diff --git a/src/app/api/guess/route.js b/src/app/api/guess/route.js
index f104fe3..65a80db 100644
--- a/src/app/api/guess/route.js
+++ b/src/app/api/guess/route.js
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ export async function POST(request) {
     // guessing over 331,000 km2, and the district-scale ladder would zero
     // almost every honest guess. The picked region is not a secret, so this
     // reveals nothing.
-    const pickedCode = session.pickedRegion ?? session.cityCode ?? null;
+    const pickedCode = session.pickedRegion ?? null;
     const scoreBands = pickedCode && isRegion(pickedCode)
       ? bandsForBbox(getRegion(pickedCode).bbox)
       : SCORE_BANDS;
@@ -76,11 +76,7 @@ export async function POST(request) {
     // The region the panorama was actually in, resolved server-side when the
     // round was created. Never read from the request: a client that could name
     // its own region could farm any district's board.
-    //
-    // The `?? cityCode` fallback carries sessions created before this deploy.
-    // They have no district, so they credit province and country only. Sessions
-    // live 30 minutes, so this can be dropped a release from now.
-    const scoringRegion = session.regionCode ?? session.cityCode;
+    const scoringRegion = session.regionCode;
 
     // Claim the session before writing, and score only if this request is the
     // one that removed it. DEL is atomic, so exactly one of N concurrent
diff --git a/src/app/api/new-game/route.js b/src/app/api/new-game/route.js
index 11b059f..aa4c42d 100644
--- a/src/app/api/new-game/route.js
+++ b/src/app/api/new-game/route.js
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ export async function POST(request) {
         // Only what the player picked. Neither exactLocation nor regionCode is
         // exposed: the caller owns this session id, so either one would hand
         // them the answer to their own round.
-        pickedRegion: session.pickedRegion ?? session.cityCode ?? null,
+        pickedRegion: session.pickedRegion ?? null,
         createdAt: session.createdAt
       }
     });
diff --git a/tests/guess-route.test.js b/tests/guess-route.test.js
index 77af332..97aae0a 100644
--- a/tests/guess-route.test.js
+++ b/tests/guess-route.test.js
@@ -103,18 +103,6 @@ describe('POST /api/guess', () => {
     expect((await getLeaderboard('TPHCM-Q7'))[0].score).toBe(5);
   });
 
-  it('scores a session created before the tree at province level', async () => {
-    // Sessions live 30 minutes, so a deploy strands some in the old shape.
-    // They have no district and must still score rather than throw.
-    await seedSession('s5', { regionCode: undefined, cityCode: 'TPHCM' });
-    const body = await (
-      await guess({ username: 'mai', sessionId: 's5', guessLat: HCMC.lat, guessLng: HCMC.lng })
-    ).json();
-
-    expect(body.success).toBe(true);
-    expect(body.gameResult.levels.map((l) => l.code)).toEqual(['TPHCM', 'VN']);
-  });
-
   it('lets exactly one of many concurrent submits score', async () => {
     // Read-then-delete is not a guard: ten requests all read a live session,
     // all delete it, and all write. DEL is atomic, so gating on its count is