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ยฉ 2026 West Coast Reefers
Contestsโ€บSeptember POTM - SPSโ€บVerify

Verify this tiebreak

Everything needed to check it yourself. You don't have to trust us - the button below re-runs the draw in your own browser.

How the draw works

  1. At close, the entries tied for first were locked into the numbered list below, and the list was fingerprinted with SHA-256 (one number:account-id per line).
  2. At that same moment the draw was tied to a future round of drand, a public random number published every 30 seconds by independent organizations (Cloudflare, Protocol Labs, universities and others). Nobody could know that number when the list was locked.
  3. Once the round came out, its random number and the fingerprint shuffled the entry numbers (seed = SHA-256 of randomness:fingerprint:contest-id:tiebreak, then a Fisher-Yates shuffle stepping with SHA-256 of seed:step). The first one drawn wins.

The record

List locked2026-10-15T17:59:02.583Z
List fingerprint (SHA-256)e1dbaff4695a6f2a49c2cbd0bc128a50056a4c6b83ec3004bca8cff5207095fc
Committed drand round#6555206
Round published2026-10-15T18:00:00.000Z
Round randomness6bb97b5c121a37a362227f69ea9f6abb8d6b15f7801f2f1e471f9e4bdfb3c3d0
Drawn order (entry numbers)1, 2

The round can be fetched from any drand relay, for example api.drand.sh, drand.cloudflare.com, api2.drand.sh.

Locked list (2)

1.@doolycmt3vd6kt0005qu9ung7qoej7
2.@Officereef760cmt4kbktq0000hd43pombje1o

Drawn order: #1 @dooly โ†’ #2 @Officereef760