Frequently asked questions

A live, interactive bracket for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Pick scores for every group-stage match, watch standings recompute instantly with full FIFA tiebreakers, and your knockout bracket builds itself via the official Annex C allocation. Compete with friends in pools.

No. This is an independent fan project. We aren't affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by FIFA, any federation, or any broadcaster. Team names and fixtures are referenced for informational and entertainment purposes only.

Each match locks individually at its kickoff time — you can edit any prediction up until the second its match starts. Once it kicks off, that row turns red and drops to the bottom of the schedule. Once the actual result is known, the pick gets graded green ★ (exact) / yellow ✓ (correct) / red ✗ (wrong).

Go to the Pools tab and join a pool with an invite code (something like Z9U8XX) or the shareable link (bracketmachine.app/?join=Z9U8XX) someone sends you — you sign in and one click joins you. Everyone's bracket counts on the same leaderboard.

Only after the knockout round begins (June 28, 2026). Before then, while group stages are still being predicted and edited up to kickoff, everyone's picks are private. From R32 onward, tap any member's row on the leaderboard to see their full knockout bracket — read-only, with grading.

On purpose. Group-stage picks can be edited up until each match kicks off, so showing them to other members early would be both noisy and a privacy leak. The bracket — which is what really matters for the leaderboard — reveals once the knockout phase starts.

Yes. Passwords are never stored in plaintext. Our backend (Supabase) hashes them with bcrypt and stores only the hash; nobody — including us — can read your password. Brackets are stored in your account with Row Level Security, so only you and your pool-mates (after the bracket unlocks) can see your data. See the Privacy Policy for details.

Not yet — one bracket per account today. Multi-bracket support is on the roadmap so you can keep a "real" pick alongside a chaos pick for different pools.

Email akoolsaboo@gmail.com from the address tied to your account and we'll handle it within 7 days.

The full FIFA tiebreaker cascade (head-to-head → overall GD → goals scored → fair play → FIFA ranking) ranks each group; the top 2 + best 8 third-placed teams advance via the official Annex C matchup table (495 scenarios — yes, all of them). The engine is the same one used in the Python reference implementation, ported to TypeScript and validated against shared test vectors. So: it's correct.

Earlier the consent screen showed the underlying backend's URL. After Google verified the app's brand, the consent screen now shows the app name and logo. Cosmetic but professional.