I Taught an AI to Measure Passion — Then Pointed It at the World Cup

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition What I Built It's July 12th, the World Cup is in full swing, and I'm watching a stoppage time winner go in and thinking, not "what a goal," but "that's a data point I want to capture." That's the itch FanForge scratches. It watches live events, starting with the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and scores how much passion is packed into each moment on a 0–100 scale. Every scored moment becomes instantly searchable, and the fans who show up the most get rewarded with tournament linked "Passion Points." Here's the twist: I didn't want to build "a World Cup app." Somewhere around hour six I realized the actual interesting problem wasn't football, it was passion itself and passion doesn't care what the fandom is. So the same scoring engine that grades a last-minute winner also grades a Vim-vs-Emacs flame war, and my own 1am "finally fixed the bug" moment. Any fandom is one plugin away. If the challenge's prompt was "any angle