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? :-)

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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 🟡

Can I concentrate minds here. We are very close to being able to get something onto the Sixth Clark. We only seem to have a few, frankly mathematical, stumbling blocks to go, and I suggest we push through them. Let's give the CRL plenty of time to nitpick the final draft.

Tim Payne for golden boot

Quote from: Glüc on June 07, 2026, 04:27:07 PMShould we do some sort of prediction game?

It would be one way for me to deal with the impact of the World Cup on my morning and afternoon commute...

Should we do some sort of prediction game?

Edit:

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?)