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3SF at the Anti- University. 3.00pm Mudchute Park. Saturday Nov 21

 

 

A workshop in practical triolectics, comprising an introduction to the triolectical system of Situationist artist Asger Jorn, conducted via the medium of three-sided football.
Jorn rejected transactional modes of knowledge transfer, favouring experimental activity. A supporter of the Situationist Bauhaus in Sweden, he believed such experiments fundamental to both psychic and social revolution. Underpinning Jorn’s approach was his unique ‘triloectical’ system. Developing upon dialectics and quantum physics, it went beyond linear transfers of energy, constructing spatio-temporal fields of possibility and negotiation. Not oppositional but superpositional – contradictions resolved by blending multiple simultaneous potentialities.

As a practical pedagogical exploration of the triolectical system, three-sided football stands in continuity with the aims of the AntiUniversity’s original protagonists, such as Jorn’s fellow ex-situationist, Alex Trocchi. The game has formerly been played at locations of psychogeographical significance around the world – from a forest at the centrepoint of Europe, to Taksim Square, to inside a Soviet fuel silo, to a druidic stone circle. This time we have selected the significant, if little known undulating terrain surrounding the Omphalos of the British Empire – constructed in the 16th Century by John Dee – as part of an ongoing campaign towards the psychogeographical unbinding of Eurocentric topological thought.

Strategic Optimism Football was founded in 2013 from the auto-dissolution of the University for Strategic Optimism, to work for the practical and theoretical advancement of triolectics. It recently contributed to constructing a patapositional supercollider at the geographical centre-point of Europe.

The Luther Blissett Deptford League was founded in 2012, by former members of the Workshop for Non-Linear Architecture. Besides its regular fixtures, it supports numerous international tournaments, including the 1th Three-Sided World Cup (Denmark, 2014).

This event is kindly supported by Academy of Practical Triolectics and Xenotopian Navigation, D3FC, New Cross Triangle Psychogeographical Association and Federation Internationale Autonome des Situationnistes Contemporaine.(FIASCO)

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To book: Contact strategic.optimism.football@gmail.com for information and to confirm attendance, or just turn up.

 

15/16 Game 3

Philosophy go down in the dying seconds on pitch 1 and Hussaria march confidently ahead on pitch 2.

15/16 Game 2

The renaming of Polsky Budowlancy – who now play as Hussaria – has brought instant dividends as the men in white now lead the RED table after two impressive performances. SOFC’s tactical cunning sees them still leading the YELLOW table while these early games are leaving the BLUE table too undifferentiated to draw conclusions.

PFFC The Men in Red

The two pitches in action

Two 3:2:1’s on Sunday, AA coming out the victors on pitch one and SOFC on pitch two.

15/16 Game 1

During the Alytus Biennale,  one of the sessions devoted to Triolectics focused on the LB3SFL and examined whether the way we play the game here in Deptford might be re-imagined. It was noted that although the playing of the game is dependent on triolectical gaming principles, the way we rank the scores is almost wholly dualistic and rational – winners and losers emerging from the tabular cumulative ranking of the scores.

A suggestion was made that we attempt to inject an element of the triolectic into the ranking system. A brainstorming session resulted in the idea of three separate ways of looking at the scores – which would create three tabular formats – one being the one we have used so far – based solely on a cumulative ranking of how many points you get from letting in the fewest games over the season – the second being a tabular ranking of the number of goals scored (with each goal scored being a penalty) – so the ‘winning’ team is the one who scores the fewest – or in other words is able to get the other two teams to be the most aggressive on your behalf – and the final being based on goal difference within games – so the spread results in a penalty. If your game ends 3.3.3 you get no penalties – if it ends 3.5.7 you get four penalties  – being the difference between 3 and 7. (this being akin to success in engineering equitability between all players)

It was suggested that with three outcomes and three tables – lets call them red, blue and yellow tables – these could be plotted in a triangular, ‘spatial’ format , rather than a ‘positional’ tabular format – and thus a situlogical separation of the teams could be recorded as a dynamic flow over the course of the season.

The proposals were put to a vote of all the players at the commencement of the new season and this experimental ranking system was accepted as long as it ran in parallel to the previous one adopted. This would allow a comparison of the two systems at the end of the season.

15/16 Fixtures

Fixtures for this season were drawn at random before the first match and came out as follows:

The 15/16 Season starts Sunday 6th Sept

The end of the summer break and once again its time to pit your wits against the raging of the triolectic.

New season is this Sunday – same place same time – 2.00pm at Deptford Green on Fordham Park.

As last season – we are going to randomly allocate teams to the letter system of fixtures just before kick off to determine who will face who during the season ahead.

For any of you who missed developments over the summer, there has been some excellent experimental games:

The Midsummer Game – at the setting of the sun over the Hilly Fields Stone Circle on 21st June – was played as “football non-stop”, with a boundary less pitch – the ball being deemed never to have left the field of play. Team Morgiel took the honours 19:22:22. Further news at http://xsportiv.com/london-summer-solstice-sunset-game-of-three-sided-football/311065

In August, Chris from SOFC and Mark from D3FC attended the Psychik Art Strike Biennale in Alytus Lithuania and presented two papers on Three Sided Football and the League – as well as organising a triple superimposition game – combining three games (three balls) into one super match (27 players in nine teams) on three partially intersecting hexagons – all situated deep in a pine forest. A fascinating experiment – producing a totally unexpected dynamic to play – Match report available soon. http://www.alytus.lt/documents/10180/9649784/6-oji%20Alytaus%20psichomeno%20streiko%20bienalė%202015%20m.jpg?t=1439287263446

New season gets underway

The 2014/2015 season kicked off yesterday at Deptford Green. This season takes the three sided football experiment to its natural next stage – playing a regular set of six teams in a league format with full fixtures and an evolving league table. The league will be called the Luther Blissett London League – and the Luther Blissett Trophy will be awarded by the man himself on the final day.

Towards the end of last season turn out had reached an average of 30 players – with an amazing 41 coming along to play in our final game. As we had started regularly playing across two pitches the time felt right to move from the free for all, one off games of previous seasons to the experimental rigour of fixed teams. How this would alter the flavour of play had been a regular topic of conversation – and the opportunity to put it to the test had at last arrived.

By playing across the two pitches we had already subdivided ourselves into six teams – though participation had been a fluctuating affair. At the conclusion of the final game, the forty players present were distributed equally across the six. From now on players would be part of a regular team. Would the game dynamic move from the self levelling balancing act we had seen before to one in which the positional imperative of the table might create and cement more durable alliances?

At the recent world cup in Denmark (attended by Polscy, PFFC and D3FC)  – and about which more later – the scoring and organisation of the table was hotly debated. Do we count goals for as well as against? Do we invert points so the least are awarded for the best results? The system was gradually honed over the last couple of weeks and on Sunday afternoon, before the first games kicked off – the following was agreed:

In keeping with Three Sided Football’s principle of allocating victory to the team which concedes the fewest goals, there will be no points for a win, one point for coming second and two points for conceding the most. If a game is fully drawn (e.g. all teams conceded an equal amount of goals), a single point will be allocated to each. If  there is a winning draw (e.g. two teams concede the same amount and the third concedes more) then a single point will be awarded to the drawn teams and two to the one which conceded the most. If there is a losing draw (e.g. two teams concede the same amount and the third concedes less) then two points will be awarded to the drawn teams and no points to the team which conceded the fewest and thus won the game.

Points allocated on the basis of the above will form the principal method of ranking the teams. Total goals conceded will form the secondary method of ranking the teams and in case these two ranking methods are unable to separate the teams, a goal difference – determined by subtracting goals scored (less own goals) from goals conceded – will form the third and final method of ranking.

The mathematics of a six team league mean that it takes twenty games for every permutation of the six to play equally against each other. Divided over the two pitches, this requires ten match days. We will therefore continue to play on the first Sunday of everyday month from September through to June – being the ten match days required.

A fixture list was drawn up to distribute the six teams as evenly as possible across these match days – with an attempt being made to ensure no two teams play against each other on more than three consecutive occasions. The fixtures were prepared on the basis of using letters (e.g. a b c d e & f) – rather than team names – to determine the arrangement – and on the day of the first matches, representatives of each team pulled out a letter from a bag containing one each of a b c d e and f. The letters on the fixtures list were thus transformed into actual games – and as you can see from the chart below – we began the season by playing Philosophy Football FC against Aesthetico Athletico against Polscy Budowlancy – and D3FC against New Cross Irregulars against Strategic Optimists FC.

Both games resulted in winning draws. The first rotation saw both Polscy and D3FC being hammered by an alliance of the two opposing teams – letting in three goals apiece. Careful defensive play saw both get back into the game as the original alliances splintered.  While the Poles were finally unable to find parity despite some excellent play, Deptford were gifted an unexpected winning draw through stout defensive play and measured assists. The first table of the League Season therefore sees Aesthetico and Philosophy sharing honours at the top – separated by alphabetical advantage alone. New Cross take third following a deluge of goals scored during their game against D3FC and the Optimists. (Laurence Galpin being the striker to watch). Deptford take 4th place. Polscy and the Optimists take 5th and 6th position on 2 points. Following the recent article about Three Sided Football in Mainichi Shimbun in Japan, a TV news crew from Japanese Kansai TV came along to film the new season. Their intention is to introduce Three Sided Football to Japan in the hope of encouraging a Japanese team to enter the next World Cup in Germany in 2017. We will post a link to their film about the first games of the new season as soon as it is available.