The 2025 NRL footy season kicks off on the March 2nd in Las Vegas. Christine and Paul again invite you to The Grumpy Granny Footy Tipping Competition. It’s all online and totally free.

It’s open to all of Christine’s children (and their partners) and grandchildren and, since Paul doesn’t have any kids, a handful of people he invites. You’re welcome to provide the competition details to other people you’d like to compete against, however, they’ll be FunTipsters and will not have any bearing on prizes or positions.

The Grumpy Granny Tipping Comp is hosted on itipfooty.com.au. You’ll need a profile if you don’t already have one, to  join Comp# 113040 with password NorrieSt58.

All prizes are funded by our 10c container refunds without any contribution from players.*** Prizes will be distributed (and, if necessary, drawn) at a BBQ at 58 Norrie St on November 1st commencing after the Jacaranda Festival float parade. If you can't be there, we'll arrange to get any prizes you've won to you some other way. You’re still more than welcome to come to our place on Grand Final Day to hang out, have fun and watch the game. We just won’t be handing out prizes.

Some rules from last year have been changed and some new rules and comps have been added.

TIPPING COMP RULES AND PRIZES

1. Tipping for each game closes 5 minutes before scheduled kick-off. If you haven’t tipped when a game closes you’ll score 0 points for that game. You’ll still be able to tip for the remainder of the round.

2. During the regular season rounds, each correct tip earns 2 points with a bonus 2 points for tipping a perfect round. The perfect round bonus applies on all regular season rounds (including bye rounds) but does not apply to finals.

3. During the finals, each correct tip earns 3 points.

4. Every player has a Joker that can be used once on any regular season round. Your points (including any perfect round bonus) will be doubled for the round in which you play your Joker.

5. Tipping Comp leader board and tips will be visible to all players up to Round 22. After Round 22 they’ll be hidden until Grand Final Day.

6. State Of Origin games are not part of the Comp.

7. LEADER BOARD PRIZES: 1st: $100; 2nd: $75; and 3rd: $50. In the event of a tie, the tipster with a LOWER overall Margin score will win.

8. SURPRISE PRIZE: On Grand Final Day, there will be a draw for a random Leader Board position (between 4th place and last place) e.g.16th place. Whoever is in that position on the itipfooty Leader Board AFTER the Grand Final will win the Surprise Prize. The Surprise Prize is worth $50 LESS $1 for each game that the winning tipster did not enter a tip during the competition.

9. The Surprise Prize has replaced the Wooden Spoon prize and is intended to encourage participation. Players can freely choose to not tip to try and finish last, however it will reduce the Surprise Prize if they win it.

10. PERFECT ROUND PRIZE AND JACKPOT: Every regular season round has a $10 prize available. You win the Round Prize by being the only person to tip a perfect round. If nobody, or more than one person, tips a perfect round, the Round Prize jackpots to the next round. Each time the Round Prize is won, it resets to $10 again for the next round. If the Round Prize is not won in Round 27, the Round 27 jackpot (whatever it may be) will be awarded by random draw.

MARGIN COMP RULES AND PRIZES

1. Each round will have a nominated game (usually the first game of the round) where, in addition to tipping the winner, players must tip what they think will be the winning margin for that game.

2. OVERALL MARGIN PRIZES: These prizes are NEW for 2025. The cumulative margin score for each tipster for all rounds including finals will be used to determine the overall Margin Prize winners.1st: $100; 2nd: $75; and 3rd: $50. In the event of a tie, the tipster with a HIGHER Leader Board score will win.

3. MARGIN PRIZE AND JACKPOT: Every regular season round has a $10 prize available. You win the Margin Prize by being the only person to tip the winning margin on the nominated game. If nobody, or more than one person, tips the winning margin, the Margin Prize jackpots to the next round. Each time the Margin Prize is won, it resets to $10 again for the next game.
   NB the Margin Comp continues all the way to the Grand Final, but the Margin Prize, if not already won, stops jackpotting at the end of the regular season rounds.

4. If you do not tip for the nominated Margin Prize game, your tip for the nominated game will be modified by Comp Admin to tip the losing team with a margin tip that scores the same as the worst margin score for that round. NB All players will get an automatic itipfooty email about changes that are made.

KNOCK-OUT COMP RULES AND PRIZES 

1. Each round, until you are knocked out, you must pick a team that you think will win in that round. If the team you pick wins, you keep playing; if the team you pick loses, you’re knocked out. Last player(s) standing [*see Rules 4-6] wins the Knock-Out Prize.

2. You can not select the same team in consecutive weeks.

3. KNOCK-OUT PRIZE AND JACKPOT: Every regular season round has a $10 prize available. The Knock-Out Prize starts at $10 and jackpots by $10 each round where it isn’t won. So, if you’re the last tipster standing after five rounds you win $50; if you’re the last tipster standing after eleven rounds you win $110. Once the Knock-Out Prize is won, all players get reinstated, and the Knock-Out Comp starts again at $10. If necessary, the Knock-Out Comp will continue into the finals to find a winner but the prize stops increasing at Round 27

4. If all of the remaining players in any round pick losing teams the Knock-Out Prize for that round will be shared between them, and the Knock-Out Comp will restart at $10 with all players re-instated.

5. If all of the remaining players in any round pick THE SAME winning team, the Knock-Out Prize for that round will be shared between them, and the Knock-Out Comp will restart at $10 with all players re-instated.

6. If the Knock-Out Comp gets down to two players, there will only be a single round to determine the winner. If both players pick winning teams the Knock-Out Prize will be shared between them, and the Knock-Out Comp will restart at $10 with all players re-instated.

7. Any player who is ‘knocked out’ by the itipfooty platform due to a draw will be re-instated by Comp Admin. This means there may be occasions where the Knock-Out Comp continues when itipfooty says it has ended.

 ***PLEASE NOTE: This comp is NOT a 'pay-to-enter' comp and, as such, there will sometimes be circumstances where the advertised prizes may be subject to change.