Launch baseline · effective November 5, 2026. Not a lawyer-reviewed contract and not legal clearance for paid contests. Paid entry stays off.
Terms of Play
Terms of Play
Effective date: November 5, 2026
1. What SHOTCLOCK is
SHOTCLOCK is a soft-launch educational quiz product at shotclock.fun. You can study flash-card courses, take practice exams, and join freeroll Heads-Up / Sit & Go / scheduled Open tables when the game server is available. Features may change, pause, or break during beta.
2. Accounts and eligibility
You may create a soft local account on this device or sign in with the configured identity provider (email code and optional wallet connect via Dynamic when that environment is configured). You are responsible for the accuracy of the display name or handle you choose and for activity under your session. Do not create accounts to harass others or to evade fair-play limits. Soft-launch freerolls are intended for personal educational play.
3. Free play, points, and Mystery Boxes
Studying, practice, and freeroll tables do not require a cash entry fee. Points, ranks, badges, cosmetics, Stars balances shown on-device, and Mystery Box labels are for fun and progress tracking. They have no cash value, are not redeemable for money, and are not a promise of prizes or profit. Labels that look like rewards describe in-product cosmetics or points unless a specific live event page says otherwise in clear English.
4. Paid entry (not available)
Paid Bomb Pops Micro / Mid / Whale registration and live cashier checkout remain disabled. Do not treat schedule cards, pool estimates, or cashier UI as an offer to take real money. If paid skill contests are ever offered later, separate terms, eligibility, and payment disclosures will be published first.
5. Fair play
No bots, scripts, answer collusion, shared accounts in the same match, or other cheating on online tables. We may remove seats, void results, or close soft accounts that break these rules. Online matches use a shared question set and server timing when the game server is online; practice modes may use on-device bots and are labeled as practice.
6. Service availability
The site and game server may be offline, suspended, rate-limited, or incomplete. Soft lobby countdowns and fill-to-start Sit & Gos are operational UX, not guarantees that a table will fill or that prizes will be funded. We are not liable for lost progress stored only on your device or for match interruptions outside our reasonable control.
7. Content and contributions
Soft-launch sample courses (including Bomb Pops) are educational study material provided for the product. If you import a custom deck or later publish instructor content, you must have the rights to that material and it must not be illegal or abusive. SHOTCLOCK may remove content that breaks those limits. Deck source text stays in its original language unless a reviewed translation exists.
8. Changes
We may update these Terms by posting a new version on this page with a new effective date. Continued use after a posted update means you accept the updated baseline for soft-launch play.