World Cup Mock Draw

As we continue this week with Mock Draw mania we continue onto a third possible option FIFA may use. This one is the most geographic scenario.  I allocated the pots as follows Pot A seeded teams, Pot B Asia/Oceania and Africa, Pot C CONCACAF and CONMEBOL teams, and Pot D European teams.  As I've stated before this draw is a little different and a little less based on number balance.  the seeded South American teams will draw from Pot B twice one team each from Asia/Oceania and one team each from Africa before.  Those seeded South American teams will not draw from Pot C the Americas pot.  Also South Africa will draw from the Asia/Ocenia side before all remaining Pot B teams are placed together in the same pot.  The seeded teams from South America will draw from Pot C Americas pot and all seeded teams will draw from Pot D European pot.  Here is how the draw turned out.

Group A - South Africa, Japan, Uruguay, Denmark
Group B - Spain, Australia, United States, Slovakia
Group C - France, Ghana, Chile, Switzerland
Group D - Italy, Ivory Coast, Honduras, Slovenia
Group E - Brazil, Algeria, Korea DPR, Greece
Group F - England, Cameroon, Mexico, Netherlands
Group G - Germany, Korea Republic, Paraguay, Portugal
Group H - Argentina, Nigeria, New Zealand, Serbia

After the groups were selected as I've done before I selected group winners and runners up and played out the knockout stage portion of the tournament. 

Round of 16
United States over Uruguay
Ghana over Italy
Brazil over Netherlands
Germany over Nigeria
Spain over Denmark
France over Ivory Coast
England over Greece
Portugal over Argentina

Quarterfinals
Ghana over United States
Brazil over Germany
Spain over France
England over Portugal

Semifinals
Brazil over Ghana
Spain over England

3rd place game
England over Ghana

World Cup Final
Brazil over Spain

There you have it.  You can see how much teams are likely to advance based on the draw and the various matchups.  Obviously you can tell I'm picking Brazil to win the World Cup though.  In our next installment of Mock Draw mania we will use option 4 FIFA may possibly use.  It is the same format that UEFA uses for the Champions League.  Each nation will be ranked 1-32.  Then teams 1-8 will be put into Pot A, 9-16 in Pot B, 17-24 Pot C, and 25-32 Pot D.  South Africa will be in Pot A since they are the hosts.  In the UEFA format teams from the same country cannot be drawn together we will do the same with teams from the same confederation aside from Europe.  However, a group can't have more than two European teams.  The way you do this is 8 balls with each team on it.  Place them seperately and pull one ball from each team in a particular pot.  Once a team is selected you must look and see if all the scenarios are possible or not and place teams in pots accordingly.  That draw will be up a little later in the day.