Weekend Office Pool Review

Every weekend I would like to review an Office Pool, website or tool from around the web. I will be giving an in-depth review of the quality, simplicity and creativity of the pool, tool or website so that we make informed decisions when starting out.

4th HWCI World Cup Tournament Pool

Description: There are not many World Cup pools out there but I did find this one based out of California. For only $10 you can enter this very interesting pool that allows you to pick all the World Cup games at the beginning of the tournament. The pool which has been going on for the last 3 World Cups, has a very Simple Scoring System in which you get points for each correct pick. It pays out 4 places and says that it is open to anyone with $10.

Features:

• Pick all the games before the World Cup starts
• Many entry fee options including PayPal
• Many resources for participants including rankings, a discussion forum, a World Cup pool tracker and a Facebook page

PROs:

• The website provides many great resources
• Rules are easy to understand
• Simple scoring system
• Only $10
• One of the only World Cup pools out there
• Solves the “no day off problem”

CONs:

• Must pick all the games BEFORE the tournament
• Don’t know any of the participants so less trash talkin’ and enjoyment
• Not a well-known office pool site
• No bonus points – lose your World Cup finalists and your done
• Allows multiple entries (I don’t care for this idea)

Overall: If you don’t have a World Cup pool at your office you may want to consider this one. The Office Pool Guy will be throwing his $10 into this pool just to see what happens. Let me know how it goes.