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Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE
You only have to be better than Qatar to not be the worst team at the tournament

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Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

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Teach posted:



alcohol doesn't have an instant association with beer

You'll never recover from this

Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

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If these are the fans, all that lovely fan accommodation makes total sense. Why build actual accommodation for your underclass of workers dressing up as international fans?

Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

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Usually the world cup is awarded to a country or countries with an order of magnitude greater population than the number of tickets, and you can sell cheap tickets to the general public to fill seats for matches with low travelling support.

a) travelling support is even worse than anticipated
b) full capacity for the tournament is about 3.3m, which is about 500k more than the entire population and 3m more than the number of actual Qatari citizens

Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE

harperdc posted:

Qatar has had serious issues with hotels and lodging for the World Cup, and also didn’t allow sensible alternative options like “allow people to commute from places like Dubai and Abu Dhabi that actually have hotels.” Even the logistics of this World Cup have been beyond hosed.

Colleague of a friend is travelling to Wales matches but staying in Jordan, that's how hosed it is. If this wasn't all a big arab king dickwaving competition they could have had a more sensible (but still awful) tournament spread between various arab city states.

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