Single-life contest

What a single-life contest is

A single-life contest is the strictest Speed Survivor format. One wrong answer eliminates you. From that moment you stop accruing points, but the points you already banked still count for placement when the contest settles. It is the format closest to a classic survivor pool, where one losing pick ends your season.

The other format is the multi-life contest, where a set number of lives lets you survive a wrong answer or two. The contest page always says which format you are entering.

An example

In a hypothetical single-life contest, you answer the first seven questions correctly and fast, building a strong total. On the eighth, you say the offense will go for it on fourth down and they punt. You are out. Your seven correct answers stay on the board, and when the contest settles you are ranked on them. Whether that total places you in the money depends on how the rest of the field finished.

How it changes the way you play

With no margin for error, every question carries elimination risk. That pushes players to weigh the speed bonus against the cost of a miss more carefully than in a multi-life contest, where an early mistake can be absorbed.

In Speed Survivor

Single-life contests still run their cuts: at each one the bottom of the field by points is removed, even among players with no wrong answers. Surviving both the questions and the cuts puts you in the group that splits the pot. How it works compares the two formats.