Circa Survivor & Circa Million Return for 2026 • This Week in Gambling

Circa Sports has announced the return of its Circa Survivor, Circa Million VIII, and Circa Grandissimo football contests for the upcoming season, featuring a record-breaking combined guaranteed prize pool of thirty million dollars. The operator, known for its high-stakes sports betting offerings, is raising the stakes across its three primary competitions, with all entry fees feeding directly into the payouts without a house rake.

The centerpiece of the lineup, Circa Survivor, is expanding significantly for the football season. The contest features a twenty million dollar guaranteed payout for the last remaining entry standing. This marks an increase from the previous season, where five winners who achieved perfect twenty and zero records split a total prize pot of over eighteen million dollars, with each winning entry taking home more than three point seven million dollars.

To participate in Circa Survivor, contestants must select one professional football team to win straight up each week. A chosen team cannot be picked more than once by the same entry during the season. The competition spans up to twenty legs, which includes the standard seventeen weeks of the season along with two designated special holiday weeks. Thanksgiving week and Christmas week are treated as their own individual contest periods. An entry is immediately eliminated if the selected team loses or ties its game.

Registration for the contests runs from late May through September twelve. Participants can sign up at designated Circa Sports locations in Nevada, including properties in Las Vegas and Sparks. While individuals must register in person at a Nevada location, contestants living outside the state are permitted to use a registered proxy service to submit their weekly selections from within Nevada borders.

Each entry into Circa Survivor costs one thousand dollars, and individuals are limited to a maximum of ten entries. If an entrant loses their initial selections during the opening Thursday night game, they are permitted to purchase additional entries to rejoin the field, provided they do not exceed the ten entry limit.

In addition to Circa Survivor, the operator is hosting Circa Million VIII, which offers six million dollars in total guaranteed prizes, including a one million dollar top prize for the contestant who accumulates the most points against the spread. The third contest, Circa Grandissimo, returns for its second year with a one hundred thousand dollar entry fee and a four million dollar guaranteed prize pool for the final survivor. All contests are scheduled to run through January ten, two thousand twenty-seven.