ST · BACK ALLEY
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THRONETABLIST

Nameless,Skill-based

A blind scratch battle for turntablists. You hear every cut. You never see the name — until the end.

Real mixer. Real hands. Sound on.

From the team

· ThroneTablist

Update 0.2 — The Rig Room

The biggest update since the play test began. Every player now has a room of their own.

0.2 · RIG ROOM

Your own room behind a steel shutter. Open it from RIG ROOM on the home page.

Customize it: speakers, turntables, headshells, mixer, knobs and fader caps, crate, lights, the wall, headphones and gadgets. Your room is saved to your account.

The crate holds The Pit Looper Vol.1 and Vol.2 — 16 loops. Put a record on a deck and it plays in the room.

MIDI: pads 1–4 and the Browse knob work inside the room.

0.2 · GIFTS

Sign in before Closed Beta opens and you get THE PIT FOUNDER poster and the PLAY TEST lanyard for your room.

0.2 · BATTLES

Battle beats now come from the same 16 loops as the crate.

If 24 hours pass before you listen and rate, you concede that round — it counts as 3 stars — and the battle still goes on to the reveal.

In-game alerts with a click sound when you are matched, when it is your turn and when the result is in — while the game is open.

The message you send with your take now shows above your hood in the pit.

A new way into and out of The Pit.

0.2 · HOME

The LOOPERS bar on the home page now shows both records.

· ThroneTablist

Japanese, a tutorial, and where DVS stands

The game speaks Japanese now, next to English and Thai. Every page in the beta switches from the globe button, and the language your browser asks for is the one you land on.

New players get shown the room instead of dropped into it. HOOD meets you at the door of the pit and offers a practice round first — how to set your mixer up, how a round is played, what the pads do. Take it or skip it, the door stays open either way.

Serato DVS timecode still cannot be recorded. Real records or CDs work today, and the setup guide shows how to switch your mixer between the two. We are still working on it.

· ThroneTablist

Closed Beta — applications are coming

Soon you'll be able to sign in here and ask for a seat yourself, instead of waiting for someone to hand you a code. Invite codes that are already out keep working, and every player can still invite one person.

The first round has a limited number of seats. We'll open it when the room is ready for people we haven't met yet.

real fckin soon...

B1 Subway

Nobody asks
your name.

Everyone wears the same hood.No face, no follower count, no history on screen.
The other take plays once.That is the rule of the room — listen like it counts.
Stars stay hidden.Both sides judge blind. Names and stars open together.
The throne has one seat.No.1 is one person. Not in Play test yet.

One battle, four moves.

  1. 1Q cuts over the beat.8 bars. 4:00 to submit, from PLAY BEAT.
  2. 2A hears Q once, then answers.Same beat. A’s own 4:00 starts at LISTEN ONCE.
  3. 3Round two flips sides.After each round, both give 1–3 stars, blind.
  4. 4Reveal.Names, stars and re-takes open at once.
B2 The Pit

Listen once.
Judge blind.

Optional · MIDI

Your pads can run the game.

Map four pads in under a minute and judge this demo from your mixer. Lights show what you can press. The real game needs desktop Chrome and a USB mixer — tested on DJM-S9.

TAKE A
TAKE B
Ready—
Two takes. Same beat. You get one listen each.
Stars · Take A
Stars · Take B
B3 The throne
An empty throne

One seat.
Nobody on it yet.

The Play test runs in The Pit, unranked. The seat waits for the first champion.

In the Play test right now

What you can play today

  • The Pit — the quick match. One battle at a time, 8 bars, sides drawn at random.
  • Played in your own time. When it is your turn you have 24 hours to start it; once you start, 4 minutes to submit.
  • Nothing counts toward a ranking yet. The Pit in this beta is for the sound and for the testing.
  • Invite only, and a Google or Discord account to sign in.

What comes after

  • The season — eight weeks of weekly ladder, four weeks of the official tour, then The Cut, then the throne.
  • The Title match — the only battle in the game where both names are open from the start.
  • Respect — a point you can only give to someone else, never take, and never buy.
  • The City — the room outside the pit, where names are open again.

None of this is live yet. The beta exists to find out what the rules do with real players.

What you need

  • Chrome on a desktop or laptop computer. Phones and tablets can't record.
  • A DJ mixer or controller connected over USB, plus headphones or speakers.
  • Tested so far: DJM-S9 on a Mac with Chrome. Other mixers haven't been tested yet.
  • Real records or CDs for now — Serato DVS timecode can't be recorded yet. The setup guide shows how to switch between the two.
  • An invite link, and a Google or Discord account to sign in.
Read the setup guide How a battle runs Why it works this way

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For your phone and your computer. Free to use.

Step 1 of 3 · Connect

Quick MIDI setup

Plug in your mixer, then connect. The browser will ask once.

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