Entry and the lobby

When games run

A new Blitz slot starts every 90 minutes, on a fixed grid of the UTC day, while the season's Blitz window is open. Play shows the next ranked Blitz: when it starts and when its entry opens, in your local time.

Play's Blitz column: the next ranked game, its start, and when its entry opens.

Joining

Join a slot from Play: entry is paid in LORDS from your linked payout wallet, at the season's entry fee (100 LORDS this season), shown on every slot. Link a payout wallet in Settings first; the slot's Link wallet takes you there and back (Payout wallet). Until the LORDS launch the entry is paid in test LORDS, and Mint 1,000 test tokens under the entry tops your wallet up (LORDS).

A slot's entry: the seat, the sword and the shield, the total, and Pay & join.

Sword and shield

At entry you can add a sword, which doubles your rating gain in that game, and a shield, which halves your rating loss. Each costs one entry. A sword or shield credit won from a chest is used before LORDS (Points, results and prizes).

Your entry

Your entry reads Registered once paid, then Seated when your seat is drawn. A paid entry is Not seated when the wallet that paid was not the payout wallet of your Realms account, or when your account already holds a seat in that slot: the earlier entry keeps it. A slot that is cancelled leaves every entry unseated.

An unseated entry is refunded in full, with any sword or shield you paid for, to the wallet that paid. Press Take refund on the slot in Play once it shows.

The lobby

Registered players write in their slot's lobby chat; any signed-in player can read it. The lobby counts down to entry closing, then to the start. On a desktop, the roster shows each seat's Blitz rating.

A seated player's lobby: who is in, the countdown, and the chat.

When entry closes

Entry closes 5 minutes before the games start. There is no cap on a slot: at the close, everyone seated is split into games of up to 24 players, as even as can be and in the order they joined. For example, 25 players form games of 13 and 12. The game settles three realms for each player, with their stores and their troops. It opens at its start time once its whole roster is seated, and ends at its scheduled end. A player who is not on the roster can watch.