About Round Won
Tipping should be
the easy bit.
We built Round Won because every footy season, somewhere in Australia, an Excel spreadsheet was being held together with sticky tape and prayer. We thought we could do better.
The story
From spreadsheet rage
to working product.
he original version of Round Won was a spreadsheet. Specifically, a 47-tab Excel monster that one of us inherited from his uncle, who had inherited it from his uncle, going back to about 2003. Each round meant chasing twelve mates for tips on Friday, twelve more for the entry fee on Monday, and a forensic audit of conditional formatting on Tuesday.
We figured: surely, in 2024, this is a solved problem.
It wasn't. The existing options were either gambling apps with terms of service that read like a hostage note, or paid corporate platforms that cost more than the entire prize pool. Nothing felt built for the way Australians actually run tipping comps: small, social, mates-led, fundamentally not about the money.
Round Won is the spreadsheet, finally retired with dignity.
So we built Round Won. It does one thing: handles the awkward, tedious, easily-broken parts of running a footy tipping comp, so the comp itself stays fun. Entry fees collected automatically. Live leaderboards that update on their own. Winners paid out without anyone passing a coin tin around the office.
We're a small team based in Sydney. We tip more footy than is medically advisable. We answer support emails within business hours, and you'll usually get one of us: not a bot, not a Zendesk template.
What we stand for
Three things we won't
compromise on.
Mates first, money second
We charge a flat fee per comp, never a cut of the pot. Winners get the full prize pool. The product gets better when more people use it for free, not when more money flows through it.
No gambling product creep
We don't do odds. We don't do spreads. We don't recommend bets. Tipping is a social ritual, not a gambling vertical, and we'll keep building it that way regardless of what the market says.
Real humans on support
When you email support, a person from this team reads it and replies. Usually within an hour during business hours. We've held that line at 12k tippers; we'll hold it at 120k.