Poll: Is It Wrong To Score Too Much?

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So recently, two girl's high school basketball teams played off against one another and one team barely crept ahead at the last second, leading to many laughs, and a meetup of the two teams at a local Pizza Hut afterward.

Oh wait, one team lost by 105 points.

Now the school that won is being criticized by the media as having been too rough on the opposing team.

Link: http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/108-3-girls-basketball-rout-raises-questions?urn=highschool-311327


So my question to you, do you feel that it is overkill to score this many points? Or do you believe that to the winner goes the spoils?



Discuss-amundo!

 

[RatRace123]

Oh boo hoo, the other team lost and lost bad, they can make any excuse they want, but at the end of the day they still lost.

They should just accept that.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

The winner has a right to the spoils....especially in sports the fact the people are upset shows poor sportsmanship.

 

[Drakmeire]

it's all part of the game. but Yikes I think the other team should have forfeit once they were down 50 points.

 

[Manicotti]

Yes, I think this is overkill. Funny how no one these days mentions that it's possible to be a sore winner, too. The whole "I want my team to live up to its fullest potential" is a bullshit argument, and the coach has to be some kind of overgrown high school jock to say that with a straight face while encouraging this kind of outcome and still pretend to be a role model of leadership for a bunch of kids.

 

[Flare Phoenix]

YES! You should be shunned and criticised for being better at something than someone else!!!!

Okay, sarcasm aside, it reminds me when you're playing a video game with a little kid and your parents are like "You should give him/her a chance" to which I usually reply "they have a controller, don't they?".

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Fuck that. The field of competition should not have to baby one side because they're not as good. You enter the field as equals, with victory finding the superior.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

No, its a competitive league and some girls have scouts watching. Its a varsity game, you don't sign up for those teams unless you're prepared to win and suffer losses.

In short, congratulations to the winners and I'm going to bet that the parents of the other team were the ones who are shouting unsportsmanlike conduct. They knew the other team was good, they were ill prepared walking into the game and they ended up getting blown out of the water. That should be a lesson to the other girls, work harder and you'll get better. Stop whining and hoping the winners will go easy on you, because honestly, that's an even bigger insult then getting beat badly.

 

[Reaper195]

Maybe the media should start up stories about the winning team having smaller breasts, leading them to victory. That would actually be a more interesting read.

In sports, there shouldn't be any rules when it comes to score counts. If a tem scores, it gets the deserved amount of points. Simply complaining that the winning team raped the other team proves that there is nothing more wrose to complain about in the world.

Also, maybe the losing team shouldn't have sucked?

 

[smearyllama]

Well, it is considered crude to engage in coitus extremely often...
Oh wait, you mean that definition.

OT: In robotics tournaments, we have a thing called ranking points. You get them for beating your opponents by as little as possible, as it encourages better sportsmanship and giving less experienced teams (we have 5th grade to high school competing) a chance to do well.

I think it's wrong to score way too much against an less experienced opponent, but more experienced opponents are more up to individual judgment.

 

[PrimoThePro]

Well, it is considered crude to engage in coitus extremely often...

Almost down to a tee of what I thought OP was talking about.
OT: No. No I do not. You win, and if they are that bad, win more.

 

[SirDoom]

It's a competitive game. The purpose is to score as many points as possible while keeping the other team from scoring points. This is a case of one team doing exactly what they're supposed to do.

All the people who complain have to realize that this isn't a game where everybody is a winner. There is no ribbon for 2nd place in a game with 2 teams. The thought of going easy on another team in this sport is the exact opposite of how you're supposed to think.

 

[Trivun]

Hell no. The way I see competitive sports is like this. If you're not in a competition, and are just playing for fun, then still try and win and take the game seriously, because it's not as much fun if you aren't giving it your all, and besides, the other team or players should have to earn their victory. But even then, take it as being something fun and enjoyable, and take it in good grace if you lose, because at the end of the day it's not important, it's just a game.

If you are in a competition or tournament of any kind, then do whatever you can within reason and the rules to win. But if you lose, take it gracefully and accept defeat, and still have fun playing. If you win, be a good sportsman and congratulate the loser for their efforts, and be graceful as a winner.

In this case, no-one likes a sore loser. When it comes to scoring points in something, why should you go easy on someone because you're already winning? If nothing else, it means the other players or team have to step up their game, and if they can see how bad they are then it gives them incentive to work harder and become better, so next time the score isn't quite as one-sided. I'd much rather someone beat me at a game or sport by a massive amount, if I'm enjoying playing and if it means I try harder next time, than the other person or team beat me by a little bit because they've gone easy on me. It doesn't do me any favours, nor them, and embarrasses me when I can't even win when they're going easy on me and giving me loads of chances.

 

[Krantos]

Mercy rule.

It exists in Baseball. I've never understood why it never carried over to the others. I'm not saying that the good team shouldn't play their best. What I'm saying is that when you get to the point when there is no realistic way the other team is going to come back, it's time to call the game. Why force the losing team to continue when there's no longer any way to win?

 

[burningdragoon]

On the one hand, at some point adding more points really stops adding to the accomplishment of winning and really it is poor sportsmanship to absolutely massacre an opponent.

On the other hand, it is a competition and "going easier" on the other team doesn't really benefit anyone. What are going to do, just pass the ball around for the rest of the game? That won't make the other team feel better anyway.

When you have that big of a lead is the time you start putting in your second string or try experimenting or something... though maybe they did do that.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

No. That's retarded. If no one broke the rules, then the losing team is to blame for the score just as much as the winning team. Maybe they didn't try hard enough, ever think of that?

This is probably the same people that banned tag in elementary schools. Oh yes. That happened.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2606557

 

[Manicotti]

Yes, I think this is overkill. Funny how no one these days mentions that it's possible to be a sore winner, too. The whole "I want my team to live up to its fullest potential" is a bullshit argument, and the coach has to be some kind of overgrown high school jock to say that with a straight face while encouraging this kind of outcome and still pretend to be a role model of leadership for a bunch of kids.

So what were they supposed to do? Stay on the court and do nothing while the other team caught up a bit? Not actually play?

Are either of those supposed to be worse than flagrantly and needlessly humiliating the other team when *everyone* watching already knew what the outcome would be? I think the element of fun would be pretty much lost within the entire event regardless of what happened next, but it shouldn't be too much to ask to give the other team some degree of dignity. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_rule] This isn't war, for fucks' sake.

 

[FoolKiller]

YES! You should be shunned and criticised for being better at something than someone else!!!!

Okay, sarcasm aside, it reminds me when you're playing a video game with a little kid and your parents are like "You should give him/her a chance" to which I usually reply "they have a controller, don't they?".

Wow. That is an excellent analogy. I see where the argument arises that beating on them badly doesn't help them or yourself improve any, but it is irrelevant.

And who knows, maybe that point differential in the game locks up home team advantage through playoffs. If you can score, do so. The only thing that would slow it down is for the coach to let the bench players get out and play some and I have a feeling that happened anyways.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

Yes, I think this is overkill. Funny how no one these days mentions that it's possible to be a sore winner, too. The whole "I want my team to live up to its fullest potential" is a bullshit argument, and the coach has to be some kind of overgrown high school jock to say that with a straight face while encouraging this kind of outcome and still pretend to be a role model of leadership for a bunch of kids.

So what were they supposed to do? Stay on the court and do nothing while the other team caught up a bit? Not actually play?

Are either of those supposed to be worse than flagrantly and needlessly humiliating the other team when *everyone* watching already knew what the outcome would be? I think the element of fun would be pretty much lost within the entire event regardless of what happened next, but it shouldn't be too much to ask to give the other team some degree of dignity. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_rule] This isn't war, for fucks' sake.

It would be more embarrassing to know that the other team toyed with you with everyone watching. Losing is one thing, scoring because a person pities you is another. Believe me, its better for them to know they lost to a team that gave it everything they had throughout the whole game then to lose to a team that stop caring half-way through. Plus, the Mercy Rule wouldn't affect scoring, just the clock, and I'm sure it was applied. If not, oh well, the district doesn't have it in the rule book. That is hardly the winning team's fault.