Stage 1
Main gauntlet
Win and stay, lose and drop.
Hold the throne, survive the queue
The winner stays in the main gauntlet. Every defeated entrant gets one second-chance run before the bracket champions meet.
How it runs
The stages are the sections the bracket page draws; the rules are what decides who moves between them.
Stage 1
Win and stay, lose and drop.
Stage 2
One last path back.
Stage 3
Bracket champions collide.
Stage 4
Split it, or fight for it.
Drawn at 8 entrants
A sketch, not a bracket — no real names and no results. The live bracket is built server-side from the committed seed order.
Battle 1
Seed 1 vs Seed 2
Battle 2
Holder vs Seed 3
Battle 3
Holder vs Seed 4
Battle 4
Holder vs Seed 5
Battle 5
Holder vs Seed 6
…2 more, then the champion
See it running
The live tournament carries every called result with the battle that produced it — scores, flags and the full gift ledger.