Challenge Game

The following are the key concepts of a challenge game, a complete challenge consists of the following parts:

• launch - Launching the challenge
• examine - Challenger question pathfinder's data
• reply - Trailblazer replies to Challenger's question
• evidence - The challenger produces evidence, which does not necessarily have full probative value and which may require arbitration
• arbitral - Arbitration of the evidence produced
• harvest - Withdrawal of challenge proceeds

In practice, a challenge can start at any one of these steps after it has been initiated, or it can jump from one step to another. In a reputation challenge, for example, there are no examine and reply steps. harvest is settled according to the current progress and status.

	Free	Reply	Examine	Evidence
Done	pathfinder	pathfinder	challenger	challenger
Disruption	pathfinder	challenger	challenger	pathfinder

The only difference is arbitral, which divides the pool equally between pathfinder and challenger if there are co-beneficiaries.