CHOICE (Free or Paid) FANTASY RUGBY UNION - SIX NATIONS 2026 (Official Game)



Well, the NFL season is almost over and many of us will have tanked in the football (soccer) so a nice change of sport is offered up with the annual Rugby Union Six Nations tournament. This is a free game the official body does over the internet (click the link below) but this will be just my fourth ever time running a league on it.

FIRST MATCH KICKS OFF NEXT THURSDAY!

(6 Nations starts on Thursday 5th February at 20:10 GMT).

I have decided to make this league open to both fun players and paid players - as the game site does not appear to allow me to remove teams once they join and also carries over entrants from past years who played in my league previously so for this reason to make it easier on me admin wise along with hopefully getting a bigger league pool the entry fee of £10 is optional. Only those players paying to play can win £ prizes split across the top three paying finishers at the end of the tournament as follows:

PRIZE PAYOUTS

1st - 60%
2nd - 30%
3rd - 10%

(£10 entry - 1 team only per person)

I always think it’s more interesting to have a little money on fantasy games but not everyone feels that way so this time I have given you all the option of whether you wish to compete for money or not. This is also why the prize pay-outs are in percentages - as I can’t know exactly what pay outs will be until I know how many paid entrants I get. What I can tell you is all entry fees will go back out 100% as prizes. Naturally the more paid entrants I end up getting the bigger the monetary prizes will be for each spot - so please share this information with your friends and on social media (use the link at the bottom of this post).

IF YOU WANT TO PLAY FOR £££ PRIZES THEN YOU MUST PAY THE ENTRY FEE BEFORE THE END OF THE FIRST MATCH (Thursday 5th February - France v Ireland 20:10 GMT).

If you do not know my payment details - perhaps your a new first time player to my money games - or you have simply forgotten them, either way no worries, just PM (Private Message) me from here (TFP forum) asking for my payment info making sure to include your real name & e-mail address - so I can send you that information directly via e-mail.

Game site: Fantasy Six Nations Rugby

League Name: BLM 6 NATIONS
League No. 91002
League Password: GRNJU

I look forward to seeing you in my league ASAP.

You can join my league directly by clicking on this link: 91002 : BLM 6 NATIONS

Once first game has ended I will confirm what the prizes are and in the next post on this thread I will BOLD TEXT and put a Rugby Ball :rugby_football: next to the paid entries - who are the only ones competing for the £££ Prizes.

best regards as always,

bluelionman / Noel Symonds

Fan Pub Founding Member

To let people know state of play I will bold and rugby football :rugby_football: those entrants who have paid to show who is playing for money (payment must be received by me before the end of the opening game of Round 1, (France v Ireland) otherwise your only playing for fun:


ENTRIES (14)

What A Load of Flankers! | Noel Symonds | bluelionman :rugby_football:

This Is A Lowe | James Howley

Berties Bassetts | Albert Vaughan

Ruck Me Sideways | Gareth Hensby | c1188210 :rugby_football:

APXV | Adrian Partridge

Mozza_19 | Iain Morris | Mozza_19 :rugby_football:

Sam | Samuel Eastham | Seastham10 :rugby_football:

Scottish Bears | Douglas Hay | McBear

PSM | Paul McGeoghan

Abel Tasman | Simon Brown

juangainza | Juan Gainzarain | juangainza :rugby_football:

Ned Travers | Ned Travers | NedTravers :rugby_football:

Tickleherfrontrow | Richard Stiles

Run Louis Run | Paul Bedford | pauliebedders

Hey all,

Just to confirm 6 of the 14 league entries this year paid to play by the deadline, so I can confirm the prizes for the top 3 paying entrants at the end of the 6 Nations this year are as follows:

To see who is playing for the money just look at the post directly above this one and the entrants who are Bolded with a rugby ball :rugby_football: next to them are the paid entrants.

I hope you all have fun - please tell others about this league so hopefully I can grow it next year - especially regards paying entrants. Share links on your social media (bottom right of every post has a shareable link).

My best regards as always,

bluelionman / Noel Symonds

Fan Pub Founding Member

FINAL RANKINGS


(Click the image to open it in a new window and click on it again to enlarge it.)

Well a big congratulations to Paul Bedford (pauliebedders) who wins this years Fantasy 6 Nations game - but as he was a non paying entrant he misses out on profiting from his skill and knowledge at this game - plus does not go down in my official money game winners history. That honour goes to the actual third place finisher who bags the 1st place prize pot (YET AGAIN) Samuel Eastham and who goes down in my game winners history as the true winner as he was a paid entrant! He has now taken down the first place prize money all 4 years since I started doing this league on the official 6 Nations game!

I myself am an idiot as each round I would not put any players in my team playing against my country - last round that cost me hundreds of points as I took out 4 French guys including who my gut told me would be the best captain last round Louis Bielle-Biarrey and yep 4 tries, MOM etct., coming out to 66 fantasy points doubled that would of been 132 points instead my Captain from Scotland 22 points doubled to 44 points - hate to think what I dropped on the other 3 Frenchies too as it was the highest scoring game of the weekend and it most likely cost me 2nd Place money making me down instead of up on this game. If only I could not be biased am sure I could win this game - if only I could take my heart out of it, be non biased, just use my gut feelings and head. Same in all fantasy sports I have this flaw. :weary_face:

This league will remain a choice league - alas only 6 of the 14 entrants chose to pay (one less than last year) so only they can win the £££ prizes and the top three paid teams for 2026 are as follows:

Final Payouts

Samuel Eastham & Gareth Hensby got bumped up to 1st and 2nd respectively as Paul Bedford (true 1st) and James Howley (true 2nd) were unpaid for team entries - so just playing for fun.
This also bumped me up 2 places to take 3rd - the last cash position - as the next paid entrant.

1st Seastham10 / Samuel Eastman - (Sam) 2464.0
2nd c1188210 / Gareth Hensby - (Ruck Me Sideways) 2419.0
3rd bluelionman / Noel Symonds - (What A Load of Flankers!) 2286.0


You can view my International Rugby Union Fantasy Games Money League’s Winners history here: International Rugby Union Games