Ratings Game: Guess the ratings for State of Origin and win a Mumbrella Sports Summit pass
Every morning the news team at Mumbrella plays the ratings game – where we guess how many viewers tuned in to watch a particular show.
After a tense first game in this year’s State of Origin series proved to be a ratings blockbuster – beating all previous records for Channel 9 – we thought we’d open the challenge to our readers to guess how it Game 2 will rate, with the reader submitting the guess closest the reported figure winning a pass to Mumbrella’s Sports Marketing Summit in Sydney on July 28.
The rules are simple, the closest correct guess for the finalised, time-adjusted, average capital city audience for the telecast on Nine, wins.
To enter, just post your guess for how the show will rate in the comment thread below, but make sure you leave your correct email address so we can contact you with the prize.
2.897 m
2.526m
2.534m
2.690m
2.037 Million
2.306M viewers #uptheblues
2.231m
2.855
2.804M
2.882m (2,882,623.34 to be exact)
Go you blue B@$tards
2.689m
2.655m
2.645m
2.406m
2.563m
2.605m
2.842m
2.913
2.184m
2.911m
2.812m
2.454m
2.683M
2.898m
2.793m
2.699m
2.895
2.97M Go the Blues!
2.802m
2.879m
2.76
2.753
*million
2.826m
2.776m
2.631
2.8934m
2.476m
2.450m
2.525m
2.700
million!
3million
2.461m
2.51 million
The results are in and the figure is 2.404m viewers. Looks like a few more people may have watched last night’s match in the pub.
Congratulations to Grace on an eerily accurate 2.406m guess. However, you didn’t leave your email address as stipulated. Please comment again here in the next 24-hours from the same IP address with your email, we won’t publish it, otherwise we’ll move onto the next best guess.
Thanks for playing everyone.
Alex – editor, Mumbrella
NSW didn’t win the series last year.
Hi GDL,
Of course you’re right, my slip, changed now.
Cheers,
Alex – editor, Mumbrella