I'm hoping that this tournament actually leads to a big improvement in the t20 blast from next year. The 100 ball concept is demented and crap.
But at least the launch of the tournament has forced the ecb to join the rest of the world in integrating mens and womens tournaments, trying to attract families, lowering ticket prices and speeding up time between overs etc.

For some inexplicable reason the ecb and counties have failed to do these things for years, despite overwhelming evidence from every other cricket playing country that its the approach that works.
Now that these things have been implemented for the hundred, there is no excuse for the counties not to take the same approach during the blast. Hopefully from next year we can see the counties getting out into their communities and attracting families to the blast comp.