The play-in tournament will remain in the next season of the VTB United League, the general director of the tournament said in an interview with Ilona Korstin.
The play-ins took place for the first time in the United League in the 2023/24 season. After the completion of the first stage of the regular United League championship, two groups are formed: group A consists of the teams that took first to sixth place, the remaining teams form group B. After the matches of The second stage, the four top teams in Group B compete for two playoff tickets in the tournament play-ins.
— The play-in was completely justified. The important thing is that we have increased the number of matches for teams that do not qualify for the playoffs. Because even if there was no play-in, they were complaining: they were saying there weren’t enough matches. Secondly, we increased the chances of teams from the second group to enter the top 8. If earlier eight teams almost decided to qualify for the playoffs, and the rest did not really play, now 10 teams have a chance to enter these eight at the end of the championship.
Thanks to this format, we have drawn attention to teams that are not leaders of the championship. The play-ins allowed everyone to understand that life here is also interesting and that basketball is a good thing. And next season there will be a play-in as well,” Korstin told .
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