Welcome to the fantasy EURO 2008!
The 2008 UEFA European Football Championships (EURO 2008) will take place in Austria and Switzerland in June 2008. 16 teams will participate in the tournament, which will run from June 7 to June 29.
Scrap Heap EURO 2008 is a pick'em game in which each player predicts the result of all 31 matches in the tournament.
The tournament is now in OVER! Go to the fantasy standings page to see the final results .
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League Format
EURO 2008 Format
- The first round sees the 16 teams split in to four groups of four teams and is played in a round-robin format. The winner of each game receives three points, 1 point each for a draw and zero for a loss. After each team has played the others in their group, the top two countries will progress to the knockout stages.
- The knockout stages sees the qualifiers from the group stage play in a series of elimination matches to determine the tournament winner. Each tie is played over 90 minutes with extra time and penalties where necessary.
Fantasy Game Rules
- Pick the results of all 24 group stage matches and the tiebreakers before the first game on June 7.
- Pick forms for subsequent rounds will be made available as soon as possible. The deadlines for the knockout rounds will be posted to the Yahoo Group.
- Picks for an individual game can be changed until kickoff, but the tie-breakers cannot be changed once the tournament starts. Email the commissioner to change your picks.
- 10 points are scored for a correct pick, 0 for an incorrect pick.
- The first tiebreaker is a prediction of the total goals scored in all of the matches in the 2008 tournament.
Tie breaker 2 is a prediction of the highest scoring team in the tournament.
Tie breaker 3 is a prediction of the highest goalscoring player in the tournament.
