CD Tolima vs. CA Bucaramanga

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Market context

CD Tolima host CA Bucaramanga in a Colombia Primera A fixture at Estadio Manuel Murillo Toro in Ibagué, with the match listed for 22 August 2026 at 21:05 UTC. The crowd-implied 0% YES price suggests the market is effectively treating a positive settlement as closed or no longer live, so programmatic users would first verify the settlement rule against the fixture status before sending any orders or bots into the book.

Recent comparable pricing and fixture data pointed to Tolima as a modest home favourite, with one pre-match line showing Tolima +125 and a 2.5 goal total, while the scheduled kick-off sat alongside a tightly packed league round. Tolima and Bucaramanga were both in the upper part of the table in one listed snapshot, which is the sort of setup that can keep a low-scoring, high-leverage market sensitive to a single late line-up change, red card, or postponed kick-off.

For traders running conditional orders or copy-trading logic, the main catalysts are official team sheets, final referee confirmation, and any schedule slippage around the league round. Bucaramanga also had a follow-on league fixture listed for 25 August, so rotation risk and post-match load management are relevant if team news drops close to kick-off; the practical approach is to key alerts off lineup release and match status changes rather than raw pre-match price alone.

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Methodology

This page is a comparison snapshot: one live quote, four reference venues with their key attributes, and a single execution path — every trade button routes to Polymarket Bot UK, which mirrors the Polymarket order book directly.

Resolution & payout

Settlement runs on-chain. Polymarket's contract logic separates YES and NO shares as conditional tokens; at resolution the winning share lifts to $1.00 and the losing one to $0. The outcome input comes from the UMA Optimistic Oracle, which secures against bad resolution with a bond + dispute window.

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