Tuesday, 9th June 2020, 20:17 by Blyxx
My introduction to the server was like this: I was playing a game of Crawl on CAO and a spectator messaged me and said he is sponsoring a weekly competition for a $10 prize that he is funding himself. He sent a link to the Discord server.
I joined the server and didn't post anything right away, just waited to see how it looked.
There were only a few players on it, I went ahead and made a character and posted a score and won. The admin contacted me and offered to send money through Paypal. I don't have a Paypal and was not really after the $10, so I offered to "pay it forward" to the next week.
I won the second week's competition again, so I did the same thing.
By this time, I'd had a chance to chat with the admin and the players and get a feel for things. My impression is that he is just a guy who enjoys Crawl and would like to build up a community around friendly competition.
He asked myself and a couple of other players if we'd be willing to help advertise the server to bring in more competition and I thought one way would be to dust off my Tavern account.
I am not sure how to address scam concerns since I did not accept my prize. But I don't think players of Crawl are a particularly ripe target for scamming, and I'm sure there are many players like myself whose incentive would be driven by the idea of friendly competition and community rather than the $10 prize?
If you have concerns that you'd prefer be addressed directly by the discord server admin, I'll ask him to create a Tavern account and post here.
- For this message the author Blyxx has received thanks:
- chequers