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Melbourne Cup Office Sweep 2026

Bring office and remote colleagues into one Melbourne Cup office sweep. Share a link, run the horse draw and let everyone check their horses and results online.

Set up your office sweep See a sample sweep

Race day: Tuesday 3 NovemberShare in Teams or SlackRemote friendlyFree to try with up to 4 entries

Branded Melbourne Cup office event with organiser controls and invite links

Colleague's Melbourne Cup scorecard with horses and scores

24+colleagues, one event page

Sweepzy is used by 5k+ offices and groups with 49k+ players across its events

Choose the office format

A random horse draw, or let colleagues choose

Most offices run a random horse draw. Player Picks is there if your team wants more involvement.

EASY FOR EVERYONE🎲

Random horse draw

Everyone gets horses at random

Horses are assigned through a fair seeded draw.
No racing knowledge needed to join.
Great for company-wide participation and simple prizes.
The completed draw is published online for everyone.

Set up a random draw

MORE INVOLVEMENT🎯

Choose your horses (Player Picks)

Colleagues pick their own horses

Each colleague picks one horse from each seeded pot.
Favourites and outsiders are spread across the pots.
Automatic scoring updates the office leaderboard.
Good when staff want a little more Cup Day banter.

Set up Player Picks

How it works

Run your office sweep in four steps

Create and brand

Add the company or social-committee name, logo, colours, rules and Cup Day prizes. Free to try with up to 4 entries; bigger offices pay once per event, from $10. See prices

Invite colleagues

Post one invite link or QR code in Teams, Slack, email or your intranet. Colleagues in the office or at home sign up free with their email and join in their browser. No app, no spreadsheet of names.

Run the draw

Once everyone has joined, run the horse draw (it opens Saturday 31 October, 5:00pm AEDT). Colleagues see their horses online. More people than horses? Each entry gets two or more. See how

Follow the race

The live leaderboard ranks every entry on Cup Day. Put it on a shared screen and set prizes for 1st to 8th place and a wooden spoon.

Office sweep pricing

Melbourne Cup office sweep prices

Pay once per event for the plan that fits your expected entries, and upgrade later if more people join. An entry is one place in the sweep; one person can hold more than one entry if you allow it. Any entry fee you collect from colleagues is separate from the Sweepzy price. Prices are shown in USD for this visit, and you can change currency when you create your event.

Free trial

Up to 4 entries

Try it with up to 4 entries

Starter Pool

$10

Up to 15 entries

$0.67 per entry at full capacity

Recommended

Standard Pool

$20

Up to 30 entries

$0.67 per entry at full capacity

Large Pool

$30

Up to 50 entries

$0.60 per entry at full capacity

Unlimited Pool

$45

Unlimited entries

One fixed price, however many colleagues join.

Set up your office sweep

Bigger offices

What happens with more than 24 entries

With one horse each, a sweep can only have as many entries as there are horses. For a bigger office, each entry gets two or more horses instead.

Example: 24 horses and 50 entries

The horses are ranked by the latest odds and split into two bands: the 12 favourites and the other 12.
Each entry gets one horse from each band, so everyone has a fancied horse and an outsider.
No two entries get the same pair (144 pairs are possible), but each horse is shared by a few entries.
An entry's score is the total points for both horses, and the leaderboard ranks entries by that total.

Unique combinations keep every entry different. They don't give every entry exactly the same chance of winning.

Prize ideas

Keep the office talking after the race

The event page shows your prizes and rules before people join, so there's no confusion on Cup Day.

✓ Team lunch or coffee voucher✓ Company merch✓ Charity donation chosen by the winner✓ Best-dressed bonus✓ Wooden spoon prize✓ Department bragging rights

Office sweep questions

Melbourne Cup office sweep FAQs

Can I run a Melbourne Cup sweep for the office?

Yes. Create one private workplace event, invite colleagues by link and run a random horse draw or Player Picks online.

Can remote colleagues take part?

Yes. Everyone enters and follows the same event from a phone or desktop browser, wherever they are working.

How do colleagues join?

Post the invite link or QR code in Teams, Slack, email or your intranet. Colleagues create a free Sweepzy account with their email and join from their browser. There is no app to download.

What if we have more than 24 people?

With 24 horses and 50 entries, each entry gets two horses: one from the 12 best-ranked horses and one from the other 12. No two entries get the same pair, but each horse is shared by a few entries. Unique combinations do not mean every entry has the same chance of winning.

How much does it cost?

It is free to try with up to 4 entries. For a bigger office, pay once per event for the plan that fits your expected entries and upgrade later if more people join. Any entry fee you collect from colleagues is separate from the Sweepzy price.

When can we run the draw?

The horse draw opens on Sweepzy from Saturday 31 October, 5:00pm AEDT (Melbourne time), once the final field is loaded. This is separate from the official Melbourne Cup barrier draw.

What if someone joins after the draw?

People who join after the draw are not added to it. Share the link early, set your expected entries and run the draw once everyone is in. The organiser can delete and re-run the draw if needed.

How are winners and prizes decided?

Each finishing position earns points (1st 50, 2nd 30, 3rd 18, 4th 10, 5th 6, 6th 3) and an entry's score is the total for its horses. With one horse each, whoever holds the winner tops the leaderboard. Organisers can set prizes for 1st to 8th place and a wooden spoon. Dead heats split the points, and tied entries share a place.

Can we put it on a big screen?

Yes. Open the event page or live leaderboard in a browser on a shared screen on Cup Day.

Ready for Cup Day?

Set up your office Melbourne Cup sweep

Create the event, share one link and let everyone follow the race together.

Set up your office sweep How the Melbourne Cup sweep generator works