World Cup: Battle of the Oracles

Submitted by prodosh on 11 July, 2010 - 13:48
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If you are a fan of psychic predictions or "statistical" (in the sense of "past performance is a good indicator for the future") reasoning or just plain good marketing and entertainment value, here is a video of the best predictors of the game this year:

  • Paul the octopus in Oberhausen, Germany has predicted all the German games correctly 
  • Mani the parrot from Singapore has predicted all the games since the Quarter-Finals correctly

But on their prediction for the World Cup final they disagree: 

Congratulation go out to the owners of Paul and Mani for a great marketing job. They are certainly winners already for figuring out a great way to draw attention to themselves.

Who do you believe - Paul or Mani?