SUPER CYPHER · Ranked rules

1. How ranked works

Ranked is Episode 1, Stage 1 on a seed the server picks. Your inputs are recorded and the server replays them before a score goes on a board. A score that does not verify does not count.
A run is used when it starts, even if you quit, reload or close the page.
Boards: Open (everyone), CONTRA holders, and one board per Robinhood Chain collection (CCFF00, Stray Cucks, Staccs Wizards), plus Communities. A board counts your best verified run.

Prizes belong to rounds. Each prize round lists its prizes before it starts, and its rules do not change while it is live.
Winners are the top verified scores of that round's boards, after a review of the winning runs. Results are final 2 hours after the round ends.
One prize per person per round, whatever number of profiles or wallets they use. If you already won in a round, the prize goes to the next place.
Wallets that belong to the SUPER CYPHER team cannot play ranked or win.
The team's decision on prizes is final.

Every signed-in player gets a free ranked run every day, which can win the same prizes. On a very busy day the server may stop scoring new free runs until the next day (UTC); it never starts a free run it cannot score.
Free entry on request: during a prize round, open the RANKED panel in the game and use the FREE ENTRY box (the ASK buttons). Ask for one free run on any board of that round that normally needs a holding: the CONTRA holders board or a collection board. One request per person per round; the team reviews each request. A granted entry is one run that counts on that board in that round, like a rented run does, and the server always keeps capacity to score it.

Paid attempts are extra ranked runs after your free runs. Paying is never needed to play, to rank or to win.
Before your first payment the game asks you to confirm that you read these rules, that you are 18 or older and of legal age, and that paying for ranked runs is allowed where you live. If it is not allowed where you live, do not pay.
A CONTRA attempt burns the listed amount of CONTRA from your wallet: the tokens are destroyed, not sent to anyone. An ETH attempt sends the listed amount of ETH on Robinhood Chain to the SUPER CYPHER treasury. You pay the usual network fee.
Prices are shown before you pay and do not change during a prize round. A payment must land within 30 minutes of preparing it.
Attempts are non-refundable, cannot be transferred and have no cash value. A profile holds at most 50.

A rental is one ranked run on an NFT held by the SUPER CYPHER treasury. No NFT moves. That run also counts on the collection's board in that round.
You have 24 hours to play it. Rental sales close 24 hours before a round ends, so every rental gets its full day. An unused rental expires, like a missed run.
If every NFT is taken while you pay, you get a voucher that works as soon as one frees up. A voucher unused when the round ends, or a rental cut short if the team ends a round early, converts to paid attempts by value.
Rentals are non-refundable, cannot be transferred and have no cash value.

Winners see CLAIM MY PRIZE in the RANKED panel and confirm their name, a way to reach them, and their country (and state, in the US). These details are private: only the team sees them.
You must be 18 or older and of legal age where you live.
Prizes are void where contests like this are restricted. Players in those places can play and rank, but cannot claim prizes. In the United States this currently includes Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana, Montana, South Carolina, South Dakota and Tennessee. This list can change between rounds.
US winners of $600 or more in prizes in a year receive a tax form.

One person, one profile. Bots, shared accounts, and tampering with the game or the server void a result.
These rules can change between rounds. A live prize round keeps the rules it started with.