Terms of service

Blotto Cup is operated by the entity named below. Where a value reads “not yet set”, the operating entity does not exist yet and no real-money tournament runs until it does.

The operating entity is not yet incorporated, so the entries below that name it read “not yet set”. Nothing is hidden by that: no real-money tournament runs until they are filled in.

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You may enter only if all of the following are true.

• You are 18 or over. Your wallet signs a confirmation of this, and the confirmation is recorded against your wallet and the version of these terms you accepted.
• You are not in a territory where Blotto Cup is unavailable. The list is published on the rules page, and where your location cannot be determined, entry is refused.
• Your address is not on a published sanctions list. Every address is screened before an entry is accepted, and again before a prize is paid.
• You are not using one of the four service keys — the admin, keeper, entry-signing and settlement keys. The program refuses them itself.
• One entry per address per tournament. There is no limit across tournaments.

Blotto Cup runs tournaments. A tournament holds 8, 16, 32 or 64 players, fixed when it opens; each player pays a fixed entry and sets seven battles of five attributes under the placing rule that tournament was opened with: in an easy tournament, 100 points split across the five attributes in each battle; in a hard tournament, 700 points placed anywhere across the seven battles, any attribute from 0 to 700. Which rule a tournament plays is shown before you enter and cannot change once it has opened. Those seven decisions are encrypted on your own device before you pay, and the program records only a fingerprint of them.

When the tournament closes, every entry is scored against every other entry by a published rule: for each of the seven battles, the entry that takes at least three of the five attributes wins it, and an equal split is a draw worth half a win to each. Players are ranked by battles won, then by attributes won. The players ranked highest are paid the prizes set for their places.

Nothing in the path from your entry to the payment is decided by chance. The one random draw in the product chooses which character artwork your pass shows, and no class value is read anywhere in the scoring, ranking, prize or tiebreak path.

These terms describe what the service does and how it decides. They do not assert what the service is in law, in either direction.

Each tier has one fixed entry price, published on the rules page. You pay it to the program, not to us: your entry payment is held by the program until the tournament runs.

Decisions are final. Once your seven battles are submitted they cannot be changed or withdrawn, and neither can your entry. That is a property of the mechanism rather than a policy — your battles are encrypted before you pay and the program holds only their fingerprint, so there is nothing for anyone to edit.

Each tournament carries its own size, prize table, minimum field and deadline, recorded on it when it opens. A later change to any of them cannot move them for a tournament you have already entered: the numbers you were shown are the numbers your tournament plays by. Tournaments opened under the current rules close to entries 12 hours after opening and run with at least 5 of 8, 10 of 16, 20 of 32 or 40 of 64 players.

Every tournament pays fixed prizes to its highest places, from a table set by its size and its entry price and published on the rules page: a tournament of 8 pays 2, 16 pays 4, 32 pays 8 and 64 pays 16 places. The whole table is moved into the tournament’s own account from our treasury before entries open, so a tournament’s ability to pay never depends on how many people entered it, and the prizes are the same whether the field is the minimum or full.

Players equal on both ranking criteria share a rank, and share equally the prizes of the places they occupy together. That includes a tie that reaches past the last paid place: the prizes of the paid places it covers are divided equally between everyone in the tie. An indivisible remainder of a few lamports goes to the eligible player with the lowest entry number. No other position is paid.

Prizes are paid automatically when results are committed. There is no claim step and no action you need to take.

A tournament whose deadline passes with fewer than its minimum field refunds every entry in full and closes. Anyone can trigger that refund once the deadline has passed — it does not need our permission and it does not depend on us being available.

Five signals are computed over every tournament. Nothing is flagged automatically: a flag is a decision taken by a person that an entry meets one of the criteria published on the rules page, and a flag by itself decides nothing — it holds the prize while the decision is made. Every decision and the criterion cited are recorded in a log anyone can read.

A held prize stays in the tournament’s own account. It is not paid to us and it is not paid to anyone else while the decision is open. If no decision is made within 12 hours, the flag is cleared and the prize is paid. As a safeguard against our own failure, the program lets anyone at all release a held prize to the player it belongs to after 7 days, without our involvement.

If a flag is upheld, the withheld prize stays in the tournament’s prize vault and can only ever be paid to other players of the same tournament; it never goes to the operator. It is never kept by us: the program has no instruction that can move it to us, and no instruction that can take back a prize already paid.

You may challenge a decision through our complaints route, and we will tell you which criterion was cited.

We may refuse to accept an entry from an address, or withhold a prize that has not yet been paid, where we determine on reasonable grounds that: the integrity criteria published in the rules have been met; the address is one of several controlled by the same person in a single tournament; entry was made from a territory where the service is not available, or by a person under 18, or by an address on a published sanctions list; or these terms have otherwise been breached.

Where we do either, we will tell you which ground we relied on. You may challenge the decision through our complaints route, and a decision on that challenge will be made by someone other than whoever made the original one wherever that is possible.

A prize we withhold is never kept by us. It stays in the tournament’s prize vault and can only ever be paid to other players of the same tournament. We cannot recover a prize that has already been paid, and we will not try to.

Our total liability to you in connection with a tournament is limited to the entry fee you paid for that tournament.

That limit does not apply to — and nothing in these terms excludes or limits — our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. If any part of this clause is unenforceable, the rest of it still applies.

Blotto Cup runs on Solana. A network halt, congestion, a fee spike or a transaction that fails to land are outside our control, and a tournament’s timing can be affected by them. Where that delays a settlement, the program’s own safeguards still apply — the refund at the deadline and the release of a held prize both remain available to anyone.

Your wallet and its keys are yours. We cannot recover a key you have lost, we cannot move funds out of your wallet, and we cannot reverse a transaction once it has been confirmed. Nobody can.

Where an entry’s encrypted battles cannot be read at the reveal, that entry is scored as all losses and its entry fee is refunded. That refund is made by hand, by us, rather than by the program: the tournament’s published data lists every entry it applies to, so you can check whether yours is one, but no code pays it.

Each tournament is encrypted to a key of its own, held in our custody and unreadable by anyone — including us — until the tournament closes. Nothing can replace that key. If one were permanently lost after its tournament had closed to entries, that tournament could not be revealed, settled or refunded, and its funds would have no route out. This is why the key’s custody is disclosed in full on the keys page.

We do not undertake that the service will be available without interruption. We may suspend it, or stop offering it altogether. A tournament that is already open plays out under the rules it opened with: pausing new entries is the only thing a suspension does to the program, and it can never strand money — settlement and refunds keep working while entries are paused.

A prize may be taxable where you live. Working out what you owe, and paying it, is yours to do. We do not give tax advice and nothing here is any.

When these terms change, the new version is published here and your wallet is asked to accept it before your next entry. An entry already made stands under the version you accepted when you made it; an acceptance of an older version does not let you enter again until you have accepted the current one. That is enforced by the entry service, not left to us to remember.

If something has gone wrong — a decision you want looked at again, a payment problem, the site, or anything about your own data — our complaints route is how you tell us. We will acknowledge a complaint within 5 working days and answer it within 30 days. A person reads every complaint; no software decides one.

Nothing in this clause takes away any right you have to go to a court or to a regulator instead.

Complaints

These terms, and any dispute arising out of them, are governed by the law named below, and the courts named below have jurisdiction. Nothing here removes a protection the law where you live gives you and does not allow to be removed by agreement.

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If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest of them still apply, and the unenforceable part applies as far as it lawfully can.

These terms, the rules published on the rules page and the fair-play page, and the privacy notice, are the whole of the agreement between you and us about Blotto Cup. Where the rules page and these terms describe the same thing, they are meant to say the same thing; if they ever differ, tell us through the complaints route and we will correct whichever is wrong.

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