How many players can play SideHustle®?

Q: How many players can play SideHustle®?

SideHustle® is built around teams of 4 to 5 players. The Labs format scales from a single classroom of 20 students up through full auditoriums of 200+. The LIVE show plays to a full house with rotating teams pulled from the crowd.

The story

Team size in SideHustle® is fixed at 4 to 5 for a reason. Smaller than 4 and you don't get enough creative friction. Larger than 5 and someone disappears. Within those constraints, the format scales in two directions. In the Labs format, you can run multiple teams in parallel inside the same room. A class of 25 students becomes 5 teams of 5. A university auditorium of 200 students becomes 40 teams of 5. The structure stays identical. In the LIVE show format, the dynamic shifts. Teams of 4 to 5 take the stage in rotation, while the rest of the audience scores, reacts, and votes. Pershing Hall in Austin is the show's recurring room. The 7th brand anniversary celebration show on Oct 1, 2026 runs there (the SideHustle® brand launched via Kickstarter on Sept 24, 2019, making 2026 the 7-year brand anniversary).

What it means

The team size is a feature, not a constraint. It's the unit that makes the format portable. Whether you're running a classroom Lab or a full live show, the underlying mechanic is the same: 4 to 5 humans collaborate fast and deliver in front of others. That's the rep. Everything else is staging. For the full primer on the show, read what is SideHustle® LIVE: the complete guide.

Try it

• Play free at playsidehustle.com
• See us live: Oct 1 at Pershing Hall in Austin. playsidehustle.com
• Email team@playsidehustle.com