Tournaments

It's a separate game

A tournament has its own card and its own bankroll. Nothing that happens in it touches your season or global points, and nothing there affects it. You can be knocked out of a tournament and still have your best night ever on the main board.

Night one gets you in

Submit a card for the first night and you are entered. That night's score becomes your starting bankroll. There is no separate signup.

The cut

After every night except the last, the field is cut. A number of seats is set as a share of whoever is still in, and the ticket price is whatever the last seat scored that night.

• Score at or above the price and you advance — ties at the price get in.
• Score below it and you are out.
• Miss a night entirely and you are out, whatever your bankroll. You have to play to stay.

The price is not a fixed number — it is set by what the field actually scored that night, so a quiet night has a low bar and a big night has a high one.

The carry

You do not keep your whole bankroll between nights. A share of it carries forward, and on top of that you keep everything you scored above the ticket price.

So beating the cut by a mile is worth far more than scraping in — surviving is necessary, but the margin is what builds a winning bankroll.

The final night

No cut. Everyone still standing plays it out, and the highest bankroll at the end is champion.

Which runs become tournaments

Three or more of a band's shows at the same venue, each within three days of the next. A show at another venue, or a gap of more than three days, starts a new run.

Qualifying runs open on their own — you do not have to ask for one.

The exact numbers

The share of the field that advances, the minimum number of seats and how much bankroll carries are set per tournament. Each tournament's own screen shows the values it is using, along with the current field and the price to beat.