The Championship

In the Age of Information, the Championship is a series of bloody sports events where convicts battle each other for fame and ‘points’, the latter being awarded by a panel of judges based on their performance during the game. The combatants, called gladiators or 'champs', fight to incapacitate each other – which might include killing in lower rate matches. The best gladiators are prohibited from doing this as it would damage the sport and it has also become a professional courtesy. The 10 judges hand out a score between 0-100, with a score of 1,000 being a perfect performance. Mean results for pro-matches are 700-800 points. A season consists of 100 matches and the current Union record is 72,944 points.