Idk man. https://bracket26.com/b/3gT7NtOujW

Ok, probably best keep it simple.

Fill in this: https://bracket26.com/builder

(Only the best 8 3rd placed teams go through. These are the only ones you have to select for 3rd place)

Share the link you get at the end.

1 point for each correct group winner
1 point for each correctly predicted 16th-finalist
2 points for each correctly predicted 8th-finalist
3 points for each correctly predicted quarterfinalist
5 points for each correctly predicted semifinalist
8 points for each correctly predicted finalist
13 points for correctly predicted winner

Deadline is start of the first game (thursday I think?)

Quote from: King Txec on June 08, 2026, 11:41:29 AM

Quote from: Sir Lüc on June 08, 2026, 10:01:59 AMI for one am happy to report that, for the third edition in a row, my home country is boycotting a World Cup held in an authoritarian regime. (For a country so obsessed about football, we sure are rubbish at it lately. Luckily, I dislike both the game and the obsession, so I shall continue blissfully ignoring the plight of my compatriots.)

Didn't Italy simply fail to qualify for the World Cup? I don't think that's a boycott unless you say they played badly so they didn't have to go? :-)

-Txec R

Duh, the decades long ineptitude and mismanagement in the Italian football federation is obviously all a long ploy to avoid Russia, Qatar and the US.

Quote from: Sir Lüc on June 08, 2026, 10:01:59 AMI for one am happy to report that, for the third edition in a row, my home country is boycotting a World Cup held in an authoritarian regime. (For a country so obsessed about football, we sure are rubbish at it lately. Luckily, I dislike both the game and the obsession, so I shall continue blissfully ignoring the plight of my compatriots.)

Didn't Italy simply fail to qualify for the World Cup? I don't think that's a boycott unless you say they played badly so they didn't have to go? :-)

-Txec R

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I for one am happy to report that, for the third edition in a row, my home country is boycotting a World Cup held in an authoritarian regime. (For a country so obsessed about football, we sure are rubbish at it lately. Luckily, I dislike both the game and the obsession, so I shall continue blissfully ignoring the plight of my compatriots.)

I don't know anything about soccer, but that's never stopped me before.

My stepmother's services are in a couple of days. Right now I'm helping my dad as much as I can. After that, on Thursday I'm headed home and I will take on the standards for political parties which is I think the last real stumbling block.

 Lionel Messi for golden ball and for the third time 🟡