Rules

Everything you need to know about how the game works.

Registration

Sign up with your first name, email, and a display name. Your display name is permanent and cannot be changed. It must be 3–24 characters long and use only letters, numbers, spaces, underscores, and hyphens.

Prediction window

  • Opens 24 hours before kick-off.
  • Closes 90 minutes before kick-off.
  • You can edit your prediction freely while the pool is open.
  • Late submissions are rejected — by the server, not just the form.

Privacy

Before a pool closes, only you can see your prediction. Once the pool closes, every prediction for that match becomes public on the Today's Predictions page.

Scoring

  • 3 points — exact score (including exact draws).
  • 1 point — correct winning team, wrong score.
  • 0 points — wrong winner, OR inexact draw (predicting 1–1 when the actual score is 2–2 earns nothing), OR no prediction submitted.

Knockout matches & penalties

Score predictions use the result before a penalty shootout. If the official score after extra time is a draw, it counts as a draw for prediction scoring — even if a team wins on penalties.

Postponed or cancelled matches

If a kick-off time changes before the pool closes, the prediction window shifts with it. If a match is postponed or cancelled, existing predictions are preserved; the moderators decide whether the pool stays open or is reset.

Leaderboard tiebreakers

  1. Most total points
  2. Most exact-score predictions
  3. Most correct-winner predictions
  4. Earliest account creation

Fair play

One account per person. Predictions cannot be backdated. Result corrections trigger a safe re-scoring of affected predictions. Abusive display names will be banned.