Is Brazil really the best team at the FIFA World Cup 2006? ResponsePlanet.com asks America to rate the teams and predict this year's winner

    Will Brazil ride on the Ronaldo-Ronaldinho wave and win a record sixth world championship? Or, will they stumble like all favorites?

MaiMai News - CHERRY HILL, NJ, June 18, 2006 - Did the first week of the FIFA World Cup 2006 live up to its stature as the greatest showcase of world sport? Did it create the excitement and euphoria befitting the world's biggest sporting extravaganza?

ResponsePlanet.com, the open public feedback forum for rants, reviews and ratings http://www.responseplanet.com, has announced a campaign inviting sports fans, and particularly football fans all over the world, to answer all of the above questions and more.

"Rating sports and sportspersons is quite common�in tennis, we have the ATP ratings or the WTA ratings, in golf, we have the PGA rankings, in cricket, there are the ICC cricket ratings for both teams and individual cricketers. However, these ratings are generally nothing more than a compilation of statistics based on results�of matches won or scores generated. Moreover, these ratings are generated by the professional bodies running these particular sports and therefore very limited in terms of how sports lovers truly rate sportspersons," said Jonathan Gropper, co-founder of ResponsePlanet.com.

These "official ratings" seldom, if ever, reflect how well a particular sportsperson, his/her unique strengths and contribution to the entertainment value of sport, the spirit in which they played the game and all such vital subjective parameters that form a more accurate reflection of the person or team. "ResponsePlanet.com, however, presents this opportunity to fans to rate sports and sportspersons, subjectively---- and let the world know why you think the way you do. Like it or hate it�have a say. Since the FIFA World Cup is the flavor of the month and probably one of the most universally binding forces, we are inviting football fans to express themselves and write about their favorite teams and players. All they have to do is to go to the "Rate Sports" section of http://www.responseplanet.com, write their commentary or post their views. A more subjective rating and public review will shed much more light on what soccer fans really think of these sportspersons," adds Jonathan.

ResponsePlanet.com also gives citizens of the world the opportunity to rate and review a host of other subjects, including movies, companies, politicians and schools and universities.

About ResponsePlanet.com

ResponsePlanet.com is a designed to be the ultimate place to read about and rate everything on the planet as well as create vibrant regional and national communities and better civic interaction and understanding.

ResponsePlanet.com performs four main functions:

A public forum and discussion board:
users can comment on, discuss and rate virtually everything on the planet; with blogs, users can articulate any topic close to their hearts.

A Customer feedback channel:
users can directly rate their interactions with companies, employers, political parties and interest groups, music, cities, culture and virtually everything on the planet

A marketing and advertising vehicle:
with free online classifieds and the opportunity to write about anything and everything on the planet, it is an ideal platform for leveraging the power of word-of-mouth advertising while reaching out to an audience of highly active Internet users across a wide demographic profile

A news media for offbeat news:
An opportunity for readers to become reporters as they write blogs, post comments and stories as well as report on offbeat events that are unlikely to be found in the mainstream media.