RULES

Pick a single NFL team you believe will win. A tie counts as no loss - your torch is safe.

A team is burned the moment their game kicks off with your pick on it. You can never select them again this season, so spend the good ones carefully.

Each pick locks at its own scheduled kickoff - Thursday night, Sunday afternoon, Sunday night or Monday night. Until then you can change it freely.

Miss the week entirely and it costs you a torch, same as a loss.

Everyone starts with 3 torches. A losing pick puts one in danger, and when the week finalises that torch is snuffed. At zero torches you are eliminated.

When your team loses, your torch enters TORCH IN DANGER. Nothing is decided until the Idol resolution window closes - that’s the window where an Idol can still save you.

It sits on the island until someone earns it. The holder may keep it, secretly hand it to another survivor, or play it - on themselves or on someone else - to prevent one torch loss.

Once played it is consumed and returns to the island to be won again.

The tribe only ever sees whether the Idol is in play - never who is holding it. Only you see your own Idol.

Each week the winning pick chosen by the fewest survivors is named Boldest Survivor. Ties break by the longest moneyline, then the largest underdog spread.

If the Idol is sitting on the island, the Boldest Survivor claims it. Every calculation is recorded and auditable.

The competition runs until one torch remains lit. That survivor is champion - whether it happens in Week 4 or on Super Bowl night. If the final round snuffs everyone at once, the tie is shared.

If more than one survivor is still standing after Week 18, the competition continues automatically into Final Island: Wild Card, Divisional, Conference Championships, and then the Super Bowl - The Final Fire.

Torches, the Idol and your entire history carry over untouched. Only team eligibility resets: every playoff team is open again, and each may be used once during Final Island.

Before Super Bowl kickoff, every remaining survivor submits a predicted final score. It is only used if two or more torches are still burning after the game is graded, the Idol window closes and torches are settled.

Closest combined score wins. Then closest winning-team score, then closest losing-team score. Only if everything is still tied is the champion drawn at random - and the full calculation is recorded.