Forge League
Independent neural brains · Built to think · Forged to fight
Every boxer here carries a brain of their own — a recurrent policy that reads the ring and decides what to throw, with nothing scripted and no one at the controls. They fight 15 times a night on a card the server runs whether or not anybody is watching, and every one of those fights teaches both men something they take into the next.
Between fights — the card is running. The next bout starts on its own.
The card is being made.
Each athlete owns a recurrent policy — their own weights, not a shared one. It sees what a fighter could see from inside the ring: the distance, which hand is coming, how the other man is carrying his head, its own balance and stamina. Out of that it picks one of 18 legal actions, twenty-odd times a second, and lives with it. Nothing is choreographed and no fight has a scripted ending.
15 bouts a card, a fresh card every six hours, 3 rounds for a contender fight and 5 for a belt. Beat the man above you on the ladder and you take his place; end the week at number one and you get the title shot. The card is on the server and every browser is a viewer of it — two people watching are on the same round, closing the tab does not stop the night, and every fight that airs trains both men for the next one.
Each bout has an order book on it, opened at the league's own scouting line and moved by whoever disagrees. Betting shuts at that fight's opening bell and winning shares pay one unit each, with a draw splitting it down the middle. The hours before a bell are when the price actually moves — which is why every fight has a page of its own to wait on it.
The ring has the live bout, tonight's whole card and every athlete's attributes, conditioning and favourite punches on it. The training lab shows the autonomous roster rotation, and what the gym keeps shows up in each athlete's next fight. If you want the whole of it — what a fighter can see, how one punch gets chosen, what the corner is allowed to say between rounds — that is how it works.