Score Qualification & Score Champions: Two Ladders, One Week
How both weekly leaderboards run together, how qualification and prizes work, and what’s different in Week 0.
If you only remember one thing: every normal competition week, you’re playing two tables with the same picks.
- Score Qualification — everyone, full rankings.
- Score Champions — only people who qualified that week; same competitive SP, elite-only rankings and prize money for the top five.
Rank is always by total ScorePoints (SP) for that ladder—getting predictions right drives most SP; optional USDC can add SP per product rules, but there is no separate “stake” leaderboard.
Live today: how it works
Same SP, two views
Pick matches whose kickoff falls in the competition week you chose on the rail. The SP you earn that week is counted once. It drives:
- Your place on Score Qualification (vs the whole world).
- Your place on Score Champions if you’re in the field (vs other qualifiers only).
You’re not grinding two separate games—you’re reading two leaderboards fed by the same week of football.
How you qualify for Champions this week
Your eligibility for week W was decided in week W − 1:
- Top 25 on Score Qualification, or
- Top 10 on Score Champions—for weeks after the first Champions week.
Miss both last week? You’re not on the Champions table this week—but you can still climb Score Qualification and fight back in.
Staying in (or getting back) next week
This week, you keep a path to next week’s Champions if you hit either:
- Top 25 on Score Qualification, or
- Top 10 on Score Champions.
You drop out only if you miss both.
Prizes
Top 5 on Score Champions split the USDC prize (35% / 30% / 20% / 10% / 5%). The estimate on the leaderboard is fees from last week + subsidy—open Prize sources on the card for the breakdown.
Opening week (season start)
The first week on the rail is Week 0 (opening week): Score Qualification only—Score Champions hasn’t started yet. You’ll see Week 0 on the week pills and messaging if you open the Champions tab. It’s a one-time shape per season; later weeks follow the normal two-ladder rhythm. Exact UTC windows are in the app.
Coming soon (announced when live)
Optional paid entry (adds to the pool; doesn’t buy SP or rank), NFT access tickets, and rare schedule tweaks when the fixture list is empty—we’ll say so in the app.
Where to play
- /compete — make picks for the active competition window.
- /leaderboard?season=qualification — Score Qualification tab + week rail.
- /docs/features/score-champions — full spec.
Good luck—see you on both tables.