How it works
Trading guide
The ground rules
Accounts are individual
Your account is yours, not your school's. Everyone signs up separately and keeps their own inventory, trades, and score, so nobody has to pass a password around the team group chat.
Adding your school is optional. Put it on your profile if you want people to see who they are trading with, or leave it off. Several people from one school can each have their own account.
Shared school accounts from the beta still work the same way.
Trade what you have
You can only trade tests that are in your inventory, so you have to submit a test or trade for it before you can offer it. Both sides put something real on the table.
If a test is missing from the database, use Suggest test to send it to the admins. Approved suggestions earn you a test you do not have yet.
Links stay hidden until you trade
Every Google Drive link is encrypted in our database. Your partner sees yours only after the trade goes through, so nobody walks off with links they did not trade for.
Quick start
- 1
Create your account
Sign up with email or Google. There is no approval queue, so you can start right away.
- 2
Submit your tests
Put your tests in Google Drive, then use Submit test to add them to your inventory. If the link matches a test we already know, it verifies on its own.
- 3
Start trading
Find something you want in the marketplace and offer one of yours for it.
How trading works
Listing tests for trade
- Open your dashboard and find the test in your inventory
- Choose List for trade on any verified test
- Pick what you will take in return:
- Accept any test takes any test you do not already have
- Specific test holds out for one particular test
- Your listing shows up in the marketplace
Proposing a trade
- Browse the marketplace to find tests you want
- Choose Request trade on a listing
- Select which of your verified tests to offer
- Send the trade request
- Wait for the other trader to accept or decline
Completing a trade
- When both sides accept, the trade completes automatically
- Both sides get the Drive link they traded for
- The traded test lands in your inventory
- Your trust score updates
Pre-trades
A pre-trade is only a promise
Claim a test from a tournament you plan to attend, and line up a partner before you have the test in hand.
How pre-trades work
- Submit a pre-trade claim for a tournament you will attend
- Other people can propose trades for the test you claimed
- After the tournament, verify that you got the test
- Once you verify, the trade completes and you both get the links
If the test never shows up, or you cannot verify it, the pre-trade is cancelled and your score does not move.
Test types
Test formats
In-person tests
Tests from tournaments held at a physical location. Most invitationals land here.
Satellite tests
Tests from online or remote tournaments where teams compete from their own schools. These often come in several versions.
Tryout tests
Tests a team uses to pick its members. Usually old tests, or something a captain wrote.
Trade status
Regular tests
Normal invitational tests. Trade them however you want.
Public tests
Tests anyone can already download, like official sample tests. Nobody needs to trade for them, so they are not tradeable. They live under Public tests.
Untradeable tests
Tests that tournament organizers marked as untradeable. Please respect that. If you see one listed anyway, use Flag test to report it.
Trust score
Your trust score is what people look at before they trade with you. It starts at 100 and moves from there.
Score increases
- Trades you finish
- Tests that pass verification
- Good ratings
Score decreases
- Fair offers you keep turning down
- Tests that fail verification
- Bad ratings
A few tips
Check your link sharing: Set your Drive links so anyone with the link can open them, or your partner hits a permission wall.
Name your files: A folder named after the tournament gets verified faster than one called new folder (3).
Answer your requests: Check pending trades every few days. People remember who left them hanging.
Leave a rating: It is the only way anyone can tell who actually follows through.