Game Guidelines 26

2026 NRL TIPPING GAME ("GAME") OFFICIAL RULES

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 1. INTRODUCTION

• By registering and participating in the 2026 NRL Tipping Game participants agree to be bound by these Official Rules("Rules").
• Throughout the 2026 National Rugby League season Eligible Participants are able to create one (1) user registration and enter into the Game. There are no fees, charges, or purchases required to play the Game, other than relevant internet usage costs.

2. TERM OF GAME

• The Promotion will be open from 12:00pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time ("AEDT") on 4th February 2026 and will continue until 11:59pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time ("AEDT") on 04th October 2026 ("Promotion Period"), and will cover all fixtures in the 2026 Telstra Premiership seasons (NRL) including the Finals Series and all fixtures in the men’s Ampol State of Origin series ("Rounds"), as notified on www.nrl.com.

3. WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE

• Participation in the Game is open to all, with prize eligibility restricted to Australian and New Zealand residents over the age of 12 years, excluding management, employees and contractors of the Promoter, the NRL, all NRL official clubs, Genius Sports Ltd, their agencies and other firms or companies associated with this Promotion, and their immediate families ("Eligible Participants").
• There are certain minimum activity requirements for all participants. Participants who fail to meet the minimum activity requirements are not eligible to win prizes and may have their entry disqualified. This includes your agreement to not use vulgar, abusive, sexual &/or vilifying team names and avatars.

4. HOW TO PARTICIPATE

• To participate, Eligible Participants must, during the Promotion Period:
• visit tipping.nrl.com ("Website");
• have or create a valid NRL Account;
• register for the 2026 Official NRL Footy Tipping competition ("Game") using the registration form for the NRL Tipping Competition ("Tipping Game") and your NRL Account details;
• Choose an auto / forgotten tip preference (updatable until start of the first match of the season);
• create and/or join a public & private competition; and
• participate in the Game in accordance with these terms and conditions. ("Eligible Entry"). ("Registration").
• Only one registration per Eligible Participant will be accepted.
• If an Eligible Participant is invited to join a competition, they may enter the appropriate details to join that competition during (or after) registration. An Eligible Participant will be automatically entered into two public competitions (overall and club-specific rankings) following registration.
• An Eligible Participant may also create a private or public competition and invite other Eligible Participants to join. An Eligible Participant may advise a person about the Game and invite them to join by sending them an email through the Website or supplying the competition unique code via alternate means provided. The Eligible Participant warrants that any person they send competition joining details to in this manner has consented to receipt of this communication.
• After registration, Eligible Participants may participate in all remaining Rounds which have not already been completed or ‘Locked-Out’.
• All Eligible Participants will also be automatically entered into the Streak competition.

5. THE BASICS

• To play in the classic component of the NRL Tipping competition:
  • Enter or update your Tips for all scheduled matches, at any point up until the scheduled ‘lock out’ of each match.
  • Ensure you enter a predicted winning Margin for the featured game of the Round or be given the default margin (see Margin Prediction below).
  • If you forget to Tip you will automatically be allocated the predictions based on your pre-set Auto / Forgotten Tips preference.
• To play in the Streak component of the NRL Tipping competition:
  • All entries will automatically be entered in the public competition starting from Round 1, game 1,
  • Get on a Tipping Streak by picking consecutive-match winners,
  • You can streak tip any match in the schedule or ‘skip’ a match (i.e. do not include it in your streak predictions),
  • Your Streak Tip must be made prior to the match ‘locking out’,
  • If you pick a losing team your active Streak ends and you start another active streak at the next tipped match in the schedule,
  • The longest consecutive winning sequence will represent your current Streak ranking total.
  • There is no automatic tip scenario for Streak.

• Margin Prediction

As part of your ‘classic’ tipping you must submit your Predicted Margin for one randomly-selected match a Round (Tipping) and the match of your Streak tip (Streak), by nominating a points margin for that match. The difference between your Predicted Margin and the actual match margin will be your Round Margin Score and will be added to your Accumulated Margin Score every Round.

Both margin scores are used to determine ranking position in the event of a total points tie.

• Match Facts

As well as the teams in each head-to-head match-up, you will be provided with past match-up data, including:

• Form: Immediately prior rounds results for each team,
• Previous: Results for prior match-ups between the two teams,
• H2H: Summary record of the head-to-head match-ups,
• Ins & Outs: Team changes from previous match.

We may add further data if/when practical.

This section also links to the NRL match Centre and tickets.

• Create & Join Competitions:
  • You may create up to five(5) competitions.
  • There is no limit to how big you make your Competition. Link your Facebook and X accounts so that you can play against your social networks.
  • Your Competition can be either Private for just you and your friends or open to the public and will commence at the beginning of the upcoming Round, by default. The administrator of a Private Competition is the only one who can invite others to the Competition. That person can also remove users from the Competition and add expert Tippers to the Competition.
  • Join as many competitions as you like. View your progress on the Rankings page(s).

• Regenerating Prior-Year Competitions

Step 1

• Find and click the "Regenerate your <previous year> comps" button on the Comps. list page. This will generate a list of comps that can be regenerated.
• Select a comp. to view the settings as well as any applicable notifications (e.g. this comp. name is already in use etc).

Step 2

• If you regenerate a comp. you can only change the following settings (all other settings are hidden):
  • Name
  • Privacy
  • Start date

Step 3

• All the participants of your old comp. will be pre-populated in the Name & Email fields. You can remove anyone you don't want. Note that open comps with 20+ users will not list all email addresses. Rather simply click the "Invite All Button" to invites all players from last season. 
• The comp. is then created.
• Once the comp. is (re)created it will no longer appear on the "Regenerate A Comp." screen.

• Site rankings and leader boards:

Your entry is automatically entered in the overall competition for ‘classic’ Tipping (including your club-specific supporter competition) and Streak. Both Tipping (overall and comps) and Streak have a leader board accessible in the Rankings section.

6. SCORING OF POINTS – CLASSIC TIPPING

• An Eligible Entrant may make or change a Tip for a given Match in a Round at any time prior to the scheduled starting time of that Match.
• Eligible Entrants will be allocated points based on their Tips (“Score”).
  • One (1) point will be allocated for each correct winning team selection.
  • Zero (0) points will be allocated for each incorrect team selection
• In the event of a Match drawn, cancelled, abandoned, not completed or not played for any reason and/or a result not officially declared within three (3) days of the date the Match was originally scheduled to be played, it is treated as a win for both teams competing in that Match.
• All entrants correctly tipping all winning teams in any given round where 8 games or more are played will receive a Bonus Point. I.E. there will be no bonus points awarded in Round 12 (5 NRL matches only scheduled). The bonus is not awarded to entrants who did not submit one or more tips, thus there is no bonus for a forgotten tip scenario producing wins for all teams in a Round.
• If an Eligible Entrant:
  • Does not submit a Tip for a given Match in a Round, then the Eligible Entrant's Tip for that Match will be allocated based on the entrant’s pre-set Auto / Forgotten Tips choice. This option is set at registration and can be altered until lock-out of the first match of the Tipping season.;
  • Enters the Promotion after the commencement of the first Round, then the Eligible Entrant’s Tips for those Rounds that have been completed will be deemed to be for the away teams, with a maximum of 4 points per Round;
  • Does not enter a Margin for a Margin Match, then the Eligible Entrant’s Margin will be the average Margin of all the Margins submitted by Eligible Entrant’s in that Round.

• Auto / Forgotten Tips
  • An entrant must set their preferred option during registration. They may change this selection until the lock-out of the first scheduled match of the season. The options are: 
    • Home Team: The team listed in the official draw as having a home game (even if the match is scheduled away from that team’s home ground),
    • The Crowd: The team designated as favoured by the majority of other NRL Tipping entrants,
    • Ladder: The team higher up the NRL ladder heading into the match-up,
    • Favourites: The team designated as favoured to win by the NRL’s wagering partner at the match lock-out.

• For the Crowd & Favourites options, if the two teams are priced or tipped equally the auto / forgotten tip allocation will have a default to home team tip - The team listed in the official draw as having a home game (even if the match is scheduled away from that team’s home ground).

• Margins are taken into account when two or more Eligible Entrants have the same Score. The number of points between an Eligible Entrant’s Margin prediction and the actual Margin for a Match will form the basis of the Eligible Entrant’s Margin Score. The Margin Score will accumulate each week.
• Eligible Entrants will be ranked on a leaderboard on the Website. For NRL Tipping ‘classic’, rankings will appear by Score for the previous Round (“Round Ranking”), and the overall Score for the Game to date (“Overall Ranking”) as set out below.
• In the event of a tie between two or more Eligible Entrants for a prize, the Eligible Entrant from the tied Eligible Entrants, who has the lowest aggregate margin will be ranked higher and deemed the prize winner. If Eligible Entrants are still tied, the Eligible Entrant who registered to participate in the Game first in time during the 2026 Promotion Period, will be ranked higher and deemed the prize winner.

7. SCORING OF POINTS – STREAK TIPPING

• To play the Streak Game, Eligible Entrants must access the Streak section of the site and Tip at least one match, within the time frames set out. Entrant’s may select to tip as many matches as they choose from the schedule. Non-tipped matches are not counted.
• For every correct Streak tip an Eligible Entrant will receive a point. Accumulation of these points across consecutive matches tipped will form a Streak.
• An incorrect Streak tip will be award no points and will terminate the entrant’s ongoing current streak at the last correct tip total.
• A new Streak will start at the next sequential correct tip.
• An entrant’s longest streak total will be saved as their Streak Tipping Total and used for ranking.

For example, if a user were to streak tip a round as follows:

Match 1: Home team tipped – correct result – current Streak total = 1, Longest streak =1
Match 2: Away team tipped – correct result – current Streak total = 2, Longest streak =2

Match 3: Skipped (not tipped) – current Streak total = 2, Longest streak =2

Match 4: Away team tipped – correct result – current Streak total = 3, Longest streak =3
Match 5: Home team tipped – incorrect – current Streak total = 0, Longest streak =3

Match 6: Skipped – current Streak total = 0, Longest streak =3

Match 7: Home team tipped – correct result – current Streak total = 1, Longest streak =3
Match 8: Away team tipped – correct result – current Streak total = 2, Longest streak =3

Entrant starts the next sequence of matches with an active current streak of 2, whilst they show on the rankings with a total of 3 (longest).

• Eligible Entrants will be ranked on a leaderboard on the Website. For Streak, the ranking will record and rank an entrant’s longest streak (‘Streak Ranking’). These rankings are an indication of ranking for all participants in the Game (including persons who participate in the Game who are not Eligible Entrants).
• Should a tie for the longest streak occur the Eligible Entrant with the fewest skipped matches will be declared the winner. If a further tiebreak is required, the user who registered for 2026 Tipping first in time, will be declared the winner.

8. CONTACT US

Please understand that we occasionally get overwhelmed with emails from passionate Users, so when you have a problem or query, please try find a solution in the Game Guidelines and FAQ first. Of course, if you still have a query, please let us know by clicking Contact Us, providing as much detail as possible and we will be more than happy to help you out.

9. GENERAL

• The Promoter is Australian Rugby League Commission Limited (ABN 94 003 107 293) of Rugby League central, Driver Avenue, Moore Park NSW 2022.
• By participating in the Game, Eligible Participants agree to being contacted (including via email) by the Promoter and/or Genius Sports Ltd from time to time in conjunction with the Game. Eligible Participants also agree to information about them and their participation in the Game being displayed on the Website, and to their participation being tracked via the use of cookies.
• The Promoter accepts no responsibility for any Registrations not received for any reason during the Promotion Period. Registrations will be deemed to be accepted at the time of receipt and not at the time of transmission. No responsibility will be taken for lost, late or misdirected Registrations. The Promoter is not responsible for technical difficulties with the online Registration process and does not warrant that the online Registration will be available at all times.
• If for any reason this Game is not capable of running as planned, including due to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorised intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond the control of the Promoter, which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this promotion, the Promoter reserves the right in its sole discretion to take any action that may be available, subject to compliance with any laws.
• Any participant who, in the opinion of the Promoter, tampers or interferes with the entry mechanism in any way, or who does not properly comply with the entry process (including submitting incomplete Registrations), will be ineligible to participate.
• The Promoter reserves the right to disqualify participants in the event of non-compliance with these Rules, which includes the requirement to abstain from using vulgar, abusive, sexual &/or vilifying team names and avatars.
• In the event there is a dispute concerning the conduct of the Game, the decision of the Promoter is final and binding on each person who participates and no correspondence will be entered into.
• To the extent permitted by law, the Promoter shall not be liable for any loss or damage whatsoever (including but not limited to direct or consequential loss) or personal injury suffered or sustained in connection with this Game.
• Information about Eligible Participants is used by the Promoter and the NRL to assess and process registrations for the Game. If a person wishing to participate in the Game does not provide the required information (see clause 4 above), the Promoter cannot process the registration and the person will not be entered into the Game. All registrations and information contained in them become the property of the Promoter and will be entered into a database. Information emanating from the Eligible Participant's participation in the Game is used by the Promoter and its agencies associated with it for the determination of the scoreboard, referred to in clause 5.6 above. Eligible Participants consent to the publishing of their personal information and score on the Website by the Promoter. The Promoter will not be held responsible for, and expressly excludes, any loss of reputation, status or otherwise in connection with an Eligible Participant's score.
• By participating in the Game, the Eligible Participant (and their parent or legal guardian if they are under 18 years of age) understands and agrees that the Promoter may use and disclose the information provided by the participant to the Promoter, and to the Promoter by Genius Sports Ltd, on the terms and for the purposes (including marketing) set out in the Promoter’s Privacy Statement available at https://www.nrl.com/privacy-policy, as if they were a customer of the Promoter. The Eligible Participant (and their parent or legal guardian if they are under 18 years of age) agrees that the Promoter can continue to contact them even after this Promotion ends. If the participant would like to access or correct the personal information that the Promoter holds about the participant, or if the participant does not wish the information to be disclosed, the participant should visit the privacy page at https://www.nrl.com/privacy-policy
• By participating in the Game, the Eligible Participant (and their parent or legal guardian if they are under 18 years of age) agrees and acknowledges that:
  • They may be contacted by the Promoter to provide comments about the Game and the Promoter (or an agent of the Promoter) may take photos of them;
  • The Promoter may use such comments or photos (the "Materials") for the Promoter's future promotional and marketing purposes without further reference or compensation to them;
  • The Promoter may duplicate, alter, adapt and utilise the Materials as the Promoter wishes at anytime, anywhere, and by any means. The Promoter may license, authorise or otherwise transfer the rights in the Materials to others to do the same;
  • They acknowledge that the Promoter retains all right, title and interest, including copyright, in the Materials and, by participating in the Game, they assign to the Promoter on creation of the Materials all right, title and interest which might, but for these terms and conditions, vest in them;
  • They unconditionally and irrevocably consent to any act or omission that would otherwise infringe any of their moral rights in the Materials (as defined in Part IX of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth)) and present and future rights of a similar nature conferred by statute anywhere in the world whether occurring before or after this consent is given ("Moral Rights");
  • They waive all Moral Rights in the Materials that arise outside Australia; and
  • They agree not to institute, maintain or support any claim or proceeding for infringement of their Moral Rights in the Materials.

• IF ANY PARTICIPANT ATTEMPTS TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE THE WEBSITE / APPS OR THE INFORMATION ON THE WEBSITE / APPS, OR TO OTHERWISE UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE GAME, THE PROMOTER RESERVES THE RIGHT TO TAKE ALL LEGAL ACTION PERMITTED BY LAW.