In the landscape of American soccer fandom, where traditional promotion and relegation are absent and the playoffs dominate the late autumn, fans have had to get creative to manufacture stakes. Enter the —a fan-driven, data-visualization phenomenon that turns the regular season into a geopolitical strategy game. Part meme, part cartography, and entirely addictive, the imperialism map has become one of the most engaging pieces of secondary content in North American sports.
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