Tiers, leagues and levels
Snakoff has three kinds of progress, and each measures something different. Your tier shows how well you play over time. Your weekly league is a fresh race every Monday. Your level grows with everything you play. The app shows where you stand; the rules are all here.
Points: how a day is scored
Every day you play a run that counts, you earn points for your place in that day. The formula is simple: 100 minus your "top X%". Finish in the top 10% and you get about 90 points; finish around the middle and you get about 50; finish last and you get none. The most a single day can give is 99.
The same day points feed both your tier and your weekly league. A day you don't play earns nothing, so showing up every day matters as much as one great day.
Tiers: Bronze to Legend
There are five tiers. Your tier comes from all the points you have ever earned:
| Tier | Points needed |
|---|---|
| Bronze | 0 |
| Silver | 250 |
| Gold | 900 |
| Diamond | 2,400 |
| Legend | 5,000 |
Points only ever go up, so a tier is never lost. A bad day costs you nothing but a smaller gain. A player around the middle of the field reaches Silver in about five days, Gold in about three weeks, Diamond in about seven weeks and Legend in about a hundred days.
Each tier unlocks looks that can't be bought, and you keep them for good:
| Tier | What it unlocks |
|---|---|
| Bronze | Fern and Sunset snakes |
| Silver | Tiger snake, Sparks trail, Laurel emblem frame, Moonlight bite pulse |
| Gold | Frost snake, Comet trail, Flame emblem frame, Gilded bite pulse, your name on public boards |
| Diamond | Galaxy snake, Orbit emblem frame, Diamond bite pulse, the champion plaque on everyone's Home when you win a day |
| Legend | Royal snake, Rainbow trail, Crown emblem frame, Legend bite pulse |
When you reach a new tier, the app shows a promotion screen with what you just unlocked.
Weekly leagues
The Week tab of the leaderboard is your league table. A week runs from Monday to Sunday in UTC, and every day you play adds your day points to your total for the week.
- The table. Up to 30 players, named after your tier ("Silver league"). Players are placed in tables by when they join the week. When a league has fewer than 20 real players, it shares tables with the next one, so tables stay lively.
- Ranking. Most points first; level on points, more days played first.
- Moving. When the week ends, at 00:00 UTC on Monday, the top 7 move up a league and the bottom 7 move down. There are five league levels; nobody moves up from the top league or down from the bottom one.
- Leagues and tiers are separate. Moving down a league never moves your tier down. Tiers only go up.
Bots in leagues
When a table has fewer than 30 real players, it is topped up with bots so there is always a race. They are the same kind of practice bots that fill small tournament rounds, and the table says so. A bot's week is made up from its seat in the table, and some bots play more days than others, just like people. As more real players join, fewer bots are needed.
Levels 1 to 50
Your level counts what you have done, not how you placed. You earn XP for:
| What you did | XP |
|---|---|
| A run that counts | 20 |
| A round you got through | 30 |
| Winning the day | 100 |
Each new level pays 25 coins, and every fifth level gives a look: the Star icon at 5, the "Survivor" title at 10, the Mint name colour at 15, the Moon icon at 20, the Glow name at 25, and so on up to the Dragon snake at level 50. Each level needs a little more XP than the last. A player who plays every day reaches level 10 in about two weeks, level 25 in about three months and level 50 in about a year.
Which one should you chase?
You don't have to choose. One run that counts a day moves all three: it earns points for your tier and your league, and XP for your level. To climb fastest, play every round you can reach, because each round you get through earns more XP, and play every day, because every day adds league points.
Practice, Endless and Play together games don't earn tier points, league points or XP. Only runs that count do.
More on the day itself in how it works, and on what coins buy in shop and coins.