Duration
SportsMaster 2026 will run from
November 17, 2025 until the Melbourne Cup is run in November 2026.
Cost
Entry fee is $20 per participant. Groups
are allowed, but they can only enter as a single participant.
Events
Participants will be required to
predict the winners (or similar) of various sporting events
throughout the competition period. The specific events and their
schedules will be announced in advance.
Selections
Participants are required to submit
their selections via the provided platform before 9pm November 15.
No late entries are permitted. Changes to selections after the entry
cut off date are not permitted. Exemptions to selections after the
entry cut off date are at the discretion of competition organisers
and will be used for events such as horse racing or Olympics where
final fields and qualifying are determined in the lead up to events.
This will be explicitly specified for each impacted event via the
selection platform. Unless explicitly specified otherwise on an
event, participants can only select one (1) winner (or similar).
Jokers
Participants are required to select
five (5) events as 'jokers'. Any event for which they select the
correct winner (or similar) will double any points they are eligible
for.
Points
Each event is worth forty (40) points.
If an event is correctly predicted by multiple participants, the
forty (40) points are shared equally among them. Points are awarded
to one (1) decimal place. As mentioned above, if a participant has
used a joker on a correctly predicted event outcome, any points that
they are awarded will be doubled. In the event of a draw/dead heat
where more than one person/team/country shares the outcome required
for the event (ie. two runners finish a race in exactly the same
time), points will be awarded equally for all participants who
correctly predicted any of the winning people/teams/countries. This
does not include draws in sports such as cricket, soccer and AFL
where draws are a legitimate result. Jokers used in events where
there is a draw/dead heat are awarded points in the same fashion as
above.
Outcomes
Outcomes of events are based on the
official results declared by the governing body of the event. These
official results are final. In the event of any discrepancies
between initial reports and the final official results, the latter
will always be used to determine the outcome of the event.
Prizes
The participant with the highest total
points at the end of the competition period will be declared the
winner and grand poobah and receive first prize. In the event of a
tie, the following tiebreakers will be applied in order: Number of
correct predictions - The participant with the higher number of
correct predictions will be ranked higher. Number of correct joker
predictions - The participant with the higher number of correct
predictions which they had a joker applied to will be ranked higher.
Earliest correct prediction - The participant who made their first
correct prediction earliest in the competition will be ranked
higher. Additional prizes are awarded for 2nd, 3rd and last places.
Prizes are usually in the form of cash with amounts determined by
the number of participants.
Modifications
Organisers reserve the right to
modify the rules or cancel the competition at any time.
