On Saturday we knocked off one of the undefeated teams and moved into 3rd place. Yesterday, we were informed by our manager that the undefeated 2nd place team forgot to send in photocopies of two of their players into the league officials. Therefore, two of the games they have won, are now counted as 20 point losses. So now we are in 2nd place!
The team also has 2 stars next to their team name in the standings. The team with more stars automatically looses any tie-breaker at the end of the season and it also counts towards the 3 strike and you're out policy. If this team gets another star (3 in total), they get demoted one league lower no questions asked. I expressed my disbelief at the strict rules of our league and how this honest mistake acquired them not 1, but 2 stars and my manager simply responded, "Welcome to Germany!" as he held his hands out as if getting arrested.
Not only can the police pull you over whenever they want for no reason whatsoever, the Basketball referees can give away technical fouls for facial expressions, and the league officials can ruin your season and your teams goals of league promotions in a blink of an eye.
1 comment:
"Not only can the police pull you over whenever they want for no reason whatsoever". That's absolutely wrong! I guess you have Germany of the 1930s and 1940s in mind. But - thank God! - Germany is a free country nowadays, so the police can not only arrest you because you are wearing the wrong shirt or something like that.
And the team you are talking about lost its two wins, because they didn't stick to the rules. Every teams knows that it has to send photocopies of the players passports to the league. If you don't you get punished. These are the rules.
But anyway, keep up the writing! It's very entertaining!
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