As explained below, 2 is off.
The 1st sentence sounds really strange.
Didn’t you mean to use 曾经看过?If they didn’t see the game in the first clause, how had they already seen it in the second clause?
Maybe 曾经 is what you’re looking for. They didn’t watch the game because they had already seen it before (could have even been 10 years ago, 曾经 is more distant.