A pool is a private leaderboard for just the people you invite — friends, family, coworkers — and every entry needs one: there's no building a bracket without picking or creating a pool first. If someone already invited you to theirs, just click their link — it walks you through account and entry together; see the User Guide. This page is for starting your own instead.

1. Create an account if you don't already have one.
2. Go to Play → Pools and type a name under Create a Pool — something like "The Westwood Circle" — then click Create Pool. You're sent straight into building your own bracket inside it — no separate "submit an entry" step.
3. Once that's done, back on My Pools, click Manage next to it to get its invite link.
4. Send that link to whoever you want in the pool. Each person creates their own account, clicks your link, and builds their own bracket inside your pool — it sits pending until you approve it from Manage, then shows up on the pool's own leaderboard.