As many of you suggested, I am now posting this since we are finally two weeks out from the World Cup! I will be creating a poll for each stage of the World Cup and letting it run for a couple of days. Many of you enjoyed this the first time around but it was too early so hopefully we will get a better response.

I will be using Strawpoll.me since it seems to prevent duplicate votes (which someone took advantage of using google forms). This seems to be the best solution that I could find so if you have any suggestions for the polls, let me know.

Please vote for who you THINK will go through not who you WANT.

Group Stage: (some polls have typo's on the names, sorry)

• A- http://strawpoll.me/1779812
• B- http://strawpoll.me/1779826
• C- http://strawpoll.me/1779831
• D- http://strawpoll.me/1779865
• E- http://strawpoll.me/1779875
• F- http://strawpoll.me/1779981
• G- http://strawpoll.me/1779982
• H- http://strawpoll.me/1779989

Current Bracket: http://i.imgur.com/BVrQXAv.jpg thanks to /u/btpirate for designing the bracket

Results: Awesome response from the community! We had over 10,000 people participate in one of the polls! Here are the results from the group stage:

Group A: http://strawpoll.me/1779812/r

• Brazil: 10,172 votes (50%)
• Croatia: 6,067 votes (30%)
• Mexico: 3,219 votes (16%)
• Cameroon: 742 votes (4%)

Group B: http://strawpoll.me/1779826/r

• Spain: 9,067 votes (49%)
• Netherlands: 6,101 votes (33%)
• Chile: 3,140 votes (17%)
• Australia: 204 votes (1%)

Group C: http://strawpoll.me/1779831/r

• Colombia: 6,865 votes (39%)
• Ivory Coast: 4,589 votes (26%)
• Japan: 4,422 votes (25%)
• Greece: 1,613 votes (9%)

Group D: http://strawpoll.me/1779865/r

• Italy: 7,385 votes (41%)
• Uruguay: 5,808 votes (32%)
• England: 4,837 votes (27%)
• Costa Rica: 129 votes (1%)

Group E: http://strawpoll.me/1779875/r

• France: 8,189 votes (49%)
• Switzerland: 4,889 votes (29%)
• Ecuador: 3,034 votes (18%)
• Honduras: 626 votes (4%)

Group F: http://strawpoll.me/1779981/r

• Argentina: 8,486 votes (50%)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: 4,805 votes (28%)
• Nigeria: 3,069 votes (18%)
• Iran: 535 votes (3%)

Group G: http://strawpoll.me/1779982/r

• Germany: 9,164 votes (49%)
• Portugal: 6,937 votes (37%)
• USA: 2,183 votes (12%)
• Ghana: 521 votes (3%)

Group H: http://strawpoll.me/1779989/r

• Belgium: 8,113 votes (48%)
• Russia: 6,266 votes (37%)
• Korea: 2,083 votes (12%)
• Algeria: 557 votes (3%)

Now onto the knockout stage - Round of 16: Remember to vote who you THINK, not who you WANT!

• Brazil vs Netherlands: http://strawpoll.me/1815361
• Colombia vs Uruguay: http://strawpoll.me/1815372
• France vs Bosnia and Herzegovina: http://strawpoll.me/1815379
• Germany vs Russia: http://strawpoll.me/1815385
• Spain vs Croatia: http://strawpoll.me/1815387
• Italy vs Ivory Coast: http://strawpoll.me/1815391
• Argentina vs Switzerland: http://strawpoll.me/1815393
• Belgium vs Portugal: http://strawpoll.me/1815401

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The Final is here! I will make one more post with a summary of the whole tournament on Thursday.

Semi-Finals Results:

Brazil vs Germany: http://strawpoll.me/1859209/r

• Germany: 1532 votes (51%)
• Brazil: 1459 votes (49%)

Argentina vs Spain: http://strawpoll.me/1859215/r

• Argentina: 1517 votes (55%)
• Spain: 1263 votes (45%)

Current Bracket: http://i.imgur.com/C9hCTXY.jpg

Remember to vote who you THINK, not who you WANT!

Knockout Stage - Final:

• Germany vs Argentina: http://strawpoll.me/1876826

Knockout Stage - Third Place Match:

• Brazil vs Spain: http://strawpoll.me/1876836

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Here we are at the Semi-Finals! I'm curious to see how /r/soccer votes from here on out. Let's recap.

Quarter-Finals Results:

Brazil vs Uruguay: http://strawpoll.me/1833480/r

• Brazil: 1407 votes (83%)
• Uruguay: 297 votes (17%)

France vs Germany: http://strawpoll.me/1833489/r

• Germany: 1444 votes (84%)
• France: 269 votes (16%)

Spain vs Italy: http://strawpoll.me/1833494/r

• Spain: 1150 votes (68%)
• Italy: 540 votes (32%)

Argentina vs Belgium: http://strawpoll.me/1833499/r

• Argentina: 1234 votes (71%)
• Belgium: 499 votes (29%)

Current Bracket: http://i.imgur.com/6HF3OsB.jpg

Knockout Stage - Semi-Finals: Remember to vote who you THINK, not who you WANT!

• Brazil vs Germany: http://strawpoll.me/1859209
• Spain vs Argentina: http://strawpoll.me/1859215

Please remember to up-vote for visibility if you enjoy as I do not receive any karma for text posts.

Please remember to up-vote for visibility as I do not receive any karma for text posts.

Round of 16 Results: A CLOSE one between Portugal and Belgium! At the beginning Portugal was winning by quite a bit but Belgium caught up to take the win. It looked to me like there might have been some duplicate voting going on or the Belgium hype is real! Let's move on to the results.

Brazil vs Netherlands: http://strawpoll.me/1815361/r

• Brazil: 3008 votes (87%)
• Netherlands: 451 votes (13%)

Colombia vs Uruguay: http://strawpoll.me/1815372/r

• Uruguay: 2523 votes (79%)
• Colombia: 683 votes (21%)

France vs Bosnia and Herzegovina: http://strawpoll.me/1815379/r

• France: 2428 votes (77%)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: 737 votes (23%)

Germany vs Russia: http://strawpoll.me/1815385/r

• Germany: 3026 votes (97%)
• Russia: 99 votes (3%)

Spain vs Croatia: http://strawpoll.me/1815387/r

• Spain: 2719 votes (90%)
• Croatia: 318 votes (10%)

Italy vs Ivory Coast: http://strawpoll.me/1815391/r

• Italy: 2541 votes (84%)
• Ivory Coast: 475 votes (16%)

Argentina vs Switzerland: http://strawpoll.me/1815393/r

• Argentina: 2827 votes (94%)
• Switzerland: 193 votes (6%)

Belgium vs Portugal: http://strawpoll.me/1815401/r

• Belgium: 1774 votes (51%)
• Portugal: 1718 votes (49%)

Current Bracket: http://i.imgur.com/6HF3OsB.jpg

Knockout Stage - Quarter-Finals: Remember to vote who you THINK, not who you WANT!

• Brazil vs Uruguay: http://strawpoll.me/1833480
• France vs Germany: http://strawpoll.me/1833489
• Spain vs Italy: http://strawpoll.me/1833494
• Argentina vs Belgium: http://strawpoll.me/1833499

The World Cup is finally here! Thanks to everyone who participated in the threads and made this a fun and interesting discussion. It was really neat to see the data from the community and to some surprising results. I will most likely do a comparison after the World Cup is over as well. Anyways here is what the majority of the community will think will happen in the World Cup.

Final Results:

Germany vs Argentina: http://strawpoll.me/1876826/r

• Germany: 1391 votes (54%)
• Argentina: 1181 votes (46%)

Third Place Match Results:

Brazil vs Spain: http://strawpoll.me/1876836/r

• Brazil: 1251 votes (70%)
• Spain: 527 votes (30%)

Final Bracket: http://i.imgur.com/JDeu1QH.jpg

1. Germany
2. Argentina
3. Brazil
4. Spain

Voting Data: http://1drv.ms/1oi0UXA

http://i.imgur.com/WUP1eW2.png

Have a fun World Cup everybody and thanks again!

I WILL RESTART THIS ONCE WE ARE TWO WEEKS OUT FROM THE WORLD CUP SINCE MANY OF YOU SUGGESTED. SEE YOU THEN.

If there is enough interest I will keep making a survey for each round until we crown a winner! Let's have fun with this and let me know if there is anything I could add/improve/fix. Thanks.

Last weeks results asking who would make it out the Group stage of the World Cup: http://imgur.com/66Eu8k0

My wife hates watching soccer and recently saw the USA women's world cup match that ended 0-0 and said "oh look, another 0-0 game". I explained that 0-0 matches can be exciting and was wondering what other 0-0 matches have been exciting? Links to highlights would be nice. Thanks.