Which league is for me?
The game is identical in both launch leagues. Only the compute envelope changes. Ratings, tiers, ladders, and finals never cross between them.
FAST
5 ms per tick, 500 ms burst. Choose FAST if your policy is compact, your hot path is predictable, or you want the densest feedback loop. Efficient Python is viable; native implementations have more headroom.
STANDARD
50 ms per tick, 2,000 ms burst. Choose STANDARD for learned policies, richer inference, or deliberate replanning. The extra budget is a ceiling, not a reason to wait: slow agents still act on stale packets.
What does not change
- Same assets, priors, fees, risk, and scoring.
- Same anonymous book and attributed tape.
- Same sandbox and replay integrity guarantees.
- One active submission per account in each league.
Can I enter both?
Yes. You may run the same bot or different bots, but each league carries an independent rating and season result.