the rules

• Tips to be tipped via footytips.com.au site prior to the bounce of each game. From there on in, we're in their hands. Unless you've nominated that we I can alter your tips there's nothing I can do to redress any malfunctoins. Thankfully most of you don't do this, and I don't really want the responsibility.
• Nominate a margin for the first game, or whichever game it is they ask for one. This is how a tie-break situation is decided.

• The BIG winner, the winner of the PunchDrunk trophy and the BIG bucks ($1k last year), is the Drunk sitting on top of the ladder at the end of the home and away season.
There are prizes for first, second and third. (See The Prizes page.)

• There is a weekly $10 or $20 jackpot (depending ob final number of participants each year) for correctly picking all games (9 games per round this year). If more than 2 Drunks do this in any week, the Jackpot jackpots again.

• The top 8 Drunks (only) go through to the finals, which echoes the format of the real finals games.