Over 200 Fortnite World Cup prize winners caught cheating
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-04-22-over-200-fortnite-world-cup-prize-winners-caught-cheating
Over 1,200 total cheaters caught in first week of competition, most for circumventing region locks
Fortnite cheat maker exposes professional player cheating in World Cup
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-04-16-fortnite-cheat-maker-exposes-professional-player-cheating-
Player dropped from Team Kaliber after using cheats during qualifiers for $30m competition
MARAKÁ’NÀ
The #Maracanã stadium is not only a space for leisure but, above all, a space of struggle. In this documentary, the Grupo Popular Pesquisa em Ação explores the struggle for education, for housing, for indigenous rights, against capital development. This is a story similar to many struggles throughout Brazil, against the mega-events and the development model imposed from above.
This video narrates the events using testimonies of the protagonists and historical images. The main objective of this project is to analyze the resistance practices developed against the FIFA World Cup , in Rio de Janeiro. This analysis is contextualized with the collection of crucial historical testimonies, reports of all the #violence and abuses that occur due to the FIFA World Cup 2014. The video is geographically centered around the area of the Maracanã stadium, one of the areas where the contradictions of the development model characterized by the state of exception came to light and where several resistance strategies have emerged.
Around the Maracanã stadium took please different fights: for the Indigenous place Aldeia Marakana, for the #Favela_do_Metrô_Mangueira, for the public buildings around and the social movement #Não_Vai_ter_Copa - There won’t be a world cup.
After the Quake
#Gyumri, the city symbol of the quake that 21 years ago struck Armenia. The stories of the homeless, the #domiks, the migrants, waiting for the opening of the borders with Turkey. Reportage.
December 7, 1988, 11.41 am – An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hits northern Armenia, killing 25,000 and leaving many more homeless. Mikhail Gorbachev, then General Secretary of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. cuts short an official visit to the United States to travel to the small South Caucasus Soviet republic as news of the catastrophe makes headlines the world over. Poverty skyrockets as a nation mourned its dead.
Hundreds of millions of dollars flooded into the country for relief and reconstruction efforts, but two other events of as much significance soon frustrated efforts to rebuild the disaster zone. In 1991, Armenia declared independence from the former Soviet Union, and in 1993, in support of Azerbaijan during a de facto war with Armenia over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh, Turkey closed the land border with its eastern neighbor.
Meanwhile, as corruption skyrocketed, the conflict as well as two closed borders and an economic blockade by Azerbaijan and Turkey only added to Armenia’s woes. Yet, despite strong economic growth in the mid-2000s, albeit from a low base, and promises from then President Robert Kocharyan to completely rebuild Gyumri, Armenia’s second largest city and the main urban center to be hit by the earthquake, the outlook appears as bleak as ever.
Once Gyumri had been known for its architecture, humor and cultural importance, but now it has become synonymous with the earthquake and domiks – “temporary” accommodation usually amounting to little more than metal containers or dilapidated shacks. Hot in the summer and bitterly cold in the winter, others more fortunate found refuge in abandoned buildings vacated during the economic collapse following independence.
Vartik Ghukasyan, for example, is 71 and alone. An orphan, she never married and now struggles to survive on a pension of just 25,000 AMD (about $65) a month in a rundown former factory hostel in Gyumri. However, that might all change as more buildings are privatized or their existing owners seek to reclaim them.
According to the 2001 census, the population of Gyumri stands at 150,000 although some claim that it has since grown to 160-170,000. Nevertheless, few local residents take such figures seriously. Pointing to low school attendance figures, they estimate the actual population might be no more than 70,000. Even so, despite the exodus, there are as many as 4-7,000 families still living in temporary shelter according to various estimates.
Anush Babajanyan, a 26-year-old photojournalist from the Armenian capital, is one of just a few media professionals who remain concerned by their plight. Having spent the past year documenting the lives of those still waiting for proper housing, the anniversary might have been otherwise low-profile outside of Gyumri, but Babajanyan attempted to focus attention on the occasion by exhibiting her work in Yerevan.
“When I started this project, 20 years had passed since the earthquake and there were families still living in domiks who were not receiving enough attention,” she told Osservatorio. “ The government and other organizations promised to solve the issue of their housing, but their actions were not enough. Since then I have seen very little improvement.”
“If this issue wasn’t solved in 20 years, it probably isn’t surprising that not much has changed in just a year. However, it has been two years since Serge Sargsyan, then Armenian prime minister and now president, said that the issue of these residents will be solved by now. But, although some districts are being reconstructed, this is not enough to resolve the issue.”
As the center of Shirak, an impoverished region that most in Armenia and its large Diaspora appear to have largely forgotten, Gyumri suffers from unemployment higher than the national average. Travel agents continue to advertise flights from the local airport to parts of Russia. As elsewhere in the region, the only hope for a better life lies outside. But, with a global economic crisis hitting the CIS hard, there are now also fewer opportunities even there.
This year GDP per capita has already plummeted by over 14 percent nationwide, far in excess of the decline registered in Azerbaijan and Georgia, while poverty and extreme poverty - already calculated with a low yardstick - has reportedly increased from 25.6 and 3.6 percent respectively in 2008 to 28.4 and 6.9 percent today. Local civil society activists claim that the figures might be twice as high in Gyumri.
But, some believe, the city could benefit greatly from an open border with Turkey , transforming itself into a major economic and transit hub for direct trade between the two countries. Just 8 km away lies the village of Akhurik, one of two closed border crossings. Repair work had been conducted on the railway connecting Gyumri to the Turkish city of Kars prior to last year’s World Cup qualifying match with Turkey held in Yerevan.
With Turkish President Abdullah Gül making a historic visit to Armenia for the match, villagers were once again given hope that a border opening would be imminent. “It will be very good if it opens,” one resident told RFE/RL at the time. “We used to work in the past — 40 families benefited from work related to the railway. Now they sit idle without work or have to choose migrant work in Russia. It will be good when the line is opened.”
But, with pressure from Azerbaijan on Turkey not to sign two protocols aimed at establishing diplomatic relations and opening the border until the Karabakh conflict is resolved, such a breakthrough appears as elusive as ever while unemployment and poverty increases. Nowhere is that more evident than the city of Ashotsk, just 30 minutes outside of Gyumri. Karine Mkrtchyan, public relations officer for the Caritas Armenia NGO says conditions are typical.
“Everywhere you will see abandoned places, especially public spaces,” she says. “They are ruined. There are no facilities, there is a lack of drinking water, and irrigation. People are on their own to solve their problems. We had a loss of life during the earthquake and then massive migration which stopped in the late 1990s before starting again in early 2000. Now there are even more people who decide to migrate.”
Last week, on the 21st anniversary of the earthquake, the government attempted to counter criticism of what many consider to be inaction and a lack of concern with the socioeconomic situation in Gyumri. Opening a sugar refinery owned by one of the country’s most notorious oligarchs at the same time, the Armenian president visited Gyumri and promised that 5,300 new homes would allocated to those still without by 2013.
The $70 million construction project has been made possible through a $500 million anti-crisis loan from the Russian Federation.
However, whether such promises come to fruition remains to be seen and government critics remain unimpressed. Indeed, they point out, even if the apartments are built and allocated on time, it would have taken a quarter of a century to do so. Moreover, for Gyumri natives such as Mkrtchyan, the need for economic investment and development in the regions of Armenia remains as urgent as ever.
▻https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Areas/Armenia/After-the-Quake-55719
#tremblement_de_terre #post-catastrophe #Arménie #histoire #logement #réfugiés_environnementaux #asile #migrations #réfugiés #frontières
Mapping the French football team
My 11-year-old football-enthusiast Japanese nephew’s project for school: a map and chart of each of the 23 players of the winning World Cup French team showing their parents’ countries of origin, as well as where they were born and where they currently play. His work allowed us to have a conversation about French colonialism; his candid disbelief that Guiana and its Native population remains under French sovereignty was very telling! And, just in case you were wondering how Mbappé spells in katakana, it is エムバペ!
https://i.imgur.com/csZXHs7.jpg 
https://i.imgur.com/adNwnXm.jpg 
https://i.imgur.com/g9tFvGa.jpg 
https://i.imgur.com/SRyMmtv.jpg #cartographie #visualisation #France #coupe_du_monde #Afrique #football #migrations #LesBleus
ça serait vraiment chouette de publier ces cartes sur @visionscarto !
Don’t let France’s World Cup victory erase the issues affecting black French people
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/07/16/dont-let-frances-world-cup-victory-erase-the-issues-affecting-black-
In past years, several players have been criticized over the fact that they did not sing the national anthem. Even if some of the white players from the younger generations, like Michel Platini or Eric Cantona, did not sing “La Marseillaise,” the same action from players of African descent was interpreted in a totally different way. Because of their origins, they were suspected of not being French enough.
From now on, France will expect that its team behaves and that its players will explicitly signal their love for France and respect for the flag and the institutions. Each time they speak in interviews, the members of the current team say “Vive la republique, vive la France!” — as if that is how to be accepted as a “good” French player.
Nobody has ever elected Les Bleus to represent #France, so why should we expect them to express themselves as politicians? My hope is that someday all of our players will be undeniably French and that no part of their ancestry will be perceived as conflicting with being French.
Football and fat fees : questions raised over funding of sporting conference | Football | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jul/16/football-and-fat-fees-questions-raised-over-funding-of-sporting-confere
After Russia’s wildly successful World Cup, the eyes of the sporting world have turned to the next host, Qatar – and a recent event in London gave an indication of the scrutiny that lies ahead for the controversial organisers, and of the Middle Eastern diplomatic battle that will shadow the tournament.
Journalists who attended the launch of the Foundation For Sports Integrity at the Four Seasons hotel were ushered through security to watch a series of panels featuring high-profile guests. The former Manchester United footballer Louis Saha appeared in a discussion alongside the former FA chairman Greg Dyke. Other guests included Damian Collins MP and the former US women’s goalkeeper Hope Solo.
But as well as the guest list and the glamorous surroundings, there was another striking feature of the event: questions over the funding of the previously unknown organisation, which was unveiling itself at short notice with a lavish conference and a public commitment to stamping out corruption in world sport.
Un à côté de la #nuit_torride entre les Qataris et leurs aussi riches voisins.
What Would a World Cup Win for France Mean in the French Caribbean?
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/07/what-would-a-world-cup-win-for-france-mean-in-the-french-caribbean
The symbols associated with France’s advance to the World Cup final have followed a familiar formula:
Nigeria’s World Cup Adventure is Over: Do We Still Love Her?
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/07/nigerias-world-cup-adventure-is-over-do-we-still-love-her
The quadrennial football tournament has a tendency to make it feel as though we live in
BaGhana BaGhana
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/07/baghana-baghana
The scene was a World Cup quarter-final between Ghana and Uruguay. It turned out to be
View GIFs on the Command Line (Because Why Not, Right?)
▻https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/07/view-gifs-on-the-command-line-because-why-not-right
The command line is fantastically versatile. You can get weather forecasts on the CLI, you can get the latest World Cup scores on the CLI, and you can even watch Star Wars on the CLI. And now, thanks to Google, you can view GIFs on the command line. —Say what?! View Animated Gifs on the CLI […] This post, View GIFs on the Command Line (Because Why Not, Right?), was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.
Rio sur Seine
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/07/rio-sur-seine
When Germany played Brazil in the 2002 World Cup final, who would French fans in Paris root for?
Ronaldo scores for Brazil vs Germany in the final of the 2002 World Cup.
International Stadium, Yokohama, Japan. June 30, 2002. Germany-Brazil. World Cup 2002 was over as soon as it had begun for France: in the opening game, Senegal beat France 1-0. On paper, with three of Europe’s top scorers, with Champions League winners and arguably the best player in the world that year, France seemed unbeatable. So much for that. Although this victory alone did not guarantee France’s exit, it made clear that the team would not go far. Senegal’s victory sent hundreds people to celebrate in the streets of Paris and notably in the (...)
How I met your mother
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/07/how-i-met-your-mother
The author relives his greatest World Cup moment.
Zinedine Zidane, 2006.
It was not love at first sight. She was cheering on the Azzurri. I was for Les Bleus. That she’s not Italian and I’m not French, did not matter. We teased each other as if we were. We met for the first time in that crowded, boisterous movie theater just outside of Washington D.C. A mutual friend invited us both to watch the World Cup final in 2006. Seven months later, we had a romantic spark, during another unplanned meeting at the now-defunct DC club, Agua Ardiente. We danced like Zidane in the Brazilian midfield. Now we’re married and have been for 9 years. Each World Cup final has become an unofficial anniversary for us, marking the (...)
Love at first sight
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/07/love-at-first-sight
The writer relives his greatest hits of the World Cup, including how he met his wife.
Zinedine Zidane, 2006.
I. It was not love at first sight. She was cheering on the azzurri. I was for les bleus. That she’s not Italian and I’m not French, mattered not. We teased each other as if we were. We met for the first time in that crowded, boisterous movie theater just outside of WashinDC. A mutual friend invited us both to watch the Cup final in 2006. Seven months later, we had a romantic spark, during another unplanned meeting at the now-defunct DC club, Agua Ardiente. We danced like Zidane in the Brazilian midfield. Now we’re married and have been for 9 years. Each World Cup final has become an unofficial anniversary (...)
A World Cup for the people
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/06/a-world-cup-for-the-people
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The Africans, already underrepresented, withered away during the Group stage. Even VAR, invented to clean up the game, could not save Nigeria.
Nigerian players at the end of their team’s 2-1 loss to Argentina.
The FIFA World Cup of neo-liberalism is living up to its expectations What is it that dampened my enthusiasm about the FIFA World Cup? I need more and more time and money to follow the game as it is getting out of reach, being standardized, sanitized, and controlled by a few for global consumption. Tickets and travel cost more; TV the same, with increased fees under the guise of customization. Probably not just one thing. I watch the same players all year round. The media hype them up and raise our (...)
How To Check World Cup Scores from the Ubuntu Desktop
▻https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/06/how-to-get-world-cup-2018-scores-on-the-linux-desktop
The 2018 FIFA World Cup is well underway and you’re probably obsessively refreshing your favourite website to get all the latest fixtures and results. But with over 30 nations from around the world competing in this prestigious soccer competition it is a bit difficult to stay on top of all the tournament action while you’re doing other things. […] This post, How To Check World Cup Scores from the Ubuntu Desktop, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.
FIFA 18 remains No. 1 in Europe for third week running
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-06-25-fifa-18-remains-no-1-in-europe-for-third-week-running
World Cup fever keeps FIFA 18 on top both digitally and at #Retail
‘Any way possible’
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/06/any-way-possible
A Kenyan football fan reflects on a lifetime of World Cup finals.
Image credit Laurence Griffiths via Getty Images.
1986 World Cup Finals I was only 4 years old during the 1986 World Cup finals. I don’t have many memories of this particular World Cup except my dad and my uncle’s animated conversations about the infamous “hand of god” goal by Maradona. My father, a very idealistic young university graduate, had moved with my mother to a rural high school in western Kenya, where he taught history to high school students. My mother taught English. They brought a 14-inch black and white television that would turn our house into a major community sports center during World Cup finals. I would later learn from my father that ours was the only (...)
A quantum successor to Paul the Octopus
▻https://hackernoon.com/a-quantum-successor-to-paul-the-octopus-e03de3fdc7d0?source=rss----3a814
Who will win the World Cup? In 2010, we had an octopus to help us. In 2014 we had to actually watch the games to find out. But this year, we have quantum computers.Though quantum computers will be good at many things, predicting the outcomes of sports games will not be one of them. But let’s not allow silly things like facts to hold us back. Let’s do it anyway!I took the flags of all participants in this years world cup and gave them a name in binary. The first three bits of these names tell us the group they are in (000 for group A, 001 for group B, etc). The last two bits tell us where they were in the group before the competition began (00 for top, 11 for bottom, etc). So it’s a fairly sensible and not entirely arbitrary binary encoding.Then I told a quantum computer to create a (...)
#science #quantum-computing #world-cup #soccer #soccer-prediction
Pitch dreams
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/06/pitch-dreams
Football in Senegal is magic. That the team has qualified for their second World Cup, heightens the joy.
Afternoon football in Yoff, Senegal. Image credit Martin Herrndorf via Flickr.
1986 I am sitting with my father, in a dark living room packed with men. Senegal is playing at the African Cup of Nations in Cairo, Egypt. I don’t remember the opponent. But that year, as renowned and ancient Senegalese sports journalist, Abdoulaye Diaw, always reminds us, we reached the semi-finals. I don’t remember women being there. They would be in the kitchen, cooking, cleansing and fixing something. Sports is a male thing. Suddenly, my father, my uncles, my cousins all wake up in unison. Senegal has scored, I guess. On these rare (...)
Epic Games announces 2019 Fortnite World Cup as game reaches 125m player
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-06-13-epic-games-announces-2019-fortnite-world-cup
Publisher wont sell teams or franchise spots for the World Cup, nor will it allow third-party leagues to do so
Arena of Valor tournament will mark Tencent’s E3 debut
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-06-06-arena-of-valor-tournament-will-mark-tencents-e3-debut
Partnership with ESL will see playoffs hosted in Los Angeles ahead of next month’s $550,000 World Cup
World Cup fever propels FIFA 18 back to No.1 in UK charts
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-06-04-world-cup-fever-propels-fifa-18-back-to-no-1-in-uk-charts
But Detroit: Become Human, Far Cry 5 and God of War still manage to fend off retro-centric new releases
World Cup 2018: #Neymar and #Messi #Mastercard campaign to feed starving children branded ’disgusting’ | The Independent
▻https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup/mastercard-world-cup-campaign-lionel-messi-neymar-starving-children-b
The credit card company announced it would donate the equivalent value of the meals to the World Food Programme (WFP) for children in Latin America and the Caribbean each time the football stars net a goal between now and March 2020.
But, despite the campaign being backed by Messi and Neymar, it instantly sparked outrage on Twitter, with some likening the “horrible publicity stunt” to the fictitious Hunger Games, and many suggesting Mastercard should just hand over the money if it can afford to.
“If you’ve got the money @Mastercard, just give it away anyway,” one person said. “Don’t let the fate of starving children rest on multimillionaire footballers.”
“This is absolutely disgusting,” said another. “Give them the food anyway.”
“Wow, just wow,” another Twitter user said in response. “The World Cup that became known as the ‘#Hunger_Games'.”
Articles dithyrambiques par contre dans les sites qui reprennent l’information en français (recherche Google)
#air_du_temps
Chart Templates Part 1: #Sankeys - Ken Flerlage: Analytics Architecture, Strategy, & Visualization
▻http://www.kenflerlage.com/2018/04/sankey-template.html
Recently, Rodrigo Calloni mentioned to me that he wanted to create a visualization for the upcoming 2018 FIFA World Cup. His idea was to create a sankey diagram showing the top 10 countries and the number of goals scored in each World Cup. But he hadn’t previously created a sankey and wondered if I could help. Fortunately, I had previously built a nice template for sankeys which I provided to him and resulted in the following visualization (click on the image to see the interactive version).
Eh ? #Faites_ce_que_je_dis_pas_ce_que_je_fais ?
If you use this template to create your own sankey, I’d love to see it. But please don’t create one simply because you can. Be sure to closely scrutinize your use case and make sure it’s the right chart type first.
J’utilise ce même jeu de données pour tester #Data_Illustrator
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Nota : les fonctions d’édition étant rudimentaires (ou bien mal maîtrisant mal les fonctions d’éditions) les légendes sont (plus que) sommaires
Barres empilées
nombre de buts par année de Coupe (barres) et par équipe (rectangles empilés)
Bulles
nombre de buts (surface) par année (verticale) et par équipe (horizontale et couleur)
Note : au passage, comme d’habitude, plein de questions sur les choix effectués par le concepteur du graphique. Entre autres : traitement des pays « à roulettes » (!) Allemagne avant WW2, RDA, RFA, Allemagne post-réunification ; Yougoslavie et morceaux issus de… (avec variantes Serbie, Serbie et Montenegro) ; Royaume-Uni (ie Angleterre, Écosse, Irlande du Nord (dont, bizarrement, le nom a disparu dans le fichier source des données (donnée vide …), ex-Union soviétique, Russie, Ukraine ; …
Du coup (?), je n’ai pas le même ordre : chez moi, au nombre total de buts, le Brésil est en tête devant l’Allemagne. J’en viens à me demander si le traitement du nombre de buts est correct (le sien, le mien ?) puisque ceux-ci sont comptabilisés en « à domicile/visiteurs » (home goals / away goals)
