The impact of COVID-19 on Superbru

As you are already aware, the coronavirus outbreak that has become a global pandemic is having a major impact on sport everywhere. Here at Superbru, our large list of tournaments cover many events all over the globe but a large majority of them are now being suspended or cancelled due to concerns about public health. Today's news that the Premier League (and all other top-level English football) has been suspended until April 3rd at the earliest is a significant example.

How we deal with it

All of our fixtures will be updated to reflect any date/time changes or marked as 'postponed' as soon as any official announcements are received. The situation is of course ever-changing and rescheduled dates for postponed matches are not always immediately known. As a result, you may see some funny fixture times such as some football rounds being pushed back a few months on Superbru with visible fixture dates not being legitimate. Such cases are merely our way of removing the matches from your dashboard so that you aren't receiving reminders etc. and so that they can be rescheduled for their valid dates as and when they are known.

Equally, if any tournaments end up being completely cancelled due to the outbreak and a lack of time to fulfil fixtures, said tournaments will also be closed on Superbru once official. In the majority of cases, the current pool standings would be taken as final in the event of a cancellation. However, if a tournament is cancelled in its very early stages and not enough of the event has been completed to provide valid standings at Superbru (such as the recent Players championship), we will cancel the tournament and consider it null and void.

Fantasy

As many of us have already experienced in the Six Nations, fantasy tournaments can be a little bit more complicated when fixtures are rescheduled/removed. When it comes to managing those tournaments, each of them are different and we will therefore be reviewing each situation we might face individually and striving to be as fair as we think we can be when it comes to editing transfer and team limits.

What are we going to do now!?

You won't be surprised to hear that we're all sports-mad here at Superbru HQ and so like all other brus we are not looking forward to a period of reduced action to watch and fewer picks to make. However, health is of course the priority and we're fortunate that we currently still have a few tournaments running!

If the tournament you play on Superbru is currently suspended, it's always worth considering trying out a new tournament or perhaps even a new sport if you're in need of a pick fix.

Our current most popular tournament, Super Rugby, remains ongoing though matches in Australia are expected to be played behind closed doors soon.

Rapid Rugby begins its first ever season as a unique tournament tomorrow!

The 2020 NRL season only started on Thursday meaning you can get involved in that Rugby League tipping tournament with only a couple of picks missed.

And for those of you who want to keep up some football predicting, Australia's A-League currently still has fixtures.

We wish you all good health and are extremely grateful for your continued support even when there isn't too much on the sporting calendar! The current absence of fixtures simply means there's a heavenly jam-packed schedule full of all of our favourite tournaments on the horizon and we can't wait to enjoy that with you.