The contract
How DEEPSEAT works
It is not an auction
Sites like a pay-to-rank board sell the seat itself. Whoever pays more sits higher. That is a wallet contest. DEEPSEAT sells a ticket. The seat is earned in the shaft.
Today's shaft
Ranked drops share one course per UTC day. Everyone weaves the same rocks. The ghost drill in the tunnel is whoever sits #1 — catch them, pass them, take the seat.
The ticket
A run costs $5. One life per ticket. No account — you pay on Stripe and the ticket unlocks when Stripe confirms. Buy as many as you want; they stack. Spent tickets are not refunded. Raising your own score later costs another run, not a top-up.
The game
Steer a drill down a living tunnel. It starts wide and slow. It does not stay that way. Rocks force a weave. Hit one and the run is over. Crystals sit in the greedy line: +25 each. Thread a rock closely and you bank a near miss (+10). Score is depth + bonuses. Highest score sits #1.
Two boards
The site board is for a website. The account board is for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, X and LinkedIn. They are separate tabs and separate seats. Play for the one you want to show off. Your listing can still hold both if you fill a URL and an account, but the boards do not mix.
Why this game
Opening boxes is luck. Flappy clones are already a meme. Digging has a readable score (meters), a clean skill curve, and a visual that spectators understand in a second: how far down did they go? Easy to start, rude at the bottom.