🎮 HOW TO PLAY

BlocksBattle is a 1v1 competitive falling-block arena. Stack pieces, clear lines, and flood your opponent with garbage until they top out. Register (top right) to get rated, chat, and enter tournaments — or press PLAY NOW for an instant guest match (a house bot fills in within seconds).

🎮 Xbox controllers work everywhere (stick/dpad move · A hard drop · B/X rotate · Y ccw · LB hold). 🎵 the 🎵 MUSIC and ◆ 3D buttons in the HUD remember your choice.

⚔ BATTLE RULES

Clearing lines instantly sends garbage to your opponent. Garbage rows rise from the bottom with one hole per attack (the hole column changes between attacks).

• Canceling — your own clear first cancels garbage about to hit you; only the surplus is sent on.
• Incoming garbage shows as a red meter and lands after a short warning (or your next lock).
• Top out = K.O. The survivor wins; a double-KO inside a short window is a draw.
• Leaving mid-match is a forfeit — the survivor takes the win.
• Gravity ramps up as the match goes on. Soft drop is a capped fast fall; the 0.5s lock delay lets you slide.

Pieces use SRS rotation with wall kicks, 7-bag randomizer, hold, ghost piece, and guideline T-spin detection (minis included).

📈 RATING SYSTEM

Classic arena formula. Everyone starts at 100; the floor is 100.

• Winner gains 5 × (loser ÷ winner)
• Loser drops 4 × (loser ÷ winner)

Beating a stronger player pays more. Ratings are stored as floats and shown rounded. Draws don't change rating. Idle accounts (14+ days without a match) drift 2 points/day back toward 100.

Challenging: you can challenge anyone in the roster — there is no rating band. House bots are labeled BOT and play fully rated games — beating one pays half the usual gain.

🥇 TIERS & PROMOTIONS

Promotion series: crossing a threshold (150/300/500/700) upward starts a best-of-3. The crossing win counts as game 1. Win 2 → you promote past the threshold; lose 2 → you drop back below it. Your rating is frozen at the threshold during the series — the roster shows your live score as ⚔1-0.

MINOS & THE SHOP

Minos are the arena's coin, earned only by playing:

Losses pay nothing. Match earnings cap at 100 minos/week (tournament prizes are uncapped). Spend them in the SHOP: block skins, board themes, garbage skins, ghost styles, chat name colors, avatar frames, nickname effects, and animated nameplates. Minos can't be converted to rating, and rating can't buy minos — the ladder stays honest. Bots carry no minos.

🏆 TOURNAMENTS

The TOURNAMENTS tab lists everything — cups fill with both players and house bots. Every buy-in is paid in rating, and you can only stake what you hold above the 100 floor, so a brand-new account needs a couple of wins before its first cup. Bracket games are unrated — the pool is the stake. GTD events pay the guaranteed pool even with small fields, and buy-ins refund in full if you leave before the start.

One cup starts every hour. Registration opens 2h before each start.

Mino buy-in events (SIT & GO, the 5-minute rush cups, the mino MTTs and the WEEKLY GRAND SLAM) were retired. Minos are a shop currency now, never a tournament one.

• Brackets are single elimination, seeded by rating (top seeds get byes when the field isn't a power of two).
• Rounds start together; winners take their next slot immediately. No-shows forfeit after a short check-in.
• Payouts favor the podium — roughly the top 15% of the field gets paid (small fields: top 3–4).
• Cancelled events (not enough players) refund every buy-in in full.
• Buy-in bracket games are unrated — the pool is the stake. Champion announcements celebrate in chat.

⚔ BOSS BATTLE (1v2)

The 1V2 tab hosts the asymmetric mode: one boss faces two attackers at once. The boss's garbage floods both attackers; every attacker's garbage floods the boss. Unrated. Empty attacker seats get filled by house bots after a few seconds. Boss battles are public — they appear in the BATTLES tab and spectators see all three boards.

🤝 UNRANKED MODE

Signed in, the ⚖ RANKED ✓ / ⚔ UNRANKED toggle sits above the roster (next to ⚔ PLAY RANKED). Flip it to UNRANKED and your challenges change no ratings — pure glory. Your invitee sees a chat notice and a green glow so they know it's unranked.

🗓 SEASONS & BADGES

Seasons run monthly. The first rated match of a new season soft-resets everyone halfway toward 100. When a season ends, its top 10 become permanent honor badges on profiles — see them on any profile page and the full history at /seasons. Achievements unlock selectable nameplate titles (pick yours in ✎ PROFILE).

🛡 FAIR PLAY

Ranked matches are verified by deterministic replay: each player gets a private seed, clients stream inputs, and the server replays both games to audit the result (KO truth, attack counts, garbage columns). Verdicts: ok, suspicious, or void (no rating change, lobby notified). BlocksTV replays that pass carry a ✓ verified tag.

📺 BLOCKSTV, CAST & SPECTATING

• Replay links — every match you play gets a permanent link (SHARE LINK on the result screen, and later from your profile's MATCHES tab). Anyone who opens it watches the whole game in the full arena — same board size, same skins, same soundtrack — at 0.25×–4× speed, and can export clips from it. Each link carries its own preview image when posted to Discord or X.
• BlocksTV (/tv) — the replay theater: the server's best taped battles and every tournament match, played back in that same arena player.
• Brackets — a finished tournament match keeps its tape; hit ▶ WATCH on the match box.
• BATTLES tab — every live battle is public; click to spectate with attack flashes and stats. Copy the watch link with the 🔗 button.
• /cast — the broadcaster overlay: big clean boards for OBS (chroma-ready with ?chroma=green). Follows the top battle automatically.
• After any match: REWATCH it in place, 📹 VIDEO to export a clip (vertical/horizontal, 1×–4×, with sound and popups), or ⚡ KO CLIP for the finish alone.

💬 QUICK FAQ

Why can't I invite someone? They're away (⊘), already in a match, or in a live tournament.
Why is my rating frozen at 150/300/500/700? You're in a promotion series — win 2 of 3.
Where did my rating go? Check the LEDGER tab on your profile — every point is itemized (matches, buy-ins, prizes, refunds, decay).
Are the lobby bots real? They're house bots labeled AI Bot — they chat, take challenges, play tournaments, and usually run it back. Like anyone else they turn one down sometimes; try another name, or press ⚔ PLAY NOW for an instant match.
How do I change my name's color/effects? Earn minos and buy them in the SHOP.
Lost rating without playing? Inactivity decay — 2/day after 14 idle days.