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Your fantasy team consists of eight male surfers and four female surfers. Understand the tier-based organization of surfers according to their Championship Tour rankings. Learn the limits on the number of surfers you can pick from each tier for both men and women.

Surfers are categorized into "Tiers" according to their existing rankings on the Championship Tour. The selection of surfers is restricted to a specific allocation from each tier, specified below:

Men's

Tier A: Pick 2 surfers
Tier B: Pick 4 surfers
Tier C: Pick 2 surfers

Women's

Tier A: Pick 1 surfer
Tier B: Pick 2 surfers
Tier C: Pick 1 surfer

As the surfers’ rankings evolve over the course of the season, so do the Tiers. The surfers available in each Tier will change as they move up and down the rankings, so make sure you pick a new team for each event.

After the Mid-season Cut (Event 6), fantasy tiers will shrink for Men’s from 8-16-12 to 6-12-6 and for Women’s from 3-9-6 to 3-6-3.

The surfers on your team score points based on their performance in each event. Their real heat scores count directly as points for your fantasy team. For example, if a surfer on your team scores 15.05 in a heat, you’ll get 15.05 fantasy points.

Your total score for each event is the combined scores of all individual surfers on your team. You win by earning the most total points over the course of the season.

After the Mid-season Cut, surfers who win their Opening Round heat and bypass the Elimination Round will receive the highest point total of the Elimination Round for their heat score.

Each event, you can select one male and one female surfer on your team as your Power Surfers to earn twice the points. For that entire event, the Fantasy points you receive from your Power Surfers will be two times their total heat scores.

After picking your team, select your Power Surfers by clicking on one male and one female surfer, then save your team. You can select new Power Surfers for every event.This feature will be a huge factor in teams with similar surfers and allows you to double down on specific surfers who you think will excel at each event on the Championship Tour.

You are able to pick your team for the following event 24 hours after the conclusion of the current event. Teams will lock — and scoring will begin — immediately upon the start of the event (Round 1). Men's and women's picks will lock separately.

Leagues enable groups of players to pit their teams against each other and compete for the top spot on the league leaderboard.

Commissioners may create private leagues, which are protected by Join Codes and allow you to compete against friends and family.

Public leagues Public leagues are created by special WSL invitation and are open to all fans. Anyone can enter a Public league. To apply for a Public League, please send an email to Fantasy@worldsurfleague.com.

We strongly recommend you start your league at the beginning of the season so you can play for the highest number of events. However, leagues may be created at any point in the season. Any leagues created after the first event will start with zero points for all teams at the point of creation.

You may play in as many leagues as you'd like, but you will still only select one team for each event. If you are in multiple leagues, you will use the same team across all of them and will receive the same total score in each.

Teams that do not choose to play in a specific league will still be automatically entered in theGlobal LeaderboardandCountry Leaderboard.

As the season progresses, your team’s Total Points from each event will be multiplied by an increasing factor. The multipliers will increase by 10 percentage points from event to event.

This system represents the increasing importance of each event on the Championship Tour. As the season moves forward, each event gets more and more crucial for the surfers on tour, and that is now reflected in our fantasy game. It also allows teams created after the start of the season to still compete towards winning their league.

• If a surfer is injured during a heat, your team will still receive any points they earned for their heat score.

• If a surfer is injured outside of competition and withdraws from their heat, your team will receive 0.00 points for the next heat they were supposed to surf.

• If a surfer wins a heat due to their opponent's withdrawal prior to heat start, the winning surfer is awarded 10.00 points.

Every team participating in fantasy, regardless of league, will be included in the overall Leaderboard. The scores for each team will reflect the cumulative total of all events that team has participated in.

In addition to the overall Leaderboard, each league will have its own leaderboard. Each team’s point total will be based on when the league was created. If a league was created after Event 3, for example, then points will reflect all events played for Event 3 and after.

As the deciding event on the Championship Tour, The WSL Finals has a format different from all other events. The field is cut down to the top five male and five female surfers in the rankings and four head-to-head heats decide the World Champion. The WSL Finals Format is as follows:

Heat 1: World #5 vs World #4
Heat 2: Winner of Heat 1 vs World #3
Heat 3: Winner of Heat 2 vs World #2
Heat 4: Winner of Heat 3 vs World #1

The fantasy format for the WSL Finals will be a modified bracket challenge, with scoring based on the correct number of heat picks.

The WSL Finals Fantasy game creates new points and leaderboards separate from the 10-event regular season points and leaderboards. You will receive a new set of points and see a new leaderboard for WSL Finals Fantasy.

Visit the Scoring Rules on the WSL Finals Fantasy page for more details.