How do I get the first five players into my game?

You bring the first five yourself, and from the fifth sign-up the app takes over: the game enters the city feed, the daily digest and smart fill.

The threshold is five active players for a pick-up game, or one fully assembled team for a team draft. Before that the game is reachable only by direct link and by the people you invited, which is why the first five matter more than anything else you do that week.

What works, in order of how well it works:

• Share the game link straight into the chat where your players already are. They do not need the app installed to open it and sign up.

• Connect your Telegram chat once, and every game you create is posted there automatically.

• Invite the people you already play with by name from the game screen.

• Publish two or three days ahead rather than the same evening, so reminders have time to work.

Games that never get a single sign-up are almost always cancelled, so treat the first five as the real task and the rest of the setup as preparation for it.