Ready Set Bet | August 22, 2026 | Hour 3

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
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**Matt Brown** (0:17)
Out of three Ready Set Bet here for real this time.
For real this time, Matt Brown, Femi Abebefe here. The world's largest sports book. It's hopping, it's buzzing. We got sports going on. We got people signing up for contests.

**Femi Abebefe** (0:28)
Have you signed up yet?

**Matt Brown** (0:29)
By the way, I have not. I'm going to wait until official, officially contest week is next week.

**Femi Abebefe** (0:33)
As locals, we procrastinate.

**Matt Brown** (0:36)
Which is why I look out here. By the way, no better time now than to talk about the contest. All three contests out here at Circa, of course you go in, $30 million is guaranteed across all the contests. If you have a gigantic bankroll, there's a $100,000 contest in the Grandesimo. Regular Survivor, $1,000 as is millions. You go in, five picks against the spread each week. And you either don't want to do good or bad, because there is a booby prize if you're horrible at it. And you can actually win money by being terrible at that one. But you know how Survivor works. You pick a team once, you can't use them again. You try to get all the way to the end with that. But 25 now, Grandesimo. So with the, you can see right there on your screen if you're watching along with us, four million guaranteed. So we're already at 2.5.
The big sign up week is next week. Also, that's late money because you're not, you don't have to plan ahead to come here if you've got 100K to enter a contest. You're hopping on your jet and you're coming and you're whatever. So like, I'm very interested to see. We got to 69 entries last year, Femi. I'm wondering, can we get to 80? You know, can we, can we beat this thing by like another 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 entries, something, because I think that there's, I think the surge is yet to come in that one.

**Femi Abebefe** (1:47)
Oh, across the board, the surge is yet to come. Because like most people will just wait to the last segment. We have the Labor Day Week. So we have Sign Up Weekend, Labor Day Weekend, you know, and then some people sign up the first week of the season, because like, if you are out on that Wednesday opening night game or the Thursday Australia game, you can double down again before Saturday at deadline, and then sign up for the week one, and then go ahead and pick then. So I think there's still so much more money to come across the board with all these contests. So it's fun. It's exciting. I'll be, I'm just debating how many I want. I think I'm going to have two solo for sure.
I'm sure my wife will probably have one. I'm like, do I need to have like another one or whatever? I'll have one in the million. So it's fun. I love the contest. Anyone who's played Survivor, the minute you play, you get addicted. So it's a good time. As I think we're actually going to be able to maybe see some football at some point in time.

**Matt Brown** (2:39)
I will be, I'll be donating my, my thousand bucks to the million every year. I've played, I am the absolute nut low worse at this because I'm two and three or three and two every single week. And where you don't want to be is just dead in the middle. Like that's the, that's death, you know? And so, but it seems like every week I'm three and two or two and three and end up right at about 500 over the course of the season. I'm like, I have no chance to win any of the, any of this stuff. Or horrific.

**Femi Abebefe** (3:05)
Or you straddle the quarter. Like it's like you have like a really good last week of a quarter and a really strong start of the next quarter. I'm like, you're just like two and three. And it's just like, can we just ever lock this in in like a four week window? Or I'm like running hot like this.
Unfortunately, cannot do that.

**Matt Brown** (3:21)
Yeah, I know. I just did. But it's super, super fun. And like I said, if you, Survivor gives you juice every week that like you don't even realize until you get, so I mean, I made it to Thanksgiving last year, right?

**Femi Abebefe** (3:33)
Oh my gosh.

**Matt Brown** (3:34)
And so like it kind of weird, even though there was a lot of season left, it kind of started to feel real.