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

[BABY SHOES]

I told you guys,,, we part timers are very chill and relaxed and undefeated   Now we can tuck in to our big meals of Korean kimchi, Singaporean chicken rice and Indonesian rendang.

We won the group... it's very relaxing, waiting for the quarterfinals is having a lot of time we will rest with the meal.

Anyway, great teamwork.

We will let you know @Trofo how to deal with freebet, we just need to enjoy our qualification first  

About the freebet I leave it to you completely as captain, now just waiting for confirmation from goodpunt, after all I also just won a freebet from the Rainbet contest just now.

[notblox1]

A bit curious to me that only team that didn't make a flag has a BSFL logo designer in it   If I were your captain, such slacking wouldn't be allowed.

We have our flag and it is authentic, original and historic, not AI made like little Italian boobies flag  

This means that South America, S.E.A. UNITED, Imperium Romanum and WPRA have booked their place in the quarterfinals.
Little Italy, Team Balkans, Team Naija and Three Lions are skipping R32.

Imperim Romanum is top team, hands down.
Totally deserved to be in quarterfinals, while little boobies continue fighting in colosseum arenas.

I almost forgot to post one fan of little Italian bobbies team, it is their top fun without teeth  

[Trofo]

I don't know if I'm blind, but I can't seem to find the penalties section in the form. Will there be a separate form for the penalties?

EDIT: One more thing @Trofo or @cryptofrka. The second question of the questionnaire says "Germany, France and Spain all to qualify to R32 in regular time?". Isn't that wrong formulation? All of these teams have qualified for the R32 and are now playing to qualify for the R16.

Penalties open up if you say you are the captain

Yep, wrong formulation, should be R16 there.

@cryptofrka, @Trofo, just to be clear here:

This means that, for the purposes of this competition, the round starts with the Brazil - Japan game and not the SA- Canada game that is tonight, in order to give you more time to prepare your answers.

This means the bet slip should not contain any outcome from the game SA - Canada, right?

We didn't cover that one in the rules, so let's say you are safer to ignore it. If someone already submitted with that game on the ticket we would have allowed it. Then it is only fair to say it like this. If your ticket has Canada game it has to be submitted at least 2 hours before Canada game starts - those will be accepted. If you want to be sure just skip on that game and use normal deadline advertised in the post where I tagged all of you. If someone submits Canada after 5PM forum time today, those tickets will be auto loss.

[cryptofrka]

We discussed this as well:

The list of goalscorers has been updated as well. One important mention here - it's not confirmed yet.
We added goals for players that scored against unsubmitted or incorrectly submitted tickets, but these points will almost surely be removed. We will only add points (goals) to the players that have winning betslips in such scenarios.

We will proceed as written, therefore buwaytress is flagged offside and his goal disallowed.
After thorough VAR checks (betslip review), goals from ovcijisir and Koal-84 will stand.

List of goalscorers is now 100% correct.

While we're on the topic, Hhampuz plays 3 events. He chose that the questionnaire will be the one evaluated for the Golden Ball, so he doesn't get goals scored from other events.

[paco92x]

Congrats to all the winners of the group stage. Little Italy chose not to be the winners because it would be pretty obvious, and everyone would label us as bullies. So we claimed a respectable 2nd place and now await the winners of the Round of 32. Goooo Little Italy

[Asiska02]

Congrats to all the winners of the group stage. Little Italy chose not to be the winners because it would be pretty obvious, and everyone would label us as bullies. So we claimed a respectable 2nd place and now await the winners of the Round of 32. Goooo Little Italy

Whoa, congrats to Little Italy finishing second on the table. And to the South American team, those guys are incredible and I give you your flowers for finishing the group stage winning all matches and securing all points. Finishing third on the table was not what we anticipated looking back how we started our campaign with a good win. We try again as it is not yet over until we get to know in the coming games of the R32.

@Trofo and @Cryptofrka; what happens if a we have a tie in the knockout stage, how will the winner be determined? Is there any rule set for that to determine the qualifying team in such situation?

[cryptofrka]

@Trofo and @Cryptofrka; what happens if a we have a tie in the knockout stage, how will the winner be determined? Is there any rule set for that to determine the qualifying team in such situation?

You play penalties. Penalties have a 99.5% chance of successfully determining the winner - the only case where it's a draw is if you put the same minute in the last penalty question.
We will check this once the round goes live and only in that case send another question to the captains.

It's theoretically possible, we thought of it - but we didn't deem it a serious threat. We'll manage it properly if it happens.

[Zaguru12]

Congrats to all the winners of the group stage. Little Italy chose not to be the winners because it would be pretty obvious, and everyone would label us as bullies. So we claimed a respectable 2nd place and now await the winners of the Round of 32. Goooo Little Italy

Just accept defeat and don’t boast around  I think this competition is just a great replica of the actually world tournament. Look at big teams coming to competition with big hopes and then getting some upset. Seriously little  Italy not finishing top surprised me, but like the Italy national team the disappointment is real

We would have been through to the last 8 if at all weren’t monitored and snitched upon, the bet slip we brought got in but was already out, we were lucky it was even in the group stages we made that costly mistake, we would be back stronger in the last 16.

[buwaytress]

Poor uncle buway, a goal taken away, you really don't want an old veteran to keep his goals? How sad, but how typical of you young kids.

Our team has decided that we will play potentially our final match of this tournament with full freedom, Ancelotti style. No instructions, and no consensus. We will each submit our picks freely without the burden of team instructions. Watch out, CEA.

Also time to award 100$ free bets to the group winners. You know who you are but here is the list once again.
South America - Meridian Alliance
S.E.A UNITED - The Pacific Ocean Alliance
Imperium Romanum - Curacao
Western Pacific Rim Alliance - Southeast Archipelago

Hey mafia, what does this matchup mean? I understand Southeast Archipelago will be in the playoff with our group's third placed team (Central European alliance) but I also saw this matchup?

[Trofo]

Hey mafia, what does this matchup mean? I understand Southeast Archipelago will be in the playoff with our group's third placed team (Central European alliance) but I also saw this matchup?

Not sure what you are asking. You thought play off would be among teams in the same group? Not the case, we just drafted 3rd placed teams against 4th placed so it could have happened but odds were against that.

[LTU_btc]

I feel sorry for Iran. First, their late game winninggoal against Egypt get cancelled because of offside and then they get eliminated after late draw between Algeria and Austria. Actually it was easy to predict draw in this game as it's good result for both teams, but I think not many saw 3:3 coming.
Now finally serious things begins
Our team is performing terrible so far and as captain I have to take responsibility. But I hope that we will do better on game where we have no right for mistake.

[Daniel91]

I feel sorry for Iran. First, their late game winninggoal against Egypt get cancelled because of offside and then they get eliminated after late draw between Algeria and Austria. Actually it was easy to predict draw in this game as it's good result for both teams, but I think not many saw 3:3 coming.
Now finally serious things begins
Our team is performing terrible so far and as captain I have to take responsibility. But I hope that we will do better on game where we have no right for mistake.

I also feel sorry for Iran.
They had a lot of difficulties due to travel restrictions in the US, less time to prepare for the matches and despite all these difficulties, and political tensions, they played great and finished the competition undefeated.
I think what we saw in the last 25-30 minutes of the match between Algeria and Austria was shameful and I hope we never see anything like that again.
As for our team, ''Team Croatia'' we started poorly but as the competition goes on we are getting better and better and I expect that we will show our best in the knockout phase and continue with the victories.

[leea-1334]

We won the group... it's very relaxing, waiting for the quarterfinals is having a lot of time we will rest with the meal.

Anyway, great teamwork.

About the freebet I leave it to you completely as captain, now just waiting for confirmation from goodpunt, after all I also just won a freebet from the Rainbet contest just now.

What a great team,,, everything is so chill with you guys I love it 

@Trofo you can credit the freebet, we decided if it wins then can split the winnings ourselves, easy for you to do like this right? I send a PM also to confirm.

Good luck to all 8 teams playing,,, their scores do not count for Golden Ball right @cryptofrka?

[cryptofrka]

Good luck to all 8 teams playing,,, their scores do not count for Golden Ball right @cryptofrka?

They do - but if equal goals, the player that scored them in less games will be placed better.

Golden ball:
Individual reward to 1 player with most H2H wins
Tie-breaker: fewer games played, then final team position

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Last tag to team captains whose teams have missing submissions.

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Nheer
Strongkored
buwaytress

[cygan]

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@cygan and @Koal-84, nothing is lost yet. Let the knockout rounds begin, time for mistakes is over now Good luck everyone!

got it and of course we discussed everything together and submitted our tasks on time!
we already played against our opponent, southeast archipelago, in the group stage and even managed to win despite a penalty (failure to submit the betting slip)... this time, we've submitted all three tasks and are ready for the showdown

[darbitmobilerecovery]

Well what a start for our team we reached the quarterfinals in the first shot and we ended up the group stage with 9 points winning all the 3 games and in great shape, we also have our wonder boy fighting for the golden ball and the old number 10 fm behind him doing a great job giving assits.

Im in the back just holding the defense.

Lets keep going!


One question to the mafia guys.

About the new rounds, what did you say about the captains, now us (the captains) have to answer the questionaries section always? Or i get it bad and it is only the penalty shots only?

[Trofo]

One question to the mafia guys.

About the new rounds, what did you say about the captains, now us (the captains) have to answer the questionaries section always? Or i get it bad and it is only the penalty shots only?

Nope, when you are submitting any part of the form, you get asked if you are the captain. Answering yes opens up penalties, answering no, just submits. Or something like that, didn't actually tried it since we are free this round. Feel free to give us some feedback on this and if you liked this solution.

[Rikafip]

Nope, when you are submitting any part of the form, you get asked if you are the captain. Answering yes opens up penalties, answering no, just submits. Or something like that, didn't actually tried it since we are free this round. Feel free to give us some feedback on this and if you liked this solution.

Yes, that' how it works. After you submitted your part of the question, you get asked whether you are the captain, and if you answer "yes", penalties part show up.

Imho, it works good.

[LTU_btc]

Finally serious things begins. Hate that playoff bracket is so unballanced, but we can't do anything about it. Like Brazil probably didn't wanted to get Japan already in the first round of playoffs. Yes, they're favorited, but it's going to be very difficult. While Netherlands - Morocco is pair where we don't even have favorite. Too bad that kickoff time is so shitty for this game, but I will try to get up and watch it before going to work.

[darxiaomi]

Nope, when you are submitting any part of the form, you get asked if you are the captain. Answering yes opens up penalties, answering no, just submits. Or something like that, didn't actually tried it since we are free this round. Feel free to give us some feedback on this and if you liked this solution.

Yes, that' how it works. After you submitted your part of the question, you get asked whether you are the captain, and if you answer "yes", penalties part show up.

Imho, it works good.

Ok i dont play in this round so i cant prove it but if it is like you explained and Rikafip confirmed seems really good as a solution.

Well good luck to everyone who has to play in this first knockouts, we wait for the winners in the QF.

Its gonna be a fun round to watch from outside, some games seems easy but we already saw in this wc nothing is easy.