Chandler Thomlison

HELLO COMPETITIVE GAMERS Organized teamplay with comms in a tournament format is more fun (and less toxic) than solo queue. That's why we created our weekly "SCOUTING GROUNDS" event where you'll play alongside other high-skill players. Even if you've never played before, we've got coaches and existing pros to help you git gud ASAP! Top 4 players from each week get to play in our $200 weekly pro tournament! If you're Platinum or higher in games like LoL, CS, OW, DotA, Valo, or Supervive, you're going to love Sparkball. ⚡️Simply share a screenshot of your rank in our Discord and we'll grant you access to the event. ⚡️ See you on Friday at 11 AM PST/7 PM UTC

SPARKBALL UPDATE: We've been a bit quiet post Next Fest as we were finalizing an investment deal that would guarantee us a full year to finish development on Sparkball and release next year. Unfortunately, we learned a couple days ago that that deal was no longer happening. Given we've been building the last couple months with the assumption that we were clear for another year, we're obviously in a VERY difficult spot now. It's an incredibly backbreaking to build a competitive multiplayer game like Sparkball on a limited and uncertain budget. While we certainly made a lot of mistakes, I'm still proud of what we've been able to accomplish and how magical of a game Sparkball is. Gaming is obviously in a terrible spot right now and we just made a few too many mistakes to overcome our position. But we wouldn't be very OPTI if we threw in the towel before we gave absolutely everything we had to make this a success. We're shifting down to a super small team and spending the next couple months building out what we hope will show that the world NEEDS Sparkball to be finished and fully released. With resources even more limited than they already were, we will be going largely silent until we're prepared to launch Phase 1 of our Save Sparkball plan. We expect this to happen in ~1.5 months. In the meantime, we wanted to at least get this announcement out in the interest of transparency and promise 2 things: 1. We will be using a portion of our last bit of budget to consolidate former incentives (NFTs, badges, Friendship, etc.) and ensure our supporters get something tangible. We'll be launching that Rewards Consolidation and Sweepstakes once Phase 1 Launches., 2. We will not be attempting to sell anything or directly raise money from our community. We need at least ~$2M to reliably launch Sparkball so any money we take from players (including a token launch) feels unethical until we're confident we can actually deliver long-term., The only thing we'll be asking from our players is simply kind words on the internet and showing up to our events - it's you who will help us create that proof that Sparkball is worth saving. We're very.... very down right now, but not out quite yet. We'll see you in a few weeks with the Phase 1 Launch and we promise to keep shouting LETS PLAY SPARKBALL! until we can't anymore.

Hi everyone! @OPTI_Chandler here to write this one directly. I thought about writing this as a corpo press release format but that just doesn’t feel very personal or very Sparkball. Nearly a year ago, we held our first game night with the Monad Community. Since then, our community has substantially grown solely by so many of those same Nads being our backbone day in and day out – including our own internal CM team! While we are deeply appreciative of both Monad and its community, we have made the difficult decision to no longer build primarily on Monad moving forward. Our vision for Sparkball has significantly evolved as we’ve grown closer to launch, especially as it pertains to our role in the future of Web3 gaming. And if you’ve listened to me rant in Spaces the last few months, you know that we’re getting REAL philosophical about what Web3 gaming actually is and how we want to change it. As both of our visions have grown, they started to misalign. It’s that simple. We still love the Monad team and I personally will never forget the support they provided when we really needed it last year. Sparkball is undisputedly what it is today thanks to their help. We 100% still have some in-game Monad goodies planned and will do our best to repay the community that has been so great to us!

Preseason is finally here and it's time to make... FRIENDS! Earn rewards and get a head start for Season Zero later this Summer by stacking Friendship: - Enter code 'SPARKS' after creating your account, this one is free! - Participate in Game Nights and Community Events! - Play in Open Matchmaking Events like Steam Next Fest from June 9th - 16th! - Be kind to everyone! LET'S PLAY SPARKBALLLLLL (with friends!)

VERY IMPORTANT SPARKBALL UPDATE

We heard you guys missed ballin' and brawlin' so we're here to help! Join us in the @monad_xyz Discord at 6:30 PM UTC/10:30 AM PST as we host our first Sparkball game night in 2025! LETS PLAY SPARKBALL!

BIG HUGE MASSIVE BANANAS Announcement on Monday as you watch us finally prove that the Devs are still the Sparkball Champs. Tune in to get a head start (what could this be!?!?) on Season Zero!

…a MONster friendship! Proud to share the Sparkball arena with our friends over at @Monprotocol. We’ve been talking a lot about building a better community these last couple weeks and we're excited to have so MONy new friends! 1/2

Happy to share the stage with @carv_official as we CARVe up the competition! We talk a lot about focusing on real gaming and real gamers. With CARV’s help, not only can we identify the next batch of future Sparkballers, but we can also ensure we properly reward our current star athletes! 1/2

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