Build log · Shipped Oct 8, 2026
A fundraiser demo you can actually play
Take a seat as a parent on a made-up team, pretend to pay, make your picks and replay a real week of all four games.
The hard part of explaining a fundraiser game is that it only clicks once you've played a week. So Locker Room Fund's demo now lets you do that, with no sign-in.
Play a week as a parent
The demo has a made-up team running one pool of each game: Points Pool, Pick'em, Survivor and Squares. All of it runs on this season's real results.
- Pick a seat. Sit down as one of the team's parents.
- Pretend to pay. Walk through the same steps a real family does. No money moves.
- Confirm it as the admin. Switch to the admin's seat and confirm that payment, the way a team volunteer does on a real pool.
- Make your picks.
- Replay the week. The latest scored week plays back quarter by quarter while you watch your entry climb or sink.
Pick'em, Survivor and Squares all run on the same replay, so you can try the game your team is actually considering.
The real thing underneath
Nothing in the demo is faked for show. The places, the prizes, the tiebreaks, the random picks handed to someone who missed a deadline, and the winning squares all come from the same scoring the real games use. When the week ends, you see its awards.
There's an inbox as well. It shows the actual emails a family gets, with your name and the demo team's color on them. If you want to know what a family sees after a win, it's right there.
Nothing in it is real, and nothing sends
- Every family on the demo team is made up.
- The demo never sends an email to anyone.
- It never saves what you do, and visitors can't change the demo team itself.
A few details make it easier on a phone. Tap as fast as you like on a pick sheet or the squares board, and every tap registers. Survivor shows who's still standing above the team tiles. The confirmation message sits at the top of the screen, so it never covers your picks.
Start there
The home page now points straight at the demo, and a signed-in parent sees their own teams first. If you run a team and you're wondering whether your families would get it, play one week before you decide.