The World Cup draw is Friday 12/1 at 6pm Moscow time. Rules and procedures: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2017/m=11/news=close-up-on-final-draw-procedures-2921440.html
The hardest part of any 4-year cycle is immediately after the WC draw. We have our tickets, we know who we're going to see, and we have our hotels and flights booked (most of us). Everything is set. But its still 200 days until the tournament begins!
Anyone in The Netherlands: on Friday the draw will be played on NPO2 from 16:00 but also on the Belgian and German channels (with a little more buildup) if the whole idea is too depressing for you Here are also some interesting photos from inside the Kremlin where the draw will take place https://vk.com/fifaworldcup?w=wall-128033123_154790
Interesting teams in this competition in four categories (I tried to be objective and not let my personal preferences affect this ranking too much): 1: Russia (because they are hosting) Germany, Brazil, Portugal, Argentina, France, Spain, England 2: Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Croatia, Sweden, Egypt, Nigeria, Australia 3:Belgium, Poland, Peru, Denmark, Iceland, Costa Rica, Tunisia, Senegal 4: Switzerland, Iran, Serbia, Japan, Morocco, Panama, South Korea, Saudi Arabia
For me the difficult wait is from the day after the draw until the EA Sports World Cup video game comes out in the Spring. That game keeps me happy and busy until the actual tournament starts.
Here is a fun way to waste even more time. The best draw simulator I've found so far... https://www.eddievf.com/wc2018/
Excellent - have previously been using another one and using the numbers of birds I see when I look out of the window to work out whether Costa Rica are places 2, 3 or 4 in the group. As totally pointless exercises go, most enjoyable
Are you sure? Seems like such an easy flaw to avoid for whoever writes such programs... EDIT: Ah crap, you're right! I got Egypt and Sweden in the same group.
Im convinced Argentina will get the group of death. Something like Spain, Nigeria, Sweden, or something of similar difficulty
That would, honestly, be a very interesting and entertaining group: Argentina, Spain, Sweden, Nigeria!
About time Argentina played Spain again in a WC. Obviously they will get Nigeria. they always get Nigeria and then meet Mexico in the 2nd round.
24 hours till the draw coverage begins. Here is another draw simulator https://draw.inker.fun/#/wc/gs
Yea I got the same issues, definitely not reliable. Oh I like this one, goes one by one and adheres to the draw procedure. Sweet!
Back in 1993 when Nigeria's first WC draw took place physicists entangled all possible electrons at the quantum level used in any display of any combination of words including "Argentina", "Nigeria", "football, and "FIFA". I am convinced that this is true and only proper physicists can prove me wrong...
Got: Russia Croatia Senegal Panama Argentina Swiss Tunisia Australia Brazil Spain Iran Nigeria Belgium Uruguay Sweden Morocco Portugal Peru Iceland South Korea France Colombia Denmark Japan Germany Mexico Egypt Serbia Poland England Costa Rica Saudi Arabia
Only problem is that it doesn’t allocate the place in the group (2, 3 or 4) for the none pot 1 teams. Hasn’t stopped me running it 4 times, mind