Tail and fade explained: copy picks or bet against them

Tailing means backing the same pick as someone else; fading means going against it. On 1x2.social both take one tap, land on My slip, and settle from the same final score — free, with no money involved.

Tail and Fade are social features for bragging rights. No stakes, no winnings. 18+.

What tailing means

To tail a pick is to copy it: your mate backs Arsenal, you back Arsenal too. On 1x2.social, tapping Tail puts the identical pick — same game, selection and odds — onto your slip. It settles from the same final score as the original. Tailing is how you follow tipsters: instead of screenshotting their pick, you tail it and your own history records whether following them works. See how it works.

What fading means

To fade a pick is to oppose it: they back the draw, you effectively back "not the draw". If their pick loses, your fade wins. Fading is the structured version of every group-chat "no chance" — and because fades settle from the final score too, fading records are just as checkable as tailing ones. Some of the best records on the leaderboard belong to prolific faders.

When to tail, when to fade

• Tail when the record earns it: 200+ settled picks, positive flat-stake ROI, odds range you understand. (Finding tipsters worth tailing.)
• Fade when the crowd overreacts: a big club on a hype run at shortening odds is the classic fade spot — popularity, not probability, moves the price.
• Neither when there's no edge: tailing a coin-flip record and fading a good tipster both lose slowly. The slip is free, but your record still keeps score.

My slip and torn tickets

My slip holds every pick you're part of — posted, tailed or faded — until the game settles. Winners settle cleanly; losers become torn tickets, the app's little ceremony for being wrong in public. Your slip is your personal history: proof of your own judgement, not just the tipsters you follow.