Apeiron Interviews: Ranking up with Ranker DAO and Mini Guild Wars Battle Report!

Hello, wonderful readers! We hope that you’re having an excellent, fantastic, awesome week. Today, we’re bringing you a double header —…

Hello, wonderful readers! We hope that you’re having an excellent, fantastic, awesome week. Today, we’re bringing you a double header — first, we have an interview with the hardcore gamers from Ranker DAO, one of our partner guilds They’re a fine group of folks who are ultra-hyped for Apeiron, and we’re actually hosting an AMA with them today as well, so stop by and say hi!

Then, we’re following up the interview with a battle report of the first half of our Mini Guild Wars, which ran this past weekend. Some teams lost, some teams won, emotions ran high, and we have our tournament favorites and dark horses. Lots to talk about — let’s get cookin’!

(PS: Stay tuned towards the end for a special surprise for our community :])

One sunny afternoon, we were joined at the table by Ranker DAO. To the soothing sounds of servers humming peacefully in the background, we chatted about games, esports, and of course, Apeiron.

Foonie Magus: Hi guys! Thanks for joining us today :> Could you introduce yourselves?

Liko: Hi! I’m Liko, I’m the CEO and Founder of Ranker DAO. And with me here is Stefano, he’s our esports guy.

Stefano: Yo.

FM: Yo! So what is Ranker DAO for our readers who might not know?

Liko: We’re a gaming guild! More specifically, we’re a Decentralized Autonomous Organization that’s formed with the goal of enabling our community to get access to the biggest blockchain activities going on around the world. We already own over 1000 gaming NFT, not bad since we launched about a half a year ago.

FM: Yeah that’s a lot of growth pretty fast! So how did you hear about Apeiron? First impressions?

Liko: We were introduced by some friends to Frank [Foonie Magus CEO and LoreKeeper]. As soon as we saw Apeiron, we were blown away. Everyone in our group fell in love with it and we just really want to play it as soon as possible haha.

FM: Wow, that’s a strong impression! :D Happy to hear it~

Liko: Yeah…I guess for me personally, I’m a big gamer, and I looked at Apeiron, it reminded me of something like the Disgaea series — there’s so much room for growth and getting into the grind and optimizing and everything, plus that tongue-in-cheek sense of humor.

FM: What kind of aspects of Apeiron’s gameplay are you looking forward to the most, would you say?

Liko: Hmmm for me I guess I would say there are two things. First, the strategy aspect of the battle system. I like systems that have a lot of depth and complexity, games like Enter the Gungeon I think it is? And Apeiron looks like it has a lot of cool choices in terms of teambuilding and stuff like that. On the other side, there’s the dungeon-delving, Slay the Spire roguelike part of it.

FM: Yeah, each time you go into a dungeon, you’ll have a team of Apostles, special cards, and passive artifacts to build around, so each run is unique.

Liko: Sure, and to add to that, sometimes you’ll put together something really awesome — just the perfect combination of units and cards and so on, and you fly through the dungeon…I love that feeling haha. It’s like chasing a high!

FM: The power…THE POWER!!!

Liko: Exactly haha. But let me pass it over to Stefano for a second here…

Stefano: Thanks! Yeah I wanted to mention the esports side of Apeiron a little bit, because we really feel that Apeiron has a huge potential for esports compared to other NFT games. It looks to me like the gameplay is something like Clash of Clans and a MOBA, and we’re very excited for it.

FM: Watching the Avatars striding massively across the battlefield with all the Doods scurrying around their feet is pretty cinematic for sure.

Stefano: There’s just really high production values in your project. If you look at some of the other NFT games, sometimes they just don’t look as cool as Apeiron, quite frankly.

Liko: You guys recently released the breeding stuff? I mean even that looks great! Like the animations and everything. Super cool.

FM: Thanks haha, I’ll pass that along to the art team. Uhh one last question about Apeiron’s gameplay before we move on…you guys going to be good or evil gods?

Stefano: (Immediately) evil.

Liko: We’re all going to be evil for sure haha.

FM: Nice lol. Ok, so then next…what kind of collaborations do we have with you?

Liko: Right, so there’s a couple of things. First and foremost, of course, we’re a gaming guild, and we want to be competitive, #1. As soon as the game is out, we’re jumping in, building our base, making an Alliance, really going for it, you know?

Stefano: On the esports side, we have some experience in setting up tournaments and other events, so we’ll be happy to work with you in that regard.

FM: Sounds great! Now then, we’re about ready to wrap things up, but any last comments you want to drop before heading out?

Liko: I’d like the record to show, I asked Frank to give me one of every NFT in Apeiron, just because I love collecting, and he said no! But that won’t stop me, I’ll get ’em all one way or another haha.

FM: Sounds like a plan! Good luck, and thanks for joining us today! See you guys later!

You heard it here first: Ranker DAO plans to be the very best — like no one ever was — to collect the planets is their real test — to train them is their cause — APEIRON! We’re having an AMA with these guys today as well, so if you want to know more, check it out~

Moving right along, we have a quick BATTLE REPORT of last weekend’s Mini Guild Wars! Over the course of Friday and Saturday, our teams played through the Ro16 and Quarterfinals. And boy, did we have some matches…

On the left side of the bracket, the DADI team made up of bold Apeiron ambassadors was swatted aside by the Pro Gamer DAO, who were then in turn — surprisingly — smashed by Guild 22, a local Hong Kong gaming guild. Meanwhile, Dynamic Crypto Gaming (DCG) took out Polemos in a tightly contested series.

On the right side of the bracket, PIF DAO beat Ranker DAO in a close game while Clout Gaming dominated Avocado Guild. Clout then repeated their performance, crushing PIF DAO on the way to locking in their trip to the semi-finals — it was later discovered that the support member of Clout’s team is a Challenger-rated player, the highest division of League of Legends below the professional level. Meanwhile, YGGSEA decisively beat both Leo Ventures and Guildfi with clean teamplay.

Going into the semis, YGGSEA and Clout are looking incredibly strong, but it will be a tough task for YGGSEA to win when Clout has an ace in the hole with their Challenger support player. But perhaps their excellent teamplay will see them over the finish line? On the other side, will Guild 22 be able to continue to upset expectations and take down DCG? It’s all to play for — join us this upcoming weekend for the thrilling conclusion of the Mini Guild Wars! (And remember, if you can pick the winners, you can win prizes yourself!)

Ok folks, that’s all we have for now. But perhaps you’d like to continue discussing all things Apeiron? Or maybe you just want to chat with some chill doods? Join us on Discord, Telegram, and Twitter! We’re almost always active and certainly always ready to talk.

In fact, our community is, quite frankly, freakin’ awesome! Day in, day out, there’s people hanging out, chatting, and just generally being cool doods. So we’d like to do some shoutouts to some of our favorite tweets from the Apeiron faithful:

And as always, thanks for reading, godlings. We’ll see you next time.