Where the tournament lives in the hub
The tournament is reached through a board in the hub plaza: the tall one under the LEADERBOARDS sign, beside the round BATTLES and CODES boards. The board lists TOURNAMENT at the top and WORLD BREAKER underneath, and using it opens the weekly panel.
Walk up to that board and open the tournament tab. The panel opens there, before you play a match, and it is where the bracket, the prize and the countdown are shown.
What the panel tells you this week
Every field below was printed on the panel in a 29 October 2026 recording that was uploaded the same day. Read it as that day's state, not as a permanent rule: the map, the modifiers and the bracket number change with the week.
| Field on the panel | Value on 29 October 2026 |
|---|---|
| Week's map | Castle Lemongrab |
| Your bracket | Bracket 28, with the line "Your first score joins Bracket 28" |
| Modifiers | Two chips, FIRE x2 and HERO x0.5 |
| Countdown | 5 days 19 hours left when the panel was opened |
| Board, ranks 1 to 5 | 176.1M / 175.8M / 171.0M / 170.8M / 170.4M |
The countdown is the useful line for planning. With five days left on 29 October, a low rank still had time to be improved inside the same window; with hours left it does not.
What a bracket pays
The top three of a bracket receive that week's unit. The official 23 October post describes the shape: "Tournament brackets of 250 players: the top 3 of every bracket win Adventure Baby this week." The 26 October post swapped the prize: "New FREAK DEER unit added to this weeks tournament, top 3 receive the FREAK DEER and the winner receives CANDY DEER."
Two things follow. The unit is not fixed, so the prize you are chasing is the one named in the current week's post. And the bracket winner gets a second unit on top of the top-three prize, which is why CANDY DEER is the rarer of the two.
Below the top three the same row pays gems, and it pays them far down the board: #1 100, #2 50, #4–10 70, #11–25 60, #26–50 50, #51–100 25. The third-place cell read 10 in this capture, which breaks the descending order, so this page leaves that one cell unconfirmed rather than publishing a number that looks like a misread.
How hard the top three is
The cutoff is decided by very little. On the 29 October board, third place held 171.0M and fourth held 170.8M, a gap of about 0.1%. First and fifth sat 5.7M apart, roughly 3% of the top score. Inside one bracket the prize line is not a wall of separated tiers; it is a queue where a small score difference moves you in or out.
What the board does not show is how much play that costs. Two comments on the 29 October video address that gap. One wrote "You need every secret unit and oh my glob on all of them to get top 3 at least". Another, describing a level 35 account whose best units were Mad Magician and an evolved Candy Princess, asked how anyone without the strongest units is supposed to get the deer at all. Treat both as player opinion, not as a measured requirement: neither comment shows a run, a score or a bracket.
The same question shows up in the official Discord, where a player asked on 29 October whether anyone there had finished first or second in the tournament. Nobody in the captured messages answered with a score.
What the score actually counts
The board ranks a points total in the hundreds of millions, and that is all the panel states. It does not label the unit, show the formula, or break the number into waves, damage or kills, and this site has not run the mode with a controlled comparison, so no cause is claimed here.
The practical consequence: do not copy a score from a video as a target. Play one run, read where your bracket moves, and compare yourself to the board you are actually in. The other tab on the same board, WORLD BREAKER, is a separate ranking with its own numbers; a high World Breaker score does not place you in the tournament.
What this page cannot confirm
- How points are earned, and whether a failed run still scores.
- Whether bracket 28 is fixed for the week once your first score registers, or reshuffled as more players score.
- Whether a second run replaces your score or adds to it.
- What FIRE x2 and HERO x0.5 modify. The panel prints the two chips and no explanation.
- Whether every bracket fills to 250 players, and what happens to a bracket that does not.
- Whether the prize rotates every week or only when a post announces a new unit.
- When the payout lands, and whether an unclaimed reward expires.
What to do next
Check the board before you commit a session: if the countdown is under a day and your bracket top is already eight figures, the unit is not the best use of the night. If the week has days left, read the prize name in the update log first, then decide whether your team can hold a top-three line.
If the answer is no, the tournament is the wrong fix for a weak roster. The unit files show which jobs your team is missing and what each captured panel actually measures, and the tier list covers the investment order that gets you into a scoring team. The other route to a strong unit is the Lich portal loop.