How to play
Pools and leaderboards
The pool is the core SportGuru experience. Whilst everyone competes on the global leaderboard, it's in your pools that you'll find the most fun. After all, competing against 10 or 15 friends or colleagues has got to be more fun than competing against thousands of strangers.
Kinds of pools
You may play in up to 5 pools. We currently have public pools, private pools and megapools.
Public pools
Public pools are the simplest kind of pool. If you don't join a private pool or a megapool when you join the tournament, you will automatically be allocated to a public pool of around 20 other people. The public pools start at Pool 001 and fill up from there. Before the start of a tournament, you may move around public pools, finding one you'd like to be in, but a few days after the first game is played we shut off all migration among the public pools - find out more about public pool lockdown.
Private pools
Anyone can set up a free private pool, thereby becoming the pool's captain. Once you've set up your pool, you can invite people to play in it - the easiest way is to share the pool code for that pool (visible on the invitation page). There is currently no limit to the number of players who can take part in a private pool, but the experience will degrade substantially beyond a few tens of players. We recommend 20 or less as the ideal size. Private pools are a lot more fun than public pools as odds are you'll know all or some of the people in them.
Megapools
Megapools take the private pool concept a lot further, and are designed for brands that wish to run a branded experience inside SportGuru. This could be a competition for your employees or clients, or a means of engaging with a new audience as part of a promotion you're doing. Megapools can gracefully handle thousands of players and offer extra features not present in private pools. Please contact us on sales@sportguru.co.uk for pricing and a customised quote.
Managing your pools
Use the my pools page to manage your pools - you can create, join and resign from pools here. Try to get this all sorted out before the tournament kicks off, as it becomes more difficult once the first game has been played (for example, you'll not be eligible for any Bonus Points for the games played prior to your joining a pool).
