This weekend marks the midway point of the USL Championship’s 33-week regular season, an ideal time to survey the landscape on who stands where in the race for the postseason and to make note of some of the standout performances that have already made this campaign a memorable one.

I’ll be looking at the where things stand in the Eastern Conference, while my colleague Nicholas Murray has the overview for the Western Conference right here. While there’s a solid gap between the top 10 teams and the chasing pack, the battle for the conference title and home-field advantage in the postseason is setting up an exciting second half of the season.