# Trading During Tournaments

To keep tournaments competitive, eligibility is controlled by a snapshot.

**Key rules**

* You can buy shares any time before the player enters the pitch. Once they enter, we snapshot your eligible shares for that tournament.
* When the player enters the pitch, Football.fun takes a **snapshot** of your eligible shares (shares with active contracts).
* If you sell after the snapshot, the shares you sold are no longer eligible for rewards in that tournament.

**Reward splitting (simple)**

Tournament rewards are split across eligible shares at snapshot time. If fewer eligible shares remain, each remaining eligible share can represent a larger slice of the reward pool.

### **Trading Restriction**

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[Tournament rewards](https://docs.sport.fun/football/getting-started/rewards) are set for 4PM UTC on the day after the final tournament game.\
You can trade winning players again from **3PM UTC**, one hour before rewards are claimable.
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