Prizes and Ratings
Where an entry goes
Every entry, and every sword and shield bought, is split two ways: 90% to the chest reserve and 10% to the treasury. Games pay no prizes of their own; what the chests leave at the season's end pays the season's best.
Results
At the end, the game settles its hyperstructure points and records every player's final victory points and rank. Equal scores share a rank: scores of 100, 100 and 50 rank 1, 1 and 3. Players with zero points share last place, including registered players who never acted.
Results, ratings, chests and season prizes all go to the wallet your seat was played with, even if you change your payout wallet afterwards.
A chest for every player
Every player of a settled game gets a chest, sealed until opened. Opening it draws one reward: one entry's worth of LORDS (99.98%), a sword credit (0.01%) or a shield credit (0.01%). A credit pays for that extra at your next entry. When the draw is LORDS but the chest reserve cannot pay the whole amount, the chest draws again between the two credits. Opening takes two steps: Open, then the reveal a few blocks later. At the season's end, what is left of the chest reserve joins the prize pool.
Ratings
Every Blitz game is rated, however many play; only a game of one leaves ratings as they were. Ratings are measured against a reference mean of 1,500. A game's base rating change is capped at 45, less in a small game; then a sword doubles a gain and a shield halves a loss, in the game you bought them for, so a sword's gain can reach twice the cap. In a rated game, the leaderboard shows each player's rating change if the game ended now, worked out as the result will be.
The season prize
When the season ends, ratings freeze. The best 20% of the season's players by rating share the prize pool, the top place the largest share and each place after it 96% of the share above. The Season page shows, while the season runs, what each place would take if it ended now.
Once the season's list is posted and its one-hour challenge window has passed, a winner presses Claim on the Season page, from the wallet their seats were played with.