How to Play
Last Person Standing. One team a week. One life.
Know the rules? Go straight to the game →The game
- 01Pick one Premier League team to win. Every gameweek, you back a single side.
- 02They win, you're through. A draw knocks you out, same as a defeat. There's no half measure.
- 03You can't pick the same team twice. Use Liverpool in week one and they're gone for the rest of the run. When all twenty have been used, everyone starts fresh.
- 04Picks lock at the first kick-off of the gameweek — usually the Friday night game. Miss it and you're given the next available team alphabetically, so you stay in but you don't get to choose.
- 05Last one standing takes the pot. 80% to the winner, 20% to club funds.
Miss the deadline and the game picks for you
You won't be knocked out for forgetting, but you'll be handed whichever team comes first alphabetically that you haven't already used — which might be anyone. You'll get a reminder email the day before. Put your own pick in and take the choice out of the computer's hands.
Entering
Go to the game, tap Register, and put in your name, your email address and a 4-digit PIN of your choosing. From then on you sign in with that email and PIN.
Lost the PIN? Tap Forgotten your PIN? on the sign-in screen and it'll be emailed to you.
Entering more than once, or sharing an address with someone? Use the same email and give each entry a different name — you'll be asked which entry is yours when you sign in.
Entry fee
£10 — pay Alan Roberts.
You're not in until you've paid. Cash or a transfer, same as anything else.
Where the money goes
80% of the pot goes to the winner. The remaining 20% goes into club funds — pitch fees, kit, referees, and the rest of what keeps Sefton Veterans on the park.
The pot grows with every rollover, and so does the prize.
Rollovers and buying in
If everyone still standing goes out in the same week, nobody is eliminated — the round is void and it becomes a rollover. Everyone still in puts another £10 in to carry on, and the pot grows.
A rollover is also the moment to buy in. Anyone who's been knocked out can come back, and anyone who missed the start can join.
The rule is simply that everyone in the pot has the same money in it. If you've been playing all along, you've already paid for the earlier rounds, so you just add your £10 like everyone else. If you're coming in at the third round, you pay £10 three times over to catch up with the players who've been paying since the start. Nobody buys into a big pot on the cheap, and nobody who's stuck with it pays twice for the same round.
Each week
- Sign in, look at the fixtures, tap the team you fancy. That's it.
- Teams you've already used are crossed out, so you can't pick them by mistake.
- You can change your mind as often as you like until the deadline.
- The clock at the top counts down to the lock. It turns amber in the last two hours.
- Nobody can see anyone else's pick until the deadline passes. After that, the board shows the lot.
The odd situations
- A match in the round gets postponed. The whole round is void. Nobody goes out, and everyone gets their team handed back.
- Everyone still in goes out in the same week. It's a rollover — nobody goes out, everyone gets their pick back, and we carry on.
- Something's gone wrong with your entry. Have a word with Ged.
A word of advice
The temptation is to take the biggest favourite every week. The trouble is everyone else does too, and you burn the good teams early. Plenty of people go out in November with nothing left but Burnley away at Anfield.
Ready?
Picks lock at the first kick-off of the gameweek.