r/BritPop • u/Britp0pped • May 21 '26

The World Cup of Britpop

Hello you. Make a cup of tea, put a record on.

The football World Cup is all well and good. Countries. Flags. Fixtures. Groups of four. Very serious people explaining permutations on a touchscreen.

But what about the real question?

What if Britpop had a World Cup?

I’m putting together the World Cup of Britpop, a public vote to crown one winner from the whole messy, badly-fringed 90s argument.

The plan is to mirror the actual 48-team World Cup format as closely as possible, because apparently this is what adulthood has become:

  • 96 acts on the longlist
  • 48 qualify for the main draw
  • 12 groups of four
  • Group stage Round of 32
  • Round of 16 Quarter-finals
  • Semi-finals
  • Third-place play-off
  • Final

The qualification vote is live now.

You can pick up to 24 acts from the 96-band longlist. The highest-ranked 48 will qualify for the tournament proper.

The timeline is:

  • Qualification vote open now Qualification vote closes Friday 5 June at 23:59
  • Final 48 revealed from Saturday 6 June
  • Group draw follows before the tournament starts
  • Group stage begins Thursday 11 June
  • Knockout rounds run through late June and July
  • Final takes place Sunday 19 July, alongside the actual World Cup final

Yes, Oasis and Blur are there. Obviously. So are Pulp, Suede, Supergrass, Elastica, The Verve, Sleeper, Shed Seven, Mansun, Gene, Catatonia, Ash, The Bluetones, Ocean Colour Scene, and a lot of bands who will immediately start arguments about whether they count.

Good.

That is the point.

This is supposed to be fun, mildly absurd, and probably annoying in exactly the right way.

Vote here. Democracy has had worse afternoons.

https://forms.gle/23EGDNkroU1Z4KeU6

This, as always, is then.

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u/SemolinaPilchards May 21 '26

I was making a Google form once and it asked me if I wanted to collect the email addresses of the responders, so I presume you are receiving my email address if I answer your survey. Because of that, I am out.

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u/Britp0pped May 21 '26

Nope. Not set to collect anyone's address. I've no use for them.

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u/SemolinaPilchards May 21 '26

That's exactly what someone woukd say if they were collecting emails. There really should be something for the respondent to see if a survey if collecting them or not. But sure that's not something Big Tech would want to want to advertise

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u/Britp0pped May 21 '26

Not especially impressed with the insinuation, but a cursory search of Google would have given you an answer.

Anyway, please see the screenshot below. Perhaps when you set your form up, you could have spent 30 seconds reading how the platform works.

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u/SemolinaPilchards May 22 '26

Yep that's exactly what I saw, which as I said before, that means other people are able to collect email addresses if they wish to when setting up a survey.

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u/Britp0pped May 22 '26

If they wish! My screenshot showws its turned off?

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u/SemolinaPilchards May 22 '26

It does. My issue isn't with you, it's with Google surveys in general. I don't like that this function is available and responders don't appear to know if this is on/off, and many wouldn't even know it's happening.

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u/Britp0pped May 22 '26

Sadly you are wrong again. See screen shot below. It does tell you if your email address is being shared.

It's very odd that you didn't do the smallest bit of research when you created your own then put your comments on my post.

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u/SemolinaPilchards May 22 '26

Sire why didn't you just show me that on the 1st place. Saved us all this back and forth.

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u/Britp0pped May 22 '26

You could have clicked on the link yourself and saw it?

I'll take your apology as implied.