Tournament Guide

Before the start

Check the tournament name, UTC start time, entry price, retry price and duration. Defaults for a new admin draft are 500 Credits entry, 100 Credits per retry and 3 hours. Actual published settings are shown in the lobby. Joining spends the listed entry Credits and reserves your first attempt.

The Scheduled countdown is time until the start. At the start the status becomes Live and a separate duration timer counts down to the end.

Equal tournament rules

SKILL-BASED / NO PAY-TO-WIN. The highest verified SCORE counts. Everyone uses the same tournament seed, arena and rules. Entry includes one identical set: END, FUEL, LASER and BLACK HOLE. Each can be used once across the entire tournament. Retries never restore them. Solo inventories do not carry over.

Credits buy entry or additional attempts, never points or a guaranteed prize. More attempts mean more opportunities to improve your personal best; they do not change scoring or power-up allowances.

Tournament mode and prize pool are shown in the lobby. Test funds have no cash value. Game Credits cannot be exchanged for money. Confirmed prizes use a separate winnings wallet; Claim submits a request, not an automatic transfer.

During the tournament

Open your included first attempt while Live. Finish it before starting a retry. The four power-ups are recorded server-side across all attempts. Natural random power-up drops are disabled in the tournament arena, so nobody receives extra items. The same seed is used on retries.

Leaving or refreshing an active attempt loses its local game state. Return to the lobby to resume the attempt from its initial board with the power-ups that remain; the result still requires review. Record your full uninterrupted attempt if you want an admin to verify it.

Verification and final results

This staging build uses manual verification, not automated replay verification. Scores remain pending until an admin checks independent gameplay evidence, including the reached level and all power-up usage. Admins cannot approve their own result. An unsupported result must be rejected.

The live board includes only verified scores. After the end, pending results keep the board provisional. Expired unfinished attempts do not score. Equal scores share a position. Your personal best and position use your highest verified score.

Finishing the tournament

New attempts close before the clock ends (normally two minutes; the admin can configure this). Already active games continue. The tournament waits for their completion; an attempt without a server heartbeat for three minutes expires. Submitted scores are provisional until verification.