How Tournaments Work
A tournament is a time-boxed skill event you join with a single ticket. Tournaments recur on a fixed schedule — daily and weekly — and you can be in as many of them at once as you like. Winners are decided by how well they race, and nothing else.
Tiers
| Tier | Ticket | Prizes | Real money? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Free — taken from the store, no wallet transaction | a USDG purse, plus EXP and GEARS | real prizes, no payment |
| Bronze | paid in GEARS, the in-game currency you earn by playing | GEARS, EXP and bikes | no |
| Gold | bought with one wallet transaction, strictly opt-in | crypto and bikes | yes |
Some tournaments set a minimum Account Level — a loyalty gate, not a skill gate: it asks that you’ve put in the laps, and your skill rating never blocks entry. Premium riders skip the level requirement. The bypass is access only: everyone races with the same attempts, the same physics, and lands in the bracket their skill earns.
Every tournament needs a linked wallet before you enter — it’s where a prize is paid and a bike is minted. A tournament with a real-money prize — Open included — also asks you to accept the tournament rules, and the wallet must pass our safety screening.
Your ticket
A ticket is bound to that specific tournament — it isn’t valid anywhere else, can’t be transferred, and one account holds at most one ticket per tournament.
- Open. Press Get Ticket in the store or on the tournament page and the ticket lands in your inventory at once — no wallet prompt, nothing to pay. Open the tournament and press Use Ticket: the ticket is spent, your seat is yours, and the trail list unlocks.
- Bronze. The GEARS entry fee is taken the moment you enter.
- Gold. Before you pay you accept the rules; the popup shows the ticket price, the house share and the current purse. Your entry shows as pending while the purchase confirms and turns active only when it’s seen on-chain.
A ticket you take but never use expires when the tournament starts, and its seat is not released.
Seats
A tournament can cap its field. The seats left number on every card is the real count of tickets already taken — never a made-up figure — and when it reaches zero the tournament reads Sold out and shows when the next one opens.
Schedule
Registration opens a set time before a fixed start, and every card shows when. The start never waits for the field to fill — the countdown you see is the start. Open and GEARS tournaments always run once they start, whatever the field size.
If a tournament is canceled
A paid real-money tournament that doesn’t reach its minimum number of riders by start time is canceled before it begins, and every ticket becomes refundable — you either race for the full declared purse or you get your money back. A canceled tournament you entered stays reachable from the tournaments page so you can collect a refund.
Trails and attempts
- Trails — the set of tracks in a tournament (a few per event). They’re special tracks made just for that tournament, not in the public list. Once you’ve used your ticket you see each trail’s name, length and difficulty; the course itself opens only at the start, so nobody can practice it in advance.
- Attempts — each tournament states a fixed number of tries per trail (three is the usual), and only your best run on each counts. This rewards mastery and consistency, not a single lucky run. Extra attempts are never for sale — every entrant gets the same number. An attempt has to be started before the tournament ends and finished shortly after, so a run can’t be held back and submitted later.
How placement works
Your placement on each trail earns points, and your points across all the trails combine into your final standing. One bad trail won’t wreck your event, and wildly different tracks stay fairly comparable.
Ties break on total time, then on who set the score first. If riders are still exactly level, the prizes for the places they occupy are added together and split equally — nobody is picked arbitrarily and nobody is paid twice.
House riders
Some tournaments carry house riders: accounts run by Data Racing that post real recorded runs so a young event has a pace to chase. They are always labelled HOUSE on the standings, they never take a seat, never place for a prize and never receive one, and they never outnumber real riders. The prize places are ranked over players only.
Fair by design
- Skill only — no betting against other players. You never wager against anyone; you race.
- Best-run scoring across multiple tracks means demonstrated skill decides the result.
- Leading isn’t winning — live standings are marked provisional while the tournament runs. When it ends, the tournament shows Under review while every prize-relevant run is verified; a run that fails verification is removed and the riders below move up. Prizes attach only after that. See Anti-Cheat.
See what you can win in Prizes & Payouts.