Hosted tournaments: play against the creator
Watching trading is boring. Playing against someone isn't.
Trading has always been a solo activity. Hosted tournaments make it something you do against someone.
A creator takes a slot on the schedule and runs it as their own event. Their community doesn’t sit and watch them trade — everyone enters the same 30-minute tournament, on the same starting capital, and the leaderboard settles it. If you have ever wanted to find out whether you can actually out-trade someone you follow, this is the format where you get an answer.
Everything else about the event is standard. It appears in the normal lobby, anyone can join, and the prize pool is funded by entries the same way as every other tournament.
Is it a fair fight?
The host has no edge of any kind. That is the entire point of the format.
| Starting capital | Identical to yours |
|---|---|
| Instruments and prices | Identical — the same live market data |
| Clock | The same 30 minutes |
| Scoring | The same risk-adjusted score as every entrant |
| Prize pool | They win it the same way you do — by placing |
And as with every Sivex Play tournament, the result is provably fair: the trades are committed cryptographically, so nobody has to take our word for who won — not you, and not the host’s audience.
Creator Clash
The crew owners in the lobby — the creators — race each other on their own final score. 1% of entry money is theirs to fight over.
Nobody can carry a creator: only the owner’s own entry counts, and a creator who doesn’t enter simply isn’t in the race. How many of them are paid depends on the size of the pot — one below $500, two from $500 (60 / 40), three from $2,000 (50 / 30 / 20) — so a placing is always worth mentioning on stream rather than split into pennies.
Of every placing, 70% is cash to the creator’s wallet; the other 30% is S-Cash paid into their crew treasury, for their own crew. Ties on score go to the higher Sivex Rating.
No contest — the whole pot goes to the Sivex Community Pool. It is never folded back into the prizes and never kept by the platform.
Every event still locks in a champion at the start — the entrant with the highest Sivex Rating — and shows them by name in the terminal with a live count of who is beating them. There is no longer money on their head; the bragging rights are the point.
Interval Kings
A 30-minute event is scored three times over, not once. Each 10-minute stretch has its own winner and its own prize — 1% of entry money each.
Whoever posts the best risk-adjusted score inside a stretch is crowned for it and paid immediately. A bad opening ten minutes doesn’t end your session — the next stretch starts fresh, and a strong run in the closing minutes is worth something on its own.
Interval prizes are carved out of the same pool, and anything not claimed goes straight back into the main prizes. Nothing is held back by the platform.
Crews
Whole communities enter the same lobby and play each other inside it.
Every event you enter counts for the crew you are in, as well as for you. A crew is scored on the average of its top 10, not its headcount, so the bigger crowd doesn’t automatically win and a smaller, sharper crew can take it.
2% of entry money goes to the winning crew. The founder takes 30% and hands the other 70% back to their community. Your own prize is unaffected — the crew layer sits on top of the normal payout, it does not come out of your finish. How crews work →
How do I join one?
Exactly like any other event — they are in the normal lobby.
Hosted events show the host’s name and picture on the card, and a link to their stream when they are live. Pick your stake, enter, and you are in the same tournament they are. If a creator you follow doesn’t run one yet, they can — hosting is open to any creator with a community, not only trading channels.
New to the format? How tournaments work covers the basics, and tournament scoring explains why the best risk-adjusted run wins rather than the biggest bet.
Common questions
- What is a hosted tournament?
- A regular Sivex Play tournament that a creator runs under their own name. The format, scoring and prize pool work exactly the same as any other event — the difference is that the host is in the lobby too, playing the same 30 minutes against everyone who joins.
- What is a crew?
- A creator’s community, playing under one name. Crews compete for 2% of entry money on top of the normal prizes: the winning crew’s founder takes 30% and hands the other 70% back to the people who showed up for them. Your individual prize is unaffected either way.
- Do I need to watch a stream to play?
- No. Hosted events sit in the normal lobby and anyone can enter. If the host is streaming, there is a link on the event so you can watch while you trade — but it is entirely optional.
- Does the host get an advantage?
- None. The host gets the same starting capital, the same instruments, the same clock and the same scoring as every other entrant, and they are ranked by the same risk-adjusted score. Beating them is the point.
- What is the Creator Clash?
- 1% of entry money is set aside for the crew owners in the lobby — the creators — who race each other on their own final score. Nobody can carry a creator: only the owner’s own entry counts. The pot pays one, two or three of them depending on its size, and 70% of a placing is cash while the other 30% is S-Cash paid into their crew treasury. With fewer than two creators in the field it goes to the Sivex Community Pool. This runs on every public Sivex Play tournament.
- What are Interval Kings?
- A 30-minute event is also scored in three 10-minute stretches, each worth 1% of entry money. Whoever posts the best risk-adjusted score inside a stretch wins it on the spot — so there is something to play for even if you are out of contention overall. Runs on every tournament.
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