Game Guidelines

1. Introduction

Welcome to HSBC SVNS Predictor game, where your predictions will earn you points. Compete against your friends, family and worldwide fans in the global leaderboard!

Below is a step-by-step guide on how to play, including registration, creating your grids, editing your selections, scoring and everything else you need to know to play.

2. Registration & Login

HSBC SVNS Predictor game is completely free of charge.  Simply register or login with an existing World Rugby account to play.

 3. Grid Selection

• Choose a grid cell to start the game. The cell you select will open for you to make your first prediction
• Make a selection per question. You can select a nation once for both Men's and Women's competition at any phase of a HSBC SVNS event.
• Swipe, tap or click through all 6 team-based questions and make a prediction for each one.
• Select your SVNS Star, the player you think will score the greatest number of tries in the selected event phase
• Review your selection and save to lock in your predictions before the games kick off.
• Follow along live and watch your points come in! You will score points for each grid based on how your selections performs in real-time

If you don’t want to manually select your first team, you have the option to auto-pick your grid. This will auto-populate all empty positions within your grid using random teams/players from the HSBC SVNS series.

Once you have successfully saved your grid you will be able to make as many changes as you like before the next round starts by taking advantage of your unlimited edits.

4. Lockout

HSBC SVNS Grid Predictor will implement a lockout mechanic whereby a saved grid will become locked as soon as the first match of each rounds starts. This means you can join in at any stage of the tournament, and your predictions will only be locked once the next round of matches begins.

If you miss out on the pools grid don’t forget you can still make predictions for the knockouts.

5. Scoring

Teams and Players will be awarded points based on their actual performances during the HSBC SVNS Events.

Team Based Predictions	Player based prediction
Users will be awarded 1 point per the number of times that action has happened within each statistical category.	The player selected within the grid will be awarded: 5 points per every try

You will only receive points for the match with the most instances of each selection.

Eg: Australia selected as most line-breaks for Women and an Australian player selected as the Star Player.

Match	Line Breaks	Star Player Tries
AUS Match 1	6	1
AUS Match 2	12	0
AUS Match 3	9	2
	User’s Score: 12pts	User’s Score: 10pts

Scoring in the Pool Stage

During the Pool Stage, scoring opportunities depend on when the selections are made E.g. if you make your predictions before the start of the tournament (Lockout 1), you will get the best score over all matches played. However, if you make your predictions after Round 2 starts (before Lockout 3), you will only get the score achieved in Match 3.

Eg: Fiji selected as most offloads for Men

Match	Offloads	Points
FIJ Match 1	10	10pts
FIJ Match 2	15	15pts
FIJ Match 3	9	9pts
		User in Lockout 1 Score: 15pts
		User in Lockout 2 Score: 15pts
		User in Lockout 3 Score: 9pts

 6. Leaderboards

Once your team has been saved, it will automatically be entered in the Global Leaderboard where you can see where you score against other users worldwide.

The overall Global Leaderboard includes all other users worldwide who have entered a HSBC SVNS Predictor grid.

7. Event Schedule

EVENT	City	Start Date	End Date
1	Cape Town	9th Dec '23	10th Dec '23
2	Perth	26th Jan '24	28th Jan '24
3	Vancouver	23rd Feb '24	25th Feb '24
4	Los Angeles	1st Mar '24	3rd Mar '24
5	Hong Kong	5th Apr '24	7th Apr '24
6	Singapore	3rd May '24	5th May '24
7	Madrid	31st May '24	2nd Jun '24

During each Event, you can make predictions for each stage, Pools and Knockouts.  Keep an eye out for more information for Madrid – The Grand Final!