DENVER – In a stunning upset, the Denver Nuggets defeated the Golden State Warriors on Thursday night. The Warriors easily scored more points than the Nuggets, but due to an arcane and confusing system known as the Basketball College, the Nuggets were awarded the victory.

Contrary to most fans’ conception, the scored-point total–a measure of how many actual points scored–does not decide the winner of an NBA game. Instead, each quarter is worth a different amount of points, an archaic arrangement based on the argument is that if all four quarters were worth the same amount, then only the fourth quarter would matter. The Warriors were able to sweep the first and third quarters by a combined 29 points, however, the Nuggets took the coveted second quarter by five points. The second quarter is particularly valuable because it is where the NBA sees the majority of its white players coming off the bench.

In the vast majority of games under the Basketball College, the winner of the second quarter wins the game, even if it doesn’t matter and most people agree it is the most boring quarter. Projections had Golden State still winning after the half, but unfortunately, the teams tied during the fourth quarter, splitting the Basketball College votes. The Warriors lacked the necessary BC points to edge out the Nuggets.

Golden State fans have called the Basketball College “unfair,” “confusing,” and “actual lunacy.”

Despite the obviously worse team winning, the Warriors accepted defeat with grace. Meanwhile, the Nuggets took to Twitter to call Warriors fans several slurs that cannot be printed here.