Yeah, I've been meaning to ask why does we have four questions (an even number), but forgot to ask. It's much easier to end up with a draw when there are even number of questions. I think that adding the 5th question was a good idea.
As for the goal scorers, I'm not sure what do you mean when you say that in the future goalscorers will have a captain requirement. I don't have anything against how the goalscorers part is now. True, it often comes down to one or two different players, but that's OK I guess.
We wanted it to be close, so actually preferred the high chance of a draw. So, if you have 2 different answers and it's a draw, that's what we wanted.
What we didn't want is for teams to have 4 same answers - and that happened a few times in the groups.
If implemented, you'd submit scorers like this: Mbappe (c), Kane, Vinicius.. - and whatever your captain scores doubles.
The main reason for this is that it gives another differential - because it's Kane, Messi, Mbappe for you all. This way, you still have to pick one of them for extra points - again, decreasing the chance for almost the same answers.
EDIT: If the game gets to the penalty shotout, does a player that scores a goal count as a goalscorer? For example, we have Vinicius as a goalscorer. If Brasil-Japan gets to penalties and Vinicius scores, does it count as a goalscorer?
Penalty shootout goals will not count, overtime goals will. I'm 99% that it's defined somewhere - but can't search for it now. Will be added to the forms in future instances.
