A few days ago, the Columbus Crew sent out care packages to various reporters that have a vote at the end of the season for Major League Soccer's MVP award, in an effort to garner votes towards Kei Kamara.

It was certainly a smart strategy - after all, who doesn't love free gifts? But Toronto FC's response, in support of their own star candidate Sebastian Giovinco, might have just ended the MVP race entirely.

Pizza. That's right, pizza - freshly made in each voter's respective city, and delivered for lunch with a pepperoni number 10 in the middle, to remind voters that the Atomic Ant of Toronto is most worthy of their support.

I've seen clever MLS MVP promo campaigns in my time, but Toronto FC takes the cake (er, pie) for this ode to Sebastian Giovinco they sent me (from a local NJ pizza shop, NOT from Toronto). A photo posted by Ives Galarcep (@ivesgalarcep) on Oct 23, 2015 at 9:58am PDT

Well @torontofc sent a pizza hoping we'd vote Giovinco for MVP. Don't think it was really necessary... pic.twitter.com/93ykxGMG7W — Ben Baer (@BenBaer89) October 23, 2015

I already voted for Sebastian Giovinco as @MLS MVP but this delivery by @torontofc is a pretty exceptional PR play! pic.twitter.com/tcVNgwYd4h — Luke Wileman (@LukeWileman) October 23, 2015

Game over? Probably.

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