Smogon's Official World Cup Discussion (Congrats to Glaucius on winning Pick'em!)

[BanSpecsMachamp]

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-06-25.html

lol'd

Wtf did I just read lol

 

[Bughouse]

So I didn't put an entry into this, but I did want to share what I've gotten on ESPN

On the game-by-game picks:

On the overall bracket based on group-stage survivors:

I'd love to continue to climb the leaderboard. Thoughts on who I should pick? Any particular upsets I should go for?

 

[ModestGarchomp]

Upsets???
Nigeria beating France.
USA beating Belgium.

 

[Sapientia]

Switzerland beating Argentina
Chile beating Brazil (not really an upset though)

 

[Soul Fly]

From the Article Waterbomb posted.

8) Soccer is like the metric system, which liberals also adore because it's European. Naturally, the metric system emerged from the French Revolution, during the brief intervals when they weren't committing mass murder by guillotine.


Despite being subjected to Chinese-style brainwashing in the public schools to use centimeters and Celsius, ask any American for the temperature, and he'll say something like "70 degrees." Ask how far Boston is from New York City, he'll say it's about 200 miles.


Liberals get angry and tell us that the metric system is more "rational" than the measurements everyone understands. This is ridiculous. An inch is the width of a man's thumb, a foot the length of his foot, a yard the length of his belt. That's easy to visualize. How do you visualize 147.2 centimeters?

What the Fuck.
and
Why the Fuck?

 

[latinoheat]

Is there a more annoying player then David Luiz. Goofy fucking face, arrogant, dumb goal celebrations, thinks he is great yet is clearly a poor defender, dodgy free kicks, always being bailed out by Thiago Silva.

 

[WaterBomb]

Neymar really needs a left foot. It amazes me how many of these top tier professional players are so heavily one-footed.

 

[Soul Fly]

Fuuuck now this match lives up to the hype.

Neymar decided he isn't made of porcelain anymore which is a good thing. And he has a very good left foot usually IDK how he muffed that shot.

This is also an excellent F.C Barcelona exhibition for Sponsors lol.

 

[Imanalt]

Neymar really needs a left foot. It amazes me how many of these top tier professional players are so heavily one-footed.

neymar overall has a good left foot, although consider he had to come off for some treatment for a hit on his left leg early so he has seemed to be shying away from it a lot

 

[Eagle4]

Can see it finishing 3-1 or 4-1 to Brazil after extra time

Chile's amazing workrate both helps and hinders them

 

[s_aman]

Last 15 minutes remaining and they sub out OSCAR? I don't have enough football knowledge, so can someone please explain?

 

[Soul Fly]

Fuck Medel's leg looked like a mess. How did he even play 110 minutes

 

[Soul Fly]

Fuck. The entire country of silent ATM. Even if Brazil go through, this will be a majorly fucking embarrassing for them. Will sap them off all their remaining fortitude this shootout.

 

[termi]

What a mess for brazil, not only couldn't they beat chile before penalties, but chile just dominated in the second half. This could have been over way earlier, and not in brazil's favor

E: FUCK SHIT

 

[JimBob]

Goal post/crossbar for MVP.

 

[Soul Fly]

Fuck this sport. lol

 

[latinoheat]

Brazil ready for the taking, Colombia over to you.

Felt really bad for Sanchez with the penalty miss among the best players in the whole tournament

 

[Max Carvalho]

Motherfuckers. Julio is a boss.

 

[termi]

Brazil ready for the taking, Colombia over to you.

Felt really bad for Sanchez with the penalty miss among the best players in the whole tournament

Sanchez didn't perform this match tho imo, played around a lot but his actions didn't result in much

 

[Soul Fly]

Are you kidding me. His goal was top notch, and that one two in the Brazilian penalty box was the best I've seen in a long time. Plus not just Sanchez, the entire Chilean offense was very impressive in the second half.

 

[Eagle4]

On the whole Brazil deserved to win, but I feel really bad for Chile to make it out of their group and beat Spain, but then lose on penalties to Brazil (after hitting the crossbar late in extra time!)

Predicting a good 3-1 win for Colombia over Uruguay

 

[Max Carvalho]

Crossbar used Iron Defense. Colombia 2x1 over Uruguai.

 

[WaterBomb]

Plus not just Sanchez, the entire Chilean offense was very impressive in the second half.

Yes, they parked the bus very impressively.

 

[Soul Fly]

Second Half =/= Extra Time

 

[latinoheat]

James Rodriguez showing at Real Madrid Autumn 2014