ONE LAST REVERSE FOR HISTORY
It’s time to finally turn the page. The @fantasy_top_
team has decided to bury Reverse. It will still be playable, but with 0 ETH to distribute and far fewer frags starting next season, there’ll be no way to expect a decent ROI from buying cards specifically for this league. It’ll basically just become a “trash” league, where you dump cards you don’t know what to do with and don’t want to sell.
Before never speaking of it again, I still want to thank the team for giving me some of the best fun I’ve ever had in web3 🤝
I’ll always remember my first podium (Main 22) and my first win (Main 31), which pushed me to go all-in on the game. And what about that blessed stretch between Main 38 and 43 when I never left the podium, with nearly 0.3 ETH in rewards every week? 🥹
In the end, my “career” in Reverse stands at:
🥇 14 wins (with 4 consecutive ones)
🥉 28 podiums
Only Franz did better, and he’ll forever remain the greatest Reverse player in Fantasy.
So it’s not without emotion that, for the last time, I’ll be lining up my Reverse decks, hoping to get my 15th and final win:
➡️ Makesy (3 ⭐️): For the last time, thank you for your transparency with players, thank you for inventing the “Makesy strategy.” You’ll forever remain in the Hall of Fame of the greatest heroes 🙏
➡️ Laurence (4 ⭐️): Deactivated his account yesterday. Needs to be monitored closely, but he already disappeared for several weeks this summer. If he doesn’t reactivate before the tournament starts, he’ll be in all my top decks
➡️ Wazz (4 ⭐️): Announced a 2-month break. Many panic sold after the announcement, but I took the chance to buy a few. Guaranteed 0 for this Reverse tournament, stable inflation until his return (confirmed by the team), and a nice flip opportunity when he comes back at 1 star, even if it’ll probably be possible to buy cheaper in the coming weeks.
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These are the 3 must-have heroes for the final Reverse in history. To combine with them, here are the heroes I’m interested in, from highest to lowest stars:
➡️ Selkis (8 ⭐️): Took #1 last tournament thanks to his video on Charlie Kirk’s death. His last top 50 was back in tournament 41. On average, he scores around 400, which is still a lot for Reverse, but at 8 stars he’s a good card to play if you have him (especially in rare or epic).
➡️ WSB (7 ⭐️): Went viral recently with the announcement of his trial. But apart from that, it’s now just a resold account used to shill garbage. Lots of followers, very little reach. I’d be surprised if he scores over 300.
➡️ Charlotte (6 ⭐️): We’ve won many tournaments thanks to Charlotte… Recently though, she’s been far more active and even hit 700 points last time. Not such a great Reverse card anymore, but at 6 stars I’m still tempted to play her.
➡️ Psycho (5 ⭐️): More active lately, but still blanked 4 times in the last 10 tournaments. Tempting at 5 stars.
➡️ Smokey (5 ⭐️): Average of 250 over the last 10 tournaments. Not a winning card, but a solid score/stars ratio.
➡️ Terminal of Truth (5 ⭐️): Rarely goes over 250 points, similar to Smokey.
➡️ Kain (4 ⭐️): Unless there’s a big Infinex update, shouldn’t go over 200 points.
➡️ Verslalune (3 ⭐️): Risky hero in Reverse since he can drop a banger at any time, but without one his score is always very low.
➡️ Nani (2 ⭐️): On vacation next week, should score very low or even 0.
➡️ Intuitio (1 ⭐️): If anyone has the stats, I’d be curious to know how many times I’ve played Intuitio in Reverse since the beginning 😂
Good luck to everyone in this final Reverse, and see you next season in Bronze and Silver ! 🫡
I am so tired of the “Switzerland is just evil bankers hiding elite money” narrative
Banking is only about 5% of Swiss GDP
Pharma is bigger, at 5.8%, fyi we account for 10.5% of global pharmaceutical exports
Manufacturing is around 24%
We also rank #1 in innovation world wide
Oh and we also have the only real democracy in the world
The issue is that the foreigners view of Switzerland and its economy is plagued by it’s image…
No sorry but it isn’t just Zurich and Geneva carrying a country of cows and ski chalets where inhabitants produce chocolate and expensive watches
Zurich canton, aka the state of Zurich, produces roughly 18% of Swiss GDP with about 18% of the population
Geneva produces about 8% of GDP with only 5.9% of the population
The reality is that the country is full of small towns with industrial and service bases that employ people locally and sustain entire regions
Take Monthey, where I grew up. It’s a city of around 15,000 people, yet it holds one of the largest contiguous chemical site in Europe:
2,000 people on site daily, with names like Ciba, BASF, Huntsman, Sun Chemical, and Syngenta. For Syngenta, largest crop protection producer in the world, Monthey is a globally important production hub
That site is also where the world famous Ferrari red pigment was invented
That’s the real Switzerland
Small places quietly making world-class things, and the system works:
My father grew up on a rural farm, couldn’t get a higher education. To give my family a better life he got a job at Syngenta working night shifts as a factory worker. 20y later he still works there, but now he moved up to a coordinator role in charge of a part of manufacturing where he leads a team of 20.
There aren’t many places where you can leave school at 14, spend your whole life as an employee, never invest a cent beyond your retirement savings, and still work your way from the lower class into a very comfortable middle-class life
2 months ago, I took the day off to join my dad as he picked up his Porsche Taycan 4S. Sure, it was secondhand and around 120k off sticker, but for someone who grew up waking up at 4:30 to milk cows before school, then back to work again after class, and never had a vacation until he met my mom in his mid-20s, it’s an extraordinary milestone
The state covered my healthcare until I was 20, and it quite literally saved my life, I would not be here otherwise
Swiss taxpayers spent roughly CHF 18 million keeping me alive, and a big part of what drives me is the desire to repay that debt by becoming a net positive for my country
And yes, of course Switzerland made real moral compromises during WWII, but for the love of god consider the situation it was in
Judging those choices without looking at a map is deeply unserious: by 1940 Switzerland was effectively surrounded by Axis-controlled territory, so neutrality was a survival strategy under extreme pressure, not some claim to moral purity lol. So yes, the Swiss National Bank bought gold from Nazi Germany. The real question is not whether compromises happened, but if survival ended and complicity began. It’s very easy to moralize about clean choices once the war is over and someone else had to live through the alternatives…
If you are going to criticize Switzerland, do it where criticism is deserved
Lastly, before calling Switzerland cowardly for neutrality, remember that Pope Julius II founded the Swiss Guard in 1506 because Swiss mercenaries were the best in the world and had a reputation for loyalty and military effectiveness. Five centuries later we are still protecting the Pope btw
Next time instead of taking about our big bad banks, talk about: our factories, our labs, our medicines, our engineering, or the diplomacy, the humanitarian work and so on
Oh and look at your own countries actions before having the audacity to criticize others…
@Jason@steipete Sorry to bother you with this but I think someone in your team might be doing some insider trading. Many people will be rugged if your webiste is not updated with last @theallinpod episodes before end of this month. Your help would be much appreciated.
@Magicmajis@fantasy_top_ Was such a pleasure meeting you !
"And little by little, the noise of Web3 stopped resonating. Not out of rejection, not out of frustration, simply because the inner space it used to occupy had changed." => I could have not put it in better words. Enjoy your life my friend