In 9 years of success stories and word of mouth advertising Hive is where it is right now. Maybe time for a different approach.
The chess tournaments don´t require a jury, but who wins follows transparent rules. True, there are prizes involved as well, but we hardly get any whale votes, compared to the votes for Vibes. It is in a different league :)
Therefore I also don´t claim to make a significant difference. If we would have some valueplan-like funding, maybe we also could attract higher-ranked players, but again, probably most of them would sell as well.