Poolr.
The World Cup
is over.
So is Poolr.
Poolr was a private sports pool platform, built by one person, for one tournament. You made a pool, your mates joined, everyone guessed the scores, and a leaderboard quietly worked out who actually knew football and who was just loud about it.
It was never a bookmaker. It never took a stake, never held anyone's money and never paid anyone out — the organiser did all of that, the same way they always had, in the group chat. Poolr just ran the admin nobody wanted to do: the fixtures, the scoring, the standings, and the arguments about whether a penalty shootout counts.
For five weeks in June and July it did exactly that, and then the tournament ended, which was always the plan. Rather than leave it running and quietly billing, it's being shut down properly — data exported, results archived, everything switched off. This page is what's left.
Sach’s XI
129 points · 18 exact scores · 102 predictions
Won the biggest pool on the platform by eight clear points — and then, for good measure, was one of only seven people who bothered to predict the final at all, and the only one to call Spain 1–0 on the nose. A deserved way to finish.
Thanks to everyone who filled in a card, argued about a scoreline, or joined a pool and then never predicted a single match. You were 30% of the group stage.
The full results have been archived and sent to the people who played. Everything else — the database, the servers, the scheduled jobs — is gone.