Terms of service

These terms govern your use of www.theworldleaderboard.com. By creating an account or using the site you accept them. If you do not, do not use the site.

Leaderboard is operated by its founding team in Australia. An operating company is being established; when it is registered, its name and ABN will be published here and will assume these obligations.

The rules of play and the privacy policy form part of this agreement. Where the rules page describes how an event is scored, resolved, voided or extended, that description governs.

You must be at least 18 years old to hold an account, which you confirm yourself with a tick box the first time you sign in. The game is free and involves no wagering, so this is a threshold we set rather than one the law imposes on the current format; it is set here because rewards after resolution are intended and we would rather not change the rule later.

You are responsible for whether using the site is lawful where you are. We do not offer the service anywhere it would be unlawful, and we may block access from a place if that turns out to be the case.

One account per person. Holding several accounts to occupy more of the standings, or coordinating accounts you control, voids the results involved and may cost you all of them.

Keep control of the email address your account is under, because access to that inbox is access to your account. Tell us if you think someone else has it.

Choose a display name that is not offensive, not designed to impersonate someone, and not somebody else's trade mark. We may change a name that breaks this, and will tell you when we do.

Leaderboard is free today, and this section describes today. There is no purchase, no stake, no wager, no odds, no house, and no way to pay for an advantage. You cannot deposit, cannot withdraw, and cannot win money from another player. Your probability is a forecast, not a position, and nothing on the site can be bought, sold or traded.

We are not promising it stays that way forever. Leaderboard is early, and paid formats are intended later. If one is introduced it will have its own terms, published before it runs, and it will not be applied to a tournament you have already entered — a tournament that was free when you joined it stays free. Everything in this section is a statement about the product as it exists now, not a permanent guarantee, and if it changes you will get the notice §11 requires rather than discovering it at a payment screen.

Rewards after resolution are intended and are not yet offered. If they are introduced, the terms that apply to them will be published before they run.

Nothing on Leaderboard is advice. Not financial, investment, betting or legal advice. Crowd figures are the average of what players guessed and are published as part of the game, not as a forecast anyone should act on. Do not make decisions that matter on the basis of anything here.

Every event is resolved against the source named in it before it opened, read against the threshold written at the same time, and published in the tournament's resolution log with a timestamp. That source may be a public record (an official statement, a wire call) or a citation of a named public prediction market. Leaderboard is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a partner of Kalshi or Polymarket. Those names appear only as citations of a public market we may pin as a source. We do not operate an exchange, take or match orders, or send you there to trade. The full procedure — locking, voiding, extension, the 48-hour dispute window, and finality after it — is on the rules page and applies as written there.

We record each result from that source and we publish the reasoning so the decision is checkable. Within the dispute window we will correct or void a resolution where the pre-committed source supports it. After the window closes, the result is final and later revisions by the source do not reopen it.

Scores, standings and track records may be recalculated when a correction or void requires it. We may void an event, a slate, or an entire tournament where its integrity has failed — a compromised source, a bug in scoring, or coordinated manipulation — and we will say publicly why.

Comments under an event exist to read the question better. Do not post anything unlawful, abusive, harassing, hateful, deceptive, spam, or anyone's private information. Do not impersonate anyone. Do not use the site to advertise.

We may remove or hide a comment and may suspend posting. Removals are reversible where they turn out to be wrong; write to us. Any signed-in player can report a comment, and reports are reviewed by us rather than acted on automatically.

You keep ownership of what you post. By posting it you give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to display it on the site and in material about the site, for as long as you leave it up. Delete your comment or your account and that licence ends for anything not already published elsewhere.

Do not scrape the site, script entry, or use the service through anything other than a normal browser. Do not try to interfere with a resolution source in order to move an outcome. Do not attempt to access anyone else's account or any part of the system you were not given.

The site is offered as it is. It is an early product, it will have outages, and we do not promise it will be available at any particular moment — including the moment an event locks. We will act reasonably where an outage of ours prevented you from saving a slate, but the practical protection is not leaving it to the last minute.

We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of the service, including a tournament in progress — but not silently, and not for no reason. We will give notice where the circumstances allow it, say why, and say what happens to the standings of any tournament we end early.

You can delete your account at any time from your account page. It takes effect immediately and cannot be undone; what is erased and what survives is set out in the privacy policy.

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, and will tell you why unless the law prevents us. Sections 4, 5, 9, 10 and 12 survive the end of the agreement.

Nothing in these terms excludes a right you have under the Australian Consumer Law or any other law that cannot be excluded. Where a guarantee applies and can be limited, our liability is limited to supplying the service again.

Otherwise, and to the extent the law allows: the service is provided without warranties; we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss; and we are not liable for any decision you make on the basis of anything published here, including a resolution, a crowd figure, or another player's comment.

The service is free, which is the honest context for the paragraph above rather than an excuse for it: there is no entry fee at stake, no balance to lose, and nothing you have paid for that can fail to arrive.

These terms are governed by the laws of Australia. Disputes go to the courts of Australia, and you and we submit to their jurisdiction. This does not remove any protection available to you under the law of the country you live in.

We may update these terms. The date at the top is when they last changed in substance. A change that materially reduces what you get or adds an obligation is announced on the site at least 14 days before it takes effect, so that leaving instead is a real option and not a discovery you make afterwards. Corrections that do not change your position — a typo, a clearer sentence, a renamed page — take effect when published.

Continuing to use Leaderboard after a change takes effect means you accept it. If you do not, delete your account, which you can do instantly and without asking us.

If one clause fails, the others stand. Should any part of these terms be unenforceable, it is severed to the minimum extent needed and everything else keeps working.

We may transfer this agreement to the company being established to operate Leaderboard, or to a successor that takes over the service, provided your rights under it are not reduced. You may not transfer your account to someone else — it is yours, and the record attached to it is meant to be.

Not enforcing something is not giving it up. If we do not act on a breach immediately, we can still act on it later.

These terms, the rules and the privacy policy are the whole agreement between us about Leaderboard, and replace anything said before.

Questions about any of this: theworldleaderboard@gmail.com.