Nameless,
Skill-based.
Blind 1v1 scratch battles for turntablists. You hear the performance first. Names come out at the reveal.
Enter the game
Closed Beta · invite only · desktop Chrome with your mixer or controller
How a battle works
1 · Enter The Pit
You come in as a HOOD. Battles are 8 bars. You're matched with the next player in the pit, and the sides — who asks, who answers — are drawn at random.
2 · Two rounds, listen once
Round 1: one side plays over the beat and submits a take. The other side hears it once, then answers on the same beat. Round 2: the sides swap. After each round, both of you give the other side 1 to 3 stars.
3 · The reveal
Names, all four takes, the stars, Re-Takes and messages come out together. More stars wins. Equal stars is a draw.
When it's your turn you have 24 hours to start it. Once you start, you have 4 minutes to submit.
The idea
A city where every name was taken
Everyone here wears the same hood. No face, no history, no seniority. Someone with twenty years and someone who bought their first deck last year walk into the same room in the same shape — your identity is your hands.
At the top of the city there is a throne with one seat. Whoever sits there is the only person everyone knows by name, and the only one everyone is watching.
The King is the Hood with a crown
The King is not a different character. It is the same hood wearing a crown, and the crown can come off in a single night. Its colour is taken from the LEDs on a real mixer — in this world, every light comes from the equipment.
Want a face? Upload a photo and it becomes a 64×64 pixel portrait on your own machine. The original never leaves it.
Winning here is expensive
Nothing stops you from rating low to push yourself up. There is no anti-cheat and there are no locks. The game just writes everything down and shows it to everyone at the reveal: who met whom, who gave whom how many stars, who hit Re-Take, who wrote what.
Every rule in this game is enforced by people, not by code.
What the mask does
A former champion walks in wearing the same hood as everyone else, and nobody steps aside. An unknown answers him cleanly, and he has to choose: three honest stars, or one star and wait for the table to open at the end.
The mask does not make people better or worse. It removes the excuses.
Why it is built this way
- Sound before names. You judge what you heard, not who played it. Names arrive only at the reveal, together with everything else.
- Two symmetrical rounds. Everyone gets to ask, to answer, and to judge. Nobody only defends.
- Listen once. You hear your opponent's take one time and then answer — the way it works on a real stage. It is a rule of the game, not a lock.
- Re-Takes are allowed and counted. Nobody stops you from recording again. The server counts it, and your lifetime total sits on your profile.
- You rate the other side only, 1 to 3 stars a round. Totals stay sealed until the reveal. In The Pit, equal stars is a draw — no tie-break, no judge.
- Say anything. The message box is not filtered. It is shown next to your take while you are still anonymous, and your name is attached to it at the end. Anything can be reported, and an Official can remove it.
- Loudness is not a weapon. Every take is levelled automatically against the beat of that round. Dynamics are untouched, so a louder rig wins nothing.
- Your hands never leave the decks. The four buttons can be driven from your mixer's pads over MIDI, and the pad lights mirror what the screen already says. It is optional by design and gives no scoring advantage.
- The web, not an app store. The game runs in the browser. You can add it to your home screen and get a notification when it is your turn — but the unfiltered message box is the spine of this game, and app stores would pressure it.
Real vinyl is the heart of it. DVS is an option, not the main road — nothing is detected, and nothing is banned.
In the Closed Beta right now
What you can play today
- The Pit — the quick match. One battle at a time, 8 bars, sides drawn at random.
- Played in your own time. When it is your turn you have 24 hours to start it; once you start, 4 minutes to submit.
- Nothing counts toward a ranking yet. The Pit in this beta is for the sound and for the testing.
- Invite only, and a Google or Discord account to sign in.
What comes after
- The season — eight weeks of weekly ladder, four weeks of the official tour, then The Cut, then the throne.
- The Title match — the only battle in the game where both names are open from the start.
- Respect — a point you can only give to someone else, never take, and never buy.
- The City — the room outside the pit, where names are open again.
None of this is live yet. The beta exists to find out what the rules do with real players.
What you need
- Chrome on a desktop or laptop computer. Phones and tablets can't record.
- A DJ mixer or controller connected over USB, plus headphones or speakers.
- Tested so far: DJM-S9 on a Mac with Chrome. Other mixers haven't been tested yet.
- An invite link, and a Google or Discord account to sign in.
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