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.
Well also in soccer you have teams in different leagues that don’t normally play each other. All of these teams already do. As a fan I don’t care about the outcome of these games, the players seem to however because of the check they’ll receive.