The bot will respond with a message saying whether the request was successful or not. If it doesn’t respond within 15 minutes, feel free to ping me and I’ll check if it’s offline.

The bot will accept any game until 2 hours after kickoff.

In this instance, I can see that the bot responded to you with a confirmation that it added the game to the queue.

If you want to be extra sure, you can ping the bot with the request -queue -football gunners@lemmy.world to see every game queued up for the community.

The game has been posted already btw.

Anyone watching the game? How’s Girona doing?

First player to score a hattrick in a European Cup

Still on the fence with this format, I don’t really feel any excitement for these qualifiers. Feels like there will be too much leeway for the heavy weights to miss out on the knockout stages.

It seemed to work this time, the bot responded to you once you tagged it with its instance name.

-football Bayern Munich - Dinamo Zagreb

You first tag didn’t direct to lemmy.world so the bot wasn’t notified. When tagging someone on Lemmy you should be able to open their profile by clicking on the tag when done correctly.

You can change how long before kickoff the bot will post a live thread with the command demonstrated with the Bot Maintainer account. The time input is in seconds.

Only mods/admins can change it for a community.

In regards to live updates, the bot checks for messages once every minute. It updates the live threads every 30 seconds, however I’ve changed it so that it only updates every 10 minutes until 30 minutes before kickoff. Just to spare ESPN from being needlessly spammed.

That can be made configurable if needed

If you’re British the clear blue sky may be confusing, if you’re not, the depth of field/sharpness may give that impression.

With a Spanish team winning the final

The bot requires approval (whitelisting) from your moderators/admins, not mine. LiveThreadBot will work for any community federated with lemmy.world. Alternatively you can very easily run your own instance of the bot.

Uruguay with 3,4 makes it work somehow…

I can’t speak for Sweden or Denmark, but Norway is a fairly proud country when it comes to sports, we like the idea of being the little guy punching above our weight. For most people the idea of joining up with our Scandinavian (friendly) rivals is completely foreign.

Personally I’d rather go another 20 years without qualification than cheering on a Swede or Dane. Swedes and Danes may not be as hostile to idea as Norwegians though, as they don’t have the history of being occupied by the others.

I like Haaland the Norwegian.

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One day we’ll make it, one day…

Haven’t pushed it to repo yet, but this is currently the mapping for teams that may have their shorthand form requested instead of the name ESPN uses. Let me know if there’s any other teams I should add

How harsh would the penalty have to be to make their cheating not worth it?

Taking away all their “ill gotten” trophies and relegating them wouldn’t do too much. People would still remember them as the dominant Premier league team that won a treble. And in a few years people would barely remember their short visit to x division. It would just be a stain on their Wikipedia page.

It happened a while back. r/football actually sponsors a football team now, via some reddit program they won.

As a former goalkeeper, I got to appreciate it when a goalkeeper gets an assist, so Haaland’s second goal

Won’t drives just hibernate if not active for a while?