Predict the champion of the summer's biggest football tournament and share a prize pool of trillions of Kimi tokens. Every correct call pays out. Every draw still counts. Up to 1 billion tokens per player.
Kick-off
The Kimi Token Cup is a free, tournament-long prediction event that turns every match of this summer's football championship into a chance to earn Kimi tokens - the same tokens you spend on conversations, long-document analysis, coding sessions, and everything else you do with Kimi.
The idea is simple and as old as the sport itself: before a ball is kicked, you call the result. Pick the team you believe will lift the trophy at the end of the tournament, then back your judgement match by match as the competition unfolds. When your team wins, you earn tokens. When your team draws, you still earn tokens - because in a group stage, a hard-fought point is sometimes worth more than a flashy victory. The screenshot that brought you here says it plainly: your team won: 1 draw is not a consolation message, it's a payout notification.
What makes the Token Cup different from an ordinary office sweepstake is the scale and the stakes. The total reward pool is measured in trillions of tokens, distributed across the entire community of players over the full run of the tournament. No single player can drain the pool: an individual account can earn a maximum of 1 billion tokens across the whole event, which keeps the game fair for late joiners and casual fans while still being a genuinely meaningful prize. A billion tokens is enough to power months of heavy daily use - long research sessions, full-codebase reviews, book-length document analysis - without ever watching a usage meter.
You don't need to deposit anything, you don't need to understand betting odds, and you don't need to be a tactics obsessive who can name every back-up left-back in the tournament. You need exactly one thing to start: an opinion about who's going to win. Everything else - the scoring, the streaks, the bonus rounds, the leaderboard - is built on top of that single, satisfying act of picking your champion.
This page explains everything: how to join, how predictions and payouts work, the full reward table, the tournament calendar, a strategy guide for players who want to squeeze every token out of their picks, the fair-play rules that keep the competition honest, and answers to the questions players ask most. Read it all, or skim to the section you need - then hit Join now and lock in your champion before the opening whistle.
Match plan
From sign-up to payout, the whole game runs in four moves. Think of it as a training-ground routine: once you've run it a couple of times, it takes less than a minute per match day.
Tap Join now from the campaign banner in the Kimi app or on this page. You'll see the full list of tournament teams, each with its current form guide, group, and community pick rate. Choose the one team you believe will be crowned champion. This is your headline prediction for the whole event, and it's the pick that qualifies you for the grand Champion Bonus at the end. You can change your champion pick freely until the knockout rounds begin; after the round of 16 kicks off, it locks for good.
Once you've picked a champion, that team becomes your team for the tournament. Every fixture your team plays - group stage, round of 16, quarter-final, semi-final, and final - automatically becomes a scoring opportunity for you. There's nothing extra to submit for these matches: if your team takes the field, you're in the game. Optional side predictions (exact scores, first goalscorer windows, clean-sheet calls) are available on each fixture page for players who want to chase bonus tokens, but the core loop never requires them.
When the final whistle blows, results settle automatically. A win for your team pays the full match reward for that round. A draw pays a smaller but real reward - the notification you may have already seen, "Your team won: 1 draw", is exactly this mechanic firing. Draws only occur in the group stage (knockout matches always produce a winner via extra time or penalties), so the draw reward is effectively a group-stage safety net that keeps cautious, well-organised teams earning for their backers. Losses pay nothing, but they never subtract from your balance: your token total only ever goes up.
Tokens land in your Kimi account within minutes of a result being made official. They sit alongside your normal allowance and are spent first, so nothing you earn ever displaces something you've paid for. Rewards stack across the tournament - match rewards, streak bonuses, side-prediction bonuses, and the Champion Bonus all accumulate toward your personal cap of 1 billion tokens. Hit the cap and you've maxed the event; anything beyond it stays in the community pool for other players.
The scoreboard
The reward table is designed around one principle: the deeper into the tournament your team survives, the more each result is worth. A group-stage draw is a modest, steady earner. A semi-final win is a serious payday. And correctly naming the champion from day one is the single biggest prize in the game.
| Stage | Your team wins | Your team draws | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Group stage (3 matches) | 10,000,000 | 3,000,000 | Three guaranteed scoring chances for every player. |
| Round of 16 | 25,000,000 | - | Champion pick locks at kick-off of this round. |
| Quarter-final | 50,000,000 | - | Streak bonus eligibility begins here. |
| Semi-final | 100,000,000 | - | Doubled if your champion pick has never changed. |
| Final - your team wins it all | 300,000,000 | - | The Champion Bonus, the headline prize of the Cup. |
Loyalty multiplier. If the champion you picked on day one is the champion you finish with - no switches, no hedges - every knockout reward your team earns is increased by 25%. Loyalty is the cheapest edge in the game, and the system rewards it deliberately.
Streak bonus. Three consecutive winning results by your team triggers a one-off 15,000,000-token streak bonus, and the counter keeps running: six straight wins pays a second, larger bonus of 40,000,000. A team that storms the tournament unbeaten effectively pays its backers twice over.
Side predictions. Each fixture page offers optional extra calls - the exact final score, the half in which the first goal falls, whether either side keeps a clean sheet. Each correct side prediction pays between 1,000,000 and 8,000,000 tokens depending on difficulty. These are strictly optional and strictly additive: a wrong side prediction costs you nothing.
Early-bird reward. Players who lock a champion before the opening match of the tournament receive an immediate 5,000,000-token welcome drop, credited the moment the first whistle blows. It's the game's way of thanking players who commit before the form table gives anything away.
Fixture list
The Token Cup runs the full length of the summer tournament - roughly one month of football, five distinct phases, and at minimum three scoring opportunities for every single player regardless of how far their team progresses. Here is the shape of the month ahead.
Open now until the opening ceremony. Join, browse the 32 teams, study the groups, and lock your champion. Early birds collect their 5M-token welcome drop at kick-off.
Every team plays three matches. Wins pay 10M, draws pay 3M. This is the only phase where the draw reward exists, and where champion switches are still free and unlimited.
Sixteen survivors, single elimination. Your champion pick locks permanently at the first kick-off of this round. Wins pay 25M; there are no draws from here on.
The rewards steepen sharply: 50M for a quarter-final win, 100M for a semi-final win, with the 25% loyalty multiplier live for players who never switched.
One match, one champion, one 300M-token question: did you call it? Champion Bonus payouts settle within the hour, and the event leaderboard is frozen for posterity.
All pending side-prediction and streak bonuses reconcile, final balances are confirmed against the 1B cap, and every participant receives a full personal results report.
A note on time zones: all locks are tied to the official kick-off time of each match, not to a fixed daily deadline. The app shows every deadline in your local time and sends a reminder notification one hour before any pick you control is about to lock. If you've already seen the campaign card - the green pitch, the dashed passing arrows, the "Join Now" button - tapping it at any point during the registration window or the group stage gets you into the game with scoring chances still ahead of you.
Tactics board
You can play the Token Cup in thirty seconds - pick the favourite, close the app, collect whatever comes. But the reward structure has real texture, and players who think about it earn meaningfully more. Here is the tactics board, from safe possession football to high-press risk-taking.
The most common strategy is also a perfectly sound one: pick the bookmakers' favourite and ride it. Favourites win group matches at a high rate, which means reliable 10M payouts early, and they reach knockout rounds more often than anyone else, which is where the big numbers live. The trade-off is the Champion Bonus is shared psychology-wise with the largest crowd of players - but because rewards in the Token Cup are fixed per result rather than split pari-mutuel style, backing the favourite carries no payout penalty at all. If the favourite wins it all, every one of its backers collects the same 300M. The only real cost of the popular pick is bragging rights.
Some players treat the free switching window as a scouting period. They open the tournament backing an underrated side with a soft group - a team likely to bank three group results even if it's not a genuine contender - then watch the first two match days closely. If a true dark horse emerges playing devastating football, they switch before the round of 16 lock and chase the deep-run rewards with fresh conviction. The cost of this approach is the 25% loyalty multiplier, which only ever pays players who never switch. The maths is straightforward: switching is worth it only if you believe your new pick is substantially more likely to make the semi-finals than your old one. A marginal upgrade isn't worth surrendering the multiplier; a clear one is.
A quieter strategy, and the one behind many a "Your team won: 1 draw" notification: pick a disciplined, defensively organised team from a tight group where low-scoring stalemates are likely. Three group draws pay 9M - less than a single win, certainly, but draws are far easier to come by for well-drilled mid-tier sides, and the strategy pairs beautifully with side predictions on clean sheets and low-scoring scorelines, which such teams produce constantly. Draw farmers rarely top the leaderboard, but they almost never finish empty-handed, and in a game where losses cost nothing, a guaranteed floor has real value.
Side predictions are where match knowledge converts directly into tokens. The exact-score market pays the most because it's the hardest; the first-goal-half market pays less but hits far more often. Experienced players concentrate side predictions on the matches they know best - typically their own team's fixtures, which they'd be watching anyway - and skip the rest. Because incorrect side calls cost nothing, the only resource you're spending is attention. Spend it where your knowledge is genuinely above average, and the bonus tokens compound quietly over a month of football.
The 1-billion-token ceiling sounds distant, but a player who backs the eventual champion from day one, sweeps the streak bonuses, and hits side predictions at a decent rate can genuinely approach it. The app shows a cap progress bar once you cross 500M. Past that point, prioritise the predictions you're most confident in - once you're capped, further correct calls earn applause but no tokens. It is, in every sense, a champion's problem to have.
The referee's card
A prediction game with trillions of tokens on the table only stays fun if it stays fair. These are the laws of the game, enforced automatically and uniformly for every player.
Each player participates with exactly one Kimi account. Multi-accounting - creating or operating additional accounts to multiply rewards - is the single fastest way to be removed from the event, and detection runs continuously rather than at settlement. Removed accounts forfeit all event tokens, earned and pending. The individual cap of 1 billion tokens exists precisely so that one fair entry is genuinely enough; nobody needs a second.
Champion picks lock permanently at the first kick-off of the round of 16, and every side prediction locks at the kick-off of its own match. No exceptions are made for traffic spikes, time-zone confusion, or near misses - the one-hour reminder notification exists so that no lock should ever take a player by surprise. Predictions submitted even one second after kick-off simply don't register, which protects every player who got theirs in on time.
All settlements follow the tournament's official, post-match confirmed results, including outcomes decided by extra time, penalty shoot-outs, VAR interventions, or - rarely - post-match rulings by the competition's governing body. If a result is officially amended after settlement, token adjustments are applied within 48 hours. Abandoned or replayed matches settle on the final official outcome of the replay.
Kimi tokens earned in the Token Cup are usage credits for Kimi services. They are not money, they cannot be sold, transferred between accounts, or withdrawn, and they carry the standard validity period for promotional tokens, displayed in your account at the moment of credit. Event tokens are consumed before paid allowances, so they never crowd out anything you've purchased.
Automated mass-entry tools, exploitation of settlement bugs, and attempts to manipulate the community pick-rate displays are all grounds for disqualification. If you find a bug, report it - the event team has historically paid goodwill token bonuses for responsibly reported issues, which is both better karma and better expected value than exploiting one.
From the stands
Completely. There is no entry fee, no deposit, no purchase requirement, and no premium tier that earns at a better rate. Every player faces the same reward table and the same 1-billion-token cap. The event is a celebration of the tournament and a thank-you to the Kimi community, not a paid product.
It's a settlement notification confirming a payout. Your chosen team played a group-stage match that ended level, and the draw reward - 3,000,000 tokens - was credited to your account. The phrasing reads as a small victory because, in token terms, it is one: in this game a draw earns, a loss merely doesn't. You'll see a similar notification with larger numbers when your team wins outright.
Yes, freely and as many times as you like - until the first kick-off of the round of 16, at which point your current pick locks for the remainder of the tournament. Bear in mind that any switch, even during the free window, permanently forfeits the 25% loyalty multiplier on knockout rewards. Switch when your conviction genuinely changes, not on a single bad half of football.
Your scoring from match results ends, but your tournament doesn't have to. You keep every token you've earned, your side predictions on any remaining fixture in the tournament stay available, and the app will offer you a non-scoring "second wind" pick so you still have a rooting interest in the final rounds. Many players bank 30M+ from a team that exits in the round of 16 - a respectable haul for a free game.
The trillion-token pool is shared across the entire community for the whole event. The per-player cap exists so the pool stretches across millions of participants rather than concentrating in a handful of accounts, and so a player joining in week two still has access to the same meaningful ceiling as a day-one early bird. One billion tokens is, for almost any individual, several months of very heavy Kimi usage - the cap is generous by design.
Match rewards settle automatically within minutes of the official result and appear in your Kimi account balance, with a line-item history in the Token Cup tab. Streak bonuses credit immediately when the qualifying result settles. The Champion Bonus and any final reconciliations land during settlement week after the final. If a result is under official review, the payout shows as "pending" until the governing body confirms it.
Yes. In knockout rounds, the team that progresses is the winner for settlement purposes, whether the match is decided in 90 minutes, extra time, or a shoot-out. This is also why the draw reward exists only in the group stage: from the round of 16 onward, every match produces a winner by definition.
Absolutely - and it's a great way to start. Creating a free Kimi account takes a minute, joining the Cup takes one more, and any tokens you earn give you a substantial budget to explore everything Kimi does: long conversations, document analysis, coding help, research. Plenty of players will discover the assistant through the football and stay for the work it does the other eleven months of the year.
Everything you'd normally spend Kimi tokens on. Tokens meter your usage of Kimi's models - every question, every long document you upload, every coding session draws from your balance. A big Token Cup haul translates directly into headroom: longer conversations, bigger files, more ambitious projects, no meter anxiety. Event tokens are spent before paid allowances, so they always deliver their full value.
No. Gambling requires staking something of value on an uncertain outcome. The Token Cup stakes nothing: entry is free, wrong predictions cost nothing, and balances only ever increase. It's a free promotional prediction game, closer to a newspaper's bracket challenge than to a sportsbook, and it's intended to be enjoyed exactly that way.
Small print, plainly
The full terms live in the app, but the points that matter most are short enough to state plainly. The Kimi Token Cup is a limited-time promotional event operated alongside the summer tournament; dates, including the registration deadline and settlement week, are shown in the app and may adjust if official fixtures move. Participation requires a Kimi account in good standing and acceptance of the event rules at join time.
Rewards are denominated exclusively in Kimi promotional tokens, capped at 1,000,000,000 per account for the event, credited automatically, non-transferable, non-refundable, and valid for the period stated at credit. The operator may correct erroneous settlements, may disqualify accounts that breach the fair-play rules, and may amend the event rules for integrity reasons with notice in the app. Where local regulations restrict promotional games, eligibility follows local law. Nothing on this page constitutes financial advice, an investment product, or a representation that tokens hold monetary value - they are usage credits, full stop.
One last, important line from the campaign card itself: you can always tap Later. The banner will wait, the registration window is generous, and the game is just as free tomorrow. But the early-bird drop only pays players who are in before the opening whistle - and champions, as every football fan knows, tend to be the ones who turn up early.