The atmosphere is not that of a normal elimination tournament with a group stage. The excitement of the football/soccer tournaments is that all the games happen in rapid succession and teams have to adapt and face-off against surprising dark horse type teams.

The court design is a nice touch but the scheduling not being in a playoff-like mode of games every 2 days is robbing us from some real sports drama and excitement.

  • bobbdac7894BEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Maybe true. Hopefully the knockout round will be different. Also, it’s their first time trying this. I’m sure they will make some changes next year

  • iksnetBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The biggest downfall is the ugly ass courts that players are getting injured on

  • HokageEzioBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Can they get to the actual elimination portion of the schedule first before judging the elimination portion of the schedule?

  • gymtime69BEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Why call it the in-season tournament when it’s the beginning-season tournament? This thing started practically the day the NBA started their regular season… isn’t the idea to keep fans from losing interest mid-season? Why not have it around at least December instead?

  • Based_and_JPooledBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I wonder why they didn’t do 5 groups of 6 teams.

    Having even number of teams in groups would allow all teams in a group to have games on the same day. (Who cares about conferences?)

  • Both_Funny4896BEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It needs to be a more focused event, like they need to dedicate a month for only IST games (if anything). Trying to squeeze it into regular season games makes it feel meaningless.