Rules
Everything you need to know before playing. Not finding your answer? Let us know and we'll help you out.
How to Play
Predict the score of each match and earn points based on how accurate you are. Predictions can be changed until the deadline, after which they are locked.
Prediction deadline
To count, your prediction must be submitted and received by our servers no later than 60 seconds before a match kicks off. The server timestamp of receipt is the authoritative time.
Example
A match kicks off at 23:00. The prediction window closes at 22:59. Any submission received after that will not count for that match.
Kickoff delays do not extend the prediction window. If a match is officially rescheduled before the original deadline passes, the deadline updates to match the new kickoff time.
Tournament Predictions
Before the tournament begins, you can make two additional predictions worth big points.
| Prediction | Points |
|---|---|
| Tournament Winner | 20 |
| Golden Boot Winner (Top Scorer) | 20 |
Tournament predictions close 60 seconds before the first competitive match kicks off. The exact deadline is shown on your prediction screen. After it passes, these predictions cannot be changed.
Shared Golden Boot
It's common for multiple players to finish joint-top on goals. If two or more players share the highest goal tally at the end of the tournament, any prediction for any of those players earns the full 20 points — regardless of how the tournament officially breaks the tie for its own award.
Match Prediction Scoring
All match predictions are based on the score at the end of 90 minutes plus extra time. Penalty shootouts do not affect match prediction scoring.
| What you got right | Points |
|---|---|
| Both team scores exactly right | 6 |
| Correct outcome, plus one team's score exactly right | 4 |
| Correct outcome only — neither team's score exactly right | 3 |
| Wrong outcome, but one team's score exactly right | 1 |
| Wrong outcome and neither score right | 0 |
Examples
Here are a few examples of how scoring works in practice.
| Prediction | Actual Result | Points | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2-1 | 2-1 | 6 | Exact score |
| 0-0 | 0-0 | 6 | Exact score (draws count too) |
| 3-0 | 3-1 | 4 | Winner + home goals correct |
| 3-1 | 2-1 | 4 | Winner + away goals correct |
| 2-1 | 1-0 | 3 | Winner correct |
| 1-1 | 2-2 | 3 | Draw correct |
| 1-2 | 1-0 | 1 | Home goals correct |
| 0-1 | 2-1 | 1 | Away goals correct |
| 3-1 | 0-0 | 0 | Wrong prediction |
Tie Breakers
If two or more players finish on the same number of points, rankings are decided in the following order. We move to the next step only if there's still a tie.
- Most exact score predictions (6-point results)
- Most correct outcome predictions — includes exact scores, 4-point, and 3-point results