TV Games: bets on television, film and award nights
In the pre-match line, TV Games is the entertainment section: television shows, award ceremonies, film and music. Every event is a question about a result that will be made public, whether that is the winner of a season, the next contestant to go, a film nominated in a category or the artist who takes a prize. The stake is settled on that result once it is known.
How the groups break down
TV Games groups fall into clearly separate families:
Family | Sample group names | Usual questions |
|---|---|---|
Shows by country | TV-Shows. Italy, TV-Shows. USA, TV-Shows. Great Britain, plus Sweden and Poland | season winner, next elimination, the winner's category or mentor, a contestant voted off in a given episode |
Ceremonies with a year | the Academy Awards, the Grammy Award, the Golden Globe Award, the Booker Prize | a category winner, whether a film gets nominated, the most nominations |
Themed special bets | Special bets. Cinema, Specials bets. Music, Special bets. Awards and one general group | one-off questions about a film, an artist or a media personality |
For shows, a good place to start is the Italian television group, UK reality and talent shows or the US shows group. At a ceremony, every category is an event of its own, with its own date and outcomes.
How answers are written
On an event page the outcomes sit under Search by market, grouped under a Who Will Win or Event heading. Depending on the question:
each contestant, mentor or artist is followed by "Yes";
a category can stand in for names: women, men or group on a talent show, traitor or faithful on an elimination game;
a statement, such as a nomination or a contestant voted off in a given episode, is played as "Yes" or "No";
a next-elimination question may list bare names with no "Yes".
What rule 10.39 covers
The betting rules give TV Games a section of its own, which settles several situations:
Eurovision Song Contest: in a match-up between two named countries you pick the one that finishes higher in the Grand Final; on equal scores bets are settled at odds of 1, based on the contest's official website.
Box office: settlement may wait until the middle of the next week, when exact takings are available, with Box Office Mojo as the reference for the USA and other countries.
Game of Thrones: only first-airing viewers of an episode count, with reruns and file sharing excluded, and bets on events in the series are settled 24 hours after the episode comes out.
Rap battles: the start time is approximate, and the winner is settled only once the official video is out.
Where to find the section
TV Games is part of the full pre-match catalogue, alongside the traditional sports. A bet can only be confirmed from a registered 1xBet account.