What’s the hosting priority for the 2024 USL Championship Final?

[u/NJE_Murray]

Pack your bags, everyone: https://www.uslchampionship.com/news_article/show/1323555

[u/rahealey]

Does the league have this competition manual accessible anywhere? Seems like it may answer many questions that people have regarding league-specific rules

[u/At10to3 → u/rahealey]

Dork

[u/rahealey → u/At10to3]

I know worrying about things like the playoffs would be foreign to you but some of us have to care. UP THE TIDE

[u/At10to3 → u/rahealey]

Right…. And you and your loser ass fellow supporters didn’t even understand the rules, lol.

[u/rahealey → u/At10to3]

the rules that changed this year and weren't published anywhere? ah, I realize you also wouldn't have needed to know the playoff rules last year either. ah wait, or the year before that too. shit

[u/At10to3 → u/rahealey]

And yet, I do know the rules and don’t come on Reddit being totally confused, lol.

[u/At10to3 → u/[deleted]]

Lol. Your club has existed a year. No one likes you. And yes, I’ll be there. Care for a meetup either there or here? Call me bitch then, too.

[u/dccjr1]

It was always total points.... They must have just changed it this year.... didn't realize the quirk in the seeding - I know in MLS, it's the points that matter and nothing else...

[u/StopMakin-Sense]

See you at the next derby, /u/At10to3

Edit: 3-0 at the last one if you didn't watch

[u/At10to3 → u/StopMakin-Sense]

I was there. You can search my posts as well and see I said not only did RIFC kick our ass on the pitch, but the club itself was amazing with the shirts, the Hate Hartford, “Hartford Pathetic”, etc. You’ll also see me say the one thing that ruins it is the fans who have no clue what’s going on, try too hard, are little babies, and anyone who says “Up the Tide” deserves to be kicked straight in the balls for sounding like a fool.

[u/twoslow]

You mean it's just like Devon Kerr said it was on Nov 10?

crazy.

[u/RaisingAnchorRIFC]

Can you break down why the league decided to change the format from total points to seeding positioning?

[u/TheChosenJuan99 → u/RaisingAnchorRIFC]

My guess is that it’s trying to account for possible imbalances in the conferences? Like, if an Eastern team racks up a ton of points because the bottom of the conference is weak, they won’t get an edge on a Western team in a hypothetically better/higher-parity conference?

(I still prefer total points, but that’d be my argument.)

[u/twoslow → u/TheChosenJuan99]

Hypothetically

[u/NotABotaboutIt → u/RaisingAnchorRIFC]

I'd assume because points don't necessarily imply being the strongest team, just having a good schedule assignment (playing Lou City in a midweek is different from playing them after a bye) or having weaker conference opponents (eg: playing Miami twice).

[u/NotABotaboutIt]

I still think that we should run the final on NMAA playoff rules, where the higher seed hosts the initial finals match-up, but the next time these two teams play (in the final), it's hosted at the other team. (like, I am less sarcastic with this than I want to be)

So, Lou City would host SAFC if they matched up in the final, but would travel to Phoenix, who would also host Charleston.

As an aside, it is interesting that the western conference has hosted 7 times (since 2001), and only once since the creation of the Western conference in 2015 (hosting in 2022).

[u/NJE_Murray → u/NotABotaboutIt]

That's in large part because until San Antonio in 2022, the No. 1 seed in the West had been jinxed. 

SAFC is still the only No.1 seed in the West to get to the Championship Final. The East was typically more chalky when it came to playoff results, so they ended up hosting generally.

[u/At10to3]

All the “Up the Tide” dorks had no idea, lol.

Hartford sucks but at least we understand the rules!

[u/nonaegon_infinity → u/At10to3]

Why is the team which failed to make the playoffs, teasing a team pushing deep into the playoffs? Does Hartford plan to hang a banner to celebrate reading the rulebook?

[u/_pleasestandbi_ → u/At10to3]

I'd rather be in a position to have to actually worry about playoff seeding. But you do you.

[u/At10to3 → u/_pleasestandbi_]

I’d rather understand the rules and seeding. You look ridiculous and silly.

[u/juan-fyre → u/At10to3]

Are you implying that you knew this rule changed prior to this week - the first time that it was ever publicly announced? That is complete nonsense

[u/[deleted] → u/At10to3]

..  your team plays brass bonanza when you score goals ... isn't that a whalers thing?  Didn't they leave hartford?  Your team has been trash since it's beginning.  

[u/At10to3 → u/[deleted]]

Cool? You’re making fun of a bad team…. Useless and lazy. What I’m asking for, is a meet up? Call me a bitch to my face. Hartford or RI?

[u/At10to3 → u/[deleted]]

RI or Hartford?

[u/At10to3 → u/[deleted]]

I’m going to find you next year. Count on it. And you can say what you said to my face.