First official tournament
Denver. A parking lot. $1,000 cash.
- Prizing: $1,000 cash.
- Entry: free.
- Proxies: friendly. Play the deck, not the mortgage.
- Venue: a parking lot in Denver. Location and date announced on the events page and nowhere else first.
Free to enter, cash to win, proxy friendly, outdoors. That is actually Caliente. Want to help run it, or host the next one?
How the official format is run
Verified voting
Discord-verified accounts, one changeable vote per ballot, live public tallies, and an append-only history of every vote cast. Six ballots are open for the October window right now.
The lists
The banlist and the watch list as maintained pages. Every entry appears exactly once, and contested cards go to a ballot instead of a mood board.
The record
Announcements, a change log, a timeline, and public participation stats. If it changes, you can point at the day it changed.
The rules
Stated once, with the genuinely undecided parts labeled undecided. Plus an FAQ, a code of conduct, real terms, and a privacy policy that admits what it logs.
A note on the name
You may encounter another group using the Cali Commander name. We understand the confusion; imitation is flattering. But the official format lives at calicommander.com, publishes its tallies, logs its changes, and pays out a thousand actual dollars in a parking lot. We hold the website and the title. We wish the tribute act well, and their first public tally sooner.
Their governance record is preserved on our timeline, because an organizing body that keeps receipts on itself keeps them on everyone.