FIFA World Cup 2018 & 2022 host nations announced.

[haxxiy]

kowenicki said:

haxxiy said:

Averages of 28C min, 44C max for Qatar at June. Holy fuck.

Unless they are planning some ingenious cooling system, matches should be played only at the night if you are anything sane.

But I wonder if broadcasters will allow it. I bet they'd allow players to almost literally die only so more people watch the cup.

its madness

you will be looking at 35 ish for evening games....  daytime games are simply impossible.

Match times are usually set for western Europe so you are looking at games kicking off at around 7pm and 10pm local Qatar time  (4pm and 7pm here). 

Yeah haha, I kinda messed up thinking matches would turn out to be later in the evening on Europe and Americas.

Still even 7pm would be too hot and probably sunny there. We'll see squads blaming their bad performance on the hour they are playing...

PS. I was taking a look at projects for the stadiums on Qatar. It turns out they'll build this one among others:

Quite familiar if you ever played FFX