The verdict is scored deterministically: live tournament count carries 1× weight and verified traders carry 2× weight. The higher total wins; a tie is called out explicitly. Both inputs update from the live catalog every 24 hours: no editorial thumb on the scale.

Depends on the specific tournament's geo-block rules. Every tournament we catalog has a geo_blocked_countries list: the counts above already exclude tournaments blocked to residents. Open a specific tournament page to confirm requirements (KYC, deposit, residency proof) before entering from a non-listed country.

A trader is marked verified when they carry an independently-audited performance record: typically a broker-audited annual return (Robbins World Cup, U.S. Investing Championship), a third-party track-record verification service, or a fully-transparent on-chain record. Self-reported returns don't qualify.

Prize-pool sums are dominated by 1-2 outlier events (a single $10M tournament swamps 20 real-money contests). Tournament count + verified traders reflect the underlying scene depth better. We show prize pools alongside the top-3 tournaments in each country's card for transparency.

Cache TTL is 24 hours; the page rebuilds on the next request after that. Admin changes to specific tournaments trigger targeted revalidation of the related country pages: if those flow into this battle, expect near-immediate freshness on the moved rows.