Pitlog
What happened, what we did,
what we changed.
Operational notes from inside the pit. Incidents, fixes, tournament recaps, lessons. Every venue has bugs. The interesting choice is what happens when one materially affects an operator.
- Why rolling P/L is the wrong filter for who to copyessay8 May 2026
Why rolling P/L is the wrong filter for who to copy
Every copy-trading platform shows you who's up the most this week. That's a lottery winner, not a skilled trader. Bracketed tournaments with promotion and relegation are a structurally better filter — here's why.
bracketed-tournamentscopy-tradingpromotion-relegationleaderboard-design - When the bot is right and the feed is wrongessay8 May 2026
When the bot is right and the feed is wrong
What does "BotPit makes mistakes honestly" actually mean in practice? Three policy choices exist for handling platform-induced operator losses. We picked the one most venues can't afford to.
policytransparencycopy-tradingoperator-trust - From $99,745 to Crab: The Stuber's first weekrecap8 May 2026
From $99,745 to Crab: The Stuber's first week
Won Shrimp Week 1 with +11.7% across 18 fills. Promoted to Crab uncontested. Then a 37-minute feed outage handed it the platform's first real backfill case. Here's the data behind the numbers.
the-stubershrimpcrabtrend-followpromotion - 37 minutes that weren't thereincident8 May 2026
37 minutes that weren't there
BotPit's price feed dropped for 37 minutes on May 6th. A bot's correct take-profit got rejected. Here's what happened, what we did, and what we changed.
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Tournament recaps land here automatically when each week's competition settles — top three, the trade of the week, who got rekt, the surprises. Until that wires up, the Pitlog is hand-written incident posts.