BulldogGX only works if every result is real. This Policy lists what is prohibited, how we detect it, what happens when we find it, and how you can report it.
1. Prohibited conduct in competition
Cheating and unfair advantage
- Using cheats, hacks, trainers, memory editors, macros, scripts, modified game files, modified consoles or controllers, or any third-party software that alters gameplay.
- Exploiting a bug or glitch in the game to gain an advantage.
- Using custom rosters, edited players, altered sliders or any settings not shown on the match page.
- Deliberately degrading your own or your opponent's connection (lag switching, packet manipulation, DDoS).
- Playing on an account whose skill history does not reflect the person playing (account sharing, "smurfing", letting someone else play your match).
Result manipulation
- Declaring a false result, or confirming a result you know to be false.
- Submitting a verification recording that is edited, pre-recorded, staged, or shows a different match.
- Colluding with an opponent to fix the result, to move money from one account to another through a staged match, or to split prizes.
- Creating a match with yourself using a second account.
- Disputing a legitimate result to delay or coerce your opponent.
Account and platform abuse
- Holding more than one account, or opening a new account after suspension, exclusion or self-exclusion.
- Playing from a location where paid play is not available, or using a VPN, proxy or spoofed location to appear elsewhere.
- Using another person's identity, payment method or wallet.
- Abusing a promotion, referral, free-entry event or bonus.
- Acting as a nominee for another player, paying an entry fee on another player's behalf, or accepting money to play a match for someone else.
2. Prohibited conduct toward people
- Harassment, threats, hate speech, slurs, or targeting anyone based on a protected characteristic.
- Doxxing or sharing another person's private information, including their gamertag outside the match context, address, phone, real name or wallet activity.
- Impersonating BulldogGX staff, a reviewer, another player or a public figure.
- Soliciting passwords, recovery phrases, private keys or one-time codes from anyone.
- Sexual content, content involving minors, or content that is unlawful.
- Spam, unsolicited advertising, or recruiting for other paid services.
3. Prohibited conduct toward the Service
- Probing, scanning, or attempting to breach the app, its backend, the escrow contract, a wallet provider or any partner.
- Interacting with the escrow contract outside the app in a way that circumvents a limit, a check or a rule.
- Scraping, automated account creation, or automated match creation.
- Interfering with notifications, evidence uploads, or another player's ability to use the app.
Security research. We welcome good-faith security research. If you find a vulnerability, report it privately to support@bulldoggx.com with the subject "Security" before disclosing it to anyone else, do not access or alter other people's data or funds, and give us a reasonable time to fix it. Research conducted this way will not be treated as a breach of this Policy.
4. How we detect it
- Every declaration, confirmation and dispute requires a verification recording with randomized gesture prompts and stamped match details, which makes pre-recorded or borrowed footage detectable.
- Connect-flow steps, declarations and settlements are timestamped, and on-chain events are reconciled against app records.
- We monitor for repeated matches between the same players, one-sided money flows between accounts, shared devices or networks, impossible play patterns and abnormal dispute rates.
- We review reports from other players and from commissioners.
- We may require identity verification at any time.
A flag from automated monitoring is a reason to look, not a decision. A human reviews the evidence before any penalty is applied.
5. Penalties
Depending on severity and history:
| Level | Examples | Response |
|---|---|---|
| Warning | First minor settings error, unsporting messages | Written warning, education |
| Match loss | Settings tampering, quitting while losing, incomplete evidence | Loss of the match; opponent paid |
| Forfeiture | False declaration, staged recording, collusion | Loss of the contested prizes; may extend to open matches |
| Suspension | Repeat offenses, harassment, evasion of limits | 7 to 90 days without paid play |
| Permanent exclusion | Fraud, multiple accounts, cheating software, threats, any conduct involving minors | Account closed; new accounts refused |
| Referral | Fraud, money laundering, threats, illegal content | Reported to law enforcement and, where relevant, to payment and wallet providers |
Forfeited contested prizes go to the wronged opponent where a winner can be determined, and are otherwise returned to both players by voiding the match. BulldogGX does not keep forfeited entry fees. Assets in your wallet outside escrow are never affected by a penalty.
6. Appeals
Any penalty notice tells you the basis and how to appeal. Send your appeal to support@bulldoggx.com with the subject "Appeal" within 14 days, including any evidence. Where possible, a person who was not involved in the original decision reviews it; where that is not possible, the reviewer re-examines the full record and any new evidence and gives written reasons. We respond within 10 business days.
7. Reporting
Report suspected cheating, collusion, harassment or a fake result from the match page or by emailing support@bulldoggx.com with the match ID and any evidence. Reports are confidential. Knowingly false reports are themselves a breach of this Policy.