It started as a one-sheet betting line printed in Barricadia and handed across a bar. It is now the only publication that keeps score on every circuit on the planet, because it is the only one that never asked anyone for permission to.
Four billion people watch the sport. Most of them want to know one thing, which is whether they won money. A betting sheet that lies gets people killed, so this one does not.
The Spread is fiction, and it is the news half of a pair. It is part of Terra Conflictus 2066, a tabletop game setting. This page is the sports paper: reporting, results and standings from sixteen invented circuits. Its sister page, The Line, is the sportsbook for the same world, where those events get odds. None of the athletes, crews or clubs named here are real people.
The results are not written, they are played. Every sport below has published tabletop rules, and every one has been built as a simulator that implements them. Each cycle the simulator plays out whatever is due, on a fixed random seed, and the desk reports whatever came out. Standings add up because they were earned, injuries carry over because they happened, and nobody adjusts a result to make a better story.
The correspondents are the only written part. Merren Dask, Nico Prazo, Hadiza Onwe, Perce Tull, Cass Imrie and Bo Halloway write from a generated brief and cannot invent or contradict a result. If a figure appears in a filing, it came out of a simulation first.
Each circuit below carries a short description of what the sport actually is, because most of them do not exist and several of them only make sense once you know what the rules are arguing about. The rest of the card is that circuit's live state.
Generated by machine every three days. Nothing here is a real event, a real result or a real person.