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Originally Posted by James
A mistake in the announcing is different than a mistake in the score . . If a team wins a competition, and the anouncer gives the name of the wrong team by accident and then corrects . . . why would anyone want to send the wrong team also?
They didn't win.
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Thats not the point though. The point is that its not fair on the people who really get in and put the effort in, get told that they won then get their spirits destroyed because either someone bungled while they were announcing or there was a miscount to begin with.
Lets put it into another perspective then. Say you were on an NFL team, you were one point behind and you had just kicked a goal that would have won you the entire competition for the season in the last minute of the game, though before the referee can award it, hes advised that there was an infringement in the play and he then decides that it should be dis-allowed, loosing you the game. Lets say that on video just after the game it was found out that the infringement was really a bungle by the linesmen, or in another case that the team that had beat you had been found to of had a player that was doping. How would you feel? At the very least I would say that you would feel very cheated.
What we are all getting at though James, is that even though sure, in some cases there has got to be an overall winner, for cases where there has been a mistake or bungle made by the officials that there should at least be some form of consellation awarded to the team or individual that has had their hopes/spirits dashed due to the official being a dumb-bell. After all, wheres the point in competing if your victory comes at someone else's loss at no fault of their own after being officially told that they had won then had their elation ripped out from under them?
Personally I wouldn't want to win that way, and it would feel degrading if I did.
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