The rules Five-minute read

Three rules.
That's it.

ServiProno is a ranking game. You pick 6 nations from the tournament field, rank them from most to least confident, and collect points every time your teams win, draw, advance, or score. The form with the highest total at the final whistle wins.

  1. 01
    Rule 01
    Pick your 6

    Choose 6 nations from the 24 qualified. Tier caps stop you from loading up only on favourites — you'll have to find value in the mid-tiers and outsiders too.

  2. 02
    Rule 02
    Rank them 6 → 1

    Highest confidence at value 6, your wild card at value 1. That number multiplies every point your team earns — so backing the eventual champion at value 6 pays much more than backing them at 1.

  3. 03
    Rule 03
    Watch them earn

    Every win, draw, knockout survival, and regulation-time goal adds points. The form with the highest total at the final whistle wins.

Scoring

Every match.
Every goal.

A team's rank value multiplies its win/draw points. Higher rank = bigger return, but also bigger downside if they crash out early.

Outcome Points
Win in 90 minutes
Regulation-time victory.
value × 3
Draw in 90 minutes
Group stage or KO draw before ET.
value × 1
Loss in 90 minutes
All losses score zero.
0
Knockout win in ET / PSO
Survive — but in extra time or shootout.
value × 2
Knockout loss in ET / PSO
Knocked out in ET or shootout still pays.
value × 1
Each goal in 90 minutes
Flat bonus per regulation goal by your team.
+ 1
Tier caps

Three tiers.
Balanced picks.

The 24 nations are split into Three tiers — favourites at the top, outsiders at the bottom. Caps and floors stop everyone from submitting the same 6 giants. Stronger picks cost from your upper-tier budget; you have to dip into the lower tiers to fill your form.

Group 1 · 8 teams
Favourites

Belgium, England, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain.

2021 rule
at most 2 picks
Group 2 · 9 teams
Contenders

Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Wales.

2021 rule
no cap
Group 3 · 7 teams
Outsiders

Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, North Macedonia, Scotland, Slovakia, Turkey.

2021 rule
at least 2 picks

The caps are cumulative — each upper-tier limit also counts the tiers above it, so unused quota cascades down: skip the favourites and you free up room in the next tier. With 6 picks you'll always have to reach into the lower tiers to complete a valid form.

Tiebreaker

The tiebreaker question.

When two or more forms finish on the same score, the form that came closest to the actual total number of goals scored in 90 minutes — across every match of the tournament — wins the tie. Only goals in regulation count; extra time and shootouts don't.

Still tied?

If two forms have the same score and are equally close to the actual total (one guesses a few over, the other a few under), the one with the earliest creation date wins. Early entries get the edge.

Example
117 goals in 51 matches.
Average 2.29 per match. The form that guessed 117 (or nearest) would have won any ties.
Sons of a Pitch
guess 120
diff 3 ✓ wins
Ctrl+Alt+Defeat
guess 110
diff 7
Manchester Tity
guess 114
diff 3 · later
Sons of a Pitch and Manchester Tity are both 3 off — Sons of a Pitch wins on earlier creation date.
One brain, many forms

Hedge as many ways as you like.

Bullish on Spain and Brazil? Submit two forms with each at value 6. Multiple entries are encouraged — each one stands on its own and competes for the top of the leaderboard independently.

Submissions & validation

Lock-in is
the night before.

Submissions close at 23:59:59 CEST the day before the first match of the tournament. For 2021 that's 10 June · 23:59 CEST.

Why early? Every form is reviewed manually before kickoff — a human pass over name, tier picks, and tiebreaker. This gap lets the validation finish before the tournament begins.

Until that moment you can edit your forms freely. After it, picks and your goals-scored guess are locked for good.

Submissions close in
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Tournament timeline
  1. Submissions close
    10 June · 23:59 CEST
    Last second to submit or edit a form.
  2. Manual validation
    ≈ 21 hours
    Each form reviewed and saved.
  3. Kickoff
    11 June · 21:00 CEST
    Stadio Olimpico · Rome · Turkey vs Italy.
  4. Final whistle
    11 July · 21:00 CEST
    Leaderboard frozen. Highest score wins.

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