It's 9 pm in a secluded room inside a shopping mall in Südtor, where a studio got set up for TV. Today's the day that will decide, who will have luck in the group stage and who will have a difficult task to solve in the tournament, but first of all, the boss of the Gianlucian Football Association (GIF; GIscher Fußballverband) reveals the mascot and theme of this year's World Cup. Alluding to the mascot, which is a cat - the national animal of GI-Land - the theme is "A purrfect tournament".
The cat itself is dressed up in the new home kit of the Gianlucian national team and resembles one of the former royal pets. This is perhaps why it got named after him, its name is Bambam I.


The mascot Bambam I.


The new kits of the Gianlucian national team 

Now the exciting part of the event is beginning: The drawing of the groups of the Men's FWC!
There are two bowls prepared with several yellow balls inside them. In one bowl are three of those, one is marked with blue dots too, in the other are nine of those.
We get explained that the one marked with blue dots is the ball of GI-Land, which will be the head of Group A, while the other three balls are the ones of the IFF and Sedunn. One of both will be the head of Group B, the other of Group C.
Why is that?
Because GI-Land got 1st last time and is the host, the IFF got 2nd last time and Sedunn got third.

On purpose GI-Land gets taken out of bowl 1 first, so it can be the head of Group A, after that the moderator picks the ball of the IFF, which will be the head of Group B. This leaves Sedunn as head of Group C.
The next team getting chosen will be put into the group of GI-Land. After a bit of rambling it's clear, that GI-Land's first game will be against Erinor.
This continues until all groups got drawn:

GROUP A
GI-Land
Erinor
TSSS
Beepee

GROUP B
IFF
Bruuma
Sereva
Huawan

GROUP C
Sedunn
Transsuneria
Bzerneleg
Esfalsa

All teams placing first and second in the groups will move on to the quarter finals, while only the two best 3rd places will move on to the QFs as well.
The exact gameplan can be seen here.

Last but not least the Women's World Cup gets drawn. Since only 11 teams are participating though, the tournament will be a little different.
All teams, except the host, will be drawn into two groups out of five. The two best teams of each group will move on to the Quarter Finals, but the third and fourth places of each group will get together with the host into a play-off group. The best four teams of the play-off group will continue their journey to glory too.
Since there isn't an ancestor for the Women's competition to determine the group heads, it's all random.
Following groups got drawn:

GROUP A
Sereva
Esfalsa
Bzerneleg
IFF
Huawan

GROUP B
TSSS
Transsuneria
Sedunn
Puerto Pollo
Erinor

PLAY OFF GROUP
GI-Land
A3
A4
B3
B4

After everything's settled and announced, everyone is going home happily. Or at least some people are, maybe some are also already planning on how to handle the more or less difficult tasks, they will encounter in their tournament.
We will see how well all teams will do, when the tournament starts off tomorrow with the opening game of the Men's tournament: GI-Land vs. Erinor!