Every match of the World Cup, predicted with friends.

A platform for the office prediction league.

A World Cup is six weeks of arguments about who called it. Kickoff turned them into a game: predict every match before kickoff, rank every group and pick a champion before the tournament starts, then follow the table in your own private league as the points land.

It had to work for a whole island at once: on any phone, in English or French, with results arriving while the match was still being talked about.

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Two ways to score, one table to settle it.

Every point explained.

A match is worth up to 6 points: the right result, then the exact score, total goals and goal difference. In the knockouts, calling a draw after 90 minutes earns 2 more, a bonus we added once the knockouts began. Every prediction shows exactly how its points were earned.

SpainFinal · 19 July0–0Spain won 1–0 in extra timeArgentinaYour call: 0–0, Spain through

3Right team through

+1Exact score

+1Total goals

+1Goal difference

+2Called extra time

Points for this match8

Kickoff · Match predictions

1The official banner for every match, fetched live2Win, draw and loss odds from the FIFA ranking3Saved, and editable until kickoff

1. 1The official banner for every match, fetched live
2. 2Win, draw and loss odds from the FIFA ranking
3. 3Saved, and editable until kickoff

Kickoff · Match predictions

1All, not submitted, groups or knockout2Points earned, match by match3Jump to the live or next match

1. 1All, not submitted, groups or knockout
2. 2Points earned, match by match
3. 3Jump to the live or next match

Kickoff · Tournament predictions

1Groups, best thirds, knockout and Golden Boot2Each pick checked against the real table3Locked when the tournament starts

1. 1Groups, best thirds, knockout and Golden Boot
2. 2Each pick checked against the real table
3. 3Locked when the tournament starts

Results in about a minute, from three sources.

No single free feed was both fast and complete, so Kickoff listens to three. A reconciler matches teams across them every 60 seconds, takes the score from whichever is fastest and the extra time and penalties from the most complete, then rescores every prediction and every league table.

The bracket, by FIFA’s rules.

With 48 teams, eight of the twelve third-placed sides go through, and which slot each one takes depends on which groups they came from. Kickoff resolves those round-of-32 slots from FIFA’s own allocation table, and corrects every later fixture if a result feeding it changes.

Kickoff · Live results

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A league for every group chat.

Anyone could start a league and share an invite code or link. Each table shows predictions made, correct winners, exact scores and points, with a breakdown that explains every row.

Kickoff · Friday Five-a-side

1Podium places, live through the final2Predictions, exact scores and wins3Total points

1. 1Podium places, live through the final
2. 2Predictions, exact scores and wins
3. 3Total points

Chat, with the owner in charge.

Every league has its own chat, gathered in one inbox. During the knockouts we added moderation: an owner can approve messages before they appear, for everyone or for specific members, and remove any message.

Kickoff · Messages

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Six weeks of shipping while the ball was rolling.

A tournament doesn’t wait for a release cycle. We launched before the opening match and kept improving Kickoff between games: new results sources when one lagged, the extra-time bonus for the knockout stage, and fixes the same day a corner case appeared.

Played like a habit, not a one-off.

Players came back match after match: most predictions were made two to seven days before kickoff, and the average player called 83 games across the six weeks.

From the opening match to the final whistle.