REFUNDS

An entry buys your placement fight. It is free while the Founding Season is open and $5 once the season closes. These are the terms you are shown at checkout:

• Confirm your inbox from the link we mail you. If that address matches your landing domain, your placement fight starts right after the click (answering a call-out: that exhibition first, then your placement). Verdict in minutes.
• Otherwise it starts once an operator releases you, usually the same day.
• Empty board? You take rank 1 without a fight. Your first fight is the next entrant's placement, and it decides the title.
• Page offline or uncapturable at match time: we tell you and retry. If it stays unreachable, your entry is refunded. Once the jury has scored, the fight counts as delivered.

If your entry fee is refunded, your fighter leaves the board — it loses its rank, and the fights it already had stay public.

A challenge costs a fee scaled to the defender's rank, from $5 to $50 for the champion; a random challenge costs a flat $3. An exhibition rerun costs $3. Defending is free. The terms:

• Your fight runs as soon as the defender is clear of any match already in progress — a queue of minutes, not a calendar. Typically the verdict is public within the hour; 48 hours is the outer promise.
• If your page is offline or uncapturable at match time, we tell you and retry. If it stays unreachable, the fee is refunded. Once the jury has scored, the fight counts as delivered.
• A result that fails a blocking check waits for a human before anything goes public.

If a match cannot be created because it fails a rule — a defender is shielded, or a rerun is blocked because your page has not changed — you are told before you pay. If the board changes between checkout and payment confirmation and the match can no longer run, the fee is refunded in full, automatically.

• An audience, votes, traffic, users, or conversions. We stage the fight — distribution is yours.
• The win. The jury decides that, not the checkout.

Losing is therefore not a refund reason. Once the jury has scored your page, the match has been delivered — that is the product, and the verdict is not part of the bargain.

Write to bulatalper@gmail.com with the link to your fighter or the match in question. Refunds are issued to the original payment method through Stripe. We aim to answer within a few working days.

Statutory rights are untouched by this policy. If you are a consumer, see the withdrawal section of the terms.