How a cabinet is held
Every game here is a cabinet, and every cabinet has a holder: the player with the best run of the hour. Their name is on the cabinet above. To take it, beat their score. Matching it is not enough, so the run that got there first keeps its place.
You never wait for an opponent. Each duel is against a real run someone else already played on the same course, shown beside you as it happened. When there are few players about, house players fill the ladder. They are labelled House, they are real runs played by the site, and they make way as people arrive.
Every hour starts level
On the hour, each cabinet gets a new course and an empty ladder, the same for everyone. A run you learned by heart is no use in the next hour. A run started before the hour ends still counts if it is handed in up to 90 seconds after.
Whoever holds a cabinet when the hour ends is written down as holding it for that hour. The player with the most hours held on a cabinet in a day wins its daily crown, and the player with the most crowns on a cabinet in a month is its champion for that month.
Every run is checked
A score goes on a ladder only after the server has played your run again from its own copy of the course and your inputs. Nobody can type in a score, and nobody holds a cabinet with one they did not play.