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:''For the rule in trash tournaments, see [[laming]].''
<onlyinclude>A team or player is said to '''punt''' a [[category]] or categories if they strategically choose not to study it so they can perform better on the remainder of the [[distribution]]. This is almost always employed to avoid studying subjects considered more technical or boring, such as [[auditory fine arts]] or [[science]].</onlyinclude>

The term is an adaptation of the standard English meaning of punt as "to retreat from one's objective"<ref>[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/punt#Verb_2 punt]</ref> and shares a sense of "doing something seemingly bad in the hopes of obtaining a tactical advantage" with the standard context of punting the ball in football on the fourth down.

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Punt - Revision history

Kevin Wang: Created page with ":''For the rule in trash tournaments, see laming.'' A team or player is said to '''punt''' a category or categories if they strategically choose not to st..."