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Post Post #50 (ISO) » Mon Jun 04, 2018 5:23 am

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Post Post #51 (ISO) » Mon Jun 04, 2018 5:45 am

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LOL MY GERMAN LAB GROUP IS DOING A BETTING FANTASY LEAGUE AND I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT SOCCOR AHAHAH
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Post Post #52 (ISO) » Mon Jun 04, 2018 5:46 am

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Just kidding. In high school I was a huge VIVA ESPANA fan
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Post Post #53 (ISO) » Mon Jun 04, 2018 6:35 am

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Gonna play in Nexus' comp in disregard of that I want to host one of my own. Whatever. Let's just have fun.
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Post Post #54 (ISO) » Fri Jun 08, 2018 3:51 am

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Love the world cup!

I am excite :)
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Post Post #55 (ISO) » Sat Jun 09, 2018 12:58 pm

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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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Post Post #56 (ISO) » Sat Jun 09, 2018 3:19 pm

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In post 55, Bella wrote:
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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Post Post #57 (ISO) » Wed Jun 13, 2018 1:36 am

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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.
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Post Post #58 (ISO) » Wed Jun 13, 2018 1:52 am

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At least the matches will be easy for you to watch in 2026
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Post Post #59 (ISO) » Wed Jun 13, 2018 1:53 am

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In post 57, zoraster wrote: games
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Post Post #60 (ISO) » Wed Jun 13, 2018 1:56 am

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IT'S VERY SERIOUS. GAMES ARE FOR CHILDREN. MATCHES ARE FOR ADULTS FIGHTING TO THE DEATH
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Post Post #61 (ISO) » Wed Jun 13, 2018 1:56 am

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OOO RAH
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Post Post #62 (ISO) » Wed Jun 13, 2018 1:56 am

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In post 58, Not_Mafia wrote:At least the matches will be easy for you to watch in 2024
2026, right?
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Post Post #63 (ISO) » Wed Jun 13, 2018 1:58 am

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Yeah that’s what I said :good:
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Post Post #64 (ISO) » Wed Jun 13, 2018 1:58 am

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2022 is Qatar ya where is 2026?
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Post Post #65 (ISO) » Wed Jun 13, 2018 2:03 am

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US, Canada and Mexico. Announced today. Canada and Mexico only hosting 12.5% of the games each, none of the knockout round.
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Post Post #66 (ISO) » Wed Jun 13, 2018 2:05 am

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also with 48 teams.
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Post Post #67 (ISO) » Wed Jun 13, 2018 2:05 am

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In post 65, zoraster wrote:US, Canada and Mexico. Announced today.
:O

Okay I'm starting a savings fund for tickets!!!! That's fantastic! =D

I mean, I've heard it can do horrible things to the economies of places once the games are over with but HYPE!!!!!!!
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Post Post #68 (ISO) » Wed Jun 13, 2018 2:10 am

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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.
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Post Post #69 (ISO) » Wed Jun 13, 2018 2:13 am

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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.
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Post Post #70 (ISO) » Wed Jun 13, 2018 2:40 am

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In post 66, zoraster wrote:also with 48 teams.
that seems a bit much
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Post Post #71 (ISO) » Wed Jun 13, 2018 2:44 am

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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
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Post Post #72 (ISO) » Wed Jun 13, 2018 2:48 am

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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!).
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Post Post #73 (ISO) » Wed Jun 13, 2018 2:49 am

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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!

This should be very interesting.
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Post Post #74 (ISO) » Wed Jun 13, 2018 2:49 am

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In post 71, shaft.ed wrote:
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.
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