MLS: How can Orlando tournament join with regular season?

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MLS are hoping to restart play with a World Cup-style tournament that ties into the regular season. But how can they do this fairly and how do they make the tournament significant?

As sports leagues around the world panic to find some way of completing their respective seasons without entirely cratering their revenues, Major League Soccer has conjured up a plan to conduct a mini, World Cup-style tournament in Orlando.

The idea is quite simple, in theory: players and coaches will live in the resorts in and around the ESPN’s Wide World of Sports at the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida. Florida, of course, have relaxed…