Good Morning, NFT Team! Hope you all had an excellent week!

NBA fans were treated to some stellar play-in games this year, and I really hope the league leans in to more experimental formats in the future.

A midseason tournament would help break up a monotonous regular season — and the high stakes (like the Play-In games have been) bring out competition and a playoff intensity that is truly special to watch.

Let’s get into all the action from the last few days:

Got your playoff tickets ready? As part of Top Shot’s commitment to send collectors to every round of the playoffs, we saw the first wave of winners selected on Friday for First Round action.

Full list of winners is available here, including many of our TFM squadmates snagging either tickets or packs. I found it interesting that some of the tickets were for games 6 or 7, which I assume would become packs if the series doesn’t last that long (sorry to those fans who won Bucks/Bulls tickets after game 4).

There have been some cool stories from the community out of this initiative, like this one from The Judge:

Who wants to be a (Dapper) millionaire? Three ‘credit’ challenges were released this week, with each completion getting a share of a $1M total prize pool.

The challenges expired Friday, but were a nice example of TS getting more creative with rewards (and not just adding more supply via packs or MSFEs).

Amongst the extremely negative sentiment (warranted, in my opinion), at least we’re seeing signs of Dapper distributing some nice rewards to the community.

But speaking of distributing things…

If you read Thursday’s newsletter, I wrote about @EFroPoker‘s impassioned letter regarding his brutal experience with collecting the MSFE set in hopes of a S1 Run It Back Pack reward.

Well, the thing about those RIB packs is… They’re gone.

After what had already been a trying week for Top Shot, Thursday saw a massive screw-up — with S1 Run It Back packs mistakenly made available for purchase on the platform:

A good thread on how it went down from a collector perspective (and credit to JonBoy, Mike Zakarian, Jeb Bush and others for turning a huge negative into a positive with some great giveaways):

I’ve piled on Top Shot a lot this week, so there’s not much left to say. It’s starting to feel like Murphy’s Dapper’s Law — what can go wrong, will go wrong.

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