World Cup of Crisps on Monday 28 March. The new Twitter poll feature automatically tallied the results, and during the semi-finals over one million votes had been cast. The 48 crisps were drawn into twelve groups of four, with the top two from each group progressing to the second group stage. Bold indicates crisps that qualified. Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Due to the tie between Walkers Smoky Bacon and Taytos Cheese & Onion, a 10-minute tiebreak poll was conducted, with Walkers defeating Taytos by 51% to 49%. Group 5 Group 6 Group 7 Group 8 Group 9 Group 10 Group
World Cup of Crisps second edition, Betfair decided they would donate all losing bets to the Child's i Foundation. By the end of the tournament, they had managed to donate £7,500 worth of losing bets to the charity. During and after the second edition of the event, several voters became disillusioned with the choice of crisps on offer. A debate began to emerge on the definition of crisp, with three of the four semi-finalists, Wotsits, Monster Munch and Quavers, as well as the 2012 winners Frazzles, being criticised for not actually conforming to the definition of crisp. These opinions were shut down by Osman,