Post details: The Absurd Nature of the Argentinian Second Division Promotion Playoffs and Other Stories

24/06/07

Permalink 06:43:11 pm, by beejay Email , 546 words, 95 views   English (US)
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The Absurd Nature of the Argentinian Second Division Promotion Playoffs and Other Stories

If you win the Argentinian second division, you are not promoted. In fact at first there is no such thing. It is split into two sections, Metropolitana B and Argentino A, and if you do well in these you qualify for Primera B Nacional. If you come first or second in this Clausura-based tournament, then you play off for a place in the Primera A Nacional, or something, and the two relegated clubs are not the bottom two that season, but the two with the lowest three season average points per game. If you lose this first playoff (which you can do by drawing but having finished lower in the league than you opponent) then you enter another playoff, where draws are settled by penalties instead. Failure here sees you play off against the third or fourth bottom team from Primera A Nacional over two legs where away goals count. Victory here sees you promoted.

This is fucking stupid and people in Argentina should realise this and hang their heads in the shame. Their fucking system has cost me five hours of Champ Man and nearly led to my all-conquering Quilmes team not getting promoted. Which would have made me angry.

But more importantly it represents the stigma of modern society that doesn't know what way it wants to go next. Every decision is manifested down into a complex formula of contingent numbers and apex curve graphs to give a definite and non-definite solution which are averaged into a risk assessment coefficient which if over 2 leads to the acceptance of the theorem unless the theorem is black gay Jewish or only has one functional arm in which case it gets positive discrimination and more housing allowance from the government. Kim Deal lamented the loss of simple bass guitar playing on BBC last night but it is not only in the world of failed guitarists that simplicity is a goal to aim for with passion and integrity. A footballer who has 100% pass completion and scores every goal will be the best player in the world. Those are simple requirements but people like Ronaldinho Messi and Steve Potts instead do stepovers and round the worlds in an attempt to bamboozle other players into submission without doing their own best effort first. Cooks like Jamie Oliver fuck around with herbs spices and keish instead of making hearty grub like bangers and mash and jam sandwiches. Amusingly, type "keish food" into Wikipedia search and the top match is "Hard Ons".

People should rediscover the simple way of nature that has served Darwin for millions of years. For example, if a Squirrel stood on the floor of the woods it got chonged by the bear. That is a simple formula. It is squirrel+(woods-trees)=death. It is not squirrel^2(date/time/postcode)*(woods+trees+lemons)(dick length/ball volume)=death^3. A similar example comes from placing a sea slug into the woods. Seaslug+woods=death. Similarly, priest+child=rape and women+remote=nuclear war. Nature works by these abiding rules of black and white, it is not grey or shaded. Things happen due to causes and effects and are simple in causality. They do not apply game theory or fuck around with astrology.

Argentinian Football should be the same.

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