•Select 1 team each week that you think will win their game.
•The goal is to accumulate the longest streak of consecutive correct picks.
•Remember – once you select a team, that team may not be used again during the contest.

Pretty-pretty-pretty straight ahead rules. But as always, there’s a couple things more you should know.

First of all, there is a possibility that the Survivor contest can end in a tie or two or more players. Without getting into to it, it has happened before. The consensus amongst us all was, NOBODY WANTS TO SHARE THE WIN.

If that happens, all the players who were all eliminated that week, are allowed to continue playing. We had to set up the Pooltracker website to enable players to play every week, using what they (PoolTracker) calls a “Streak” format; and that means that even if you are eliminated in Week 1, you can still make picks. Can’t stop ya. BUT KNOW THIS. You are eliminated from winning the Survivor pool. The End. Period.

Secondly, you can enter Survivor as many times as your heart (and wallet) desire. $10 for each entry, and you will have to make up a bunch of different “Game Names”. Finally, regarding how we handle weekly picks when a game ends in a tie:

Beginning in the 2026 Season, you must choose a winning team to advance to the next week of play. If a NFL game ends in a tie, and you chose one of the teams involved in that tie, you are eliminated from the Survivor pool. Yes, even though Pool Tracker still lets you play, and even if your pick is “green”.

An exception to this rule is when all the remaining players are all eliminated in the same week. If no player chose a winning team, and one of the games ended in a tie, and any eliminated player selected one of the teams in that tie, they too will advance. The criteria that you must chose a winning team was not met by anyone, so logically all “non-winners” may advance until a sole Survivor prevails.

The final exception is in Week 18, the final week of Survivor. PoolTracker has a Tie-Breaker Over/Under, the total cumulative score of the last game listed each week. Therefore, it is each player’s responsibility to submit their tie-breaker each week. As in Pick ‘Em, if the tie-breaker then ends in a tie, we will use the earliest time-stamp on record for the week as a double tie-breaker.

As mentioned in other articles, be sure you REGISTER USING ONLY ONE SAME EMAIL FOR EACH GAME NAME, or you will find yourself having to login repeatedly each week. Sucks for you.

Final thought – the game seems so simple; pick ONE team each week that you believe will win. Once you have picked a team, they are “locked out” to use any more. Choose wisely, Grasshopper. BTW, this is per Game Name profile. If you have a couple accounts in Survivor, they do not count against each other, they are separate game profiles.