Round 18 of the James Hird Footy Tipping Competition has done little to separate those at the top of the leaderboard. Last round no-one selected eight winners, one person selected seven winners and 623 found six winners. Michael Lucas and Shaun Searle are both locked together on 106 winners with four rounds remaining. Wayne Dunford and Belinda Sydes are two winners back on 104. There are a further 18 tipsters within four of the lead so the competition remains wide open. Round 19 looks difficult with six of the eight matches looking to be a toss up. Other competition updates are attached.

The Crystal Ball competition, which gives players the chance to win a day in the coaches box with Kevin Sheedy, is still proving to be a tough ask. On the weekend we had two users correctly predict two of the five categories. 'Aroch' was closest to the final margin and as such collected the $100 spend at the on-line Bomber Shop.

Our Bomber Barons competition, which gives trivia experts the chance to win a framed guernsey signed by the 2001 team, is still attracting plenty of attention. 'Lisabails' is leading the competition with four weeks to run after recording the perfect score of 21024. She can however be knocked off if someone can record the perfect score in a faster time. The time to beat will be published in next week's competition update.

The round 18 winner of the Musashi Trivia Quiz was Anne Erichsen of Tingalpa, Queensland.