Your hours become ground others can see
The Arena is a shared world where your study hours become territory. Ground is earned with real focused minutes, and it cools when you stop.
It is the competitive heart of Tigris Zone, and the place where strangers who work like you find each other.
How ground is earned
You choose one front, your permanent place on the planet. From there, focused minutes let you claim nexuses, the hex cells of the map, one beside another.
Each nexus costs a little more than the last, so the first ones come quickly and a large territory takes months of real work.
Effort counts, with limits
- Effort has diminishing returns: the first two hours of a day count in full, the next two hours count half, the next two hours count 20%. Past six hours a day, more minutes add nothing to the Arena.
- One session counts for at most three hours.
- A day with more than 16 hours logged scores nothing.
- Nobody buys their way in: there is nothing to purchase on the Arena, on any plan.
Stop, and your borders cool
What you hold is kept by what you did in the last 28 days. When that falls short, your outer nexuses turn to embers, and an ember still unsupported after 7 days is released. Your origin never cools.
Come back and one session starts earning the ground back.
Colonies
Hold 50 nexuses to found your first colony, 75 for a second and 100 for a third: 3 in all, each at least 2,500 km from your origin.
Where you meet people
Every player on the board carries their top three skills, measured in hours. Find someone who studies what you study, open their profile, and send a friend request with a note that says why.
Questions about the Arena
Is the Arena just a leaderboard?
No. A leaderboard ranks totals; on the Arena ground has to be earned and then held. Hours from months ago do not keep a border alive, the last 28 days do.
Can I lose my territory?
Only the part you stop supporting. Outer nexuses cool to embers when your recent effort falls short, and your origin is never lost.
Keep exploring
- The Zone: A focus timer, free or Pomodoro, with today's tasks, schedule, deadlines, stats and music around it on a desk you arrange. Free in your browser.
- The Suite: Tasks, habits, a schedule, an Eisenhower matrix, Markdown notes and stats in one account, feeding the focus timer you study with. Free to start.
- Study tracker: Track study hours without typing them in. Every focus session becomes a heatmap, streaks, peaks and stats you can share as a card. Free to start.
- Profiles: Your profile shows your study hours, consistency heatmap, streaks and measured skills, so the people you let in can see how disciplined you are.
- People and Teams: Add friends by handle, see who is studying right now, message them, and form teams of up to 25 that work together inside The Zone. Free.
- Pricing: Free forever for the study loop. Premium is USD 5 a month, USD 39 a year, or USD 99 once. Every limit, the 14-day refund, and how cancelling works.