Since the weaker footballing states of Queensland and New South Wales were grouped together with the likes of Victoria, there were many one sided games.
Victoria's game against Queensland was described in the Tasmanian press as "one of the most farcial football matches ever witnessed in Hobart", with Victoria applying little defensive pressure (resulting in Queensland's highest score of the tournament), and making positional changes which resulted in all eighteen Victorian players scoring at least one goal.
The carnival was the biggest sporting event to have been held in Tasmania's history at that time.
Huge crowds were drawn to the marquee days of the carnival, attracting visitors from all over Tasmania.
[4] The average tournament crowd was reduced by the Tuesday and Thursday matches played during the second week – which featured predictably one-sided affairs, did not feature Tasmania, and one of which was played in heavy rain – which each drew only a couple of hundred of spectators.