{"id":707772,"date":"2026-06-01T12:35:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/707772\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T12:35:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:35:23","slug":"make-your-2026-world-cup-predictions-with-cnns-bracket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/707772\/","title":{"rendered":"Make your 2026 World Cup predictions with CNN\u2019s bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpmod7dr001w27p2hr8ibtnr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The 2026 FIFA World Cup is upon us and fans around the world are set for more than a month of soccer action.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpnu7i10000m3b6r6velc6gz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Hosted in the United States, Mexico and Canada, this will be the first edition with 48 teams, broken down into 12 groups of four teams and a whopping 104 matches in total.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpnu7loz000o3b6rgawj672c@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The top two in each group progress to the knockout round \u2013 which is the first ever round-of-32 in tournament history \u2013 along with the eight best third-place teams.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpnu6f0g000k3b6rykfj2jpq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In this interactive graphic, you can play out your predictions for the entire tournament and build your own World Cup: predict the top two teams in each group, choose the eight best third-place finishers and you can make your picks in the resulting bracket to choose your eventual champion.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmpmoryaj000a3b6rnbs8k86s@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Share the results with your friends and see who is the best at predicting \u201cThe Beautiful Game!\u201d\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 FIFA World Cup is upon us and fans around the world are set for more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-707772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}