Kristoffer Bergström: Tony will stick around forever
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Everything happens, yet at the end we are back where we started.
Who will get the “Champion of Champions” to leave this hellish loop?
I’m putting my money on a British ghost.
And, Joel Lundqvist beat bloody, but we can start with Moses Bruine Cotsworth?
By all accounts, the British accountant was a bore. He was born in the middle of the 19th century and discovered in middle age that something was wrong with our calendars. Why all the messing around with 30 and 31 days, when there is a much more elegant solution?
Moses Brown Cotsworth. Photo: Wikicommons
Moses added a thirteenth summer month called Sun. He gave all months 28 days, so 364 in total, and rounded off the year with a separate day of rest.
In the Surpuppa system, all months begin on a Sunday and end on a Saturday. If you turn one on Tuesday one year, you will do so forever.
The Cotsworth calendar is 122 years old and superior to the Gregorian. It is rational and facilitates planning, but still we cling to the traditional division of the year. Because we are lazy. In a rapidly advancing age, we want to preserve our lives as they have always been.
Okay, excuse the digression, but once we’ve finished pondering what half-metal Joel’s forehead is made of, we can take on the “Master of Masters” as Moses had done.
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Zombie Tony Rickardsson
What do we have?
Ten programs, nine contestants. Seven of them remain after five weeks. When we go into the second half shall Tony Rickardsson once again trudging along like a zombie – not quite in the world of the living, but not allowed to die either.
The dry-skinned Briton had shaken his head and pointed out that there is a straightforward solution that allows you to avoid all strange constructions. So he had taken his dull pencil and painted an unimaginative scheme:
Twelve Swedish sports heroes fly south to make up. In the first program, everyone manages, a little mercy must prevail, then one is eliminated a week. Eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven – and then six! Five! When four are left, the program is at the final episode.
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fullscreenTony Rickardsson. Photo: SVT
They wake up, they tame, they ask polite questions
The benefits of a straight schedule are obvious, especially for a show that releases one episode at a time. You always know what is at stake, so the branches are more loaded. And every episode gets a climax that makes sense, one that doesn’t amount to Anja Pärson goes to football, so all viewers stay for the final scenes.
They wake up, they fight, they ask polite questions about an old SM final, they fight on and in the end one has won and one has gone out. Week after week.
No more is needed, the ghost of the old accountant had said. But I have no hopes whatsoever that such a logical change will be introduced, because it is not in our nature to choose the easiest option.
So we’re stuck in this dizzying maze! Tony will stick around forever! Holy Moses!
