Year of the ZABAL - Day 231: The Final Six
ZABAL Gamez Season 1 comes down to 6 names in 3 tracks. Battles on WaveWarZ. Finals run the last week of August.
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Three months of free workshops. 31 projects. 15 people who entered. It comes down to six.
ZABAL Gamez Season 1 has its finalists. The finals are head-to-head battles on WaveWarZ, live-traded music battles. Anyone can watch. The market itself helps crown the champions.
This is what the season built. Here are the six carrying it to the finish.
The six
Artist track: n3m vs dee-13
n3m (LadyrynNemesis) arrives with N3M3SIS - THE CALL OUT, and did not stop at one lane: 3 published entries this season across all 3 tracks, including SURFBOARD on the builder board and a full ZABAL Gamez song and video.
dee-13 brings Ledger, a manga-style series about five art school friends who turn a talent for forgery into an underground operation. One masterpiece at a time.
Builder track: jdwalka vs ghostmintops
jdwalka put 3 projects on the board: Chroma Poker, a Farcaster poker app with a live HUD and hand-history parsing, a crypto prediction orchestrator wired to 22+ exchanges, and a running Farcaster Space teaching predictive apps to the community.
ghostmintops (Brandon) was the most prolific name of the season: 7 entries, 6 already published, across every track. Proof Drop lets builders prove what they shipped. The WaveWarZ Gravity Board reimagines the battle dashboard. There are original ZAO songs in there too. If a track existed, Brandon entered it.
Creator track: uniquebeing404 vs presdency.eth
uniquebeing404 built ColorZAO, where you paint a grayscale canvas to reveal an independent artist's work underneath. Discovery through play instead of scrolling. It is live right now.
presdency.eth is building HOOD, an online market designed for both humans and AI agents to buy and sell.
No play-in. No wildcard. Shipping real work and staying active all season was the bar, and these six cleared it.
How champions get crowned
The market, plus a judges panel of the 3 track mentors, plus 1 more scoring factor that locks Thursday.
The whole roster
All 15 who entered, because every one of them is why this worked: n3m, dee-13, gesd1, branth, ghostmintops, jdwalka, kayonfire, uniquebeing404, breadcoop, mettodo, pascaline, presdency, pyrofirezerox, taydexfun, imanafrikah.
Catch up before the battles
Every session from the season is free. All 32 of them.
The projects are at zabalgamez.com/submissions and the roster at zabalgamez.com/leaderboard.
- BetterCallZaal on behalf of the ZABAL Team