Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Having Problems Filling Out Round of 16 Bracket Online?


Here's some help for filling out the Round of 16 Bracket:

Here you are choosing the 16 teams you think will advance to the Round of 16 (top 2 teams in each of the 8 groups). MAKE SURE that you don't have the same team listed twice in the Sweet 16 (I will parse through this manually to double-check for errors). "1A-Team" indicates who you think the Group A winner and "2A-Team" indicates who you think the Group A 2nd place finisher is (again, make sure these are not the SAME team!).
It doesn't matter what you pick for the first round as long as your pick for the Round of 16 goes through (e.g., if you think France will win Group A ("1A-FRANCE"), it doesn't matter whether you pick them to beat "1A-S AFRICA" or "1A-MEXICO").
For example, if you thought France will win Group A (so "1A") and Greece will finish 2nd in Group B (so "2B") so they will face each other in the Round of 16, do the following:
Does not matter if this is 1A-S AFRICA or 1A-MEXICO (or 2B-ARGENTNA or 2B-NIGERIA)




so then "2A" (finish 2nd in Group A) will either be 2A-S AFRICA, 2A-MEXICO, or 2A-URUGUAY.  I'd recommend choosing each group first (e.g., pick 1A, 2A, then 1B, 2B, etc.) than going straight down the bracket (1A, 2B, 1C, 2D, etc.).
 
This is an example (from 2002) of how your completed bracket should look like (High Res | Low Res).Once you have your "Sweet 16", pick all the way through to the Final match using the matchups you predicted.

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