Spartacus turns your club's Last One Standing competition from a Friday-night WhatsApp scramble into something you can actually be proud to run.
Running Last One Standing for 40+ players means juggling messages, payments and elimination rules every weekend. It works — until it doesn't.
From the first invite to the first pick, Spartacus is set up in less time than it takes to write the group chat.
Enter your club name, entry fee, buy-back rules and prize structure. Upload your crest. Done in two minutes.
Send a single share link by WhatsApp or email. Players join online with their email — no app to install, no password to remember.
Enter the gameweek's results, Spartacus processes eliminations automatically and tracks every payment. You stay out of the WhatsApp group.
Not for "competition managers". For Liz the volunteer who's already running the U14s, the bus rota and the AGM minutes.
Enter four W/D/L results. Spartacus processes every elimination in one tap — no spreadsheet gymnastics.
Players pay your club directly — Revolut, bank transfer, cash, however you already collect. Spartacus tracks who’s paid and reconciles the pot, without ever touching the money.
Give committee members and players a sales target, watch them compete. Built-in incentive to grow your competition every year.
Every pick is timestamped and locked at the deadline. No “but I texted you last night” disputes.
Set how long eliminated players can pay to re-enter. Spartacus handles the cut-off automatically.
Upload your club crest. Set the competition name. Share a custom link. The competition looks like the club’s, not Spartacus’s.
Round results, pick summaries, squad standings and deadline reminders as branded graphics with your crest and sponsor — sized for Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and X, downloaded in one tap.
An assistant inside the admin that knows your competition: ask how to close out a round, why a buy-back isn’t showing, or how many are still in, and get the answer and where to click.
Players team up into squads of 2–10. A squad stays alive as long as one member does, so being knocked out yourself isn’t the end of your interest — add a squad prize on top of your main pot to keep everyone invested.
Alan Dowling · Ballinrobe Town AFC · Last One Standing organiser
Every seller gets their own ten-line card as a link. Friends and family fill a line themselves — name, email, how they're paying — and they're straight into the game. Nobody at the club types an email address again, and the seller watches their card fill up.
Your name, your team, your card. Send it on WhatsApp the way you'd hand over the paper.
Type your own details once. Your first email is a sign-in code you asked for — not an invite you didn't.
Every entry is credited to its seller automatically. Settle a card in one go when the seller hands in.
In development for the next season. Clubs already running on Spartacus will get it first.
Set up and run your competition with no upfront cost. You only choose a plan once you reach 30 players — so you never pay before it's working. However you collect entry fees, the pot is always your club's.
No, and that is deliberate. Your club collects entry and buy-back fees directly, however you already do it: Revolut, bank transfer, cash, a ClubZap link. Spartacus tracks who has paid and reconciles the pot, but never holds the money or pays out the prize. We charge the club a simple licence fee. Processing player payments and prize payouts would move a platform like ours into gambling and money-transmission rules that no club wants to take on, and neither do we.
Nothing. Set up and run your competition free up to 30 players, no card required. Once you pass 30 you choose a plan: One Game at €149 / £125 for a single competition, or Full Season at €249 / £199 for everything, all season.
With a one-time code sent to their email. No passwords, no app to install. It works on any phone, and one email address can hold several entries, so a parent can enter the family and switch between them on the pick screen.
They are never knocked out just for forgetting. After the deadline Spartacus picks for them: the first team alphabetically they have not used yet that is playing that round, and tells them by email. Players who prefer it can choose to play on auto-pick every week.
Handled automatically from the fixtures feed. Called off before the pick deadline: the pick is cancelled, the player picks again and the team goes back on their list. Called off after the deadline: the player goes through to the next round, but that team is used up.
If your club allows it. Set the buy-back fee and how many rounds the window stays open, and Spartacus tells eliminated players what to do and closes the window on its own. Buying back never resets a player’s used teams. Your admin confirms each payment, or waives it.
A few minutes. Sync the results, press Process Eliminations, open the next round. Pick reminders, auto-picks, survival and elimination emails, the social graphics and the round-up post are done for you.
No. Any club, society or workplace that runs a Last One Standing on the Premier League can use it. The competition carries your crest, your name and your sponsor, not ours.
Five minutes to set up. The whole season sorted in one place. Your weekends back.
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