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PARTLY TRUE "I won the Skool Games 2x — my exact systems, FREE (for now)" — when 'winner' means top ten
The claimOnline coaches: I'm celebrating winning the Skool Games for the second time — and I'm giving away the exact strategies I use to get clients online. Free. For now.
The Skool Games are real — the monthly/quarterly competition on skool.com ranked by new recurring revenue, with Hormozi as the frontman and a Vegas trip for winners. The operator behind this reel is real too: an identifiable coach with a 4,300-member free Skool community and a paid program, whose bio matches the reel word-for-word. Here's the asterisk: Skool crowns the entire top TEN of every round as 'winners' — so 'I won the Skool Games 2x' most likely translates to 'I placed top-10 twice,' a real but much softer achievement than the phrase implies. And we couldn't independently verify even that: no public winners list or announcement names him; the claim lives only in his own bio. The private-event banner in the footage is consistent with a top-10 trip, so it's plausible — just unproven. The 'free (for now)' giveaway is a lead-magnet community whose job is booking sales calls for a paid program with no published price.
What holds up
- The Skool Games are a real competition with real, verifiable mechanics
- Real operator with a substantial, genuine Skool footprint — not an anonymous ad account
- The free community and its templates genuinely exist and cost nothing to join
- Top-10 placement is genuinely plausible for a community his size — the credential isn't absurd, just unverified
What doesn't
- 'Winner' is doing heavy lifting: Skool calls all ten top finishers per round 'winners'
- The 2x-winner credential is self-asserted only — absent from every public winners list we could find
- Brand-new FB page, single-digit engagement; the checkmark is paid Meta Verified, not notability
- 'FREE. For now.' is manufactured urgency on a lead magnet that was always going to be free — its job is booking calls
- 'Guaranteed' scaling language in the bio; no published pricing anywhere in the funnel
The catch
The whole pitch rests on one word — 'won' — that Skool's own format waters down to 'top ten.' Free bait, call-gated price, and a credential you can't check from the outside: the funnel is standard; the trophy is the marketing.
How to actually do it
- Before buying any Skool Games credential: ask WHICH round and WHAT placement, then ask for the announcement link. Top-10 finishes get announced — a real winner can produce the receipt in one message
- Take the free community if the templates are useful — just know you're entering a book-a-call funnel, and the 'for now' deadline is theater
- Never book the sales call before you know the price range. 'We'll discuss on the call' means the price flexes to your pain
- The actual playbook these funnels run — free value, community, call-gate — is itself the client-getting system being sold. You're watching the lesson for free
Not a scam — a real operator with an inflatable credential. Grade the systems, not the trophy.
- Effort
- Joining the free community: minutes. The 'exact systems' working for you: the same months of grind they took him
- Cost
- Free tier is genuinely free; the paid program's price is call-gated — assume high-ticket until told otherwise
- Stack
- A Skool free community + a book-a-call gate + a paid backend — the standard 2026 coaching-for-coaches ladder
- Confidence
- Medium
- Posted by
- a brand-new coaching-for-coaches page run by a real, identifiable Skool community operator
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