The prize money is not a promise, it is arithmetic. Here is every entry fee the season collected and every lamport of it that belongs to players — already paid, waiting to be claimed, or still to be won.
Reading the live tournament ledger…
The whole entry pot is the prize pool, and 100% is its ceiling. What actually gets paid comes from the prize ladder: every deck knocked out in a round receives that round's fixed amount, and the champion receives the top prize. Those amounts are published before you enter and do not change with the size of the field — which is exactly why the share paid out does.
Each extra round needs twice the decks. A field that has just passed a bracket size uses the ladder almost to the last lamport, about 98%. As more decks join without reaching the next size, the pot grows faster than the prizes, so the share drifts down to around 89–92% before the next round is added and it jumps back up. In practice most tournaments land at 89–95%.
The remainder goes into developing the app. Nothing is taken off the top before the ladder pays: the whole pot is available to it, and only what it does not pay stays behind.
Every prize is a multiple of the entry fee (0.000949 SOL per deck). A deck knocked out in a round receives that round's multiplier; the last deck standing receives the champion's. Round 1 pays nothing, and reaching round 2 already pays more than you entered with. The ladder is the same at every field size — a bigger field only adds rounds and raises the champion's prize.
| Round | Multiplier | Prize per deck (SOL) |
|---|---|---|
| Round 1 | 0× | 0 |
| Round 2 | 1.1× | 0.0010439 |
| Round 3 | 1.5× | 0.0014235 |
| Round 4 | 1.9× | 0.0018031 |
| Round 5 | 2.7× | 0.0025623 |
| Round 6 | 4.2× | 0.0039858 |
| Round 7 | 8× | 0.007592 |
| Round 8 | 11× | 0.010439 |
| Round 9 | 15× | 0.014235 |
| Round 10 | 19× | 0.018031 |
| Round 11 | 34× | 0.032266 |
| Round 12 | 62× | 0.058838 |
| Round 13 | 100× | 0.0949 |
| Round 14 | 150× | 0.14235 |
| Field | Rounds | Multiplier | Prize (SOL) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17–32 decks | 5 | 4.2× | 0.0039858 |
| 33–64 decks | 6 | 8× | 0.007592 |
| 65–128 decks | 7 | 11× | 0.010439 |
| 129–256 decks | 8 | 13× | 0.012337 |
| 257–512 decks | 9 | 22× | 0.020878 |
| 513–1,024 decks | 10 | 38× | 0.036062 |
| 1,025–2,048 decks | 11 | 62× | 0.058838 |
| 2,049–4,096 decks | 12 | 100× | 0.0949 |
| 4,097–8,192 decks | 13 | 150× | 0.14235 |
| 8,193–16,384 decks | 14 | 260× | 0.24674 |
A round is only played if the field is big enough to need it: a 300-deck tournament has 9 rounds, so its final is round 9 — the runner-up takes the round 9 prize and the champion the 9-round champion's prize. Prizes are whole lamports, rounded down.
Bars share one scale. The outlined track is the entry fees that tournament collected; the fill is the part of it that belongs to players.
The prize pool was capped at 97% of entry fees. That cap is gone: 100% of every entry fee now sits in the pool, and the extra is being spent where it was most needed — the middle of the ladder.
Rounds 3 and 4 are a real run. Reaching them means outlasting seven decks in eight, and they paid too little for it. Both rungs go up. Round 2 and the champion's prize are unchanged — the top of the ladder did not pay for this.
Every figure above, in full. Amounts in SOL.
| Tournament | Decks | Fees | Claimed | Unclaimed | Scheduled | To players | % of fees |
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