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Message: [QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 4882313, member: 173"] One thing I really miss is the America East basketball tournament being a weekend event - about a decade ago they switched to a format where the higher seed hosts games and spread it out over about ten days. What was great about it was the fans who went were legitimately knowledgeable - and generally about all the teams in the league, and since its a fairly low stakes league you don't have people who stake their whole identity on their team winning. Plus at the time I would go to that tournament and then deal with UConn morons at the Big East tourney the following weekend, so I really fully appreciated the AE fanbases and culture. They hit a sweet spot of high fan engagement with an appropriate level of investment in winning - I haven't found anything comparable since they switched formats. I do wish Vermont fans weren't so nice so I could justify to myself why I hate them so much though. [/QUOTE]