Disaster Index: 8.1 Entry: Final Horizon, Miami Cause: Scotland requiring a result against Brazil — five-time world champions — to progress from the group stage, with qualification in the balance rather than already secured. Category: Structural / External Dependency Evidence: Scotland face Brazil in their final group game with knockout qualification unresolved. Brazil have won the World Cup five times. Scotland have reached the knockout stage of a World Cup zero times. Miami's Hard Rock Stadium holds 65,000 people. None of them will be neutral. Historical precedent: Scotland have faced Brazil at a World Cup once — 1998, Paris, a 2–1 defeat in the opening fixture. That match also carried significant emotional freight. Scotland lost. The flight home was expensive. Affected parties: The squad. The support. Anyone who has lived through the previous twenty-eight years and now finds themselves here. Immediate outlook: The index does not assess likelihood. It records what is on the table. What is on the table is everything.