Creating and Managing Leagues

Part 1: On the Website

In order to play the game, the first thing you must do is create or join a league. To create a league, go to Leagues and press the "Create League" button. To join a league, you must receive an invite from a league's commissioner. Once you are in a league, click on the league tab on the Leagues page to open it. From there you can see the league's owner, all coaches in the league, and all challenges organized by Current Season and Past Seasons. Clicking on a challenge will open that challenge's Challenge Hub.

Along the top of the Leagues page, you'll also find quick-action buttons:

League Settings: Configure your league (commissioners only).
Invite Coaches: Send invites to new coaches.
View Invites: See pending invitations you've received.
Leave League: Remove yourself from the league.

League Settings

The League Settings page is accessible to the league's owner and any co-commissioners. It contains four tabs:

Name & Delete League: Change your league's name or permanently delete the league (owner only for delete).
Create & Delete Challenges: Create new challenges for upcoming Survivor seasons or delete existing ones.
Remove Coaches: Remove coaches from your league.
Manage Ownership: Promote league members to co-commissioner (granting them most owner privileges except deleting the league or transferring ownership) and transfer league ownership to another coach.

Challenge Hub

The Challenge Hub is the central page for a specific challenge. Here you can see all participating coaches, every tribe in the challenge (with their last episode scores), and the overall standings table showing placement, total score, and castaways remaining.

Along the top of the Challenge Hub, commissioners will find buttons for:

Challenge Settings: Configure the challenge's rules and scoring.
Challenge Management: Manage participation, draft picks, edgic and finale picks, and wagers.
Manual Draft: Manually set each tribe's roster.
Live Draft: Open the Live Draft Dashboard to host a real-time draft.

Two additional buttons appear conditionally:

Pick Your Tribe: Visible to all coaches when the commissioner has enabled Self Draft in Challenge Settings. Each coach uses this to pick their own tribe at their own pace—no host-run draft required.
Leave Challenge: Visible to non-owner coaches before the challenge has started. After the start episode airs, leaving is no longer allowed.

Challenge Settings

The Challenge Settings page lets the commissioner fine-tune the rules for a challenge. The header has three controls:

Templates: Save the current challenge settings as a reusable preset, or apply a saved preset to this challenge in one click. Each user can save up to 5 templates.
Edit / View toggle: Switch between editing and a read-only summary view of the current settings.
Back to Challenge: Return to the Challenge Hub.

The page is organized into seven tabs:

Team Configuration: Number of MVP slots (default 2, range 0–4), number of draft picks per coach (default 4, range 0–8), and the Exiling toggle. When Exiling is on (default), a coach's last draft pick scores zero each week but can be swapped active. When off, all draft picks are active.
Start Episode: Choose the earliest episode that counts for this challenge. The minimum is always the next upcoming episode.
Wagering: Control whether wagering is allowed, with separate cutoffs for elimination and immunity wagers (None or Final 6–13), separate odds for each type, and a minimum and (optional) maximum wager amount per type. Site defaults: last episode is Final 6 for both, elimination odds +100, immunity odds -200, minimum wager 1, no maximum.
Grenade Rule: Penalizes tribes that draft the first eliminated castaway. Configure whether the rule is active, the penalty type (Auto-Loss or Point Loss with configurable points), the Exiled Dodge toggle, six possible defusal conditions (Winner on tribe / Any jury vote / Any finalist / Edgic correct / Finale correct / Both Edgic AND Finale correct), the optional Defusal Reward (bonus points if a condition defuses your grenade), and the optional Paid Defusal hedge-bet (commit a cost in advance before a deadline to lock in defusal).
Self Draft: When enabled, each coach picks their own tribe via a "Pick Your Tribe" button—no live or host-run draft required.
Tribe Swap: Allow or disable tribe swap proposals, allow or block swapping eliminated castaways, and set the last-allowed cutoff (None or Final 6–13). Default: enabled, eliminated castaways excluded, cutoff at Final 6.
Point Values: Customize the point value for any of the 28 scoring categories. Leave a field blank to use the site default. A "Reset to Defaults" button clears all overrides.

Most settings tabs lock automatically once the start episode has aired (Start Episode also locks when 5 or fewer castaways remain in the game).

Challenge Management

The Challenge Management page gives the commissioner control over the ongoing operations of a challenge. It has four tabs:

Coach Participation: Determine which coaches in your league participate in this specific challenge. Add or remove coaches as needed—each coach's status is shown as "In Challenge" or "Not Added."
Draft Pick Activity: Manage which draft picks are active versus exiled (benched) each episode. Select an episode from the dropdown, then swap players between active and exiled slots for each tribe. Submit all changes when done.
Edgic & Finale Picks: Record each tribe's Edgic pick and Finale pick using the dropdown selectors. Save changes when complete.
Weekly Wagers: Manage wagers for each episode. Select an episode, then for each tribe, choose a castaway, set the wager points, and save. Wagers open once the previous episode's scores are entered. Two wager types are available: Elimination and Immunity, each with their own odds.

Manual Draft

The Manual Draft page allows the commissioner to directly set each tribe's roster. The number of slots per tribe is driven by the challenge's Team Configuration. The default 2 MVP / 4 Pick setup with Exiling on shows two MVP slots, three active draft pick slots, and one exiled draft pick slot per tribe; other team configurations adjust accordingly. Use the dropdown selectors to assign castaways to each slot, then save your changes.

Tribe Swap

Coaches can propose, send, receive, and review tribe swaps from the Tribe Swap workspace. The page is organized into four tabs: Propose Swap (build and send a new offer), Sent Requests (cancel pending offers you sent), Received Requests (accept or decline offers others sent you), and History (your completed and rejected swaps). Pending proposals are automatically cancelled once the relevant episode airs.

Website: Top sub-nav Tribe dropdown → Tribe Swaps.
App: Challenge tab → My Tribe → Tribe Swap.

Live Draft

The Live Draft Dashboard is where commissioners set up and run a real-time draft. The draft order is displayed on the left side of the page. Along the top, commissioners have access to:

Draft Settings: Configure draft rules and preferences.
Schedule Draft: Set a date and time for the draft.
Randomize Draft Order: Randomly assign the draft order for all coaches.
Reset Draft: Clear all picks and start over.
Set Auto Picks: Configure draft priority so that if you miss your draft, it auto picks the castaways you want.
Join Lobby: Enter the live draft lobby when it's time to draft.

For more details on running a manual draft, see the How to Host a Draft page under How to Play in the navigation menu.

Part 2: On the App

The Fantasy Tribes app offers all the same league management features as the website in a streamlined, mobile-friendly layout. Here's how to navigate them.

Getting Started

From the app's home screen, you'll see your leagues listed under Fantasy Tribes · Leagues. Tap the "Create a League" button to start a new league, or tap an existing league to open it. You can also use the league dropdown at the top of the screen to switch between leagues.

Challenge Hub (App)

Once inside a league, you'll land on the Challenge tab. This shows the current challenge name along with a menu of options. At the top of the screen, you can switch between four tabs: Challenge, Tribe, Scoreboard, and Standings. The Challenge tab menu includes:

Seasons: View past and current seasons.
How to Play: Access the rules and guides.
Draft Dashboard: Set up and run your live draft.
Challenge Settings: Access all challenge configuration and management tools.
League Settings: Configure your league.
League History: View your league's history.
Leave League: Remove yourself from the league.

League Settings (App)

Tapping League Settings opens a page with four cards:

Invite & Remove Coaches: Add or remove league members. This card is also where you toggle co-commissioner status for any league member (granting them most owner privileges except deleting the league or transferring ownership).
Create & Delete Challenges: Create and delete past or future challenges.
Transfer Ownership: Designate a new league owner.
Name & Delete League: Update your league name or delete it.

Challenge Settings & Management (App)

Tapping Challenge Settings from the Challenge tab opens a single page containing all challenge configuration and management tools as cards:

Challenge Settings: Configure all challenge rules across the same seven tabs as the website (Team Configuration, Start Episode, Wagering, Grenade Rule, Self Draft, Tribe Swap, Point Values). A Manage Templates button on this card lets you save the current settings as a preset or apply a saved preset.
Manage Coach Participation: Determine which coaches will participate in this challenge.
Manual Draft: Pick which castaways are on each coach's tribe.
Manage Activity: Help coaches pick which castaways are active versus exiled each episode.
Manage Weekly Wagers: Help coaches make or clear wagers.
Manage Edgic & Finale Picks: Help coaches make their Edgic and Finale picks.

Draft Dashboard (App)

Tapping Draft Dashboard from the Challenge tab opens the draft setup screen. The draft order is displayed below, and along the top you'll find action buttons that you can scroll through horizontally:

Draft Settings: Configure draft rules and preferences.
Schedule Draft: Set a date and time for the draft.
Randomize Draft Order: Randomly assign the draft order.
Reset Draft: Clear all picks and start over.
Set Auto Picks: Configure draft priority so that if you miss your draft, it auto picks the castaways you want.
Join Lobby: Enter the live draft lobby when it's time to draft.

After drafting, explore:

My Tribes: Overview of your tribes across challenges.
My Scoreboards: Detailed scores for each round.
My Standings: Current league rankings.
Seasons Tab: A detailed view of the castaways' points for every season.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to reach out!