Joining a pool and making your picks
Everything a player needs, start to finish. If your commissioner sent you here, start at step one. If you have already joined and just need to get back in, skip to making your picks.
Joining
Open the link your commissioner sent you
It looks like sundaysurvivor.com/join/… and works for anyone who has it. There is no code to enter.
Create your account
Name, email and a password. If you have played in a pool here before, use the same email and choose Log In instead, and this pool is added to the account you already have.
Name your entry
Your entry is the thing that survives or goes out, and the name is what everyone else sees on the standings. Some pools let one person hold several entries, each picking separately.
Coming back to make a pick
Go to sundaysurvivor.com and log in
Same email and password you signed up with. Forgotten it, choose Log In and then "Forgot password" to have a reset link emailed to you.
Open your pool
You land on My Survivor Pools. Tap your pool to open it.
Find your entry, then tap the week
Your entries are listed under My Entries, with a column for every week of the season. Tap the + in the current week's column on your entry's row.
Choose a team
You will see every game that week. Tap the team you think will win and it saves straight away, so there is no separate submit button.
You can change your mind as often as you like until the pick locks. After that the choice is final.
Do this once and skip step one every week
Sunday Survivor can sit on your phone's home screen with its own icon and open full screen. Log in once inside it and it stays logged in after that, so there is no address to type and no logging in every week. There is no app store download yet.
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You cannot pick the same team twice
In most pools, once you have used a team it is gone for the rest of the season. The pick screen greys out the ones you have already spent, so there is nothing to keep track of yourself.
You can change a pick until the deadline
Nothing is final until picks lock. Go back to the same screen, tap a different team, and it replaces the one you had. After the deadline it is set.
Renaming an entry
Your entries are listed on your pool's page with your name on them. To change one, look for the small pencil next to the name and tap it. On a computer the pencil only appears when you move your mouse over that row, so it is easy to miss.
Miss the deadline and you may be out
A missed pick counts as a loss in most pools. Your commissioner sets when picks lock, and the exact time is shown on your pool's page, so check it rather than assuming Sunday at 1pm.
Rules vary by pool
Deadlines, second chances and whether a team can be reused are all set by whoever runs your pool. Your pool's own rules are on its page under Pool Rules.