As of next week you will be able to clone your competition from last season. Retaining all your comp rules as well as all the tipsters that had joined. With one single click you will be able to clone all this information and get your footy season off and running.
The great news is that we have worked hard in the off season to ensure we get all the functionality you have been so used to at OzTips and in addition have provided some additional changes to increase your tipping experience.
1. You will be able to hover over the tipping alias to reveal the name stored by the user.For some Sports, you can include a "Knockout Comp" within your Tipping Comp. There are no bonus points awarded for the winner of this Comp.
Each Week Tipsters will need to nominate one winning Team that they think will win each Week (Tipsters cannot pick the same Team in two consecutive Weeks). If the Team they select wins, they progress to the next Week. If the Team they select loses or the match ends in a Draw, they are knocked out (Note: this will not knock them out of the overall Tipping Comp - it only affects the bonus Knockout Comp). If your selected Team plays more than one match in the Week, the Knockout Comp is scored based on the Team's first match result.
The Knockout Comp is a bonus game of skill for Tipsters and commences in the Week the Comp Manager activates this feature. Once the first Week of your Knockout Comp closes, Tipsters can not enter it after that time.
If your Knockout Comp does go off sooner than you want it too and you want to run the KO Comp again, all you need to do (as the Comp Manager) is de-select the option for a KO Comp in your Rules, save that change and then re-select to run a KO Comp again. This will re-activate the Knockout Comp for all Tipsters from that next Week. April 13, 3:31 pmA) 5-minutes before the first match of the Week; or
B) 5-minutes before EACH match
Option B will enable your Tipsters to make selections right up until the start of each match and is a good option if a lot of your Tipsters have access to OzTips Mobile (www.oztips.mobi) from their handsets.
If you have already set-up your Comp, don't worry, you can re-configure your Comp at anytime - click 'Comp Rules' then 'Edit Comp' & be sure to let your Tipsters know you have changed the Rules! April 13, 3:30 pmYou can save/copy the banner template into a photo or image editing program and add your Comp Name, a background photo or whatever else you want on your banner.
Please make sure your banner image is 300 pixels wide by 75 pixels high and is saved as a .JPG or .GIF file, less than 15kb in size.
After creating your banner, follow these steps to upload it
1. Login to OztipsThere are two types of Tipping Comps that you can select when setting up your Comp, however not all Tipping types are available for each Sport:
Straight Tipping: This is straight pick the winner Tipping.
Price Tipping: Tipping with points awarded based upon the match's final Tip price. eg. If the final match Tip prices were Knights ($1.35) v Broncos ($2.20) and the Knights won, you would be awarded 1.35 points for that correct Tip. April 13, 3:27 pmTo include State of Origin Tipping within your NRL Tipping Comp, simply select and save at least 1 point for a correct "Finals & State of Origin" Tip in the Comp's Rules. SoO Tips will then become available in Weeks 11, 14 and 17.
Please remind your Tipsters that as the State of Origin is a bonus match in the Tipping Week it is not included for All Correct Bonus points or when you Re-use your regular season Tips as it must be Tipped uniquely in each Comp. April 13, 3:16 pmIf you're the Comp Manager, please follow these steps to invite or remove tipsters to your comp
1. Login to OztipsTipsters receive the "All Correct Bonus" Points if they correctly Tip all matches in a Week. The Bonus only applies to Tips selected and saved by a Tipster (not to Non-Submitters default points) and is awarded in any regular season Tipping Week, regardless of the number of matches played in that Week.
Remember: Any change you make to your Rules or Points set-up will Rescore the whole Comp (including past, current and future Weeks) based on the new Rule so we suggest you do not change or remove the All Correct Bonus points once set unless you really wish to do so. April 13, 2:50 pmIf you're the Comp Manager, please follow these steps to invite or remove tipsters to your comp
1. Login to OztipsIf a tie occurs in your Tipping Comp between Tipsters with the same highest score for a Week, you can select to set-up a "discriminator" to determine a single Top Tipster:
- No Discriminator: You determine your own Top Tipster if there is a tie.
- Closest Margin: Tipsters must guess the difference in scores between the two Teams playing in the Discriminator Match; and the highest scoring Tipster who gets the Margin match Tip correct and the lowest, closest Margin, is the Top Tipster.
If any Tipsters are still tied after the Discriminator is used, the earliest Tip time will be used to select a single Top Tipster for your Comp.
The Top Tipster will then be named first in the Latest Results, followed alphabetically by the remaining Tipsters on equal points. All other Tipsters are ranked by scores, alphabetically. April 13, 8:33 amA few months after a Sport's season is over, we automatically remove those Comps from the site in preparation for the set-up of the next season. Unfortunately, once the Comps are removed you cannot retrieve any Tips, Results or Tipster lists so please make sure you print any information you may require later on.
Don't worry though, we notify Tipsters via the "Stop Press" news as to when these Comp removals will occur so you'll have plenty of time to Login and print your Comp's info before then! April 12, 6:13 pmCopyright © 2013 Yahoo!7
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