Events
Events are timed capture-the-flag competitions. For a fixed window, registered players or clans deploy the event's challenge labs, capture flags and climb the event's own leaderboard.
By the end of this page you will know how to register, what you can and cannot do while an event is live, and what happens when it ends.
Open Events in the sidebar.
The Events page
The Events page lists every event as a card: its banner, title and description, a status badge, the start and end date and time, and how many clans are competing, with the first few clans' avatars. Live events come first, then upcoming ones, then ended ones, and retired events last. Rounds of the same series are kept together, earlier rounds before later ones.
The button on each card tells you where you stand:
| Button | Means |
|---|---|
| Live | The event is running now |
| Register Clan | Registration is open and you have not registered. Select it to register |
| Clan Registered | You are registered |
| Ended / Retired | The event is over |
Select the card title to open the event.
How an event runs
| Status | What you can do |
|---|---|
| Upcoming | Read the event details and register, if registration is open. A countdown shows Event Starts In. |
| Live (shown as Started) | Deploy the event's labs, start missions and submit flags. A countdown shows Time Remaining. |
| Ended | Nothing is scored. Flag submission is locked. |
| Retired | The labs reopen for practice at a reduced value. Captures no longer count for the event. |
1. Read the event page
Each event has these tabs:
| Tab | Shows |
|---|---|
| Info | Overview, prizes, prerequisites, highlights, and the event's Rules and Regulations |
| Challenges | The event's labs |
| Leaderboard | The event leaderboard |
| Clans | Who is taking part |
| Trends | Captures and activity over the course of the event |
| Clan Dashboard | Your clan's progress in this event, once you are registered |
| Overall Dashboard | The event's headline figures, top clans and the most recent flag captures. This is the page you land on when you open an event |
Anyone with the link can open an event's Overall Dashboard, Info and Leaderboard, signed in or not. You must sign in to see the other tabs.
The banner above the tabs shows the event's status, a countdown (Event Starts In before it opens, Time Remaining while it runs) and how many clans and players have registered.
The Trends tab
Trends charts the whole event: captures per hour, failed flag submissions per hour, hint unlocks per hour, active clans and participants, how long players took to capture flags, solve rates by lab and by category, the most-solved and never-solved challenges, and the First Blood Hall of Fame — who captured each challenge first. First blood is recognition only; it pays no extra Zeal.
The Clan Dashboard tab
Your own clan's view of the event: its members, flags captured, failed attempts and hints used, its rank and percentile, and its recent captures. If you are not in a clan you see Join a Clan to View Your Dashboard; if your clan has not registered you see Clan Not Registered for This Event.
Read Rules and Regulations before you register. The organizers of each event set them, and you agree to them by taking part.
2. Register
Events are either solo or team events.
| Event | Who registers | Needs |
|---|---|---|
| Solo | You, for yourself | To be signed in |
| Team | A clan admin, for the whole clan | A clan with a member count inside the event's minimum and maximum |
Select the register button on the event page. It reads Register Clan on every event, solo events included. Once you are in, it changes to Clan Registered. If you are signed out you will see Login to Register instead.
- Where
- Events, open an upcoming event with registration open
- What it shows
- The event banner showing the status badge, the Event Starts In countdown, the registered clan and player counts, and the Register Clan button. The Info / Challenges / Leaderboard / Clans / Trends tabs visible below.
Registration can be refused. The message tells you why:
| Message | Why |
|---|---|
| Registration is not live for this event! | The registration window is closed |
| Registration is full | The event has reached its limit |
| Only clan admin can register! Ask your admin to register. | Team event, and you are not a clan admin |
| you need to be in a clan to register! | Team event, and you have no clan |
| Clan members are less than minimum requirement… / more than maximum requirement… | Your clan's size is outside the event's range |
| This event is invite-only… | Only invited players or clans can take part |
| This event automatically registers qualified teams from the previous round… | A later round of a series — see below |
| You're blocked from registering!… | Contact support if you think this is a mistake |
| you're already registered! | Your clan is already in |
| Event is not live! | The event has already ended |
| You did not registered for the previous round! | A later round, and you were not in the round before it |
| You are not eligible to register to this event. | A later round, and you did not finish high enough in the round before it |
When you can register
Each event has its own registration window, separate from the event's start and end. You can register while the window is open, and the window can stay open after the event has started — so late entries are possible on some events. The banner shows the registration button only while the window is open.
When a clan registers for a team event, the platform records who was in the clan at that moment.
There is no button to withdraw a registration. If you registered by mistake, contact the event's organizers.
Rounds
Some events run as a series of rounds. A later round is open only to those who registered for the previous round and finished near the top of its leaderboard. Often you are registered automatically. Organizers can also admit extra "wildcard" entries.
"Near the top" has a precise meaning: the number of places that qualify equals the later round's registration limit. If the final takes 20 clans, the top 20 clans of the previous round's leaderboard can register for it. A wildcard entry can register whatever its previous rank.
Every event uses one of three ways in:
| Registration | How you get in |
|---|---|
| Open | You (or your clan admin) select Register Clan |
| Invite-only | The organizers add you. There is no register button |
| Automatic from the previous round | Qualifiers are added for you. There is no register button |
Your clan is locked for the event
Once your clan is registered for a team event, its roster is locked for the event — or the whole series — until it is over. You cannot take the clan above the event's maximum size or below its minimum, and the clan cannot be deleted. The error tells you the date the lock lifts.
| While locked | Allowed? |
|---|---|
| Accept a join request or an invite | Only while the clan is below the event's maximum size |
| Remove a member, or a member leaves | Only while the clan is above the event's minimum size |
| Delete the clan | No |
The lock starts when the event's registration opens and lasts until the event ends — for a series, until the last round ends.
3. Play while the event is live
Deploy the event's labs from its Challenges tab. Deploying is refused until everything is in place:
| Message | Means |
|---|---|
| You have not registered for the event! | Register first, on the Events page |
| Event has not started yet! Starts on… | Wait for the start time |
| Waiting for event launch ceremony… | Some events open with a live launch; labs unlock when the organizers start it. The banner shows Awaiting Launch until then |
| Event is temporarily on hold for maintenance. Please wait for the event organizers to release it. | The event is paused — see below |
| Event is in team mode and you don't have a Clan… | Team event, and you have left or lost your clan |
| This event has ended. Deployment is currently locked. | The event is over and its labs have not been retired yet |
Missions, flags and hints then work exactly as in any challenge lab: each start creates a fresh flag unique to you or your team, a wrong flag ends that attempt, and hints cost Jolt.
When an event is on hold
Organizers can pause a live event, for example to fix a broken lab. While it is on hold you will see "Event is temporarily on hold for maintenance. Flag submission is currently blocked." Keep working — submit your flag when the hold is lifted.
4. After the event
When the event ends: "This event has ended. Flag submission is locked until the lab is retired." The final leaderboard stands.
When the organizers retire the event's labs, they reopen for practice. They pay reduced Zeal, and captures do not appear on the event leaderboard.
Between the end of the event and retirement, nobody can deploy the event's labs or score in them. After retirement, anyone can deploy them without registering, and missions pay half — see Retired labs.
The event leaderboard
The Leaderboard tab counts only flags captured inside the event window. Players or clans are ranked by Zeal earned in the event; ties go to whoever got there in less time. Platform administrators are not ranked.
It shows each entry's rank, league, Zeal acquired, progress, percentile and achievements.
- Only entries that have earned Zeal in the event appear. A registered clan with no captures is not listed yet.
- While the event is live, the board updates within seconds of a capture. Signed-in players can also refresh it by hand.
- Achievements count only if they were earned inside the event window.
Disqualification
Organizers can disqualify any player or clan that breaks the event's Rules and Regulations or the platform's fair-play policy — for example by sharing flags or playing on more than one account. Decisions on disqualification, final rankings and prizes are made by the organizers.
Next
- Challenge labs — how missions and flags work.
- Clans and clubs — form a team before registering.
- Fair play