TO encourage many Tanzanians to continue watching the World Cup, Betway Tanzania has teamed up with Airtel Tanzania to introduce a prediction competition that will enable soccer lovers who follow the World Cup to win various prizes.

Speaking in Dar es Salaam today, November 29, 2022, the Operations Manager of Betway Tanzania, Jimmy Masaoe said that the competition is planned to be held throughout the period of the championship which has entered the quarter finals and will benefit the participants by giving a daily cash prize of Sh 10,000 to 50 winners , 50 people will have a chance to win Shs 10,000 every day.

"A weekly cash prize of Shs 1,000,000. Every week one person will have a chance to emerge with a sum of Shs 1,000,000.

This means that for the rest of the competition, at least four people have a chance to win a cash prize of Sh1,000,000,” said Masaoe.

He said there is also a big prize of Sh5,000,000, the overall winner is expected to collect a total of Sh5,000,000 which will be given after the World Cup final.

He added that apart from the cash prizes, sports fans also have a chance to get a free bet to help them bet for free and it will increase the chances of more fans to participate in the competition and emerge as a daily winner, a weekly winner or an overall winner.

"For our beloved Betway customers, this is an addition.

It is an additional benefit for customers who use Airtel Money because they can win various prizes as they bet with us through Airtel Money," said Masaoe.

On the part of the Director of Airtel Mone, Isack Nchunda has said that users of Airtel Money services can get the best in the World Cup by predicting the results in all stages of the competition.

"We are very happy to partner with Betway Tanzania because we know through this partnership our Airtel Money service users who love sports will directly benefit from the World Cup.

"Our goal is to ensure that our customers get the best from our services in this important period when the eyes of the whole world are on the championship, we wish to see our customers benefit from the World Cup and we believe this is one of the ways to help them," said Nchunda .

He added that the competition is also part of the festive season offers from the telecommunications company as Airtel is determined to celebrate the festive season with its beloved customers.

With only three teams having qualified for the round of 16 as of yesterday, sports fans can still make their predictions in the ongoing group stage games to be in with a chance of winning prizes.

The grand prize of Shs 5,000,000 will be awarded to the winner on December 31 after the final game to be played on December 18, 2022.