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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
So, if Im understanding you correctly, something isnt a REAL sport because of the scoring system? Maybe I'm just misunderstanding what you're meaning  |
Then think of it this way. In football, baseball, basketball, rugby, the sports I'm saying are real sports, the only way to "rig" a sport so that someone is the winner or loser you would need to bribe the players.
In activities like gymnastics, freestyle moto-x, and figure skating, you could affect the entire outcome by bribing the judges. A person could have the performance of a lifetime, but that doesn't matter. The entire outcome is out of their hands. There's no game winning shot, there's no game winning save, there's no game winning anything. The participants have zero control over the end result.
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