-In round six, the teams ranked first and second will play off against each other to determine your league's overall champion. Third will play fourth and fifth will play sixth for the minor placings.
Rivalries
You can set up a Rivalry against anyone you like who is also in the competition. On the Rivalries page, you'll be able to keep track of their week-to-week score, whether you won or lost against them, as well as a win/draw/loss tally.
Social leagues
If you have a Facebook and/or Twitter account, you can now link it to your Fantasy Rugby Championship entry.
In addition to the sharing of your data to your wall/followers, you'll be able to set up your own Facebook and/or Twitter leagues.
More stats than ever
An in-depth Stats Centre offers several comprehensive features and facilities that will help you with your initial team selection, as well as further substitution and trading decisions throughout the competition.
New scoring statistics
In addition to the existing ways players can score fantasy points, we've added a raft of new categories including try assists, tackle breaks, offloads, lineout takes and steals, kicks in general play and scrums won.
Faster and easier
We've launched a new team-selection functionality which makes the process of selecting your squad much faster and easier.
Expert league
As well as competing for the overall Dream Team Rugby Championship title there are a number of selected rugby experts from Radio Sport, Radio Hauraki and the Herald Rugby team, including Dr Stats, that you can take on a special expert league.
Prizes
As well as competing for the first Fantasy Rugby Championship title, we're celebrating this new game by giving away a stash of cash. There's $3600 in cash prizes. Finish the 2014 Fantasy Rugby Championship as New Zealand's top coach and you'll receive $3000 cash.
On top of that, the player with the highest score for each round will receive $100 cash.
New players
Find this all a bit daunting? Don't worry, we're here to help -- as well as a comprehensive FAQ and help section, we have a video guide which details every key process of getting involved in the game.
Tipping games
Alongside our new Fantasy Rugby Championship game, make it more exciting by picking which teams will win each week in our Rugby Championship, ITM Cup and Heartland Championship tipping games.
Sign up and be in to win $3000
Dream Team Fantasy Rugby Championship is simple.
Register at dreamteam.co.nz, come up with a name for your team and you will receive a fantasy budget to create your own Fantasy Rugby Championship team consisting of players from the real-life international squads.
Each Rugby Championship player is assigned a dollar value based on their past ability to score fantasy points.
Your challenge is to build a squad that combines the best of New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and Argentina to form the ultimate fantasy team.
Your Fantasy team will then receive fantasy points for the real-life performances of your selected players. Fantasy points will be awarded to players for things like tackles made, tries scored and a number of new categories for our site including try assists, tackle breaks and lineout steals. Players will also lose fantasy points for getting sent off and missing tackles.
Your fantasy team will automatically be competing with all other registered teams for the overall Dream Team Rugby Championship title which comes with a $3000 cash prize.
You can also form a variety of private competitions with friends and workmates as well as compete against a number of New Zealand celebrities
