Super Rugby tipping
A super rugby tipping competition built for a competition that crosses the Tasman every weekend. Fixtures land in your audience's time zone, results score themselves, and the leaderboard runs under your logo and your colours.
Free to start. No credit card.
A Friday night in Dunedin is a different hour to a Saturday night in Perth. Kick-off times, lock countdowns and reminders all render in your audience's time zone rather than the venue's, so nobody misses a New Zealand fixture because they were thinking in local time.
Most rounds run Friday and Saturday with five matches between them. Fixtures close individually, so an early trans-Tasman Friday game shuts while the Saturday fixtures are still open. Reminders go out 24 hours before the first lock and again 75 minutes before.
The leaderboard moves on the final whistle, overall and by group. On a two-day round the standings are settled by Saturday night, well before the football codes have finished their weekend. Super Rugby fixtures, kick-off times and results all come off the live data feed, so the round closes itself.
Rugby union gives you two things no other code here does: a ladder that already runs on a bonus point system, and a fixture list where the travel is genuinely part of the result.
An Australian side playing in Hamilton after a home game the week before is not the same team it was seven days earlier, and a New Zealand side arriving in Perth has just crossed most of a continent. In a competition this geographically stretched, the travel schedule predicts upsets better than the ladder does. Tippers who work that out early win, which is exactly the kind of edge that keeps a competition interesting.
Super Rugby awards a ladder point for scoring four tries and another for losing by seven or fewer. Most tipping competitions ignore both and score winners only. Mirroring them turns your competition into something closer to a prediction market: a losing tip can still return something, and a blowout is worth more than a grind. It is more work to explain and considerably more interesting to play.
Rugby union scorelines run from a one-point drop goal to a fifty-point rout, which makes margin prediction genuinely decisive rather than a tidy tiebreaker. Set the margin fixture on a match you expect to be close, or it stops separating anyone.
From 2027, week one of the finals is straight sudden death for 3rd through 6th, and the top two go directly to semi-finals. There is no qualifying final and no losers' route. If your competition carries into the finals, that's three rounds rather than four, and every match is elimination, which makes it a much better bracket than a tipping extension.
Super Rugby kicks off weeks before Australian rules and just after rugby league. For a club, workplace or venue, it's the round that re-establishes the habit after summer. Keep the scoring simple for round one and add the bonus-point complexity later if your field wants it.
A winner in every match across all seventeen rounds. Ten teams and a single table means everyone plays everyone, so the fixture list stays familiar from February to June.
Rugby union's wide scoring range makes margin a real competition rather than a tiebreaker. The format that best rewards people who watch the games instead of reading the ladder.
Mirror the competition's own four-try and losing bonus points in your scoring. More complex to explain, and the version that a rugby-literate audience will actually argue about.
Three weeks, single elimination, top two straight into semi-finals. A compact bracket that resolves in June, filling the weeks before the football codes reach their finals.
Fixtures render in your audience's time zone, wherever the match is being played. A competition that spans the Tasman and the Pacific is a time zone problem before it is anything else, and it's already handled.
White label on every paid plan. Pro and above add a custom domain and a custom email sender, so the competition reads as yours from the invite through to the Grand Final recap.
Flat points per correct tip out of the box. Joker multipliers, margin prediction and perfect round bonuses if you want them. The bonus-point conversation is a configuration decision rather than a rebuild.
Super Rugby runs while Australian rules is still finding its feet and finishes before either football code reaches September. For a club or venue it is the first competition of the year and the easiest habit to restart.
Free to start. No credit card.