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Czech Republic wins EA's World Cup

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpotPosted Jun 5, 2006 11:48 am PT

Publisher simulates tournament with 2006 FIFA World Cup game, pegs Czechs to take home victory after besting Brazil 2-1 in finals.

The 2006 World Cup doesn't kick off until Friday, when host country Germany takes on Costa Rica, but Electronic Arts is already picking a winner for the finals.

Using the simulation engine in its multiplatform 2006 FIFA World Cup game, EA re-created the entire tournament, from the opening salvo of four-team round-robin groups to the July 9 World Cup final in Berlin. And according to EA's game, the winner will be the Czech Republic, rising to the occasion with a 2-1 victory over soccer powerhouse Brazil in the finals.

Not everything with the simulation went as one might expect. EA's tournament saw just one penalty shootout in the 64 simulated matches, Costa Rica making its best World Cup showing ever by reaching the quarter finals, and Italy and Portugal failing to make it out of the first round. The US team made it out of the opening round of group play, but no farther, as Brazil knocked them out of the tournament with a 3-2 victory.

For more FIFA World Cup action, come back with GameSpot Wednesday for a "friendly match," as GameSpot USA takes on GameSpot UK on the Xbox 360 version of the game. San Francisco-based editors Brian Ekberg and Justin Calvert will represent the stars and stripes as they take on an English team helmed by GameSpot UK hooligans Guy Cocker and Phil Elliott.

Rich Gallup and Jeff Gerstmann will call the action, so tune in on Wednesday, June 7 at noon PDT (8 p.m. in London) to see it all go down live. For more on 2006 FIFA World Cup, check out GameSpot's full review.

89 Comments

  • metalsonicgc2k4

    Posted Jun 26, 2006 12:25 pm PT

    oops, the czechs are gone!

  • loic54

    Posted Jun 14, 2006 7:53 pm PT

    EA is crazy!
    Brazil is going to win/1!!!

  • animecivil

    Posted Jun 13, 2006 10:31 am PT

    QUOTE:
    Hey, let me see the brazilian coach is a stpid guy, they're never coing to win the Wc, Czechs too, who is going to win is a european team like france or englando not Czechs


    Check your facts before you touch that submit buttom, Chech is European.

  • TheSacredCheese

    Posted Jun 9, 2006 10:51 am PT

    England ftw

  • holhardy

    Posted Jun 8, 2006 9:46 pm PT

    what ever, GO ENGLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and USA WOOHOO

  • Septimus

    Posted Jun 8, 2006 2:38 pm PT

    Just goes to show how crap EA FIFA really is.

  • ugoer

    Posted Jun 8, 2006 7:57 am PT

    holland wins the tournament (they have beaten czechs in the qualification )

  • acu02151

    Posted Jun 8, 2006 6:04 am PT

    Trindad and Tobago!!!

  • karlmv

    Posted Jun 7, 2006 11:08 pm PT

    Czech Republic are the second best team in the world right now so to me this all seems correct

  • i_love_my_ds

    Posted Jun 6, 2006 6:55 pm PT

    que vibre Mexico!!!

  • shattapinks

    Posted Jun 6, 2006 5:14 pm PT

    No way will the Czechs win this year's World Cup. After all, this is their first showing in like...forever, and don't you ever forget that. I'm giving it to England, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, The Netherlands, Spain or Portugal before I give it to them, and yet the simulation did not make Portugal even past the first round. That totally sucks. Anyway, that shows you how credible EA Sports' simulation actually is (can someone say utter garbage?). Anyway, I would rather choose my team (Mexico!) and carry them all the way to the cup, as I have little faith in the game simulating any matches for me, because it has done some weird things for me in the past...Brazil losing 4-0 to Australia. Please tell me when that will ever happen.

  • redomegaz

    Posted Jun 6, 2006 11:59 am PT

    come on trinidad & tobago

  • SnowFarmer

    Posted Jun 6, 2006 10:04 am PT

    Pffft! EA software as buggy and broken as always.

    It's going to be Brazil or maybe just maybe the USA.

  • rykh

    Posted Jun 6, 2006 9:09 am PT

    I doubt it, but ok

  • cfamgcn

    Posted Jun 6, 2006 9:02 am PT

    Ecuador is going to be the champion!

  • CCDANMAN

    Posted Jun 6, 2006 8:21 am PT

    It doesn't seem like non-reality to me, considering Czech Republic is ranked #2 in the WORLD.

  • thatother1dude

    Posted Jun 6, 2006 7:48 am PT

    I hope they repeated the results for variables.
    If this rnds up being accurate, then this will usher in a new age of sports gambling using videogames.

  • MK_Malcovich

    Posted Jun 6, 2006 6:59 am PT

    If the teams in the game are based on the FiFa world rankings then yes this would happen, seeing as Brazil is number one and Czech is number two and Czech could easily upset Brazil. however the Fifa world rankings are bascially useless and anyone in the top ten could upset anyone depending on how they play on any particular day. Czechs will not win, im thinking italy has got this one.

  • Edele_Wilde

    Posted Jun 6, 2006 6:37 am PT


    They have an awesome team, we will see. But nobody should underestimate the manschaft on their heimat, and that is comming from a Dutchman.

  • jonnyjd

    Posted Jun 6, 2006 6:10 am PT

    Now there's an interesting way to bet on the winner.

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