January 18, 2026 • 10 mins
Christian and the team launch Battle Seats, the game that turns Rod Laver Arena into a giant guessing board. With finals tickets, cash, and massive prizes hidden under thousands of seats, listeners from all over Australia jump in for their shot at the AO.
There are big wins, nervous guesses, instant heartbreak, and life changing moments as callers score $1,000 vouchers and tickets to the men’s final. If you’ve ever dreamed of experiencing the Australian Open live, this is where the chaos begins.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
I Heeart podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You can hear more Gold one I four point three podcasts,
playlist and listen live on the free iHeart app.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Great news every day this week and every day next
week as well.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Big Price is to come to the one and only,
the greatest Grand Slam in the world right here in Melbourne.
It is the AO today thanks to Chemist Warehouse. Visit
Chemics Warehouse at the Tennis this week for all your
health and wellness products.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
At the AL.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
There's a mission to complete a DA. It's time to
dig your battle seat. Amazing prizes to be found and
daickets are around.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Powerful stuff. Very oh d al.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
All right, every single day add the together now So
wherever you are in Australia, we will fly you into
Melbourne to come to the AO. It is an incredible experience. Particicaiden,
you are the Queen of Battle Seats. Some of you
may remember the Great Game Battleships. We've recreated that with
(01:26):
the layout fifteen thousand seats. I don't think there were
fifteen thousand spots on my version of MB Games Battleships,
so hopefully the Queen of Battle seats. Pargicicaden has crunched
this down.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
How's it going to work?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Them?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Battle seats every day?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
We will give you a section of the arena.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Section, section, section and that all wining sections correct.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
That will break it down to about one hundred seats.
So we've got one hundred seats to guess.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Hey, I'm just like taking a hundred calls every day.
People are going seat five, seat nine.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
The Australia's going not for me actually, and probably why
they've done one of these national breakfast shows before, because
it actually.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Is so seat nine eleven. Now we've already had that one.
Me just get increasing in the grassy. We've had that one.
Can we strink it down even more?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Maybe it's like five seats.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
I can just give you the immediate rose.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
You just give you the winning seats, Okay, why not?
You know we're a bit busy, we're running late. There
are the winning seats. I guarantee if we did that
people still call in against the wrong one. That is
commercial radio in Australia.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
So I can give you between the rows of and
there are two prizes in those rows. You have to
choose the seat though that they're in if you hit it,
that means you've hit the battle seat and you've plun
that's the miss.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Plopping water felt a moat there rod Lafe. Since I
was last year, you've missed.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
You're in the arrow.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Oh my balls in the arrow.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Okay, we'll get it. We'll get it right by tomorrow.
But anyway, looks day one, Show one, isn't it you know? Okay?
So Caitlyn, what section and what rows?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Okay? We are section one and.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Do you want to give me section one on show one?
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Genius?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Don't worry, Australia, We've got you.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Do you want the exact rows or do you want
between the rows?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Ok okay, okay. So one of the prizes is in
row A.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
One lucky row. Oh we've all got our lucky row,
haven't we? Row A one row A and then the
other row.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Is row E.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Today's lucky rows are row A and row and now you.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Only have to get the seat the number. So you
had between one and twenty.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I think they got that.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I didn't say that yet, they wouldn't have know.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I think they're ahead of you.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
All right, call in now thirteen fifty five twenty two.
You call up you could be winning tickets to go
to the finals. You could also be winning cash. We
have huge prizes under your winning seats the Lucky Rose
today in section one are I and a good.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Luck Christian O'Connell show go on podcast?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Alight?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Are we ready to play battle seats at the there's a.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Mission to complete. It's time to dick your battle seats.
Amazing prizes to be found.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Tickets are around.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Big prizes every single day this week and next sex
as well.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
The AO is on.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
No matter where you're listening to us, whatever mounts you
are listening by, we will come and get you and
bringing to you the a oh whatls together?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Now? All right? We have big prizes every single day.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Sections rows nothing more sexy on the radio than based
around red hot row section action. Today's winning section is
section one on the rod labor. What about the row
two rows? Oh, it's like I wish Pelly gonna pick
(05:31):
in the matrix red huh.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Road? All right? Are we ready to play team? Are
we ready?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Let's go to the AO. Darren is first up with
his guests. Good morning, Darren, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Morning Work on the Morning Radio.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It's good to have you on thank you very much.
All right, Darren, Uh, it's section one. Where are you
going A? Or e? Good luck?
Speaker 6 (06:00):
I'm gonna go row a let's say state number six.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Oh you're in the river.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Tough luck, dads, thanks for trying. Let's go to Jerry.
Good morning, Jerry.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Hello, Hey Christian, happy first show.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Thank you very much. Jerry. Where are you listening to
us today? Mate?
Speaker 7 (06:22):
I'm in Newcastle?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Brilliant? Okay, Jerry? Ever been to the AO?
Speaker 7 (06:27):
I went when I was sixteen and it was the
most fun event I've ever been to and I would
love to go back.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Great okay, all right, So you know how battle seats works?
I do you got your lucky guess? Where do you
think the prize is? What seat number are going for?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Mate?
Speaker 7 (06:41):
I think it's a number sixteen?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Sorry, number thirteen?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
E thirteen? Section one? Did you to say? Sorry?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I've got an oversized map pear system taking me while
Oh my word, you you just won one thousand dollars
master card voucher.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
No way, that is amazing. Question so much?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
That's right. That's not a bad start to the year,
is it.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
That is so needed as well?
Speaker 7 (07:17):
I've got a couple of kids starting school and that
would help out a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Okay, how old are your kids?
Speaker 7 (07:22):
I got a six year old and a four year old,
so one starting KINDI and one starting preschool and they
all need.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You everything, do everything, and they outgrow it within about
two weeks.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And you've got to buy more of you stuff.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
That's all right.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
That one thousand bucks will make it to mid March.
Call me back then we'll still be playing battle seats
for next year. All right, Jerry, thanksgiving the show ago
and enjoy spending your money.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
All right, we got one more. Let's get a Tania now,
Morning Tania.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Morning Christian, and welcome to Sydney.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
The Mares of Sydney is on Live with us right now.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
All right, so what is your lucky seats?
Speaker 6 (08:04):
I'm going to go a one.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
May one section one. All the ones on show one?
Do that line up?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Oh you want a pair of tickets to go to
the men's final of the A Rod Labor Arena.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Oh my god, you're off to the men's final.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
Oh my god, I'm such a tragic. I am willing
to sell my my firstborn.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Thank god, you won.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
Thank you so much. That is brilliant. Oh he's made
my year. My heart is racing machine.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
So you love your tennis.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
I'm the tennis. I am having such late nights just
staying up watching the tennis.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
It looks so great as well. It's such a grand
looking Grand Slam as well. The AO it looks great.
Speaker 8 (09:22):
Oh my god, Oh my god, I'm shaking.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
That is the best news. No never, I'm from Sydney
and getting down there. You know, my credit card just
doesn't stretch that far unfortunately, So don't worry.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
We're gonna we're going to fly you in. We're going
to put you up in a hotel. It's all on
the show. You're can have an amazing time. You're off
to the men's finals of the AO.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Well done.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Oh my god, thank you guys. You are the best too, seriously,
and welcome again.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Thank you very much, China. Enjoy the finals. Thank you
all right, more chances to win.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
The winnings down of bet needs to get a bit
short to Locky tomorrow morning on the show.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
A Christian O'Connell Show podcast
I Heeart podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You can hear more Gold one I four point three podcasts,
playlist and listen live on the free iHeart app.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Great news every day this week and every day next
week as well.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Big Price is to come to the one and only,
the greatest Grand Slam in the world right here in Melbourne.
It is the AO today thanks to Chemist Warehouse. Visit
Chemics Warehouse at the Tennis this week for all your
health and wellness products.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
At the AL.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
There's a mission to complete a DA. It's time to
dig your battle seat. Amazing prizes to be found and
daickets are around.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Powerful stuff. Very oh d al.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
All right, every single day add the together now So
wherever you are in Australia, we will fly you into
Melbourne to come to the AO. It is an incredible experience. Particicaiden,
you are the Queen of Battle Seats. Some of you
may remember the Great Game Battleships. We've recreated that with
(01:26):
the layout fifteen thousand seats. I don't think there were
fifteen thousand spots on my version of MB Games Battleships,
so hopefully the Queen of Battle seats. Pargicicaden has crunched
this down.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
How's it going to work?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Them?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Battle seats every day?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
We will give you a section of the arena.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Section, section, section and that all wining sections correct.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
That will break it down to about one hundred seats.
So we've got one hundred seats to guess.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Hey, I'm just like taking a hundred calls every day.
People are going seat five, seat nine.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
The Australia's going not for me actually, and probably why
they've done one of these national breakfast shows before, because
it actually.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Is so seat nine eleven. Now we've already had that one.
Me just get increasing in the grassy. We've had that one.
Can we strink it down even more?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Maybe it's like five seats.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
I can just give you the immediate rose.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
You just give you the winning seats, Okay, why not?
You know we're a bit busy, we're running late. There
are the winning seats. I guarantee if we did that
people still call in against the wrong one. That is
commercial radio in Australia.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
So I can give you between the rows of and
there are two prizes in those rows. You have to
choose the seat though that they're in if you hit it,
that means you've hit the battle seat and you've plun
that's the miss.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Plopping water felt a moat there rod Lafe. Since I
was last year, you've missed.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
You're in the arrow.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Oh my balls in the arrow.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Okay, we'll get it. We'll get it right by tomorrow.
But anyway, looks day one, Show one, isn't it you know? Okay?
So Caitlyn, what section and what rows?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Okay? We are section one and.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Do you want to give me section one on show one?
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Genius?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Don't worry, Australia, We've got you.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Do you want the exact rows or do you want
between the rows?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Ok okay, okay. So one of the prizes is in
row A.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
One lucky row. Oh we've all got our lucky row,
haven't we? Row A one row A and then the
other row.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Is row E.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Today's lucky rows are row A and row and now you.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Only have to get the seat the number. So you
had between one and twenty.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I think they got that.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I didn't say that yet, they wouldn't have know.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I think they're ahead of you.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
All right, call in now thirteen fifty five twenty two.
You call up you could be winning tickets to go
to the finals. You could also be winning cash. We
have huge prizes under your winning seats the Lucky Rose
today in section one are I and a good.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Luck Christian O'Connell show go on podcast?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Alight?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Are we ready to play battle seats at the there's a.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Mission to complete. It's time to dick your battle seats.
Amazing prizes to be found.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Tickets are around.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Big prizes every single day this week and next sex
as well.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
The AO is on.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
No matter where you're listening to us, whatever mounts you
are listening by, we will come and get you and
bringing to you the a oh whatls together?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Now? All right? We have big prizes every single day.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Sections rows nothing more sexy on the radio than based
around red hot row section action. Today's winning section is
section one on the rod labor. What about the row
two rows? Oh, it's like I wish Pelly gonna pick
(05:31):
in the matrix red huh.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Road? All right? Are we ready to play team? Are
we ready?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Let's go to the AO. Darren is first up with
his guests. Good morning, Darren, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Morning Work on the Morning Radio.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It's good to have you on thank you very much.
All right, Darren, Uh, it's section one. Where are you
going A? Or e? Good luck?
Speaker 6 (06:00):
I'm gonna go row a let's say state number six.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Oh you're in the river.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Tough luck, dads, thanks for trying. Let's go to Jerry.
Good morning, Jerry.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Hello, Hey Christian, happy first show.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Thank you very much. Jerry. Where are you listening to
us today? Mate?
Speaker 7 (06:22):
I'm in Newcastle?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Brilliant? Okay, Jerry? Ever been to the AO?
Speaker 7 (06:27):
I went when I was sixteen and it was the
most fun event I've ever been to and I would
love to go back.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Great okay, all right, So you know how battle seats works?
I do you got your lucky guess? Where do you
think the prize is? What seat number are going for?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Mate?
Speaker 7 (06:41):
I think it's a number sixteen?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Sorry, number thirteen?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
E thirteen? Section one? Did you to say? Sorry?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I've got an oversized map pear system taking me while
Oh my word, you you just won one thousand dollars
master card voucher.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
No way, that is amazing. Question so much?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
That's right. That's not a bad start to the year,
is it.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
That is so needed as well?
Speaker 7 (07:17):
I've got a couple of kids starting school and that
would help out a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Okay, how old are your kids?
Speaker 7 (07:22):
I got a six year old and a four year old,
so one starting KINDI and one starting preschool and they
all need.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
You everything, do everything, and they outgrow it within about
two weeks.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
And you've got to buy more of you stuff.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
That's all right.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
That one thousand bucks will make it to mid March.
Call me back then we'll still be playing battle seats
for next year. All right, Jerry, thanksgiving the show ago
and enjoy spending your money.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
All right, we got one more. Let's get a Tania now,
Morning Tania.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
Morning Christian, and welcome to Sydney.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
The Mares of Sydney is on Live with us right now.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
All right, so what is your lucky seats?
Speaker 6 (08:04):
I'm going to go a one.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
May one section one. All the ones on show one?
Do that line up?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Oh you want a pair of tickets to go to
the men's final of the A Rod Labor Arena.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Oh my god, you're off to the men's final.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
Oh my god, I'm such a tragic. I am willing
to sell my my firstborn.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Thank god, you won.
Speaker 8 (08:52):
Thank you so much. That is brilliant. Oh he's made
my year. My heart is racing machine.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
So you love your tennis.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
I'm the tennis. I am having such late nights just
staying up watching the tennis.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
It looks so great as well. It's such a grand
looking Grand Slam as well. The AO it looks great.
Speaker 8 (09:22):
Oh my god, Oh my god, I'm shaking.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
That is the best news. No never, I'm from Sydney
and getting down there. You know, my credit card just
doesn't stretch that far unfortunately, So don't worry.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
We're gonna we're going to fly you in. We're going
to put you up in a hotel. It's all on
the show. You're can have an amazing time. You're off
to the men's finals of the AO.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Well done.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Oh my god, thank you guys. You are the best too, seriously,
and welcome again.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Thank you very much, China. Enjoy the finals. Thank you
all right, more chances to win.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
The winnings down of bet needs to get a bit
short to Locky tomorrow morning on the show.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
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