World Cup Gauntlet 2026
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Rules

How scoring works

Everything is +1 per correct call. There's exactly one multiplier — your champion. Get the most right and you out-pick everyone you know.

What you pick

Group stage

For each of your two top-two picks in a group:

Exactly right — finished in the slot you put them in+2
Advanced, wrong slot — reached the R32 (1st, 2nd, or best third)+1
Missed — didn't advance0
Each third-place team you tagged that advances as a best third+1

Up to 5 per group (both picks exact = 4, plus the third = 1), so 56 across the group stage. Nothing scores before a group has played.

Knockout

+1 for every correct knockout call, flat — no compounding. A call is judged per team, per round: you score if the team you advanced out of a round actually advanced out of that round in real life. (That keeps it fair no matter which R32 slot a team really lands in.)

Your champion — the one multiplier

If your champion actually wins the tournament, every point that team earned you doubles — their group points plus each knockout round you correctly rode them. Backing the right team from the start pays off the most.

The most you can score

Group stage56
Knockout (16 + 8 + 4 + 2 + 1)31
Champion ×2 bonus7
A perfect bracket94

Tie-breakers

On the leaderboard, highest total wins; ties go to whoever joined earliest. Group standings use the official published finishing order.

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