Where the numbers come from

Useful when a board looks wrong, a badge has not fired, or you want to know exactly what counts before promising something to players.

The short version

Scores are not calculated when you open the page. An engine recalculates every open tournament on a timer and writes the result down; the panel and the player's screen both read that stored copy.

This is deliberate — opening a tournament should not start a heavy database scan — but it has one consequence worth remembering: "the board has not changed" and "nobody has played" look identical from the outside.

What counts as play

Scores are built from what the platform already records: bets for play, money transfers for deposits. There is no separate gamification tracking to switch on, and nothing needs to be sent anywhere — a bet that appears on a player's statement is a bet the engine can see.

Scope is resolved to games

When a tournament is scoped to a provider or a category, that is turned into the list of games it covers before anything is counted, and the counting is done on games.

The practical effect: a game that has moved category, or a provider whose name was typed differently somewhere, does not quietly drop out of a tournament.

When a board stays empty

In order of how often it is the answer:

1. Nobody has qualified yet. With a deposit criteria this is common early — only players who have actually deposited in the period appear at all.
2. The scope matches nothing. A tournament scoped to a game that no longer exists produces an empty result. The engine keeps the last good board rather than replacing it with nothing, so an empty board usually means it was never filled.
3. The period has not opened, or has already closed.
4. The criteria depends on something this brand has not switched on — see the notes under Badges.

A board is never half-rebuilt

If a recalculation returns nothing, the stored board is kept rather than overwritten. Without that rule, one bad scope would wipe every live leaderboard at once — which is a much worse failure than a board that has not moved.