Here is a recap of this year's progress on the FirstBlood platform. And our project plans for the year ahead!

https://medium.com/@JCHzhou/2018-the-year-of-firstblood-96dbcf9cedba

Thank you for being a part of our 1st of a kind community! 

PS. If the slack is not enough feel free to join our official telegram group!

https://t.me/firstbloodio

Many users and fans who are discussing platform updates and some sneak peaks from our CEO Joe 

Thank you for the providing the answer! We have consistently been hard at work debuting and releasing major updates to platform, signup and check for yourself!

https://firstblood.io/#/home

We have thousands of users signed up and matches being played everyday. Everyone who is using the platform loves it or is providing constructive feedback so we can make it even better. The reason we have no solid timeline is the same reason other credible crypto projects dont. It it is impossible to know what hurdles we will have to overcome in this rapidly changing space. FirstBlood is at the forefront of crypto and esports, two of the fastest developing sectors in the world. It is more honest to give weekly updates then to promise something months down the line that may change. Our users are the most aware of the major updates and changes because they use the platform everyday.

FirstBlood's main focus is building a scalable platform that people will actually use and enjoy. Keep in mind, we are still in beta but players are winning real steam prizes everyday! Our next big push will be integrating our token and something even more special. In the meantime come and play!

Hi All,

Happy to announce our major redesign that has greatly improved our user experience and will allow more users to get smooth utility out of our platform.

https://blog.firstblood.io/firstblood-io-will-forever-look-different-847098b47c05

Creating a platform that is easy to use is essential to the success of any project and where most crypto projects fall short.

For those of you that would like to stay up to date with all of our latest improvements and talk with our community, please follow our blog and join our slack and discord channels. Just as a reminder, there will be no discussion of trading on any of our communication platforms. Our team is focused on growing the user base of our platform and the long term success of the project.

https://blog.firstblood.io/

https://slack.firstblood.io/

discord.gg/qAu852P

Many Thanks,
The FirstBlood Team

Indeed Vario, thank you for sharing.

We are proud to announce we will be working with the Chinese Government and Chinese esports companies to organize esports tournaments!

This will bring massive legitimacy to the use of blockchain technology for improving the standards and transparency of esports competitions

Higher technological standards for confirming players. Can't give away the secret sauce just yet!

Hi everyone,

We know you all are eager to play other games on the platform but it is important that we scale carefully and responsibly. FirstBlood's platform needs to support the community and culture for each game. If we try to do too many things at once, we will burn out and will be even further away from success. Additionally, many other projects are moving forward without regard for compliance; this will severely hurt the cause to legitimize esports and blockchain technology. Our weekly upgrades take a significant amount time because we are highly refining the experience. Likewise, we are working on pushing a massive design upgrades which will add additional functionality. We'll have some juicy updates tomorrow. Stay tuned!! 

Hi Everyone,

If you are interested in staying up to date on the latest improvements and functionality additions from our dev team please follow our blog on Medium. We release weekly updates!

https://blog.firstblood.io/@firstbloodio

Likewise if you would like to speak with our dev team please join our slack channel. Someone will be there to answer your tech and platform related questions.

https://firstbloodio.herokuapp.com

We'll have some major updates coming out next month. Stay tuned troopers 

Hi Everyone!

Just released our latest dev up dates. Made some major additions to our ladder and improved performance, check it out!

https://blog.firstblood.io/beta-dev-update-4-7832007d695e

We definitely get a lot of requests for LoL and CS. Our team is very well verse in those games

What about some newer games? Fighting games? PUBG?

Those are just our PT (PlayTokens) for testing the beta. No worries! If you get pwned to many times they replenish.

Thank you guys! Looks like we may be changing up our battle time, stay tuned!

Until then what other games besides Dota 2 would you all like to see on the platform?

Awesome Easy:) Our team is ready to play during BattleTime during 5-7 PM EST.

We are also holding ladders with free skin prizes!

Happy to announce the launch of our Open Beta!! Come and play some Dota 2 with our Devs, it's time to build together 

Signup at https://firstblood.io

Sorry to hear that too lucky, have you checked your spam folder? If it is not there then shoot us an email at: support@firstblood.io

We'll get you taken care of   

Thank you SweetHolder, we have some amazing news!!

It's certainly a big portion of the esports market that we are considering but not 90%. The prize pools are actually much larger for Dota 2, which makes a lot more sense for our business model. They just broke the world record for the largest crowdfunded esports prize pool yet.

http://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/19861533/dota-2-international-7-breaks-esports-prize-pool-record

Hey Ben,

Right now we are supporting Dota 2 and are gearing up to include at least 1 other title by the end of this year. Currently considering larger as well as up and coming titles. There are many possibilities

If you all can tell us some titles you like to play we'll definitely take it into account!

1ST Blood for beta teaser goes to ab1797

WARNING:

For the last several days there have been several phishing attempts on our community slack. Our team has acted swiftly to warn our internal community but this issue is on a much larger scale. Multiple communities have been plagued by this scammer and its up to all of us to help spread the word. Please notify your slacks and communities so they will not fall victim to these scammers. You may also retweet our community post with actual examples of the scammer's messages.

https://twitter.com/firstbloodio/status/883740046423142400