What is world_cup_bracket_2026?

This project is an interactive visualization tool for the FIFA World Cup 2026 tournament. Instead of showing the usual flat bracket you might see in a newspaper or spreadsheet, it displays the tournament as a radial bracket, meaning the matches are arranged in a circular layout rather than a straight line of boxes. Clicking around the bracket lets you see match details and team statistics in a side panel, so you can explore how teams progress through the rounds without leaving the page. The tournament data can come from two places: a hardcoded fallback built into the project, or live data pulled dynamically from an external API when one is available. The README mentions that live scores during matches are supported through two free APIs, though it does not name which services those are or explain how to configure them. There is also a manual simulation feature, which appears to let a user step through or predict tournament outcomes themselves rather than only viewing real results, though the README does not go into detail on how this simulation works. The project is released under the MIT license, which means it can be used, modified, and shared freely, including for commercial purposes, as long as the original copyright notice is kept. This is a small project built in HTML, and based on the README alone it looks like a front-end visualization piece rather than a full application with a backend. The README is quite brief and does not include installation instructions, so a developer curious about running it locally would need to look at the source code directly. It would likely appeal to soccer fans who want a more visual way to follow the World Cup, or to developers looking for an example of an unconventional bracket layout built with HTML.