{"id":65573,"date":"2014-06-05T10:55:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T08:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=65573"},"modified":"2014-06-05T10:56:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T08:56:36","slug":"ea-predicts-fifa-world-cup-winner-using-virtual-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/65573-ea-predicts-fifa-world-cup-winner-using-virtual-engine","title":{"rendered":"EA predicts FIFA World Cup winner using virtual engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s outcome.<\/p>\n<p>EA used the football engine that drives their <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/videos\/62648-fifa-14-world-cup-brazil-video-trailer.html\">2014 Fifa World Cup Brazil game<\/a>\u00a0to make the prediction, after simulating matches using all 32 teams. The outcome? Germany to beat Brazil 2-1 in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Before you write off their crystal ball reading, EA correctly predicted Spain to win the 2010 World Cup hosted here in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The full results are listed below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brazil 1 &#8211; 2 Germany (ET)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3rd Place Game<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Portugal 1 &#8211; 3 Spain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Semi Finals<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brazil 1 &#8211; 0 Portugal<\/li>\n<li>Spain 0 &#8211; 0 Germany (Germany 5-4 pens)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Quarter Finals<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brazil 2 &#8211; 2 Uruguay (Brazil 4-3 pens)<\/li>\n<li>Portugal 4 &#8211; 3 Nigeria<\/li>\n<li>England 0 &#8211; 2 Spain<\/li>\n<li>Germany 2 &#8211; 1 Argentina<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Round of 16<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brazil 3 &#8211; 1 Netherlands<\/li>\n<li>Ivory Coast 2 &#8211; 3 Uruguay<\/li>\n<li>France 0 &#8211; 1 Nigeria<\/li>\n<li>Portugal 2 &#8211; 0 Russia<\/li>\n<li>Spain 3 &#8211; 1 Mexico<\/li>\n<li>England 1 &#8211; 1 Columbia (England 4-3 pens)<\/li>\n<li>Argentina 2 &#8211; 0 Ecuador<\/li>\n<li>Belgium 1 &#8211; 2 Germany<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Golden Boot winner<\/strong>: Neymar da Silva Santos J\u00fanior (Brazil), 6 goals<br \/>\n<strong>Golden Ball winner<\/strong>: Neymar da Silva Santos J\u00fanior<br \/>\n<strong>Best Goal<\/strong>: Andr\u00e9s Iniesta vs. England<\/p>\n<p>Will any of you be making bets based on EA&#8217;s predictions? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65453-mortal-kombat-10-announced-trailer-revelaed.html\">Mortal Kombat 10 announced, trailer revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65449-forza-horizon-2-announced.html\">Forza Horizon 2 announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65437-motogp-2014-gets-release-date.html\">MotoGP 2014 gets release date<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you trust EA, you might want to wager a few bob based on their predictions &#8211; they have been right before<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":61851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[813,9625,12143,21],"class_list":["post-65573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-electronic-arts","tag-fifa-14","tag-fifa-14-world-cup-brazil","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65599,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65573\/revisions\/65599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}