On December 23rd, 2023, just before Christmas and the final phase of all Continental Cups and Wildcard games (for those who unfortunately didn't manage to qualify directly), the Hattrick team offers the opportunity to the community to vote for the host countries of the 37th edition of World Cup and Nations Cup.
The way to vote in order to choose the host countries (it was possible to vote both on Instagram:
(https://www.instagram.com/hattrickfootballmanager/) and on Global English forum, see
(17571298.1) and
(17571299.1)) was a hot topic on Global (another consequence of global warming?), as you can read here:
(17571273.1). The main goal to achieve was, for our new Community manager
HT-Chase (140015), to increase Hattrick presence on social media, for something that was purely symbolic, as being the host doesn't give any in-game advantage during these competitions played by NT and U21 teams.
But while waiting for Santa to deliver my Christmas gifts, the question that kept me awake day and night was how the continents and the countries in these continents were pre-selected by HTs. Did they use a special artificial intelligence? Did they carry out some kind of secret reunion in HT-Johan's warehouse? Or maybe was it decided after a drinking game during an afterwork in Malmö'?
As you know, you can find the host list for NT World Cup and U21 World Cup in this page:
(/World/WorldCup/History.aspx) (for Nations Cups and Continental Cups, go on their page and filter manually).
In this article, we will first briefly remind the results of the polls of the host countries for Nations Cup and World Cup (37th edition). We will then try, using logic, geography, history and statistics, to solve the mystery of the choice of World Cup host countries, to finally guess which will be the next continents and countries that will host for the next national teams' competitions coming in the next seasons! Or not? :)
Ready? Let's go!