This competition is the similar to those played throughout Australia. It is sometimes also referred to as the traditional or standard competition. Tippers must choose the winning team and the number of points they think that team will win by (the "margin").

Tippers receive points for tipping the winning team plus bonus points depending on how close the tipped margin was to the actual margin.

The bonus points work as follows: Let A be the actual margin and Y be the margin you tipped. Then |A-Y| is the absolute value (ie. ignore the negative sign) of the difference between your margin and the actual margin. Note that even if you tip the losing team you are still in the running for bonus points. ie. your margin is really a just a negative value:

See also the Probabilistic and Gaussian competitions.