Last Man Standing rules

Each round, back one team to win their match.

Picks are made before the round’s deadline, and you can change yours up until it.

At the deadline every pick locks. Nothing changes a locked pick.

Your team wins: you are through to the next round. A narrow win counts exactly the same as a thrashing.

Your team draws or loses: you are out. A draw is not half-credit.

Once you have picked a team they leave your pool for the rest of that competition.

The pool belongs to the competition — playing in more than one, you have a separate pool in each.

Miss the deadline and a team is picked for you at random from the ones you have left with a match that round.

It counts exactly as if you had picked it yourself — including being used up. You are never eliminated for forgetting.

If your team’s match is postponed or abandoned, your pick is spent and you survive the round.

The team does not come back into your pool. It is the one outcome that is neither a win nor a loss, and it is resolved in your favour.

Whether picks show as they come in, or stay hidden until the deadline, is set when the competition is created.

Hidden picks are revealed to everyone once the round locks.

Some competitions use wildcards — one-use cards that bend a single round in your favour. Whoever creates the competition decides whether theirs does.

The competition runs until one person is left standing, and they win.

If everyone still in goes out in the same round, it either rolls over into a new competition or everyone who was standing comes back and it continues. Whoever created it chooses which.

There are no points, no league table and no ranking. You are in or you are out, and everyone still in is level.

Playing for money, the organiser collects the pot and pays it out. No money goes through Standing.