The Fine Print, Made Readable

RULES & HOW IT WORKS

Everything that governs a matchup, from proposal to purse.
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On This Page
  1. Profiles
  2. Open Challenges
  3. Posting a Matchup
  4. Fees
  5. Funding & Refunds
  6. Matchup Status
  7. Scheduling
  8. Liability & Safety

Profiles

Creating a profile — for yourself, your fighter, your team, or your club — is free, always. A profile holds whatever you choose to share: a name, a record, physical stats, a photo.

Adding an opponent who doesn't have one yet

If you're setting up a matchup and the other side doesn't have a profile — a school entering their fighter against someone unregistered, or a fan proposing two people or teams face off — you can quick-create a minimal profile for them right inside the request form. No separate signup, no waiting.

Any profile created this way is marked unclaimed until the person or team it represents actually logs in and takes ownership of it. Until that happens, treat everything on that profile as proposed by the person who created it — not confirmed by the party it names.

Why there's no pre-built roster

We don't maintain a baseline database of every fighter, team, or player. Profiles are created only when someone actually proposes a matchup. That keeps the data relevant, and it avoids putting real people's information into a fundraising tool without their involvement.

Open Challenges

Sometimes "A" wants to fight, but there's no specific "B" yet. An Open Challenge lets you post A's side of a matchup with the opponent slot left open — "awaiting challenger" — instead of a named profile.

Approval exists for a reason: an open callout with no vetting is exactly the kind of setup that can lead to a badly mismatched pairing. Reviewing who steps up protects both the person who's already committed and whoever ends up on the other side.

Posting a Matchup

Posting a request walks through a few short steps:

  1. Pick or quick-create Fighter/Team A
  2. Pick or quick-create Opponent B — or mark it an Open Challenge
  3. Choose the sport
  4. Enter the city and country where you'd like the event held
  5. Review a suggested funding goal and timeframe based on location, sport, and each side's profile — adjust it if you'd like
  6. Set reward tiers for backers
  7. Review and post

The suggested goal is a starting point, not a fixed number — a higher-cost market like a major city will suggest a larger goal than a regional or local one, but you're always free to set your own.

Fees

WhatCost
Creating a profileFree
Posting a matchup requestFree or a small flat fee, mainly to discourage spam listings
Success fee — taken only if the funding goal is reached10% of funds raised

If a campaign doesn't reach its goal, no success fee is ever charged — because no funds are ever taken from backers in the first place.

Funding & Refunds

Backing a matchup is a pledge toward a goal, not a purchase of anything tradable. Funds are held with a third-party payment processor or escrow provider — never in this site's own account.

GOAL NOT MET → FULL REFUND GOAL MET + BOTH SIDES CONFIRMED → FUNDS RELEASE

If the deadline passes without the goal being reached, every backer is refunded in full. No partial event happens, and no partial funds are kept.

If the goal is reached, funds only begin releasing once both sides have actually confirmed they're competing — not just because the money total was hit. Release then happens in stages: an initial amount once the venue is booked, a second closer to the event date, and reconciliation afterward.

Matchup Status

Every matchup shows one of three statuses:

OPEN CHALLENGE FANS HOPE FOR CONFIRMED

Open Challenge — A has posted, the opponent slot is still open, applications are being reviewed.

Fans Hope For — both sides are named, but the actual opponent hasn't yet verified they've agreed to compete. This is the default status for every new named matchup.

Confirmed — both named parties have verified, through their own account, that they've agreed to compete.

Confirmed can't be self-selected by the person posting the request. It only reflects reality once the actual opponent takes their own verified action. A requester declaring their own matchup "Confirmed" would defeat the entire purpose of the status.

Scheduling

Once a matchup is funded and confirmed, there's a minimum of 60–90 days before the event can be held. This floor exists for reasons beyond logistics:

You may set a longer runway than the minimum. You may not set a shorter one.

Liability & Safety

This site is a funding and discovery platform. It is not the promoter, organizer, or licensee of record for any physical event. The person who posts a request is responsible for contracting the venue, arranging officials, and holding any insurance the event requires.

Every competing party is responsible for their own participation agreement and liability waiver, executed directly with the other side and, where applicable, the venue — not through this site.

Holding a real combat sports contest — even an amateur one — is regulated in most places. Most jurisdictions require a licensed promoter, a sanctioning body, ringside medical staff, and commission approval before two people can legally compete, regardless of how the purse was raised. Funding a matchup here does not substitute for that approval, and a poorly matched pairing carries real safety risk independent of anything financial.

This page is a plain-language summary, not a substitute for the actual Terms of Service, which should be reviewed by a licensed attorney before this site accepts real funds.