How it works

• We predict the World Cup 2026 knockout stage (32 matches).
• For each match you predict the 90-minute score and the team that advances.
• You also pick one champion — the team you think wins the whole tournament.

• You can enter or change a prediction any time up to 5 minutes before kickoff.
• Once that 5-minute mark passes, the match locks — your prediction is read-only and taken as is.
• No prediction = no points. If you don't enter a prediction before the lock, you score 0 for that match.
• Until a match kicks off you only see your own picks; everyone's picks are revealed after kickoff.

The exact-score and advancing-team points stack. Points are higher from the semi-finals onward:

• Exact score = the result at the end of 90 minutes (regulation), not counting extra time. A knockout match can be a draw at 90 mins (e.g. 1–1).
• Right winner = the team that actually advances — including via extra time or penalties.

• Predict the overall tournament winner correctly → +20 points, awarded once after the Final.
• Your champion pick locks at the first Round-of-32 kickoff and can't change after that.

• The leaderboard updates automatically after every match is settled.
• The top 3 are shown larger; everyone else in a compact list.
• Ties are broken by: most points → most exact-score hits → who joined earliest.

• You compete within your group — each group has its own separate leaderboard, so you're only ranked against your own people.
• Join a group with its invite code, or create your own and share the code (tap Invite to copy it).
• You can be in more than one group. Your predictions are the same everywhere — they just count on each group's leaderboard. Switch between your groups' leaderboards with the tabs at the top of the Leaderboard.
• You can leave a group any time from the Groups page; your points stay in your other groups.

• Whoever creates a group is its owner (shown with an “owner” badge in the member list).
• The owner can remove members from the group (a Remove button next to each member on the Groups page). Other members can't remove anyone.
• Anyone with the invite code can join — there's no approval step.
• Separately, a game admin looks after the tournament itself (pulling in results) for everyone — that's not a per-group role.