Season, Brackets & Rewards

Every match feeds a longer arc: the season. Points you earn in any Games accumulate on the season ladder, unlock milestones, and chase the season crown.

Brackets: the night’s terms

Each window carries terms - a bracket that decides who may enroll:

Bracket	Who can enter
Open	Everyone
Grade 1 and up	Seasoned sorcerers only
Special Grade only	The apex bracket

Kogane and the enrollment ad always announce the terms, and /kogane shows the bracket on the next window’s countdown.

Match rewards

• Placement Arc Coins for the top finishers, with the champion taking the largest purse.
• Champion’s crown: the winner (or Champion Squad) is announced network-wide and named in the Record.
• Side awards for the match’s best exorcist and busiest rulemaker pay bonus coins.
• Cursed Pact XP: enrolling pays participation XP, and podium finishes pay more - the Games are one of the fastest ways to push your Cursed Pact tiers.

The season ladder and milestones

Check /culling season or the /kogane hub for the ladder, your total, and your next unlock:

Season points	Unlock
500	Contender title
1,500	Veteran of the Games title
3,000	500 Arc Coins

Earn-only titles

Culling cosmetics cannot be bought. They appear in your cosmetics menu under a CULLING GAMES badge only once you have earned them:

Honor	How it is earned
Contender	500 season points
Veteran of the Games	1,500 season points
Named in the Record	Win a match
The Record Keeper	Finish a season at the top of the ladder

A few rarer honors - First Blood and Rulemaker among them - are handed out by the Proctors for standout moments rather than automatic thresholds.