Play Along with Our World Cup Fantasy Game

May 27th, 2010 | by: Ian Rose | Comments Off

( Who’s got two thumbs and will be the most picked fantasy player? This guy. )

The World Cup is fun, and if you can’t enjoy at least some aspect of it, you really aren’t trying. Fans from 32 nations (and several more that haven’t qualified) come together in one place for a month-long party of football and plenty more. Around the world, millions more are currently engaged in the art of pre-World Cup prediction, combining experience, form, team loyalties, and gut feelings to make their guesses of how things are going to end up. That’s part of the fun too.

Here at World Cup Blog, we try to enable the fun whenever possible, especially when it comes to our namesake tournament. That’s why we started our World Cup Bracket Contest, which lets you make your predictions against hundreds of other WCB readers for free and win prizes. We always wanted to have this free contest available, but we also know that many people like to put some cash down on their predictions. We also know that some fans are more interested in individual players than teams. With that in mind, we’ve joined with 11Kicks to create a World Cup Fantasy Game.

There are three levels of play, each with a different pay-in amount and different amounts of prizes. You can buy into a league for $30, $100, or $200. Unlike many straight World Cup betting sites, Americans are eligible. Full disclosure – I’ve entered my team on the $30 level. My team is called “Inverness Reserves”, so if you join and you’re in my league, say howdy. Each league is made up of ten random players, and there are cash prizes for first, second and third place, which means that even if you’re as bad at these things as I am, there is a decent chance at winning something.

As a side note, filling this out reminds me how unusually good the Brazilian defense is for this tournament. It’s a little scary.

So if you want to put down a little bit of cash and think you can pick a better team than the likes of Dunga and Maradona, join up at http://fantasy.worldcupblog.org. And also join us in our free bracket predictor contest.