Assuming both MLS Cup winner and SS winner get berth to CCL, If MLS regular season top 4 performers get berth to SuperLiga, If SuperLiga winner gets berth to Copa Libertadores, If you have to choose one between; 1. your team finish 5th in MLS regular season and win MLS Cup or 2 your team win SS What would you choose?
For me, simple. Finish 5th and win MLS Cup. To me, there are two competitions each year. Try to win MLS Cup and then try to win US Open Cup. Anything else in my opinion is worthless. I don't care about international competition and won't watch any of them unless it is the World Cup. For for that it either has to have the USA playing or a match up between two elite teams.
There has to be a better way to determine who from MLS would get into Copa Libertadores (one day... eventually... maybe) than Superliga.
Winning the play-offs shows a team is good at knock-out formats after a long season, so should be the Libertadores entrant
There are two scenarios - either CONMEBOL give US a couple of straight tickets or somehow MLS and FMF have to compete for 3-5 CL spots. If CONMEBOL give US straight tickets then MLS can decide however it wants. If MLS and FMF have to compete, I guess SuperLiga is good solution and it'll make SuperLiga really big deal which SUM and FMF try to make of. Currently, FMF gets 3 straight tickets. It may start by FMF give up 1 ticket to SuperLiga winner. Then, later maybe ask for a couple more tickests and combine SuperLiga and FMF's InterLiga to decide whole 4-5 tickets.
I would take the Supporters Shield over the MLS Cup any day. It's a shame the league does not hold it in the same regard as the Cup. Their should be a much bigger deal made about the Supporters Shield along with a trophy presentation, t-shirts for sale etc. Don't tell me you wouldn't be shelling out dough for a Supporters Shield Champion of the League T-Shirt.
As a DC fan, I'd have to say SS AND MLS Cup. I just think that our team puts their goals a lot higher than most teams. Tradition is their motto.
The Shield is a consolation prize. "Congrats, you won the first round!" It's at the bottom of the list of things I want the Rapids to win (someday...). The only reason I'd be happy that they won the Shield is that they would have a shot at winning the Champions League and SuperLiga the next year. Actually, I think the CL and SL spots ought to go to the four Conference Finalists, because they are the four teams who came the closest to becoming league champions, but oh, well. This works to. The Supporters Shield winner isn't the champion of the league. Officially and Unofficially.
Whatever gets me into Copa Libertadores is my pick. Winning that trumps any MLS Cup, because it is more prestigious by a country mile. I understand we'd probably get killed at this time, but any professional soccer club worth their salt should strive to play against the best competition they can to test their limits, or they should get off the field. A small-conference basketball team doesn't turn down an NCAA Tournament berth.
I concur with that, because I look at which is the harder one to win? Get hot for a couple weeks in November, or stay hot long enough from April to October?
who are the people voting for the SS??? winning the SS basically means you were the champion of the exhibition season...the real season begins in the MLS Cup playoffs meaning the MLS Cup is the REAL champion... I understand people want us to be like europe and not even have a MLS Cup, the league champion just being whoever finishes atop the standings (err, table)...but this is AMERICA, we have champioship games. The SS would mean more to me and in the league if each team played every other league team home and away, but with an unbalanced schedule it makes no sense to try and claim the SS is most important or that the league champions are the SS winners, idiotic really... what it is, MLS Cup>CCC>Superliga>SS>USOC what is should be, MLS Cup>WCC>CCL>USOC>SS
MLS Cup is always the top priority every year as far as I'm concerned. As a DC fan, winning two consecutive Supporter's Shields is a completely empty achievement. Sure it's a nice consolation prize, but that's all it really is. The only time the SS really matters is if you win it and the MLS Cup in the same year - then you can say you truly dominated the league.
It is nice to know that my opinion, that MLS Cup is by far the most important thing to win, is worthless. Thanks for telling me that.
if the reason we should not have the european format is that we are american, then why have a soccer league at all? were american dammit if the MLS cup is the most important thing and the only reason to play the season is to get to the playoffs and if 8 of 14 teams get to the playoffs it makes the season useless. Making the Supporters shield the most important thing makes the games have purpose. every game counts. Simply absorb the MLS cup into the USOC or something like that. That way there is still a knockout tournament for a team to claim.
No it doesn't. By late in the season, the teams that would be fighting for the 7th or 8th playoff spot would instead be fighting for absolutely nothing, making the games late in the season have no purpose.
It's not as if a regular season champion is unheard of in american sports. In college Bball, the team with the best conference record at the end of the season is the ACC Champion. The winner of the ACC tourny is the ACC tournament champion. Two different things, stop acting like it's impossible. Unless you're telling me that ACC basketball isn't american enough.