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The Albatross Tournament Rules
The Albatross Tournament Rules
Underdog contests are governed by our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and the rules listed below.
Entrants into Underdog contests compete to accumulate points based on athletes' statistical performance in sporting events. Contest results are determined by the total points accumulated by each individual lineup entry according to the relevant scoring rules.
General Contest Information
General Contest Information
Entrants select players through a snake draft. In a snake draft, the pick order is reversed each round. In other words, the entrant with the first pick in round 1, will have the last pick in round 2 and the first pick in round 3.
Entrants are required to pay an entry fee of $10 per entry to enter The Albatross (the "Tournament").
The tournament has a total prize pool of $500,000.
Entry to the Tournament will be closed 2 hours before the 1st tee off of The Masters. This means that the Tournament closure time would move, if the timing of the first tee were to change for any reason.
Entrants are only allowed to enter a maximum of 150 entries in the Tournament.
Teams are made up of 10 total players with a starting roster of 6 players.
Entrants draft a team of players who accumulate points throughout the duration of the contest period.
Once entrants draft, their rosters are set—there are no waivers, substitutions, or trades during the contest period.
At the end of each PGA Major, Underdog automatically selects the entrant's highest scoring players at the designated positions to be "starters" and only those players' statistics over that week are counted towards the entrant's accumulated score. This means entrants do not need to set their lineups.
Entrants compete in groups ("Groups") over the course of multiple rounds ("Rounds").
The Tournament will have 4 Rounds, with each round consisting of player groups as seen below:
Round 1 - 6 person groups
Round 2 - 10 person groups
Round 3 - 6 person groups
Round 4 - 310 person final group
The Tournament will consist of 55,800 total entries in the first Round, and a total of 9300 6-person Groups.
At the end of Round 1, the top two (2) performing entries in each Group will advance to Round 2 and be awarded a prize (as described below). Round 2 will consist of 18,600 entries in 1,860 10-person Groups.
At the end of Round 2, the top one (1) performing entries from each Group will advance to Round 3 and be awarded a prize (as described below). Round 3 will consist of 1,860 entries in 310 6-person Groups.
At the end of Round 3, the top one (1) performing entry from each Group will advance to Round 4 and be awarded a prize (as described below). Round 4 will consist of 310 entries in a single 310-person Group.
At the end of Round 4, the top one (1) performing entry from the Group will be the Grand Prize winner and prizes will be awarded to all entries in Round 4 (as described below).
Rounds
Round 1 – The Masters
Round 2 – PGA Championship
Round 3 – US Open
Round 4 – The Open Championship
Roster Makeup
Roster Makeup
The roster makeup and scoring will follow the details below.
Roster
G (Golfers) - 6
Bench - 4
Tournament Prize Breakdown
Tournament Prize Breakdown
1st $50,000
2nd $25,000
3rd $12,500
4th $8,330
5th $7,000
6th $6,000
7th $5,750
8th $5,500
9th $5,250
10th $5,000
11 - 15th $2,500
16 - 20th $1,500
21 - 50th $1,000
51 - 75th $800
76 - 100th $700
101 - 200th $500
201 - 310th $400
311 - 620th $100
621 - 930th $30
931 - 1860th $15
1861 - 18600th $8