Ten weeks on, sixteen off
Twenty dollars a week for ten weeks, twice a year. Four hundred dollars a year and you never play a dead paddle again. Between sprints there are no dues at all.
the paddle fund · a playable concept · no money moves here
A new paddle every week.
Ten players put in twenty dollars a week. That is exactly one $200 paddle, so one lands every week for ten weeks, and the ladder decides who unboxes first. When your week comes up you take it, punt it to a bigger kit, or pass it on.
$7.69a $200 paddle every six months, per week, saved alone
10 × $20ten seats, one week of dues
= $200one paddle. every week. two sprints a year.
Sprint one · kickoff
pretend money
this week's pot
$0
$0held for punters
$0side pot
0loaner bag
the ledger · public, in order
Play sets it. Never a draw.
Your standing on the countersigned ladder at kickoff is your slot. The club picks the direction: champions first, or bottom of the ladder first as a handicap.
Take. Punt. Pass.
Take the paddle you pick, up to $200. Punt and your $200 waits for you — next sprint you are holding $400, two punts max. Pass it to a new player or the loaner bag.
The guardrails
- Rotation, choice, or skill — never chance. Paid entry plus a random winner is a raffle, and raffles are regulated. Nobody wins this. Everybody gets their turn.
- Dollars in equal dollars out. Miss weeks and your take is pro-rata. Leave and your balance leaves with you.
- New seats go late. The circle's one real risk is someone unboxing in week one and ghosting. First sprint, you unbox in the back half.
- The side pot is the only prize, and it is earned. Order as a team, bank the discount, and pay it out for the ladder, for improvement, for showing up — or punt it toward a ball machine.
- The ledger is public. Every week is one line anyone can read.
Mostly already built.
This page is a rehearsal. The pieces a real sprint needs are standing around the yard: a circle contract that already pays a pot in rotation, a ladder that only moves when every player signs the score, and receipts that say what the money bought.
- The rotation
- tez-susu — the savings circle, live on mainnet
- The order
- Rally — countersigned matches, open integer Elo
- The receipts
- One memo per week: wk 04 · take · Kitchen Knife 16mm
- Not built yet
- The paddle circle itself, the team order, the side-pot vote. Nothing here touches a wallet.