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To celebrate the arrival of fiat out for 100 players and to demonstrate the value and impact this can bring to the real world the Manhattan 1/2s organization is hosting its first ever community event, the Play. Give. Connect. campaign. This community event is a fundraiser seeking to raise $5000 USD for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in 10 days between January 27th and February 6th 2021.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital founder Danny Thomas once said that “no child should die in the dawn of life”. The reason the Manhattan 1/2s is aligning with St Jude is that this hospital is where research meets treatment to ensure that patients are cared for today and that outcomes are improved for tomorrow. At St Jude patients are treated without consideration of the patient's ability to pay.
There are 4 ways to participate in the Play. Give. Connect. campaign:
In game though Upland fiat-out property sales/ donations.
Through a number of NFT sales and auctions on the WAX blockchain
Directly to the Saint Jude’s campaign here.
Through an apparel sale here.
Fiat-Out property sales offers the most ways to participate in the Play. Give. Connect. campaign utilizing the Upland Fiat-Out beta program. For next 2 weeks StersMerlin will list fiat-out properties for the Play. Give. Connect. Fresno Blocks shown below. 100% of all proceeds received on the sales from the fiat-out sales will go to the St. Jude’s campaign here. I will be posting about our progress as the event continues. The Play. Give. Connect. Campaign simultaneously empowers Upland to collect data on fiat-out sales while helping children and families with cancer through treatment and research.
Upland property fiat-out donations are divided into seven tiers described below to help get the entire community involved in supporting families and fighting cancer. This event has a custom designed Play. Give. Connect. artwork designed by my wife KillerErica to help raise funding for our friends who have been impacted by cancer. Suggested tiers are detailed below but please note that every donation is valuable and please reach out to see how you can contribute:
Send Fees - to 3292 ½ N Weber Ave. Fresno Ca. Common NFT included. StersMerlin will match whatever the final send fees are at the end of the event.
$5 - Collection Optimization using UPX World’s new collection optimization tool. Constant StersMerlin. Common NFT included.
$10 - Play. Give. Connect. DM StersMerlin about setting up a sale of a Fresno Burner. Will include rare NFT.
$25 - Property in the Play. Give. Connect. Fresno Block (shown below) and rare NFT.
$50 - Participants Upland Username included in the Play. Give. Connect. Legendary NFT and a legendary NFT.
$100 a custom Play. Give. Connect. Shirt with Username and custom block explorer. Shirts limited to 8 participants. The players username will be included on the back of the distributed Play. Give. Connect. campaign legendary NFT. Must share a postal address for receipt of shirt.
$200 a custom Play. Give. Connect. Hoodie with Username and custom block explorer. (with Upland Name), and everything in lower tiers. Limit 4 players. Username included on the Play. Give. Connect. Legendary NFT. Must share a postal address for receipt of hoodie.
Note 100% of the proceeds from fiat-out sales are going to the linked St. Jude’s Campaign and The Manhattan 1/2s will be covering the costs of production and mailing of the higher tier apparel. Finally the Play. Give. Connect. NFT mints will be distributed in order of largest donation with ties broken by the first donor to reach the final donation value. There will be an updated scoreboard throughout the duration of the campaign. Donations from a single participant are cumulative.
merchandise. This allows you to get the custom design apparel at a lower donation level with the Cancer finger. Note that this design is standard and will differ from the custom apparel designed specifically for the high tier fiat-out donors. If you purchase one of these make sure to leave your wax address so I can include you in the standard NFT distribution. Note this method excludes you from the NFT donation leaderboard.
This event seizes the opportunity to extract value back to the real world for a cause and is the first-of-its kind for the Upland metaverse. You don’t want to miss out on this amazing opportunity to not only help children and their families with cancer but to make Upland History and give cancer the finger. The Play. Give. Connect. campaign is hosted by The Manhattan 1/2s and the team includes Little Italy, Recourier, UPX.World, and the UPX.podcast.