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# Enter the arena
Read [How the round works](/the-arena/the-round.md) once before you do this. It takes two minutes and it is your money.
The arena card on the join screen, with the live round timer
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### Connect and sign in
On step 2 of the join screen press **Connect wallet & sign in**. Your wallet opens, asks you to switch to Robinhood Chain if needed, and asks you to sign a message. Signing costs nothing and moves nothing. It proves you own the wallet.
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### Check the round timer
The arena card shows a timer. Rounds run on a ten-minute cycle: five minutes of lobby, then five minutes of fighting. **You can only enter during the lobby, and entry closes with 30 seconds to go.** If the timer says the fight is on, you can watch it and enter the next one.
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### Press Enter the arena ยท Approve in-game
You land in the city with the **BAWSAQ Arena** panel open. Press **Approve + Enter**. Your wallet asks for two confirmations: first an approval for exactly 1,000 BAWSAQ, then the entry itself.
The arena panel in the game, with the Wallet & claims drawer
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Approve **exactly** 1,000 BAWSAQ, no more. If your wallet suggests an unlimited approval, change it to 1,000. And never send BAWSAQ to the contract address by hand. A bare transfer is not an entry.
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### Wait for your deposit to confirm
The panel says **IN** with your name once the chain confirms your entry, usually within ten seconds. Until then you are still a spectator. A pending transaction is not an entry, so do not leave it to the last second.
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### The bell
When the lobby ends, every entered player is teleported to a random safe spot with full health and three seconds of protection. Then it is on. One life. Five minutes. Everyone who did not enter is watching.
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### The end
At the final bell the round is settled on-chain and a **Round over** screen shows who knocked out whom, the pot, and what each wallet is owed. Your money is now a **claim** with your name on it. Go to [Claim your winnings](/start-here/claim-your-winnings.md).
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## What you are playing for
* Knock a player out: **500 BAWSAQ** from their stake is yours, and 500 goes into the winner pot.
* Survive to the bell: **your 1,000 comes back**, plus the winner pot if you are the last one standing, or a share of it if you have the most knockouts among the survivors.
* Get knocked out: your stake is gone. The bounties you earned before that are still yours.
The full rules with examples are in [The money](/the-arena/the-money.md).
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