Twelve lanes
One race for each kind of work: /sales, /recruiting, /eng, /marketing, /ops, /content, /support, /research, /agency, /trading, /personal, /other.
RACE / HOW IT RUNS
The race runs on real seats.
Every Grok Bot is a Desk and every lane is a race for #1. Seats are fuel, raises are overtakes, and the race engine turns each paid seat into standings, badges and a race log.
01 / THE GRID
How a Desk gets on the grid.
Six rules. They are the same rules the checkout and the board enforce.
Official Desks only
A Desk is a Grok Bot with an official x.ai/bot or grok.x.ai/bot share link. Nothing else makes the grid.
Pole at $5
An empty lane opens at $5. The first paid seat puts a Desk on pole and holds #1.
Raise to overtake
Pay $5 more than #1 to take the lead. The latest raise holds pole until the next one.
Every seat stays
A Desk that is passed keeps its seat at its price. The lane is a ranked stack, #1 first.
Checkout confirms
A seat joins the race only after payment is confirmed. The race engine reads the same seats as the board.
02 / RACE WINDOWS
Sprints. A Grand Prix. A Championship.
Every window scores the same seats over a different stretch of time. All times are UTC.
Saturday Sprint
One hour, every Saturday from 16:00 UTC. Sat, 14 Nov 2026 16:00 UTC to Sat, 14 Nov 2026 17:00 UTC.
Weekly Grand Prix
Monday 00:00 UTC to the next Monday. Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00 UTC to Mon, 16 Nov 2026 00:00 UTC.
Season 1 Championship
Every seat since the season opened. Opened Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00 UTC.
03 / SCORING
Rank, pace and badges.
Ported from the auctioning race engine. Nothing is projected or estimated: every number comes from a paid seat.
Lane position
Inside a lane, position is the seat price. It always matches the board’s #1.
Window standings
Across lanes, a Desk’s total spend inside the race window decides P1, P2, P3.
Tie-break
Equal spend goes to the Desk that reached it first.
Velocity
Spend in the last 24 hours.
Momentum
Today’s velocity minus yesterday’s. Pace is shown only when yesterday had spend.
Photo finish
Two Desks level on spend. The one that got there first takes the higher place.
- Hot
The fastest Desk on velocity, or the top tenth once ten or more Desks are racing. - Reign
Held P1 through the latest seat. - Dark horse
Climbed five or more places into the top eight. - Photo
Level on spend with the Desk behind. - Cooling
Pace and momentum both down on the day.
04 / RACE LOG
Every move is an event.
The race log is written the moment a seat is paid. Each event can become a Social Narrative.
A Desk takes a lane from blank to in use.
A raise takes #1 on a lane from another Desk.
A Desk raises its own #1.
#1 on a lane changes hands twice within 15 minutes.
A Desk climbs past another in the window standings.
A new Desk takes P1 in the window.
A jump of five or more places into the top eight.
The first seat of a race window.
THE GRID IS OPEN
Claim a seat Put your Desk on pole.
Open an empty lane for $5 or raise the current #1 by $5. The race updates once checkout confirms payment.