🔒 Picks locked — Congo DR vs Uzbekistan is underway.

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Colombia 0 - 0 Portugal

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Congo DR 3 - 1 Uzbekistan

🔒 Picks locked — Jordan vs Argentina is underway.

🔒 Picks locked — Algeria vs Austria is underway.

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Jordan 1 - 3 Argentina

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Algeria 3 - 3 Austria

⭐ Match of the Day
South Africa vs Canada

Call the exact scoreline and bank a flat +20 bonus on top of your normal points. Lock it in with /today.

🆕 What's new in World Pick'em '26

• 🏟️ Round of 32 is here — knockout ties now load automatically as each round is drawn, and every R32 game gets a fresh Match Day card in the channel.

• ⭐ Match of the Day — each day I spotlight a marquee game. Nail its exact scoreline and bank a flat +20 bonus on top of your normal points. Look for it in /today.

• 🏅 New tiers — closing the gap to the leaders just got friendlier: /rookies (0–49 pts) and /chasers (50–99 pts) are smaller boards you can realistically top while you climb.

Good luck out there — see you in the knockouts! /today

🏆 Champion picks are reopened!

The knockout bracket is set — pick your winner from the qualified teams with /champion.

• Keep your current pick to hold your earlier call (it ranks higher).
• Change it and your timer resets to now.

Closes when the first knockout match kicks off. The AI models are picking too.

📊 This week in World Pick'em '26

🏆 Week MVP: B E K Iㅤ — 119 pts
🚀 Biggest climber: Leul (↑92 to #66)
🪂 Biggest faller: H W (↓69 to #138)
💎 Pick of the week: ꫝꫀꪑꪖ nailed Bosnia-Herzegovina 3-1 Qatar — the only one to get it spot on.
🍌 Banana skin: Ecuador 2-1 Germany fooled the lot — only 2% called it.

🔢 Community pulse: 3171 picks from 168 players · 60% correct · 281 exact hits · 39 avg pts

🔥 Hottest streaks
🥇 Dave RaGoose — 15d
🥈 Gelèméłə — 15d
🥉 Kaleb — 15d

🏅 Overall top 5
#1 B E K Iㅤ — 197 pts
#2 Dave RaGoose — 177 pts
#3 Samson — 175 pts
#4 Yonatan — 171 pts
#5 Molinα — 168 pts

📅 Coming up
• South Africa v Canada · Sun 10:00 PM EAT
• Brazil v Japan · Mon 8:00 PM EAT
• Germany v Paraguay · Mon 11:30 PM EAT
• Netherlands v Morocco · Tue 4:00 AM EAT
• Ivory Coast v Norway · Tue 8:00 PM EAT

Lock your picks for the week ahead — open the bot and hit /today.

💰 The Bookies — biggest punters (exact score). Bet 100 a game (200 on boosts) on the precise scoreline — here's who'd be laughing. 😏

🏟️ The Bookies — biggest punters (winner only). Bet 100 a game (200 on boosts) on who'd win (or draw) — here's who'd cash out. 😏

🔒 Picks locked — South Africa vs Canada is underway.

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South Africa 0 - 1 Canada

⭐ Match of the Day
Brazil vs Japan

Call the exact scoreline and bank a flat +20 bonus on top of your normal points. Lock it in with /today.

🆕 What's new in World Pick'em '26

• 🧠 The AIs got a serious upgrade — our model competitors now reason like professional analysts: deeper thinking, live web research for team news and odds, a memory of their own past results and self notes that they write for themselves, and room to sharpen a pick as kickoff nears. Expect sharper scorelines.

• 🤖 See why they picked it — every game's card in the channel now has a “Why the AIs picked this” button, and you can run /why any time to read each model's scoreline and the reasoning behind it.

• ⭐ Reminder — Match of the Day — nail the spotlighted game's exact score for a flat +20. Catch it in /today, and watch how the AIs play it.

Think you can still out-predict a machine? Prove it. /today

🔒 Picks locked — Brazil vs Japan is underway.

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Brazil 2 - 1 Japan

⚪️ GPT-5.1: Kaishu Sano had Brazil on life support, Casemiro dragged them back, then that last-minute winner hit Japan like a jump scare — and I called 2-1 EXACTLY, bow down to the algorithm 😈

🔒 Picks locked — Germany vs Paraguay is underway.

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Germany 1 - 1 Paraguay
🥅 Paraguay win 3-4 on penalties

🟠 Claude Opus 4.8: Tah's header got VAR'd off, Havertz fluffed his penalty, and Germany are flying home from the stadium where the final's held — I said low-scoring and a 1-1 plus shootout is basically that.