[Submitter's note: This is billzh.eth. I'm submitting this proposal on behalf of Sirsu, founder of BLVKHVND. I am looking forward to the collaboration between Purple and BLVKHVND, with the belief that it will proliferate Farcaster in the esport universe.]
Tl;dr [the ask]
BLVKHVND is requesting 5 ETH from Purple DAO to build a bridge between the HVND and the Purple community and create an esports product to the Farcaster Protocol.
Technically, this is a 2-in-one prop but will be broken up into 2 individual props. The first is a prop for Purple DAO, the second, BLVKHVND will be producing a prop to further support the development of this campaign
Why?
BLVKHVND seeks to build better relationships and awareness within incredible web3 spaces, proliferating the use of open-source tooling, and becoming the backbone of esports in web3. Purple DAO and the Farcaster protocol gives the HVND the distinct ability to funnel communication and coordination of its esports activities into a decentralized media space that can be expanded upon by Farcaster builders.
From the social media POV, BLVKHVND can aggregate all of its content in a digestible format for fans and curious folk alike to interact with our community onchain that we are unable to build in traditional channels like Twitter. Moreover, Twitter has completely changed how engagement works, further pushing us away from the people we desperately need to connect to.
What is being built?
BLVKHVND is building a product called “HVNDCAST” combined with a launch strategy to take advantage of BLVKHVND’s participation in the ALGS Playoffs LAN, a $1m international tournament playoff event for Apex Legends.
HVNDCAST Product
The purpose: aggregate all competitive activity of BLVKHVND (and eventually any other esports or sports DAO) on top of the FC protocol.
Reason: Most HVND members don’t use discord to keep up with our competitive progress nor is Twitter the best place to keep our community informed. In order to build retention within our own community and grow support from others, we needed to find a way to aggregate our content in an environment that is digestible, easy to use, and scalable for other communities to take advantage of.
With HVNDCAST, we can create conversation around all of our content, keep folks interested in what we compete in, and how they can express their support onchain. Built on FC protocol. Experience esports together. Show support with native NFTs. Buy our native DAO token $acolyte, vote on props in AC, new team added to HC, watch team, mint a moment 🔄
Launch Criteria:
Content:
- Must be able to pull streams + clips from twitch, kick, hypeshot
- Must be able to comment on content -Must be able to display tournament information (scores, brackets, placements, etc)
UX:
- Must be able to connect app to Warpcast
- Must be able to share links and content
Data:
- Must be able to pull / scrape info from Liquipedia, Battlefy (for game info)
Deadline: Jul 10, 2023
“Feelin Purple” Campaign
Stage Utilizing an all purple jersey, we will have our Apex Legends team mention Purple DAO in their media day interviews during the ALGS Global Playoffs this July. In addition, our team will play in the purple jersey throughout the entire competition as the broadcast and other media captures gameplay. With the launch of HVNDCAST, fans will be able to directly connect the dots between the purple jersey and the FC protocol increasing their chances of joining the ecosystem.
Success Criteria: The campaign is considered successful if we:
- bring the BLVKHVND community to FC through HVNDCAST; [at least 100 members]
- bringing Apex fans to FC and chat about the Playoffs event; [at least 25 fans]
- PurpleDAO members show their support for BLVKHVND;
- Purple members joining BLVKHVND (participating in auction)
- Farcaster members joining BLVKHVND (participating in auction)
About ALGS Playoffs
The ALGS global playoffs is the second massive in-person (LAN) competitive esport event for the Apex Legends season. As a result, players from all over the world converge in London to compete for their share of $1M and to see which region is the strongest. High placement in this tournament automatically sends those teams to compete for a $3M Global Championship later in the year. For BLVKHVND, we earned our spot to play in the playoffs and have a very high chance of reaching top 10 (out of the top 40 teams in the world) or greater.
The Global Playoffs has over 540k+ peak viewers, 205k average across 5 days.
Our team exists because of a DAO proposal and vote: https://twitter.com/blvkhvnd_bot/status/1633684001343909888?s=20 , now we have the opportunity to compete on an international stage. We are witnessing magic happen in real time.
How did this come about?
Timeline of discussion on Farcaster. Special thanks to @kmabeth, @ccarella, @bilzh for their initial support of this discussion, and the encouragement to put this prop together.
Figuring out BLVKHVND’s place in web3: https://warpcast.com/sirsu/0xda4756
Open thoughts: https://warpcast.com/sirsu/0xec31cf https://warpcast.com/sirsu/0x638f52
Refining the concept: https://warpcast.com/kmacbeth/0x1397aa https://warpcast.com/ccarella/0x90ad5e https://warpcast.com/sirsu/0x28d23e
Call to action: https://warpcast.com/sirsu/0xf54d9f
Prop drafts:
Who is working on this?
Sirsu of BLVKHVND
HVNDCAST working group
What is BLVKHVND?
BLVKHVND is creating an emerging ecosystem for onchain esports organizations. Our mission is to be the center of competition no matter where it lives. After breaking history as the first DAO to win a professional world championship we are driven to make the HVND fully owned and stewarded by everyone on the internet to build upon that success.
BLVKHVND IS ESPORTS FOR THE CULTURE, OWNED BY EVERYONE.
Community Stats
BLVKHVND is a mix of both a nouns powered DAO and an initial pool of crowdfund participants when we first formed around 2021. We have about 672 members, 63 of them are from our nouns builder treasury, 410 members govern our OG treasury, and the remainder are general fans of BLVKHVND.
Where they live:
- Farcaster users: 19
- Twitter: 5400 followers
- Discord: 672 members
- Adjacent communities:
- Paragons DAO (27 overlap)
- Parallel TCG (30 overlap)
- Krause House (14 overlap)
- Nouns Esports (13 overlap)
- FWB (17 overlap)
- Purple (5 overlap)
Team Stats
Our team consists of 4 members:
- StrafingFlame (In-Game Captain) [Indonesia]
- EzFlashKIDZ (Fragger) [Indonesia]
- Buggy (2nd Fragger) [Australia]
- Voltic (Coach) [America]
Team Audience
Based on streaming stats + general stats relating to our base region (APAC-S), our overall audience looks like the following:
- Combined viewership (via player stream): < 1k concurrent viewers
- Avg. Viewership of region: > 3k concurrent viewers
Esports Stats
1x World Championship [Pokemon Unite]
1x NA Regional Championship [Pokemon Unite]
3x Summer Championships [Apex Legends + Rogue Company]
1x Fall Championship [Rogue Company]
Media
Livestream + VODS: https://www.hypeshot.io/profile/blvkhvnd
Youtube Channel:
- Apex Montage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtfLGdaPTNE
- Valencia Doc [HALO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFzH6NHNLiE
- Competitive Rogue Company: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cevAfwUkvNk
Twitter:
Tweets that show reach:
- APEX Reddit Community Rankings: https://twitter.com/CompApexReddit/status/1658522440635383828?s=20 (we are ranked 20th globally)
- APEX Roster Announcement: https://twitter.com/BLVKHVND/status/1636635072567672834?s=20
Clips and Highlights of Gameplay
- SIRSU WATCH PARTY REACTION: https://twitter.com/BLVKHVND/status/1653489542899412993?s=20
- APEX TEAM MONTAGE: https://twitter.com/BLVKHVND/status/1649624855136854017?s=20
- APEX INTENSE WIN: https://twitter.com/BLVKHVND/status/1574552487201509376?s=20
Read more:
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Camaraderie of Competition: How BLVKHVND Saw the We in Esports
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Pokemon Unite World Champions BLVKHVND On Going Undefeated At The WCS
Multisig
The PURPLE HVNDS Multisig is responsible for distributing funds to accomplish the goals of developing the Purple HVND Alternative Jersey and the design / development of the HVNDCAST v0 App. The multisig requires 3 out of 5 signers to complete a transaction.
The signers are:
- sirsu (eth:0xEB95ff72EAb9e8D8fdb545FE15587AcCF410b42E)
- valcoholics (eth:0x9798A181E731Ee9d3abffc5ae15c93cA3d95A8e3)
- blvk0ut (eth:0x04A394D4C82161F49A3FbD3Da31b8231797eF4b9)
- ccarella (eth:0x3B60e31CFC48a9074CD5bEbb26C9EAa77650a43F)
- billzh (eth:0xD1EAeFBeFFD4106A1A166CD26a1Fe23140D6a42e)
Multisig address: (eth:0x7B9150781B0BCc58E1339f4df87DB648FDB62c8E)