X-Stream Sports Survivor

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Survivor Rules

X-Stream Sports Survivor

Make one NFL team selection during each Survivor selection period. The 2026 contest can require up to 20 picks: NFL Weeks 1–18 plus separate Thanksgiving and Christmas selection periods. No spreads. No points. If your team wins, you survive. If your team loses, ties, or you forget to make a required pick, you are eliminated.

Entry Limit & Deadline

Limited to the first 250 eligible entries.

Entry closes Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at 6:20 PM CDT, one hour before the first NFL kickoff, or when all 250 spots are claimed — whichever comes first.

Prize Eligibility Notice

Players must use their legal first and last name to be eligible for prizes.

Weekly Lock Times

When Picks Lock

Lock times are subject to change.

All picks lock at the posted selection-period lock time. Thanksgiving and Christmas are separate Survivor selection periods and require their own picks. If the NFL schedule changes, or if X-Stream Sports updates the contest schedule before a selection period locks, the posted lock time may change.

Week 1

Wed, Sep 9 at 7:20 PM CDT

Week 2

Thu, Sep 17 at 7:15 PM CDT

Week 3

Thu, Sep 24 at 7:15 PM CDT

Week 4

Thu, Oct 1 at 7:15 PM CDT

Week 5

Thu, Oct 8 at 7:15 PM CDT

Week 6

Thu, Oct 15 at 7:15 PM CDT

Week 7

Thu, Oct 22 at 7:15 PM CDT

Week 8

Thu, Oct 29 at 7:15 PM CDT

Week 9

Thu, Nov 5 at 7:15 PM CST

Week 10

Thu, Nov 12 at 7:15 PM CST

Week 11

Thu, Nov 19 at 7:15 PM CST

Thanksgiving

Wed, Nov 25 at 7:00 PM CST

Week 12

Sun, Nov 29 at 12:00 PM CST

Week 13

Thu, Dec 3 at 7:15 PM CST

Week 14

Thu, Dec 10 at 7:15 PM CST

Week 15

Thu, Dec 17 at 7:15 PM CST

Christmas

Thu, Dec 24 at 7:15 PM CST

Week 16

To be announced

Week 17

Thu, Dec 31 at 7:15 PM CST

Week 18

To be announced

2026 Special Selection Periods

Thanksgiving & Christmas Count Separately

The 2026 Survivor contest can require up to 20 total picks.

Thanksgiving is a separate 5-game selection period covering the Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday holiday-window games.

Christmas is a separate 4-game selection period covering the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day games.

A team selected during Thanksgiving or Christmas is considered used for the entire contest and cannot be selected again later.

Strategy Tip

Plan your Thanksgiving and Christmas picks early. These special selection periods have far fewer teams available than a normal NFL week. Thanksgiving has 5 games (10 teams) and Christmas has 4 games (8 teams). Before using teams earlier in the season, look ahead at these holiday matchups and consider saving strong options for them.

How to Play

  • 1. Pick one team before each selection period's posted lock time.
  • 2. If that team wins, you move on.
  • 3. If that team loses or ties, you are out.
  • 4. If you do not submit a pick before lock, you are out.

Team Usage

  • You can only use each NFL team one time during the contest.
  • Used teams will be disabled on the pick page.
  • Your current selection can be changed until that selection period locks.
  • Once a selection period locks, its pick cannot be changed.

Pick Visibility

  • Picks are hidden before the selection period locks.
  • After the selection period locks, submitted picks may appear in standings.
  • Results are updated after games become final.

Regular Prize & Grand Prize

  • The regular prize is won when exactly one active player remains as the sole survivor.
  • A regular-prize winner must continue making valid picks through the remaining selection periods to remain eligible for the grand prize.
  • If all remaining players are eliminated in the same selection period before a sole survivor is established, no regular-prize winner is declared.
  • To win the grand prize, a player must survive all 20 selection periods.
  • If exactly one player survives the entire season, that player wins the grand prize.
  • If two or more players survive the entire season, those players finish tied as grand-prize co-winners.
  • If no player survives the entire season, there is no grand-prize winner.

Important Notes

  • This is a straight-up winner pick contest. Spreads and point totals do not matter.
  • The 2026 contest has up to 20 required selection periods: NFL Weeks 1–18, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
  • Once you use a team, you cannot use that team again during the season.
  • X-Stream Sports may correct obvious schedule, pick, scoring, or standings errors.
  • X-Stream Sports decisions on contest rules and scoring are final.

Contest Terms

  • This contest is open only to eligible residents of the United States and District of Columbia.
  • Players are responsible for making sure they are eligible to participate.
  • No purchase, payment, or entry fee is required to enter or win.
  • Any prize, if offered, is subject to the posted contest terms. Participants are responsible for any taxes or reporting obligations connected to prizes.
  • This contest is not sponsored by, endorsed by, or affiliated with the NFL, its teams, or any sportsbook.

No Entry Fee / Prize Eligibility

Legal Disclaimer

X-Stream Sports Survivor is offered for entertainment purposes to eligible participants only. No purchase, payment, donation, or entry fee is required to enter or win. By creating an account, joining a contest, submitting a pick, or otherwise participating, each player agrees to follow the posted rules, contest terms, eligibility requirements, deadlines, and any corrections or clarifications posted by X-Stream Sports.

This is a straight-up NFL winner pick contest. Spreads, point totals, betting lines, odds, margins of victory, confidence points, pick timestamps, and previous picks do not determine whether a player survives unless a specific rule is clearly announced before the season starts. A player survives only when the selected team wins the applicable game, subject to the posted rules.

Players are responsible for submitting picks before the posted lock deadline. Missed picks, late picks, invalid picks, duplicate-team picks, or picks that cannot be verified may result in elimination. X-Stream Sports is not responsible for internet outages, device problems, browser issues, account-access issues, forgotten passwords, email delivery issues, delays, or any other technical problem that prevents a player from submitting a valid pick on time.

Schedules, lock times, team names, scores, standings, and elimination results are intended to be accurate, but errors may occur. X-Stream Sports may correct obvious mistakes, data-entry errors, scoring errors, schedule changes, pick-record errors, standings errors, or system errors at any time. If an NFL game is postponed, canceled, suspended, rescheduled, forfeited, or otherwise affected by unusual circumstances, X-Stream Sports may apply a reasonable ruling consistent with the contest rules and the fairness of the contest.

Any prize, payout, credit, award, or other benefit is subject to eligibility verification, posted contest terms, and final approval by X-Stream Sports. Players may be required to provide their legal first and last name and any other information reasonably needed to verify eligibility or distribute a prize. Players are responsible for any taxes, reporting obligations, or other legal obligations connected to any prize or benefit they receive.

X-Stream Sports may disqualify, remove, or restrict any participant who tampers with the contest, attempts to manipulate picks or standings, creates duplicate or false accounts, submits misleading information, abuses the website, harasses other participants, violates the rules, or otherwise acts in a way that X-Stream Sports determines is unfair or harmful to the contest.

This contest is not sponsored by, endorsed by, administered by, or affiliated with the NFL, its teams, players, broadcasters, data providers, sportsbooks, or betting operators. Any team names, logos, schedules, scores, or related references are used for contest identification and informational purposes only.

X-Stream Sports reserves the right to interpret the rules, resolve disputes, correct errors, modify procedures, suspend the contest, or cancel the contest if necessary due to technical problems, schedule disruptions, suspected abuse, legal concerns, or circumstances outside its control. Decisions by X-Stream Sports on eligibility, scoring, rule interpretation, corrections, disputes, and contest administration are final.