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Cash prize rules

Each AutoArena season pays cash prizes in US dollars to the 10 highest-placed players on the ranked leaderboard, cashed out as USDT or through PayPal, and entry is free. These are the rules for it. Season 11 is the first season that pays.

The prizes

Free to enter

Taking part costs nothing. Every account that plays a ranked match in a season is on that season's leaderboard and can win. Nothing in AutoArena is sold for money, and nothing anyone can buy improves their chance of winning.

Who wins

A season is a calendar month and ends at midnight UTC as the next month begins. At that moment the people on its leaderboard are placed by trophies. A tie goes to more wins, then to the name in alphabetical order, which is the leaderboard's own order.

The prizes go by rank on that leaderboard, and only players signed in with an email address or Google are paid. The AI rivals that hold rows on it win nothing, and a top-10 rank one of them holds pays nobody: its prize is not passed down to the row below, so to win you have to finish above them. Ranks held by guest accounts, by accounts the people who make AutoArena use for testing, or by accounts suspended for breaking the Terms, pay nobody either. The people who make AutoArena may play on the ladder and win like anyone else; only the accounts they use for testing are skipped.

Getting your prize money

Prize money appears on your Profile, in US dollars, when the season ends. It stays there until you cash it out, and you can cash it out at any time, as your whole balance, two ways.

USDT, any amount: we send 1 USDT for every US dollar of your balance to the Solana address you give, your own wallet's or the USDT deposit address an exchange shows you for the Solana network. There is no minimum beyond the prize itself. It usually arrives within a minute, and you receive exactly your balance in USDT: we pay the network fee, and the cost of opening a USDT account at that address if it has never held USDT. USDT is sent on the Solana network only. The game refuses an address it can tell is on another network, but a transfer on the chain can't be reversed, so USDT sent to an address that was mistyped or isn't yours can't be taken back by us. Your Profile links each USDT payment's transaction on Solscan, the public record of it.

PayPal, from $10: straight into a PayPal account from inside the game, at your account's email or any other you give, for a balance of $10 or more. You need a PayPal account that can receive US dollars. If there is no PayPal account at that email, PayPal emails it a link to make one; a payment nobody claims within 30 days comes back to your balance. It usually arrives within minutes, and you receive exactly the amount on your Profile: we pay PayPal's fee for sending it. If you move it into another currency, PayPal's own conversion rate applies. A smaller balance can wait on your Profile, growing with each season you win, or go as USDT.

Either way it arrives within 7 days at most. Prize money is paid only to accounts signed in with an email address or Google, because a guest account lives in one browser and is lost with its data. A top-10 rank held by a guest when the season ends pays nobody, so sign in before then. Check a Solana address or a PayPal email before you send: money sent to the wrong place can't be taken back by us. If you ask us to delete your account, we send you any prize money it holds first. If AutoArena ever closes, we will tell you in time to withdraw it.

Fair play

Prize money is for winning fairly. An account that cheats, uses a bot or a script to play, modifies the game, plays on more than one account, or arranges results with another player loses its place and its prize money, and the prize is not passed down to the next player. We may look through an account's matches before a withdrawal is sent, and hold the withdrawal while we do.

One person wins one prize a season. If one person is behind more than one placed account, only the highest place is paid.

Age and where you live

If you are under 18, you need a parent or guardian's permission to withdraw prize money, and we may ask them to confirm it. Prize money can't be sent where the law forbids it, including to anyone under sanctions. Where it can't be sent, it stays on your Profile.

What prize money is not

Prize money is kept apart from the game. It is never coins or gems, can't be spent in the shop, can't be staked in a wager, and can't be moved to another account. Coins, skins, emotes and everything else in the game still have no cash value, as the Terms say.

Any tax on a prize is yours to handle where you live.

Changes

We may change the prize money for a future season, or stop it, by saying so on this page before that season starts. A season's prizes are paid as they stood when it began. Season 11 was the first to pay, and its prizes are paid as they were announced on 10 November 2026. Prize money already on your Profile is yours to withdraw whatever changes.

The prize money is offered and paid by Sydney Quant Pty Ltd, the Australian company that runs AutoArena. Questions, or a prize that hasn't arrived: matt@autoarena.gg. These rules sit alongside the Terms, and like them are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia.