How to Play

Event Tiers

Three levels of competition

• No discipline restrictions: pick any skater (Men, Women, Pairs, Ice Dance)
• Picks lock when the first discipline's Short Program starts
• Fresh picks each event: no season-long roster
• Fill all slots: a team with an empty slot scores 0 for the whole event, and starts scoring as soon as you fill it. A slot left open by a withdrawal does not count against you.

Scoring

How points are earned

Only the final placement counts. There are two placement tables, chosen by the size of the field. Your team's score is the sum of your skaters' points.

Grand Prix & Challenger: top 10 score

Fields are small (often 6 to 12 per discipline), so the curve is steep. A win is worth 20, a podium clearly beats a mid-pack finish, and 11th or lower scores nothing. Paying top dollar for a star who lands 6th hurts.

Championships & Worlds: top 20 score

Deep fields of 20 to 30+ per discipline. The podium premium is smaller, mid-field placements earn real points, and the event multiplier scales everything up.

Final points = placement points × event multiplier (1× Grand Prix and Challenger, 1.5× Europeans, 4CC and the Grand Prix Final, 2× Worlds). A win at Worlds is 36, a win at the Grand Prix Final is 30.

Short Program Points

On events that use them, the top 10 of each short program score as soon as that segment is published, so the standings move before the free skates. Short program points are added to placement points and they are banked: your skater keeps them even if they withdraw before the free skate.

Short program points use the same event multiplier as placement points, and the two parts are rounded separately. They are switched on per event, from the 2026-27 Grand Prix season onward. When an event has them, its results page shows each short program as it lands.

Captain

Name one of your picks captain before picks lock. Tap the star on a pick to move it. One captain per event, and leaving the star unset is fine: you simply score no captain points.

• Wins their discipline: +5
• 2nd or 3rd: no change
• Off the podium, withdraws, or gets swapped out: -3

The captain result is multiplied like every other point, so at 1.5× a win is +8 and a miss is -5. It only lands once your captain's discipline has its final results published: no penalty sits on your score for a discipline that has not skated yet.

In-event

Your one swap

Rosters are locked, with one exception. Once picks lock you get one swap per event: drop any skater whose free skate has not started and bring in anyone whose free skate has not started either, in any discipline.

• The deadline is per skater: you can swap someone out, or in, until their free skate starts. Anyone whose final is published is off the table.
• Swap-ins cost 120% of their price, and the new total still has to fit your budget.
• One short program per slot. Once the short program of the skater you drop has started, their short program points stay banked and the skater you bring in scores the free skate only, even if their own short program is still to come. If it has not started yet, the skater you drop scores nothing and the new skater scores both segments.
• No hindsight: once a short program has started, a skater from it always comes in for final placement points only, even before the scores are published. The same applies to replacements for withdrawn skaters.
• Swapping out your captain counts as a captain miss (-3). The skater you bring in does not inherit the star.

Replacing a withdrawn skater is separate and still free. It does not use your swap.

Updates

Results as they land

You do not have to watch the scoreboard. Every time a discipline is published, whether that is a short program or a final, everyone holding a live pick in it gets a notification with their skaters' placements and points, their position in the event, and how far they moved since the last update.

• In the app: the bell on the nav bar. These always arrive.
• By email: the same update, plus the captain result on a final and your swap deadline while a swap window is open.
• Opting out: turn off “Results emails during events” in Settings, or use the “Stop results emails” link in any results email. Picks-lock reminders are a separate setting, so switching one off leaves the other running.

Budget

Skater pricing

Each skater has a price based on their ISU World Standings rank. Pairs and ice dance couples are priced as one unit. Starting prices run from $2M to $15M, and the very best can climb to $18M once results move the market.

After each event, prices shift based on performance: exceeded expectations → +$1–3M, met expectations → no change, underperformed → -$1–3M.

Competition

Leaderboards