Quote from: Norgy on December 08, 2025, 02:54:22 PMQuote from: Baron von Schtinkenbutt on December 08, 2025, 09:41:20 AMAlternately, FIFA could expand the field to 64, drop the group stage entirely, and structure the tournament as one large single-elimination bracket, similar to the way the NCAA basketball tournaments are structured. The biggest problem is that they would need some means of ranking all the teams in the field in order to properly construct the bracket.
It's too radical a change to actually happen, but it would be interesting.
The group stage is really a post-war thing. The worst was probably Spain '82 with two group stages. FIFA already has the FIFA ranking system for seeding, so it would not be that much of an issue except what frunk mentions. Nobody wants to go home after a single game.
Quote from: viper37 on December 08, 2025, 04:31:49 PMQuote from: Tamas on December 08, 2025, 04:19:54 PMto sell on Russian oil they buy freely to countries affected by the sanctions, most notably Serbia.I thought Trump was going after countries doing that?
Quote from: Tamas on December 08, 2025, 04:19:54 PMto sell on Russian oil they buy freely to countries affected by the sanctions, most notably Serbia.I thought Trump was going after countries doing that?

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