The gauntlet

Official rules

Weekly stages

The gauntlet runs for eight weeks. One new stage opens each week; release timing may shift around holidays.
Every eligible player can play the stage that is open. You do not need to have completed an earlier stage, and you do not need to hold any badge or token.
Run the open stage as many times as your daily runs allow. Every valid run adds to your weekly score: it is the total of all your runs that week.

Each stage has four environments with two rare resources in each. Collect all eight, two from every environment, and reach the end of the stage: that is a Full Victory. In the Chaos stage, collect its four resources.
Collecting the same resource more than once adds points but does not count twice toward the eight.
Reach the end without all of them and you keep every point and Fragment from the run, but it is not a Full Victory and earns no completion bonus or speed bonus.

Each resource is worth 10 points; Fragments are worth 5, 10 or 15 points depending on their tier.
A Full Victory adds a 500-point completion bonus and a speed bonus for every second under the stage's par time.
The server checks every run. Runs whose reported score does not match what was collected are held for review and do not rank until cleared.

Weekly prizes go to the top 50 players who achieved a Full Victory on that week's stage, ranked by score. A high score without a Full Victory does not qualify for a prize.
Prizes are listed for each rank on the Prizes page. Ranks 11 to 25 receive 100 FRAGS and ranks 26 to 50 receive 50 FRAGS.
When a week closes, winners choose from the available prizes in rank order: the higher score picks first, and two winners can never take the same item. Once a prize is assigned it is marked unavailable on the Prizes page.
Every week, the top five communities on the community leaderboard win an APE floor sweep of their collection: 10,000, 5,000, 2,500, 1,500 and 1,000 APE.
First place spins the prize wheel for a Bored Ape or a Mutant Ape. In weeks 1 to 4 the chance of a Bored Ape is 5%, 10%, 15% and 20%; from week 5 the odds follow the apes still in the pool. Each spin is a single, verifiable result with no rerolls.

The jackpot starts at 10,000 APE, and 20% of every Fragment bundle purchase is added to it, held on-chain by the Store contract.
After week eight there is one drawing, and one player wins the entire jackpot along with a mystery NFT.
Every valid point you earn across the eight weeks is one entry. You do not need to play every week, and a Full Victory is not required.

Stage-completion badges recognize a Full Victory. After each week ends, the team reviews completion results and the stage badge is minted to every qualifying wallet.
Other achievements, like Fragment milestones and weekly honors, are recorded on your profile.
Badges are accomplishments only. They never grant or restrict access to a stage.

One wallet per player. Flagged runs stay off the leaderboards until reviewed, and invalidated runs never count.
Prize eligibility is verified automatically, and every prize is approved by the team before it is distributed.