General Rules: To be used for all challenges unless otherwise stated in the individual Challenge Rules.
(Rules amended in 2021 to eliminate weekly Tie Breakers & to add the 0-0 Rule)
Order of Picks: Using the snake method, and starting with the loser of the previous week’s challenge – person 1 picks a Saturday game and it’s winner. Next, person 2 picks a Saturday game and it’s winner, as well as a Sunday game and it’s winner. Next person 1 picks a Sunday game and it’s winner.
Tie Breaker: In the event that a challenge could end in a tie, a Tie Breaker will be added to the final week of the challenge. The Tie Breaker point goes to the person who most closely predicts a game’s total score, the total number of sixes in a cricket game, the total number of field goals in a football game or any event in a game that is a total of something happening in a game. It has to be verifiable on the leagues website.
Scoring: One point for an A or B GAME win. 1/2 point for a tie. No points for a loss. The winner of the tie breaker gets 1 point, the loser gets 0. If a scheduled game is POSTPONED or CANCELLED, it will be treated as a 0-0 score and the person who selected the game will receive .5 points.
Challenge Series Points. The winner of the challenge gets 1 win in the Challenge Series.
Overall Series Standings: The winner of the challenge gets 1 win in the Challenge Series.
PotLuck Challenge
(updated 1/1/21)
This is a multiweek challenge using any sport, the more obscure the better.
1 You can chose any sport league that has a website available to provide game information.
2. SCORING: General Rules apply
3. Challenge week runs from Friday through Monday
ThrowBack Challenge
This challenge begins on the weekend of 2/29/20 and runs for 4 weeks. All picks must be XFL games. This challenge ends the week before the IPL Cricket season starts.
Standard Order of Picks and Scoring (with the exception of the Tie Breaker.)
1. Tie breaker: Each person predicts the total number of points scored in all of the games for the week. The person who most closely predicts the total points scored gets 1 point, the other person gets 0.
2. The winner of the challenge gets 1 win in the Challenge Series.
Fill-In Challenge
This challenge begins on the weekend of 3/21/20 and runs for 3 weeks. All picks must be Rocket League, RLCS, Oceania games. This challenge ends the week before the IPL Cricket season starts.
Standard Order of Picks and Scoring (with the exception of the Games and the Tie Breaker.)
1. Games: There will be Game 1 and Game 2 (vs SAT and SUN), which may be any of the weekend’s games.
2.Tie breaker: Each person predicts the total number of points scored in all of the games for the week. The person who most closely predicts the total points scored gets 1 point, the other person gets 0.
3. The winner of the challenge gets 1 win in the Challenge Series
IWNVBL Bonus Challenge Rules
If you look on the SS website, there are a number of Women’s volleyball games on any given (extended) weekend.
1. We would each pick a winner for a Saturday game. We would also pick a winner for a Sunday game. The tie breaker would be a head to head game with the point going to person who picked the winner.
2. Using the snake method, and starting with the loser of the previous week’s potluck challenge – person 1 picks a Sat. game and it’s winner. Then person 2 does the same, and person 2 then picks a Sun. game and it’s winner. Then person 1 picks a Sun. game and it’s winner. Finally, person 1 would select the tie breaker, head to head game and person 2 would make his prediction on the winner of that game – person 1 would be rooting for the other team.
3. SCORING: General Rules apply
4. The winner of the challenge gets 1 win in the Challenge Series.
SuperBowl Bonus Challenge
This is a 1 week challenge for Super Bowl LIV on 2/2/20.
1. The loser of the previous week’s challenge gets the first pick for the winner, The other person gets the other team.
2. The person who picks the SB winner gets 1 point, the other person gets 0.
3. The winner of the challenge gets 1 win in the Challenge Series.
Sports Rotation Challenge (added in 2021)
This is a multiweek challenge using any sport, the more obscure the better.
Generic Rules apply with the following exceptions:
In Week 1, previous week’s loser gets to
pick the sport. After Week 1, we alternate picking the sport.
Parameters for picking the weekly sport:
1. At least three games per challenge week, week runs FRI through THU.
2. The chosen sport must have a website or be included on SofaScore or FlashScore score so that we can see the schedule/ results.
3. The sport must have a minimum of 10 games a week.
4. No sport can be picked more than once during the challenge