map critique 2

This map was taken from http://sportsinternthoughts.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/usa_soccer_3leagues_h1.png and was produced by Bill Turianski. It shows the spread of Major League Soccer fandom in the United States. I personally really like this map because I am a very huge soccer fan. The clarity between the colors is very distinguishable and you can clearly see where regions start and stop but without a legend its a bit hard to distinguish what some of the colors stand for since the same color is used for multiple clubs. Though the legibility on some of the writing on the right side is difficult to read. But with all the writing on the right side the author did a very good job of visually balancing the mapping area. the figure-ground is a bit odd as the water is to light in color and is slightly difficult to distinguish where the divide between teh basemap and water is.