the prize pool speaks for itself the game is amazing and it has
that cutting edge of ai in gaming so i'm stoked i appreciate you guys
reaching out to me and you know being able to be a part of
this i'm just really excited to get more
exposure for uh nrn for ai arena and really for
just exactly what the potential of of you know
participation and competition and web 3 can be
especially when you're early so uh gway ai arena
uh both you guys up here on the stage i know ai arena is an ai today
they're not speaking but gway is the man in charge and we appreciate him giving
all the info and the alpha on the airdrop competition coming up and
i'm sure everyone in the audience will be seeing them all over your timeline
as well as me pushing it all over your timeline so like i said
enlist in team hustle pedia when those registrations open and let's go for
those top prizes gway anything before we hop out of here
no just thanks very much for uh inviting me onto the show
um big fan what are you doing for the web 3 gaming space and web 3 in general
um keep at it and uh yeah man um exciting times to come for 2024 that's
for sure yeah if only elon didn't rug us but
hey elon didn't invest in ai arena and that's
that's gonna be his loss all right we'll make sure of it
absolutely all right gway i appreciate your time as always
and i funny question i have to throw at you how many spaces is gway gonna do
back to back today oh this is my third i don't think i have
it in me for another one i have a few like internal things i have to take
care of so i'm gonna i'm gonna still be on
on calls for the rest of the day but um no it's fun i
you know i think it's a it's a privilege to be in this situation so it
kind of promotes something that we really believe in
and it's exciting to be a part of the conversation so i'll never take that
for granted even though you know sometimes it just it it does it takes a
lot out of you but i'm always happy to do it
nah it'll be worthwhile with with what you guys have in the pipeline so i
appreciate you taking the time uh come on elon you gotta fix the spaces
but hey we'll be back with more spaces in the future and you'll be seeing ai
arena all over your timeline gway i appreciate your time audience thanks
for coming out give gway and ai arena a follow and we'll see you
guys on the next one and like i said enlist in team hustle