Paul the Oracle Octopus 100% record in World Cup Predictions
You can engage experienced coaches or online pundits of FIFA Championship Manager to analyse the merits of individual football teams/players or even a supercomputer to work out the probability of match winners, but technology and cold logic is no match for Paul the Oracle.
In case you aren’t aware, Paul is not a person but rather an octopus residing at the Sea Life Aquarium in Oberhauser in Germany. It has generated worldwide interest with accurate predictions on results of German matches at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Paul the Octopus correctly foretold the Germans’ quarter final victory over Argentina, their second round win over England, as well as group round wins over Australia and Ghana and a loss to Serbia.
The octopus picks results when two boxes with flags from opposing teams are lowered into his tank. The food is placed on top of each box and the first box which the octopus moves toward is declared his choice.
To prove that Paul is not biased towards his countrymen or the colors of Germany’s flag, he has predicted a win for Spain over Germany for the semifinals. Spain and Germany are two of Europe’s finest attacking teams, thus football fans must not miss out this match, which should be full of suspense and goals.
Though it is not a nice feeling for football pundits to be outperformed by an octopus, I am sure most of them will be placing their bets according to Paul’s predictions.
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His luck can’t last forever. As I said in my article yesterday, I am more interested in a superb match than in who wins. The young German team has come a long ways and beyond everyone’s expectations. Making the quarter finals was a success.
Paul better give me some positive results. i was, is and always will support Germany throughout my life! i absolutely dislike spain because all spain supporters here are soo freaking arrogant and think no end of them selves!