Sign up for some friendly office competition and your chance to share in some great cash prizes.

2017 will be the 121st Season of the AFL competition with round 1 kicking off on Thursday, 23 March, with the first game being Carlton vs Richmond at the grand old MCG, a mouth-watering prospect I think you’ll agree!

Closer to home the West Coast and Fremantle will be playing North Melbourne and Geelong respectively, on the Sunday…C’mon boys show ‘em what you got!! (Not showing any biases of course)

The Western Bulldogs showed us with their first Premiership in 62 years that anything can happen, so even if you feel like the underdog this could be YOUR year. The money is nice but bragging rights are even BETTER!

As in previous years the competition is being run using a web based program, footytips.com.au. Search for Murdoch 2017 or simply follow this link http://www.footytips.com.au/comps/Murdoch_2017

All Murdoch participants will be able to log on and access competition information. You will be able to input your tipping preferences, view your current position, retrieve statistical data and even enter your tips weeks in advance.

PRIZES

There will be a weekly cash prize and overall season prizes. Over the last few years the number of tippers has grown with more than sixty people from all areas of the Murdoch community signing up last year.  The more the merrier, could you please spread the words and invite your Murdoch colleagues to join in, it will also increase the amount of prizes. 

The prize pool will consist of 75% of the weekly pool paid out as the weekly prize, which was a little over $117 for each week’s winners in 2016.

Weekly winners will be determined by the tipper’s score for the round in question and then by their margin difference for the same round and then by their accumulated margin. Just as a reminder, we only tip for the home and away season.

Twenty-five per cent of each weekly pool will be carried forward for season prizes, which will be:

• 1st: 40% of season prize pool
• 2nd: 30% of season prize pool
• 3rd: 20% of season prize pool
• 4th: 10% of season prize pool

FEES and PAYMENT

You are able to have the $65.00 season tipping fee set up as an automatic deduction from your salary ($6.50 per fortnight for 10 pay periods) or alternatively deducted as a one off payment for the 2017 season.

Just fill in the payroll deduction form available at http://our.murdoch.edu.au/Human-Resources/_document/Forms/FootyTippingDeductionForm2017 and forward it to Arie Kusuma (Library North Wing 4.018) or scan the completed form and email it to me at A.Kusuma@murdoch.edu.au  Please note, if you send the form directly to HR, please let me know by email and I shall tick your name off in the list.

Alternatively you can pay cash by forwarding a one-off payment of $65.00 to Arie Kusuma, or deposit it online to the Murdoch Footy Tipping bank account (BSB: 806036; Account Number: 60513275), or in person at the Murdoch Credit Union.

The 2016 Murdoch AFL Footy Tippings Competition showed we have fantastic tippers. Our 2016 winner, Heather was not far off from the Side-Wide Champion with score of 158 (451), was ranked 203 Side-Wide (out of 503,605 tippers), amazing! It will be great for a Murdoch Tipper to win a Side-Wide AFL Footy Tipping in 2017.

If you have any questions, please contact Arie Kusuma.

Phone: 9360 7269

Email: A.Kusuma@murdoch.edu.au

Office Location: Library North Wing, 4.018