⚽⭐⚽ Rainbet’s BTT World Cup 2026 – Road to Glory ⚽⭐⚽

[cryptofrka]

Tagging all the captains - we did not check any of your submissions. It's up to you to doublecheck what your teammates are doing.

Link to the spreadsheet is here, finalize your team arrangements and submit what's needed.

The deadline is 17:00 UTC (forum time), so still plenty of time left. Really looking forward to this one..

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Trofo
buwaytress
leea-1334
B1g4udge
darxiaomi
Rikafip
Jeremypwr
mv1986
Harkorede
Nheer
Ovcijisir
Heyshbosh
vd309
LTU_btc
Strongkored
Hhampuz

[paco92x]

It is nice to see that Little Italy, led by our famous mafia captain Trofo, submitted the answers within a matter of a half hour of each other . That is teamwork, and I don't see team South America having a chance against us . (They made me super aggressive—it is what you need to do when you're part of the Mafia team.)

[Rikafip]

Agree,,, my direct opponent @Rikafip thought he had an advantage by seeing it was me who was submitting but he will be surely disappointed.

Nah, I see no how would that bring any advantage to me, knowing that you will be the one going against me.

After all, just because someone submitted a betting ticket doesn't necessarily mean that they are the one who picked the games. It might have been a team effort, or perhaps one particular member (other than the one who submitted) made the picks. There might be a lot of deception going on so what's written there on the spreadsheet doesn't really mean much.

[Trofo]

OP is all updated with latest team news, check it up and let's kick start this WC.

A lot of submissions is already in, seems only Central European Alliance is waiting for last minute. Maybe they are cooking some kind of surprise.

Edit: it is first round so we will allow for some manual entries. We have a couple of teams with logistics problems and we have received/will receive some answers trough PM. Will we add that at the bottom after table is unlocked and consider them regular entries. There is still a chance they solve their problems so no intervention is necessary as well.

[darxiaomi]

It is nice to see that Little Italy, led by our famous mafia captain Trofo, submitted the answers within a matter of a half hour of each other . That is teamwork, and I don't see team South America having a chance against us . (They made me super aggressive—it is what you need to do when you're part of the Mafia team.)

Team South America made a statement:

The maffia tries to hurt us, in our last night of sleep in the hotel we receive some attacks in the doors and also they didnt let us sleep by putting fireworks all the night, but that is not a problem for us, we come from a more difficult zone, so when they though we were there we were alredy in other place sleeping and preparing for our match.

[LTU_btc]

Ok, picks from me and my team submitted. Let the madness begin. Wish everyone great World Cup that we would have what to remember after many years. Don't know about you guys, until yesterday I wasn't excited about this World Cup, but from today morning I'm already hyped and can't wait to see start. Maybe because we managed to jump into Road to Glory with our team on last minute

[notblox1]

Our team Imperium Romanum is ready for the start of WC Road to Glory!
Having three players in same team is complicating things even if players know each other very good, so this is going to be interesting.
I am not able to watch all matches but I will follow results.

Hey fellas, there's a 16th ream after all!

How is this possible to have Hhampuz and his two clones in the same team!? Is this another Mafia trickery?  

[Nheer]

Ok, picks from me and my team submitted. Let the madness begin. Wish everyone great World Cup that we would have what to remember after many years. Don't know about you guys, until yesterday I wasn't excited about this World Cup, but from today morning I'm already hyped and can't wait to see start. Maybe because we managed to jump into Road to Glory with our team on last minute

Good to see you're hype for this, at least I know my opponent will make it it interesting. We're your first opponent so we'll do our best to bring down the excitement so enjoy it while it lasts.
The first game already started, I see we have a few similar answers so let's see how far you go.

[Daniel91]

I see our first opponent is "Team Croatia"!
Our WPRA is well prepared for everyone
And my personal matchup will be against Daniel91 - really curious about your selections!
I also personally hope for a "Team 16" but that looks almost impossible currently but who knows.

Ok, you can finally see my answers. From what I can see, we have 2 the same and 3 different suggestions. I won’t reveal our secret analysis and strategy, how we arrived at our 5 picks, but I believe we have a winning strategy. 
We'll see who will be more successful out of our suggested scorers in the first round of the World cup.

[cryptofrka]

Spreadsheet looks shitty, we know. No schedules as well - we know
Have a bit of patience, we have to organize it a bit and don't know yet what's the best way forward.

In a day or 2 everything will look peachy.

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As far as we can see, we have only 1 failed submission - betting ticket from Central European Alliance.
Don't worry fellas - everybody goes through from the group stages anyway. Still plenty of time to bounce back.

Unfortunately, the rules make you a goal down in the 1st game of the tournament:

Missing a submission means an automatic loss in that mini-game.

[buwaytress]

Thanks to Cro2 I didn't have to read rules in OP to know Southeast Archipelago has already won a point against mighty Central Europe -- you know, because we didn't even have to try. Now we just need to snag one of the other two mini-games, but the pressure is slightly off.

Mexico's not bad at the front, but then Bafana2 is really poor...

[LTU_btc]

Thanks to Cro2 I didn't have to read rules in OP to know Southeast Archipelago has already won a point against mighty Central Europe -- you know, because we didn't even have to try. Now we just need to snag one of the other two mini-games, but the pressure is slightly off.

Mexico's not bad at the front, but then Bafana2 is really poor...

Not the most exciting game to open World Cup, yeah, Mexico is ok, they did what they were supposed to do. But South Africa were so poor today. Wanted to ask what they're doing at World Cup, but then remembered that we will have moresimilar level teams, thanks to expansion. 2 red cards, so many chances given to Mexico, it could have ended much worse.
South Korea - Czechia, but it will be 5AM for me, no chance to watch.

[cryptofrka]

The spreadsheet is (semi)automated now - your duels should look much cleaner.

We're still not sure if the data is fully correct when transferred but tomorrow we will prioritize Beat the Bookie - due to its nature we have to start grading that one ASAP.
This means that if you're checking your scores/picks, the only way to be sure is by checking the 'Raw data' sheet.

Current 'Round 1' sheet is a quick fix for easier readability and should mostly be correct - it will massively help if you doublecheck and report what's incorrect. We will still heavily recheck it so no worries - just give us a day or 2.

[el che]

It is nice to see that Little Italy, led by our famous mafia captain Trofo, submitted the answers within a matter of a half hour of each other . That is teamwork, and I don't see team South America having a chance against us . (They made me super aggressive—it is what you need to do when you're part of the Mafia team.)

Team South America made a statement:

The maffia tries to hurt us, in our last night of sleep in the hotel we receive some attacks in the doors and also they didnt let us sleep by putting fireworks all the night, but that is not a problem for us, we come from a more difficult zone, so when they though we were there we were alredy in other place sleeping and preparing for our match.

First of all thanks cro2 for all the work you are putting into all these contests to make them so entertaining.

With that said, no love will be shown during our matchup, Dar already explained why your midnight tricks didn't work on us. You guys call yourselves the mafia but you planned this operation poorly, don't forget that millions of Italians immigrated to South America in the early 20th century, we have that same blood so we invented the playbook you are trying to use. Many teams are cheering for us so we are going to deliver.

[slaman29]

What a move, Rainbet to be the 16th and final team I love it lol It should be Hhampuz plus 2 secret Rainbet guys  to be the same as the 3 hosts of US/Mexico/Canada but we can try that next one with also 3 hosts

Was really not looking good in my side of mini competition with South Korea trailing after getting all the threats but they finally equalized and I got our bet in safe hands phew!!

[Daniel91]

The World Cup started and I would say that there are no surprises so far, everything is going according to expectations.
Our competitions have finally started and as far as I can see, ''Team Croatia'' and ''Western Pacific Rim Alliance'' differ in almost all answers, so this will be a very tense and uncertain match.
However, I believe in our plan and strategy and the final victory.
As far as my prediction is concerned, everything will be clear by Monday.

[cygan]

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As far as we can see, we have only 1 failed submission - betting ticket from Central European Alliance.
Don't worry fellas - everybody goes through from the group stages anyway. Still plenty of time to bounce back.

Unfortunately, the rules make you a goal down in the 1st game of the tournament:

Missing a submission means an automatic loss in that mini-game.

believe me, we tried everything we could to submit the 'betting ticket' in time... but in the end, it just wasn't enough
nevertheless, everything is still possible and we can still win the first round against buwaytress Southeast Archipelago

[Trofo]

Where are those South America opponents? What was that name you wanted? Big boys from SA? Looks more like little kitties from SA, nothing to hear from you. Of course you have placed your trust into Messi, hope it bites you in the ass when Oyrazabal scores a hat trick

My part was betslip and I see it is out of my hands, if your hits you will take that point but picking 5 games is a bit tricky. Still pissed at myself for not going bigger, was thinking of at least taking Mexico over 1.5 goal and it would have be better odds for us than. But cryptofrka said slow and steady is the game and now we will see 

[arallmuus]

believe me, we tried everything we could to submit the 'betting ticket' in time... but in the end, it just wasn't enough
nevertheless, everything is still possible and we can still win the first round against buwaytress Southeast Archipelago

Well its good that you guys only missed it on the betting ticket because we still need to win that specific ticket even if you guys didnt submit to get points from that.

We got few different answers, Im gonna put it right here so we dont need to keep checking the spreadsheet. Its getting confusing now that I need to keep checking couple of it



So difference on Ecuador / Ivory coast as well as Spain / Germany. 3 different goalscorer as well after omitting the same name

[darxiaomi]

First of all thanks cro2 for all the work you are putting into all these contests to make them so entertaining.

With that said, no love will be shown during our matchup, Dar already explained why your midnight tricks didn't work on us. You guys call yourselves the mafia but you planned this operation poorly, don't forget that millions of Italians immigrated to South America in the early 20th century, we have that same blood so we invented the playbook you are trying to use. Many teams are cheering for us so we are going to deliver.

You know is like that meme who points out that italians are delusional cosplayers and we are the real ones.  We invented the tricks and everything in the playbook.

When this guy start to walk we are already running.

Where are those South America opponents? What was that name you wanted? Big boys from SA? Looks more like little kitties from SA, nothing to hear from you. Of course you have placed your trust into Messi, hope it bites you in the ass when Oyrazabal scores a hat trick

My part was betslip and I see it is out of my hands, if your hits you will take that point but picking 5 games is a bit tricky. Still pissed at myself for not going bigger, was thinking of at least taking Mexico over 1.5 goal and it would have be better odds for us than. But cryptofrka said slow and steady is the game and now we will see 

Hahahaha, to be honest i was in hard pressure and went into the clasic picks, the main problem with Spain was some injuries and his coach which you never know what player is gonna put into the starters.