So you think you can talk? Put your reputation where your mouth is — sixty seconds on the mic against a live AI, a judge that scores like it means it, and one worldwide leaderboard to settle your rank. Top the board and you don't just win — you join the team.
One free, timed round — 60 to 150 seconds — against a live AI playing a room built to rattle you: a panel of investor sharks you have to pitch, an impatient buyer you have to sell, a hostile press corps mid-crisis, or someone hopelessly out of your league whose number you’re trying to get. The scenarios are absurd on purpose and played for laughs — but the AI is the real deal: it listens, interrupts, reacts to exactly what you say, and never breaks character. When the clock stops, an independent AI judge scores your run (overall score, six skill categories, filler-word count, and where you rank against everyone on Earth) and hands you the one line you should have said. It’s the same live adversarial engine our serious rooms run on — a free way to feel it before you bring Third Degree a deposition, an interview, or a pitch that actually matters.
The event rotates through the launch lineup. Every challenge is procedurally varied — the object, the product, the crisis change; the pressure doesn't.
Pitch the product you're assigned to Marcus (the numbers shark), Diane (the market skeptic), and Ray (the showman who's heard four hundred better pitches). They interrupt. They do your math out loud. Yes, one of the products is a smart water heater.
A brick. A single sock. An expired coupon. A mysterious key that opens nothing you know of. Sell it to a buyer with money, no patience, and zero need — and be ready for "how much, and why should I say yes right now?"
You're the press secretary. Maybe the blenders are catching fire; maybe the water supply turned pink. The room interrupts, quotes you back to yourself, and always ends with the yes-or-no kill question.
The hunt for the world's smoothest talker. Choose your scene partner — Victor or Victoria: a concert pianist, museum-retrospective artist, freeride ski champion, Harvard D1 tennis — and completely unimpressed by lines they've heard twice today. Two and a half minutes to earn the phone number. Clichés get shot down mid-sentence; actual charm can close.
Everyone on Earth gets the same challenge and the same variant. No cherry-picking, no rehearsing someone else's prompt.
Real voice, real interruptions, real reactions. The AI plays its part at full strength — it will laugh at a good line and pounce on a bad one.
An independent AI judge grades the transcript: overall score, six skill subscores, filler-word count, an estimated human percentile — and the one line you should have said.
Your best score of the round goes on the worldwide leaderboard. Streaks build multipliers. Next round, a new room.
OVERALL: 84 — TOP 9%
creativity 91 · humor 88 · persuasion 79
salesmanship 82 · storytelling 85 · confidence 76
JUDGE: "Calling it 'pre-ruined real estate' was inspired. You never named a price — the buyer noticed."
— streak day 6 · +142 XP —
The best voice of the event gets more than a rank. We're hiring our loudest believer straight off the leaderboard — a paid seat on the Hot Seat team, and a real hand in what we build next.
Not swag, not a coupon. A paid brand-ambassador role: you're the face and the voice of the challenge that made you.
Sit in on where Third Degree goes next — new rooms, new challenges, the feel of the product. Your take ships.
No raffle, no follower count. The same challenge, the same judge, the same board as everyone — the top of it gets the call.
Every attempt ends with a share-ready score card — challenge, score, percentile, streak — made for the group chat and the feed. Post your 94. Post your 12. Both travel.
Your friend's 71 on today's brick means something because you scored 68 on the same brick.
90+ is rare and earned. The judge quotes your actual words back in its verdict — praise and damage alike.
Streaks multiply your XP up to 2×. Miss a round, lose the fire. Simple, ruthless, effective.