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The Vertical — Individual Descent

Nobody — including whoever runs this site — can change what happens in an event once it has been scheduled. Here is how you can check that for yourself.

Back to the event
Step 1 — the commitment

When this event was created the server drew a random seed and a random salt, kept both private, and published this hash of them. It has been on the event page from that moment.

28886d4661769fbc32d99190c2bfeb636f6cefd7e6d0faec13373e596aac091b

Published 22 Aug 2026 5:48 AM EDT.

Step 2 — the reveal

The event has finished, so the seed and salt are now public.

c2a1bc3890d36337b951c753a9c4bdfac94d4a0e9a09d0da c43739c70fd255ba78a8ce5d 28886d4661769fbc32d99190c2bfeb636f6cefd7e6d0faec13373e596aac091b

✓ MATCHES THE PUBLISHED COMMITMENT

Step 3 — the run

The result is produced by running the physics simulation with that seed, this course and this field. The simulation is deterministic: the same three inputs always produce the same race, down to the frame.

Which means: if the published commitment matches the revealed seed, and the field below matches what was declared before the start, then the result you watched is the only result that seed could have produced.

What administrators can and cannot do
Can
  • Create teams, competitors, venues and courses
  • Schedule and name events
  • Moderate chat and suspend accounts
  • Start and end seasons
Cannot
  • Decide who wins
  • Re-run an event they did not like
  • Change a recorded result
  • See a competitor's hidden profile from any public page