When the quarter-finals will be played on Thursday, the record dating from the 2004 Worlds in Prague and Ostrava, Czech Republic, with a total attendance of 552,097 spectators will likely be broken thanks to full arenas throughout the whole tournament in Minsk, Belarus.

Estimate the total official attendance of the 2014 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship and win a prize. The three fans who come closest with their guess win a plush mascot, a puck or the record book from the 2014 Worlds by putting their guess either on Facebook or Twitter. The time of posting will be the tie-breaker. The official number is published on right of this website.

The competition closes on 24 May 2014 at 15:00 Minsk time.