With less than a week until the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil kicks off, Electronic Arts has put its cards on the table and predicted the entire tournament’s outcome.
EA used the football engine that drives their 2014 Fifa World Cup Brazil game to make the prediction, after simulating matches using all 32 teams. The outcome? Germany to beat Brazil 2-1 in the final.
Before you write off their crystal ball reading, EA correctly predicted Spain to win the 2010 World Cup hosted here in South Africa.
The full results are listed below.
Final
- Brazil 1 – 2 Germany (ET)
3rd Place Game
- Portugal 1 – 3 Spain
Semi Finals
- Brazil 1 – 0 Portugal
- Spain 0 – 0 Germany (Germany 5-4 pens)
Quarter Finals
- Brazil 2 – 2 Uruguay (Brazil 4-3 pens)
- Portugal 4 – 3 Nigeria
- England 0 – 2 Spain
- Germany 2 – 1 Argentina
Round of 16
- Brazil 3 – 1 Netherlands
- Ivory Coast 2 – 3 Uruguay
- France 0 – 1 Nigeria
- Portugal 2 – 0 Russia
- Spain 3 – 1 Mexico
- England 1 – 1 Columbia (England 4-3 pens)
- Argentina 2 – 0 Ecuador
- Belgium 1 – 2 Germany
Golden Boot winner: Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior (Brazil), 6 goals
Golden Ball winner: Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior
Best Goal: Andrés Iniesta vs. England
Will any of you be making bets based on EA’s predictions? Let us know in the comments and forum.
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Well, that turned out semi-right.