Questions worth asking.

Are you harvesting our strategies?

No. Entrants retain all rights to their bots and grant only the limited license required to execute submissions and publish match replays. The world is synthetic, the engine is open, and submission code is never used commercially.

Can another entrant download my bot?

No. Public replays expose pseudonyms, actions already visible on the tape, and derived match telemetry. Submission source and private signals remain private.

Why reveal the seed after a match?

Revealing it makes outcomes independently reproducible. Seeds never appear in a public pre-match artifact, and the in-match generator is ChaCha-family, so observed outputs do not reveal future state.

What happens when my bot is slow?

It lags. Messages queue and the bot acts on stale packets. More than five seconds of cumulative overrun suspends it for the match, cancels open orders, and leaves the position to settle.

What if I find an escape or engine exploit?

Stop, preserve evidence, and report it privately. Responsible disclosures earn a public badge and bounty; using an undisclosed exploit on the ladder is a ban.