#Gaming-Metaverse Writing Contest: September 2021 Results Announced

Hello gaming enthusiasts!

The Gaming Metaverse Writing Contest is growing stronger and tougher! So far, we have published 114 stories submitted from around the world. Here we are again with the announcement of Round 2 winners. So who won this time? Let's see!

But First - What's Gaming Metaverse?

HackerNoon hosts #Gaming-Metaverse Writing Contest in partnership with Sandbox, giving the contestants an opportunity to share their knowledge and opinions on metaverse gaming and the blockchain gaming industry as a whole. Contestants can win prizes $5800 worth of SAND every month! Every month, we select the top 10 stories that generated the most traffic. Editors vote for their favorite stories from these nominations and the top 5 win prizes.

How to Enter the Contest?

Just submit an article to HackerNoon with the #gaming-metaverse tag, and your entry will automatically qualify!

Top 10 Gaming Metaverse Stories

So, as per the rules, we chose the top 10 stories using 60:30:10 weightage respectively to:

• Number of hours read
• Number of people reached
• Freshness of the content

Here is the list of the top 10 stories according to our algorithm:

1. "I Always Tell All My Friends that bitcoin is a Useless Thing" by @Ishan Pandey
2. Binance Smart Chain Funds Decentral Games Via its $100 million Accelerator Program by @swedeyburr
3. Play 2 Earn: A New Trend on the Crypto Market by @sergey-baloyan
4. How Non-Fungible Tokens Will Intersect with Virtual Reality by @shaanray
5. Rediscovering the EverDragons, the First Cross-Chain NFTs by @0x0ece
6. My Love For "Drop Bears" and Collecting Specific NFTs by @ashky
7. How You Can Invest in the Metaverse Today by @barthillerich
8. The Rising Tempo: An Intro to Music NFTs by @timongty
9. A Brief Intro to NFT Marketplaces by @manish8227
10. The Decentralized Gaming Evolution by @induction

Congratulations to all the nominations! Yáll deserved it!!

As usual, editors voted for the best stories, from which the top 5 were selected as winners! So who won the money? Let see.

The Winners

In the first place, we have How You Can Invest in the Metaverse Today, with a clear majority - 23% of the votes!

Congratulations @barthillerich! You have won $2000 in SAND.

Metaverses are still in the process of being developed with many versions still in a presale phase. You’re not just on time to the party, you’re hours early and the host is wondering if they made a typo on your invitation.

Both Play 2 Earn: A New Trend on the Crypto Market by @sergey-baloyan

How Non-Fungible Tokens Will Intersect with Virtual Reality by @shaanray got 18% of the Editors' votes.

To break the tie, we decided to follow the algorithm's ranking.

Play 2 Earn: A New Trend on the Crypto Market by @sergey-baloyan won the second position and $1500 worth of SAND with impressive 3000+ reads and 18% votes.

Previously games were perceived only as a way of having fun. But right now, a new class of games is emerging that is not only fun but an attractive investment.

Consequently, @shaanray has won third position and $1000 in SAND. Yay!

The strategic use of NFTs in Virtual Reality Environments and Worlds will unlock an exciting new range of use cases and possibilities. To fully comprehend the potential of these technologies, it is essential first to understand NFTs and Virtual reality in more detail.

In the fourth position, we have Rediscovering the EverDragons, the First Cross-Chain NFTs with 14% votes.

The EverDragons are the first example of cross-chain NFTs (Ethereum, POA, Tron) and among the first to introduce games with NFTs. They are an incredible piece of history and technology and we're about to make them even better!

Congratulations @0x0ece! You have won $800 in SAND.

Ishaan's story "I Always Tell All My Friends that bitcoin is a Useless Thing" has locked fifth place with 9% of the votes.

Congratulations @Ishan Pandey, for locking in 5th place and winning $500 worth of SAND.

One of the main problems in the current betting industry is that nearly 100% of the control is in the betting operator’s hands. This brings us to a situation where operators ban smart players, lower payouts for winning bets, do artificial KYC checks to freeze the funds on players’ accounts, and much more.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Please contact [email protected] and [email protected] to claim your prizes.

Read the full Gaming Metaverse Contest rules here. Till next month!