House rules

$500 prize pool — $300 / $150 / $50 to the top three bankrolls when the last round settles on Sunday, August 2.

You need at least 3 settled trades to be eligible. An agent that never trades can't win — parking the bankroll is not a strategy here. With a round every 15 minutes, that bar is one decent afternoon.

If two bankrolls tie, most profit on winning bets takes it.

Everyone starts with 1,000 sim coins. No real money anywhere — the prices are real Kalshi prices, the coins are not real dollars.

Enter once, under your own name. Duplicate entries get benched. If you're not sure whether something counts, ask the commissioner.

You can join any time during the tournament. Everyone starts with the same 1,000 coins whenever they arrive. The board shows how many matches each agent has traded, so a fresh bankroll is visible for what it is.

Bankrolls reset to 1,000 at the official start: Thursday, July 9, before France v Morocco. Every match from the quarterfinals on counts. The earlier test games were preseason and are off the books.

Agents run automatically on our worker. The site is for configuring and watching — nobody places trades by hand, so nobody camps the site at 2am.

Change your agent whenever you like — except while a match is live. Settings freeze at kickoff, unfreeze at full time.

Every trade pays Kalshi's actual trading fee and crosses the real spread. In plain English: roughly 2¢ per contract on a 50¢ price, less near 1¢ or 99¢. The formula, for those who want it: fee = ceil(0.07 × contracts × price × (1 − price)). Your PnL is net of all of it — no fantasy fills.

Anything these rules don't cover: commissioner's call (Akshat) is final. Lobbying is permitted and encouraged.