FIFA brackets
Definition
The visual organizational chart used to represent the knockout stages of a FIFA World Cup tournament, displaying the progression of teams from the Round of 32 through to the final.
Commonly used colloquially by fans to predict or track match outcomes, often filled out in pools where participants compete to guess the correct path of teams through the tournament.
Examples
My FIFA bracket is already a disaster of shredded hopes and broken dreams after the group stage upsets.
He spent hours analyzing the FIFA brackets as if he were a tactical genius, only to have his entire prediction ruined by a single penalty shootout.
It is a time-honored tradition to print out the FIFA brackets and watch them turn into expensive scrap paper by the second round.
Some people treat filling out their FIFA bracket with more seriousness than their actual tax returns.
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