In post 22, Creature wrote:Yeah, all previous world cup champions will be eliminated during group stage.
???
Uruguay (1930, 1950), France (1998), Brazil (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002) and Germany (2014, the defending champs) all make it through in your predictions.
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Don't let me catch you sleeping again
You're only alive because I like you
It's been three years since you've seen the sunlight
But I know you're having fun
Bound, gagged and chained up in my basement
In post 22, Creature wrote:Yeah, all previous world cup champions will be eliminated during group stage.
???
Uruguay (1930, 1950), France (1998), Brazil (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002) and Germany (2014, the defending champs) all make it through in your predictions.
Don't let your measely facts get in the way of his rightness D:
World Cup begins tomorrow. I have to figure out how much I want to try to watch these games that start at 3am or 5am for me. Tomorrow's fortunately is just at 8am, but Saturday's 3am France match will be hard to justify.
At least the matches will be easy for you to watch in 2026
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Also, what is NM doing? Worst play I’ve ever seen.
I can't remember the last N_M post that wasn't bland, unimaginative and lame. Some shitposters are at least somewhat funny. You are the epitomy of the type of poster that nobody would miss if you were to suddenly disappear. You never add anything of value.
I'm guessing you haven't read the game and probably never will? Why even sign up to play?
Also, what is NM doing? Worst play I’ve ever seen.
I can't remember the last N_M post that wasn't bland, unimaginative and lame. Some shitposters are at least somewhat funny. You are the epitomy of the type of poster that nobody would miss if you were to suddenly disappear. You never add anything of value.
I'm guessing you haven't read the game and probably never will? Why even sign up to play?
Also, what is NM doing? Worst play I’ve ever seen.
I can't remember the last N_M post that wasn't bland, unimaginative and lame. Some shitposters are at least somewhat funny. You are the epitomy of the type of poster that nobody would miss if you were to suddenly disappear. You never add anything of value.
I'm guessing you haven't read the game and probably never will? Why even sign up to play?
Also, what is NM doing? Worst play I’ve ever seen.
I can't remember the last N_M post that wasn't bland, unimaginative and lame. Some shitposters are at least somewhat funny. You are the epitomy of the type of poster that nobody would miss if you were to suddenly disappear. You never add anything of value.
I'm guessing you haven't read the game and probably never will? Why even sign up to play?
I wonder how they'll handle the altitude of Mexico city and to a lesser extent Denver. It's not a problem really if it's consistent through the group, but given Mexico has 3 host cities and only 10 matches, it's likely Mexico city only gets 1 round of a group, which makes that game pretty different than the other games in Houston or whatever.
apparently the 48-team format right now is 16 groups of 3, so each group only has 3 games to play. Top two advance to a 32-team knockout. I actually kind of like that.
In post 69, zoraster wrote:apparently the 48-team format right now is 16 groups of 3, so each group only has 3 games to play. Top two advance to a 32-team knockout. I actually kind of like that.
better than whatever the hell they did with the Euro
Well, given the way it'll operate with 16 groups of 3 with the top two advancing as sort of a half-qualification round half-world cup round. Theoretically it reduces the last-game blues of groups, although with a major risk that playing for a draw is beneficial for a good number of teams (apparently it's been floated that the last game of groups has to end in a victor).
It's 23% of the 211 teams, which is a lot particularly given a lot of those teams are from tiny areas. But it does give FIFA a better shot at getting India and/or China, reduces the odds of some major teams getting out (CONMEBOL has 6 spots out of 10 members!).
48 is an awful lot, but if that is the way they are splitting it it's kinda nice. I was thinking they'd do like 8 groups of 6 or something and was trying to figure out how that would work!
Also travel time is going to be a bitch! Like, split country games is alright is some cases like Korea/Japan, but like, if a team has a game in Mexico and the next one in Canada it's really going to hinder them, unlike a team who was already in Canada amd doesn't have to fly up! Or if they have a game in the east thn the west (or vice versa) timezones will screw them up!
In post 69, zoraster wrote:apparently the 48-team format right now is 16 groups of 3, so each group only has 3 games to play. Top two advance to a 32-team knockout. I actually kind of like that.
better than whatever the hell they did with the Euro
Funny enough, the Euro format is the same one that was used for previous World Cups.