
Hi @[email protected] ! Would it be possible to add the NWSL community to the sidebar? Here’s the link: [email protected] (by url: https://lemmy.world/c/nwsl ).

There’s also two nwsl games for the Challenge Cup! Come discuss them in [email protected]

I’m definitely watching the World Cup – I just got back from the pub where I was watching New Zealand beat Norway. I’ve been trying to get [email protected] going for the World Cup so that people who want to talk about it have a space that’s dedicated to the tournament, so if you wanna come hang out over there as well, it might be fun!

You have my taste in games dialed in. I LOVED This War Of Mine, and I loved the expansion that added children. I liked most of the characters, but for whatever reason Marko was always my favorite, and I could not stand Bruno. Honestly, I think I’m gonna go boot that up again and get ruined emotionally by the supermarket event again.


Yeah. MLS and USL are very different entities. They used to be much more entangled when the MLS reserve sides played in USLC, but now with MLSNP, there’s basically no connection. I wouldn’t be surprised to see MLS implement pro/rel from an MLS1 <-> MLS2 once the league gets to 40 teams, but I think it’s gonna take intervention from an outside party like FIFA to force pro/rel between USL and MLS.

Honestly, the Prem seems like a boring way to do sports to me. You play 38 games and then Man City wins it. The enforced parity of American leagues means you can’t have a story like Leicesters, because all of the teams are roughly equal quality, so it’s not a huge surprise when any team wins it all. You come into every season believing your club has a real chance.

The league is mostly focused on filling the gap for college players between school years, so they only play in the summer. Ballard’s regular season this year was 5/21-7/16; if they make the final, they’ll play until early August. We had trouble in the playoffs last year because some of the players had to depart early to return to their college teams.

My understanding is that the pro/rel is only between USL1 and USLC, so my beloved Ballard FC wouldn’t be eligible for promotion. Kinda makes sense, though, since USL2 isn’t sanctioned and they only play for like, two and a half months a year, and can’t even pay real salaries, but it would whip if we made USLC!
I don’t feel there are too many games, because I can simply buy fewer games, but I do miss the feeling that there are games that everyone is buying and we’re all playing at the same time. I felt like everyone I knew was playing BG3 and we were all talking about it all the time. I don’t want to only play those kinds of big, blockbuster games, but I do want a few of them per year.