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Live at your local

Lock your team.
Swap your captain.
Take on the room.

GameDay is played live, while the match is on the big screen at your pub or club. Scores update in real time with every play. Live questions pop up every quarter and close on a countdown. Swap your captain the moment a goal flips the match — 1v1 against a mate, crew vs crew across the room, or on an inter-venue team taking on the pub down the road. At event games your kudos lights up the venue screens and you play to win in-venue prizes — including a major end-of-season prize: a brand new car. No money, no gambling — just live play, live updates, live questions.

AFL live now · Lock in 03:42:18 · Live questions every quarter · Live captain swaps on every goal · Scores update in real time · Season major prize: a new car
AFL
Sample match
Q3 · 14:22
Tigers vs Demons · MCG
Your nine
MID
Bontempelli
C
MID
Cripps
MID
Walsh
MID
Daicos
MID
Petracca
RUC
English
DEF
Sicily
DEF
Whitfield
FWD
Hawkins
Live question closes 0:42
Who kicks the next goal?
Bontempelli Petracca Hawkins +6 more
Your score
1,284
Rank
#412
Swaps left
2
How GameDay works

Play it live. Lock at the siren. Swap on every goal. Answer before the clock runs out.

01

Build your nine

Pick a lineup of nine players within the budget. Mids, forwards, defenders, a ruck — your call.

02

Lock at bouncedown

Live countdown ticks down to first bounce. Lineups freeze the second the match starts. Late lock? You're in with a perk on the side.

03

Swap & answer live

Switch your captain live, the moment a goal lands. Live questions pop on screen every quarter — beat the countdown and your score updates in real time, right there on the leaderboard.

Scalability

Built to scale. When the siren sounds, the whole pub locks in at once — we stress-tested for exactly that moment.

4,400+
transactions per second

Sustained write throughput measured under a full-crowd, single-instant stampede.

5,000
simultaneous lock-ins

Every player locking their lineup in the same instant — zero crashes, zero lost actions.

99.8%
fewer database round-trips

Smart write-coalescing batches a stadium's worth of lock-ins into a handful of writes.

50,000
player headroom

Engineered for national-finals scale — ten times a packed pilot venue.

Measured on GameDay's in-house adversarial load harness, May 2026 — real database writes, no mocks.

What you get

Inside GameDay

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Built for the stampede

When the siren goes,
everyone locks at once

Bouncedown is the hardest moment in live fantasy: thousands of lineups lock in the same second. GameDay is load-tested against exactly that stampede, with a transaction pipeline that batches hundreds of locks into a single database write.

4,400+ tx/sec
Sustained lock throughput

measured on today's single-node pool during 5,000-player stampede runs

500→1 batched
Lock coalescing

hundreds of simultaneous lock transactions collapse into one database write

≤250 ms p99
Lock latency target

even when every player in the venue locks on the same siren

<1 ms
Row work per lock

on-database work is sub-millisecond; the pipeline is engineered around it

The scale pathway
Today Proven
5,000 concurrent
Load-test validated

Every release is stampede-tested at 5,000 concurrent players locking in the same instant, with per-phase latency telemetry on every run.

Launch Ready
10,000 concurrent
Provisioned headroom

The launch-season ceiling. The queueing model is validated within ±15% of measured runs, and the database pathway for 10k is a single-day infrastructure change.

Finals Mapped
50,000 concurrent
National-finals scale

Lock coalescing plus database sharding takes the same pipeline to 50,000 concurrent — multi-state finals, one leaderboard, no rearchitecture.

On the move

GameDay
in your pocket

Lineups, captain swaps, live stream questions and quarter-by-quarter scoring — all from your seat in the stand. Lock-countdown push when your match is about to bounce.

GAMEDAY
My lineup
Q3 · 14:22 · MCG
MID Bontempelli C
142
MID Cripps
98
MID Daicos
124
RUC English
86
Swap captain

Free to play, always

GameDay is not gambling. There's nothing to deposit and nothing to lose — kudos can't be cashed out, and prizes are non-cash rewards put up by your venue or the event promoter. Just you, your crew, and the match on the big screen.

How fair play works