===== Contests =====
Even though EXODE is still in alpha, there have already been a number of really enjoyable contests with great prizes.

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[[ https://peakd.com/exode/@exodenews/planetary-challenge-contest|The First Planetary Challenge ]] was an official contest run by exodenews (khazrakh & balticbadger).  The goal was to create an imaginary deck for a specific planet .  Prizes included a Tom Settlers Essential Pack (1st); 5 Booster Packs (2nd); 3 Booster Packs (3rd) and secret rewards of a Booster Pack for 3 Captains and a WHC Unit card for 15 Captains.  The full results can be seen [[ https://peakd.com/exode/@exodenews/planetary-challenge-contest-winners-announced|here ]] with links to the top four entries.

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The [[ https://peakd.com/exode/@exodenews/planetary-challenge-contest|Baldie Challenge ]] was the second Planetary Challenge, another official contest run by exodenews (khazrakh & balticbadger).  The goal was to create a deck of your own cards (in the EXODE Launcher) using a Baldie starship and able to survive for 90 days in one of three locations -- a water planet, a moon with an abandoned alien base or an asteroid riddled with mysterious tunnels.  There were a number of events planned for each location and builds were tested against the events for their location.

What was amazing was that there was a series of daily posts which detailed the journey of each crew.  Each daily post covered another 15 days of the journey and awarded survivors increasingly valuable prizes (a common, a common, a rare, an epic, a booster pack, two booster packs).  The stories were awesome with the best moment being one crew attempting to tiptoe through a minefield -- only to find that the mines were mobile and target-seeking.

The winners of each location also got two additional booster packs and the overall winner got a legendary Vanguard.  The final results can be seen [[ https://peakd.com/hive-155862/@exodenews/the-baldie-challenge-aftermath-part-seven-all-good-things-come-to-an-end|here ]] including some extra surprise prizes of certificates and Hive NFTs (non-fungible tokens) for the winners of each location.  Khazrakh also wrote up a [[https://peakd.com/hive-140217/@khazrakh/a-backstage-tour-to-the-baldie-challenge|backstage tour of the challenge]] which included links to all of the stories.

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The [[https://peakd.com/hive-155862/@digital-wisdom/exode-federal-database-challenge-official-rules-rubrics-and-additional-info|Federal Database Challenge]] was an unofficial challenge run by digital-wisdom.  The gist of the contest was that each match pitted two players against each other - - a "keeper" who had a Federal Database and had to keep it long enough to decrypt and access its Secret Datacore and a "grabber" who had to simply take the Federal Database away from the keeper before the Secret Datacore was accessed. Each of the 10 keepers was pitted against each of the 5 grabbers and a winner (or co-winners) declared for each category based upon their records.  Players were allowed any cards that they desired and each card was considered fully upgraded.

Once again, there was a series of daily posts with each detailing the battles of one keeper against all five of the grabbers.  Results were posted [[https://peakd.com/hive-155862/@digital-wisdom/exode-federal-database-challenge-keeper-hooiyewlim-s-results|here]] with the prizes of Azumi & Black Lotus (grabber winner/keeper co-winner/1st place); choice of Ayumi or Black Lotus (keeper co-winner);  epic Octohome and rares Security Drone and Tom Little Buddy (2nd); epic Federal Database and rare Programmed Transactor (3rd) and participation prizes of a booster pack for all remaining Captains.  The (co-)winners also got certificates and Hive NFTs like those of the winners of the Baldie Challenge.

Digital-wisdom also wrote a [[https://peakd.com/hive-155862/@digital-wisdom/a-backstage-tour-to-the-federal-database-challenge|backstage tour]] which contained links to all of the entries and all of the daily battle posts.

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Keep your eyes on the [[https://peakd.com/c/hive-155862/created|Hive EXODE Pilots Community]] as both exodenews and digital-wisdom have promised that more contests will be appearing there in the very near future.