World Cup Prediction Thread - Group Stage

[DanS]

Personally, I'm surprised that I was only one of two who chose Germany to win it. Hosting seems to give the home team a big boost.

[Wernazuma III]

Cort House, you don't predict any penalty shoot-outs in the later pahses?

[Cort Haus]

Damn! My first prediction (2-1 Germany) lasted into the 61st minute.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Wernazuma III
Cort House, you don't predict any penalty shoot-outs in the later pahses?

Yeah, but the software handing the results and the draw which I was using didn't allow for that, so I added an odd-goal where I thought there'd be pens. I left it all a bit late, and wanted to get my post in before it kicked off.

England will go out on pens - FACT. Also Italy and Sweden.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Yeah, all that two world wars and one world cup bull****...

* Cort sends inflatable spitfire comically into Ecthy's airspace (and promptly gets arrested by Tony Blair)

[Solver]

Germany 4 - Costa Rica 2

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Neds : 3

The Nedaverse has qualified?

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
in the final against germany, the linesman who ruled the extra time goal good had had his team eliminated in the round before by germany.

Had his family eliminated two decades previously by the Wehrmacht, is one popular explaination.

(let the banter begin!)

[Cort Haus]

I'm going to put everyone's score predictions into a spreadsheet, and possibly onwards into a database, and post a per-game report so we don't have to check several pages of the thread to see how we all did.

[Victor Galis]

So apparently I forgot to take into account a key fact into account when making my predictions: Poland sucks

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
Monday 19th June
Togo vs Switzerland 0-2
Saudi Arabia vs Ukraine 0 -3

Monday 19th June
Spain vs Tunisia ??????

[Cort Haus]

Germany 4-2 Costa Rica

Al_Kimiya: 2-0
alva: 0-0
atawa: 2-0
Cockney: 3-0
Cort: 2-1
CyberShy: 0-0
dans: 2-1
dauphin: 2-0
daz: 3-0
duke: 4-0
ecthy: 2-0
hueij: 0-1
imran: 3-1
kalius: 3-0
lawrence: 2-1
lightblue: 3-1
locutus: 2-1
serb: 3-0
sir_og: 3-1
siron: 3-0
solver: 2-0
victor_galis: 3-1
Wernazuma: 3-0
winston: 0-1

No-one got it, but congrats to duke o'york for predicting 4 goals for the hosts.

[Frozzy]

So everyone gets two poins except for Winston, Cybershy and alva (just trying to see if I understand the format)?

[Cort Haus]

Poland 0-2 Equador

Al_Kimiya: 1-1
alva: 0-0
atawa: 3-0
Cockney: 1-0
Cort: 1-1
CyberShy: 1-1
dans: 2-1
dauphin: 2-1
daz: 2-0
duke: 2-1
ecthy: 2-1
hueij: 0-0
imran: 1-1
kalius: 1-0
lawrence: 2-0
lightblue: 1-1
locutus: 1-0
serb: 0-1
sir_og: 1-1
siron: 1-0
solver: 1-0
victor_galis: 2-1
Wernazuma: 1-1
winston: 2-0

Again, no-one got it, but congrats to Serb for being the onlyone to predict an Equador win.

[Solver]

Well it wasn't easy to predict that Poland would suck this badly...