How it works
1 · Match picks
For each match pick a winner or a draw. A correct pick scores the round's weight. Picks lock server-side at each round's deadline — a match that has started cannot be picked or changed.
2 · Group finishing order
For each group, also predict the final 1–2–3–4 order. This is scored separately and exists because a points table can't separate teams that draw — when teams finish level on points, canoe polo splits them on goal difference and then fairplay, which no pick can express. So you predict the classification directly.
You get 1 point per team placed in the correct position, multiplied by the group's round weight, plus a 3× weight bonus for a perfect group.
MEN — points per correct match pick
| Round | Stage | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Groups A–F | 1 |
| 2 | Groups O/P/R/S | 2 |
| 3 | Upper & lower semis | 4 |
| 4 | Placement & finals | 8 |
WOMEN — points per correct match pick
| Round | Stage | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Groups A–C | 1 |
| 2 | Groups O/P | 2 |
| 3 | Groups R/S | 2 |
| 4 | Upper & lower semis | 4 |
| 5 | Placement & finals | 8 |
3 · Seats, and picks that fill themselves in
Later rounds are published before their teams are known — a match is listed as
A1 v F2 ("pool-A winner v pool-F runner-up") or
Winner upSF1 (335). You can pick those straight away: your pick is
stored against the seat, so when the seat turns into a real team
your pick follows it automatically.
We also fill those in for you, using your own earlier picks — your bracket, propagated: the side your picks say is stronger wins the default. Every such pick is marked auto and you can change any of them until the round's deadline. When a seat resolves to a real team, your pick follows it automatically. Defaults are derived from picks that were already locked, so nobody gets an information edge from them.
This matters most for the final day: the placement matches kick off barely an hour after the semis that decide who plays in them, so picking them "by team" was never possible. Picking the seat makes the whole finals round playable.
Leaderboards
You choose the division(s) you're playing when you join — Senior Men's, Senior Women's, or both. Each division has its own board, and the Combined board is open only to players who entered both, so nobody wins on volume alone.
In the women's draw, rounds 2 and 3 are both secondary group stages, so they carry the same weight before the semis and the finals.