Why is everyone so actively negative about this? I get not caring at all, but there's clearly more than that. If you don't like this tournament...just pretend they're regular season games and nothing changes. If you already don't watch regular season games... keep not watching regular season games and nothing changes.

Fine. I’ll get excited. That video certainly helped clarify it. Reading about it, it wasn’t quite clear in my mind how it would work. Somehow I missed the part about the wildcard.

Interesting. Will feel a lot more like Premier league.

I honestly think it would be nice to have something to care about other than the championship. But .... We will see if people actually care.

I just don't get it. Who was asking for this lol. Just bring back the divisions and give us more divisional games so that they actually matter and rivalries can develop.

Please excuse the loud caps, that's the tweet...

Gonna be weird to add more stuff onto the regular season but so it goes.

The reason midseason tournaments of any kind won't take hold is due to cultural differences.

In Europe & the UK these divisional leagues and tourneys make sense because they evoke the literal thousands of years of bitter struggle and conquest different groups had over each other. London by itself is made of up an amalgamation of different groups who were all trying to conquer each other or fend off being conquered.

So there's an ingrained rivalry between states and cities from way back.

In the United States the culture is of one primary colonizing group (Europe/The White Man), and then one group overthrowing the UK to become the U.S.

It's a culture of "Win the whole thing, and all at once." Which is why we're very championship focused.

Will be interesting to see how this goes.

I'm literally in the states on vacation and visiting friends the first two weeks in November so any games I can attend would be cup matches.

Provisional plan is to visit DC, New York and Boston just not sure on order yet but does hopefully give me a decent shot at going to a game with 4 teams to work with.