What is SVC Showdown?
SVC Showdown is a community game that tracks the real World Cup 2026 through Soccerverse. If you own influence in a footballer on Soccerverse, you earn Showdown points whenever that player performs at the actual World Cup. Leaderboards rank the best-performing players, the best-value players, and the users who own them.
How do players score points?
Points are based on each player's Soccerverse salary, so a star's appearance is worth more than a squad player's:
- Appearance: starters who play more than 45 minutes earn their matchday wage.
- Goals and assists: each is worth the player's bonus wage.
- Clean sheets: starting defenders who play 75+ minutes without their team conceding earn their clean sheet bonus.
How do user points work?
Every point a player earns is shared between the accounts that hold influence in them at kickoff, pro rata to how much of the 1,000,000 influence supply each account owns. Hold 1% of a player, earn 1% of their points.
There are two user leaderboards. Top Showdowners counts points from influence bought after the pre-tournament genesis snapshot (11 June 2026, 12:33 UTC) — the main tournament game. Only shares you hold before a match kicks off earn from that match — buying after the final whistle earns nothing retrospectively, and every holding is verified against the public trade record. Top Users (Retro) counts points from influence already held at the snapshot, rewarding the long-term holders.
Are knockout matches worth more points?
Yes. All points earned in a match (appearance, goals, assists, clean sheets) are multiplied by a stage multiplier:
- Group stage: 1×
- Round of 32: 1.5×
- Round of 16: 2×
- Quarter-finals: 3×
- Semi-finals: 4×
- Third-place match: 2×
- The Final: 6×
So the tournament stays alive to the very end — a strong group campaign builds a lead, but holding (or buying) players who go deep is how you win it. This schedule was announced before the first knockout match and applies automatically from the Round of 32 onwards.
Can I buy influence during a match?
Yes — but it won't count for the match that's underway. The cutoff for every game is its kickoff time: only influence you hold at kickoff earns points from that match. Anything you buy after kickoff — during the game or after the final whistle — starts earning from your players' next match onwards. So if a player scores twenty minutes into a game, buying him mid-match gets you nothing from that performance; you're buying his future games.
What does ROI mean here?
Return on investment per SVC spent. A player's points are split across their 1,000,000 influence supply, so the Top Player ROI tab shows what one share has returned relative to its cost, as a percentage: points per share ÷ cheapest ask. A cheap squad player who starts every match can out-rank a superstar. A user-level ROI leaderboard may come later; calculating every account's true cost basis fairly is complex, so it's parked for now.
Why is a World Cup starter missing from the leaderboards?
A handful of World Cup players don't exist in Soccerverse, usually because they broke through after the game's player database was created. They can't be owned, so they can't earn points — their real-world performances simply don't count in Showdown.
Example: South Africa's Mbekezeli Mbokazi started the opening match against Mexico, but made his Orlando Pirates debut in 2025 and was never added to Soccerverse.
Do yellow or red cards cost points?
Not directly — there's no card deduction in the scoring. But cards cost points indirectly: a red card ends a player's minutes (which can wipe a clean-sheet bonus if they go before 75 minutes, or an appearance wage before 45), a player sent off leaves his team more likely to concede everyone else's clean sheets, and a suspension means missing the next match entirely — zero points on a dead matchday.
When do the leaderboards update?
After full-time of each match, once the official player data is published and processed. The status bar on the home page shows how many of the 104 matches have been counted so far.
Are the organisers playing too?
Yes. Accounts belonging to the organisers appear on the leaderboards like everyone else — we think that's more transparent than hiding them, since all influence trades are publicly visible on Soccerverse anyway. A pre-tournament snapshot of all holdings was taken before kick-off, and all trades since then are tracked, so every position on the board can be audited.
Is this official?
No. SVC Showdown is an unofficial community project. It is not affiliated with Soccerverse or FIFA.
Who built this?
SVC Showdown is an experimental project built using AI — the site, the scoring engine, and the data pipelines were created with Claude (Anthropic's AI assistant), with a human setting the rules and checking the output. Match results are processed automatically from official data feeds.
That means rough edges are possible: a mis-matched player name, a delayed result, a scoring quirk. Everything is auditable — holdings, trades, and payouts all derive from public Soccerverse data — so if a number looks wrong, it can be checked and corrected. Spotted something off? Email [email protected] and we'll fix it.