Is the Lottery That Is Mexico’s Liguilla Good or Bad?

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Published: November 24, 2010

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Another Mexican football tournament, another number one seeded team falls. Not quite American College Football, but with the same number of upsets and surprises. No computer rankings or stuff like that from good old College “tackleball”, just 17 games and a playoff system. The current format has long been debated. Opposers, such as I, claim that the current format encourages mediocrity amongst the teams. The fact that the teams are divided into three groups is even more troublesome. Pumas UNAM, the 8th seed this year, was just above .500 with one more win than losses. That’s why coming into this weekend’s game against number one seeded Cruz Azul, they were heavily favored against. The outcome of course was the opposite. The result was shocking for pundits and fans alike, but only strengthened what everybody has dubbed the curse of the superlider.

 Indeed, in the last 9 tournaments the number one seeded team has fallen and failed to win the Championship, Cruz Azul was no exception. Despite storming through the first 17 games and going undefeated at home, they conceded defeat at home in the playoffs when it most mattered. The current playoff system, adopted from the American sports model, was fully implicated in the 77/78 season in Mexico. Nobody can debate the excitement playoff time brings. Living in the United States, it’s difficult not to get fully indulged in the magic of October in Baseball, or the buzzer beaters and unlikely heroes to the road to the NBA Finals. D-Fish anybody? In fact, America seems to have this obsession with the underdog, the Cinderella team as they call it. However, as the current faulty American economic system proves, not everything American made is perfect.

There are ups and downs to the playoff system in Mexico. The Mexican people haven’t come to terms with the romance of the underdog like their American counterparts just yet, but they put an emphasis on the failure of the...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - International Football

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