Arena Rules

The Arena is where you run a private challenge with friends — invite-only, no strangers, no public boards. Finishing near the top of one can earn Arena Score, a reputation number that sits beside your solo stats.

This page is the whole rulebook. A scoring rule you can't check isn't worth much, so all of it is here, including the parts that pay nothing.

How you earn Arena Score

When a challenge ends, the app looks at the final leaderboard and pays out the top places. A challenge pays only if it:

• had at least 2 people who actually joined — invitations that were never accepted don't count, and
• ran for 7 days or more, counting the first and last day.

Challenges shorter than that, or ones nobody else joined, still run normally and still show up on your record. They just don't pay Arena Score.

What a challenge pays

How much a place is worth depends on how many people were in it. A podium is what a real field unlocks:

A challenge that runs 21 days or longer adds +1 on top, for every place that earned something. It rides a placing rather than being paid on its own — finishing a long challenge outside the paying places is still worth nothing, so there's no way to collect it just by being present.

Nobody below third place is ever paid, in any size of field.

Ties

Ties work differently in small and large challenges, and the difference is deliberate.

In a challenge of 2–4 people, everyone tied for first gets the full point each. If two friends both trained every day for a fortnight, they both did the thing. Announcing that nobody won would penalise exactly the outcome this app exists to produce. It does mean a tie pays out two points where a single winner would have been paid one — but the only way to get there is for both people to genuinely finish, which is a fine thing to pay for.

In a challenge of 5 or more, a tied place splits the points it covers, rounded down. Two people tied for first share what 1st and 2nd would have paid — 3 and 2 — and take 2 each; whoever comes third outright still takes their 1. The effect is that a tie can never pay out more in total than settling it would have. In a field big enough that arranging a tie might be worth someone's while, arranging one always costs them.

In a small challenge, a tie for second or third pays nothing, the same as an outright second or third does.

The same group scores once a week

A given group of people can earn Arena Score at most once every 7 days.

"The same group" means the exact set of people who joined. If you and the same two friends finish a challenge on Monday and another one on Wednesday, only Monday's pays. A different line-up counts as a different group, with its own week.

The week only starts running from a challenge that actually paid somebody. A board where everyone tied and nobody placed doesn't use up your week.

This is here so a group that plays regularly keeps earning at a steady pace, without anyone being able to speed it up by stacking challenges back to back. Playing more often costs you nothing — the extra challenges simply don't add score.

Finishing with nothing logged doesn't pay

If your final score on the board is zero, you aren't paid, whatever position the board lists you in. Joining and logging nothing isn't a result, even in the case where everyone else did the same.

How the leaderboard itself is scored

Your position is how many days you hit the daily target — nothing else. Doing more than the target on a given day never banks extra, so there is nothing to gain by overdoing it, and a big day can't make up for a missed one.

Because of that, two people who both hit their target every day finish level. That's a tie, and in a small challenge a tie pays both of you — see above.

Logging is self-reported and runs on the honor system.

Proof, if the host asks for it

Whoever sets up the challenge decides whether it needs proof. If they switch it on, a photo or a video is required to check in — back out of the camera and the day stays unlogged. If they leave it off, you just tick the box and there's nothing to upload.

Proof is visible to everyone in the challenge, or to the host alone, depending on how it was set up. You'll see which before you join.

Videos play for 7 days. After that the clip is deleted and a still frame from it is kept in its place, labelled as an expired clip. Photos are kept for the life of the challenge.

What Arena Score is not

• It isn't money. No challenge involves real money, prizes, or anything that converts into them.
• Nothing is staked. You never put anything up to enter, and losing a challenge costs you nothing at all.
• Tpoints are never involved. The Arena never awards, spends, or wagers them. Your solo consistency record and your Arena record are two separate things, and neither pays into the other.
• It never goes down. Arena Score is only ever added to. There's nothing to spend it on, and nothing you or anyone else does can take it away.

The app funds the payouts, not the players. That's the reason there's nothing to collude over, and the reason entering your first challenge risks nothing.

Ranks

Arena Score puts you on a ladder of its own, separate from the consistency ranks you earn by showing up day after day. Below 1 you're simply Unranked.

One more cosmetic sits outside the ladder: the Champion Gold accent, for winning a single challenge outright. It counts even if that challenge was too short or too small to pay any Arena Score — a win with one friend over three days is a real win on your record, it just isn't worth a point. A tie for first isn't an outright win for this purpose.

None of these can be bought, and none of them are for sale.

How long the ladder takes

Worth knowing before you set your expectations. Two people who play each other steadily and both finish everything earn roughly a point a week between challenges. A five-person group running fortnight-long challenges earns about half a point a week each. Someone active in two separate groups earns around two a week.

So Contender lands somewhere around the fifth week of regular play, and Ace is a good deal more than a year away. The ladder is meant to be slow — a rank you could reach in a fortnight wouldn't say anything about you.

Questions

If something here doesn't match what you're seeing in the app, tell us through the support form — that's a bug, and we'd want to know.