With a lot to gain in buildings this Event, it was worth the effort, even if the mini game was absolutely not my thing.
This was the only reason I took any time playing this event. I'm sure there's many others too.
I didn't enjoy it at all but the prizes, even the secondary prizes where strong. 200 era goods, 100s of fps. Normally your lucky to get 50 and 10. Usually not bothered about any of those but the figures made it so if you didn't win the daily special the reward was still worth it mainly because SATs quite new and goods are still welcome to a degree.
The epic soccer kit helped me finish a section of my city that although slipping into obsolete I've been building since the first soccer event.
I ended up with two of the gold upgrades, followed no system of x amount of fields per day, didn't do more than 5/6 daily challenges for the extra badges, didn't collect the double points daily special rewards daily till 10 days in, so the event was way beyond easy and gave decent prizes.
Sadly the concept and delivery of it made no sense with the theme and it was a chore, just happened to have a reasonable return on the time needed. Usually you can just disregard the event completely if you don't like it but value wise for a FOE it was worth playing.