Getting Started

How to begin forecasting

• Sign up as a forecaster at https://rangeforecasting.org using your university or .edu email address.
• You will be automatically assigned to a tournament team based on your university affiliation.
• Once the tournament has begun, find the questions that qualify for the tournament tagged as "College Tournament 2026"
• Select a question you would like to forecast on, read through the background information, and enter the probability (0-100%) an outcome has of occurring. You’ll also be asked to enter a rationale to explain why you entered that particular probability before you submit your forecast.
  
• Need help? Click the Forecasting Tutorial button – ⓘ – in the upper right of any question page. For more information about forecasting best practices, see how to approach an initial probabilistic forecast.

How to interact with your team

You will be able to interact with members of your team in different areas of the site, for example:

• Go to My team on the top navigation to see other users on your team, their activity, and start general discussions. 
• Within any question’s page (below the forecasting interface), go to the My team tab to start discussions that only other members of your team can see and compare your team’s aggregate consensus to the crowd’s.
• From the Leaderboards in the top nav, you can see general team rankings, which are updated anytime a question is scored. Note that because RANGE’s team leaderboard ranking takes into account all scored questions – not just the qualifying questions for the tournament – RANGE will be calculating college tournament team rankings separately.
  
  

See more details about the Tournament here. Questions? Email [email protected].

RANGE is a key part of the Bertelsmann Foundation & Bertelsmann Stiftung’s work to bring accurate, credible and forward-looking insights to governments and the public on both sides of the Atlantic.