Will Seattle-Tacoma report measurable rainfall for the game day?
Locks 23:59 UTC
Awaiting
Correct1Result: awaiting the published source. Once the source publishes, this cell shows the outcome with its evidence.
Space and science
Will the resupply launch lift off inside its primary window?
Locks 06:00 UTC
Awaiting
Result: awaiting the published source
Scheduled events
Will the keynote begin within ten minutes of its published start?
Locks 17:30 UTC
Awaiting
Result: awaiting the published source
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Provenance
Every question publishes its resolution rule and evidence source before you answer
1Every question publishes its resolution rule before it opens
2Every result names the source it was read from
3Every revision stays on the record, in order
The case for a record
A daily forecasting record you can actually defendA daily forecasting record you can actually defend
The complaint
The entry NextCall makes
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Everyone has opinions about what happens next and no record of who was right
Every call is recorded against a stamped deadline, and your accuracy is computed only from questions that have actually resolved.
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Arguments about outcomes never get settled with a source
Each question publishes its resolution rule and its named source before it opens, then the evidence it resolved on afterwards.
Today's three
Three questions a day, from three kinds of source
Weather, space and science, and scheduled technology and culture events. Each one has a published figure or a scheduled moment behind it, which is what makes it scoreable without an argument.
Weather
Isobars, station reports and daily figures. A weather question is settled by the number a named station publishes, not by how the day felt.
Sample question
Will Denver record measurable snowfall on the game day?
Resolves against: Published daily station summary
Space and science
Launch windows, orbital passes and lunar phases. Either the vehicle cleared the pad inside its window or it did not.
Sample question
Will the resupply launch lift off inside its primary window?
Resolves against: Operator launch log
Scheduled events
Keynotes, releases and openings on a published schedule. The only question is whether the schedule held.
Sample question
Will the keynote begin within ten minutes of its published start?
Resolves against: Official event stream timestamp
Financial prices, elections and public office, sports, health and legal outcomes sit outside the launch categories and are never published as questions.
How a call becomes a result
You answer today. The source answers tomorrow.
Step 01
You answer before the deadline
Three binary questions open for each UTC game day. Pick an answer, change it as often as you like, and the server decides whether your answer arrived in time. A device clock set far ahead or far behind has no say in it.
Step 02
The question locks
At the stamped deadline the question closes for everyone at once. Nothing submitted afterwards counts, nothing already on record changes, and every revision you made stays readable in order.
Step 03
The result is inked
One person reads the declared source and attaches the evidence; a second person approves it. A correct call scores 100, an incorrect call scores 0, and a voided question scores nothing at all.
The result column stays empty until the source publishes. That gap is the whole point: it is what you come back for.
The part everyone asks first
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