Introduction
European Tour Fantasy is an online fantasy game, where real sport events and results reflects your virtual team of European Tour golf players.
You will create your own team, selecting 15 golf players - 3 from each seating category that the players are divided into. Your players will receive points according to how they perform out on the real golf courses. The winner of the game is the contestant whose virtual team has scored the biggest total amount of points when the game is over. Check out the points system, and get a good overview of how different performances are rewarded.
See points system
The game is divided into 28 rounds
If you want to make sure you're participating right from the start, create your team before the first round begins April 29th 2010. See Rounds and Tours for an overview of which tours make up each round.
Change of players midway through the game
Until the start of the first tour, April 29th 2010, you can freely change the players of your team. After this date, it's no longer possible to change players until the change period is due.
The change period is placed approximately midway through the game, more precisely August 13-19 (between the tours U.S. PGA Championship and The KLM Open). During the change period you have the option to exchange the players that you consider not having quite cut it. All participants in our game will receive an e-mail reminder when the change period is due to come up.
Your captain scores 50% extra
You will also need to choose a captain among your 15 players. Your captain will receive points just like the other players, but will also get an additional 50% of the earned points from the current tour, as a "captain's bonus". The Captain's potential bonus will therefore vary, according to what category the tour has. You can use the Fixtures and Results section to check which class a player belongs to, and you can see how many points are given for each class 1, 2 and 3 in the Points system.
Always choose the player that you expect will have the best results in the coming tour. It is open for change of captain between the tours, typically from Monday approx. 3 PM and until the next tour starts on the Thursday.
Please note that the captain's bonus is not shown at the golf player's score, but only under "captain's bonus" on your team page. This is because many participants in this game might have the same golf player on their team, but not everyone has chosen him as a captain.
Update the day after the tour
The results of each tour are being updated the day after the tour has ended. After the game gets updated, it is locked for change of captain, until approx. 3 PM the same day. This is to make sure that the presented results are the correct ones, before opening up for change of captain.
When the game gets unlocked after validation of the results, the results that the system is updated with will be the effectual ones. It is Swush.com exclusively, that determines if changes are going to be made after this point.
Hidden choice of captain
When looking at other managers' teams, it is always the last locked team that gets shown. This means that it is not possible to see other managers' choice of captain for the current round, until the change of captain has been locked. The first time that all teams are locked is based on the start of the first round. Up until then, all teams will be hidden.
With "hidden choice of captain", it is not possible to see which choice of captain your competitors have made until the teams get locked.
The game ends in November
Sportsbox's European Tour Fantasy 2010 ends after that the last tour in the 28th round (Dubai World Championship) is completed and updated in the game, approx. the 25th of November 2010.