Seriously excited for this Invite season. So many good teams.

Great article, thanks. You're a good writer.

Been mentioned here but yeah great pickup for 4G, duwatna is a beast.

I don't know what's going on with Epsilon but I think 4G are favourites for i52.

Yes.

Shout out to all the casters especially Admirable who was a fucking champ.

Seriously. His first sneaky move was playing in Invite before i49. But we're on to him now!

Amazing job. Saw some great frags I missed during the cast.

Did I hear cbear correctly? froyo automatically "qualifies" for i52? I thought the placement tournament would determine both teams.

World Cup on the TV, TF2 on the laptop. Life is good.

Putting goal difference and goals scored above head-to-head is to encourage more attacking football. Teams have incentive not to sit on a 1-0 lead and try to run up the score as much as they can. Which in turn would theoretically open up space for the other team as well.

If you want head-to-head as the main decider you might as well go for a straight knockout tournament like March Madness. You can't look at USA and Ghana in a vacuum. The two teams that advance have been the best across the entire group stage. Having a group stage gives teams more games (this tournament only comes around every four years, it would suck to be one and done) and gives the chance to overcome one bad game.

Second this. We still need 4 grand (5 for Lange) in 17 days. The casters should really push for donations.

Whoa, awesome! So Friday will be the tournament for the top 4 from the upcoming season and Saturday will be the open tournament? GXL is shaping up to be AMAZING.

This is entirely false. It's so wrong that you've completely lost all credibility as someone who knows anything about basketball.

The Heat have one of the most aggressive defensive schemes in the NBA. They blitz every screen and still manage to drop back to protect the paint. If anything they've become more conservative during this series because the Spurs have such good playmakers.

But there's no point explaining any of this to you because you have the preconceived notion that NBA players don't "try" as much as college guys. It seems you don't actually know much about the Xs and Os of basketball and instead only care about "passion" and "will".

We're headed for another 7 game classic. I'm rooting for the Spurs to get one final ring for Duncan.

Great matchup for the neutral fan though, two best teams in basketball.

Does Street Hoops have a logo?