Disaster Index: 8.4 Entry: Ill-Fated, Apparently Cause: Scotland's World Cup campaign concluded in elimination, with the verdict arriving from press row before the dressing room had finished processing it. Category: Historical / Emotional Evidence: Three group matches played. Qualification from Group G not achieved. The post-mortem vocabulary — ill-fated, sorry end — deployed within the same news cycle as the final whistle. The story was already written; the tournament confirmed it. Historical precedent: Scotland have now departed at the group stage in each of their seven World Cup appearances. The pattern is sufficiently established that "ill-fated" functions less as journalism and more as taxonomy. Affected parties: Players who competed. Supporters who travelled and stayed up. Anyone who had argued, at any point between November 2025 and June 2026, that this time the infrastructure of the feeling was different. Immediate outlook: The record is closed. The Reckoning will file separately.