Crews: bring your community into a trading tournament

A crew is not a team you are assigned to. It is the audience a creator already has, turning up to the same lobby on the same night.

Every tournament you enter counts for the crew you are in. Your entry, your capital, your clock and your prize are exactly what they would have been anyway — the only difference is that your final score is also counted toward the crew’s. You change crews on the crew page, never at entry, so nobody can watch the board and jump onto whoever is winning. New players start in Sivex HQ, which does not play for the crew pot.

A crew is scored on the average of its ten best entrants. Fixed at ten — not a percentage of the crew.

That is what stops the format collapsing into a headcount contest. A crew of 500 and a crew of 60 are judged on the same ten slots, so bringing more people never wins the battle on its own, and a small, sharp community can beat an enormous one. If two crews average identically, the one with the single best individual finish takes it.

The earlier version of this rule counted the top 10 percent, and it was thrown out for exactly the reason you would expect: it punished recruiting. A crew that doubled its turnout diluted its own score.

2% of entry money, split 30 / 70 between the founder and the people who showed up.

Where more than a handful of crews qualify the pot is shared: two to four crews and the winner takes it all, five to nine pays 60/40, ten or more pays 50/30/20. It never pays more than three, on purpose — a crew prize split twelve ways is not a prize.

The founder chooses who gets the 70%. That is deliberate: the contribution most worth paying is usually the contribution Sivex Play cannot see — the person who runs the Discord, the one cutting clips, the one who personally dragged thirty people into the lobby. No formula written against the data we hold would find them. The founder can.

If the founder does not hand it all out, nothing is lost. At day 30 the rest splits across the crew by contribution — the ten who carried the win weigh most. The founder is reminded with 15 days, 3 days and 0 days left.

Then nobody wins it. A crew cannot take the pot uncontested.

Each event sets how many paid entries a crew needs to qualify — 30 is typical — and at least two crews have to clear that bar for a contest to exist. With fewer, there is no winner and no placement recorded — and the whole 2% goes to the Sivex Community Pool.

It is community money either way. The only thing that varies is whether one community receives it or all of Sivex Play does.

Crews are run by creators. Apply once; one crew per person.

Once you are approved, pick a name, add your handles, and share your link — anyone joining through it lands in your crew. There is no ranking to climb before you are allowed to compete; the event’s entry bar is the only bar, and it is the same for every crew.

Creators are checked before they can start a crew. That is the only check: a winning crew’s money is live the night it wins.

Winning is not the only thing that counts. Turning up does too.

Every event a crew contests earns Crew Points — 10 for a win, 6 for second, 4 for third, and 1 for qualifying at all. They only ever go up. A crew that shows up every week without winning still climbs past one that won once and vanished, which is the whole reason the mid-sized community keeps bringing people back.

The season table also publishes what each crew has actually distributed to its members — not what it won. Between two crews on equal points, the one that passed more of it down ranks higher.