Each round you pick two countries and two players. You earn bonus points whenever your picked teams or players score goals — more for goals in extra time than regulation, and 1 point per penalty in a shootout. See the Rules page for the full breakdown.

No — your picks carry over from the previous round automatically. You only need to act if you want to change them. Each change (per country or player) costs one transfer, and you have a total of 10 transfers for the whole competition.

A transfer is used whenever you change a country or player pick from one round to the next. You have 10 transfers in total across the entire competition, so use them wisely — running out early means you could be stuck with an eliminated team or player.

The deadline is the kickoff time of the first match in the round. After that, all predictions and picks for that round are locked. The deadline is shown on the Rounds page for each round.

No — once the deadline passes, predictions and picks are locked. Whatever you had submitted before the deadline will count; if you submitted nothing, you earn zero for that round.

It depends on your pool. Pool organisers can choose one of two modes for handling missed deadlines: carry-over mode (the default) or smart autofill mode (opt-in).

In carry-over mode, your country and player picks from the previous round are automatically carried forward to this round, even if the country or player has since been eliminated from the tournament. Your match predictions are left blank, so you don't score any match points for the round.

In smart autofill mode, your country and player picks are carried forward where the country or player is still in the tournament. If a pick has been eliminated, the system replaces it with the highest-scoring still-competing country (and then player, after countries) that you haven't already picked for this round — but only if you have transfers remaining in your budget. Replacements consume transfers just like any other pick change. If you have no transfers left, the eliminated pick is kept (and won't score). Match predictions are filled in using your most recent prior predicted goal count for each country playing — defaulting to 0 goals if you've never predicted that country before.

In both modes:

• Autofill doesn't apply to Round A or to anyone with no prior round of picks — there's nothing to carry forward in either case.
• If autofill runs for you, you'll receive an email summary explaining what was filled in.
• Autofilled picks are marked with a small "auto" badge so you can tell them apart from picks you made yourself.

If two or more candidates have the same cumulative goals scored so far in the tournament, the system picks one at random. So the autofill won't always make the same replacement for everyone in the same situation.

Ask your pool organiser — it's a per-pool setting they can toggle. By default, new pools use carry-over mode.

Please don't. Autofill is a safety net for the occasional missed deadline, not a substitute for actually picking. In carry-over mode you forfeit all match-prediction scoring for the round. In smart autofill mode it may consume transfer budget on replacements you didn't choose. Either way, your scoring will almost certainly be worse than if you'd submitted on time. The reminder emails (24 hours and 2 hours before deadline) are designed to keep that from happening — pay attention to them.

• 2 points for getting the exact score correct (based on the 90-minute result only).
• 1 point for getting the right outcome (win/draw) but the wrong score.
• 0 points for a wrong outcome.

These points are then multiplied by the round's multiplier (×1 in the group stage, up to ×16 in the Final).

No — always predict the score after regulation 90 minutes only, even in knockout rounds. A draw prediction is completely valid in a knockout round, since the match may well be level at 90 minutes.

In knockout rounds, match-ups aren't confirmed until the previous round finishes. If you carried a pick forward from a prior round and that team hasn't qualified yet, your pick is still held — it will score points if the team qualifies and plays. You can replace it with a confirmed team at any time before the deadline.

On the round picks page, each player pick has a Filter by country dropdown above it. Select a country there to narrow the player list to that country's squad. You can also type directly into the player dropdown to search by name.

Your country and player picks for the 3rd/4th place match (Round H) automatically apply to the Final (Round I) as well. You set them once on the Round H page before the single shared deadline. The two matches have very different point multipliers, so your picks matter for both.

Yes — once a round's deadline has passed, you can view other participants' picks and predictions. Go to Rounds, open a locked round, and use the user selector at the top of the page.

Go to My Scores. You'll see a round-by-round breakdown of your match prediction points, country pick points, and player pick points, plus your running total.

Go to Leaderboard. You can view the overall standings or filter by a specific round using the round tabs at the top.

Yes. Go to My Scores and click the Detail button next to a specific round. On that round's score page you'll see a user selector that lets you switch to any other participant's detailed breakdown — match prediction points, country pick points, and player pick points.

Yes. On the Rounds page, open a round and click on any individual match. You'll see a live scenario tool where you can enter hypothetical scores — including extra time and penalties — and the leaderboard will update in real time to show how those scores would change everyone's standings.

• Results — match scores round by round, including 90-minute results and any extra time or penalties.
• Standings — group tables showing each team's record, points, and goal difference across the group stage.
• Bracket — the full knockout draw from the Round of 32 to the Final, updated as results come in.