Thursday, I was participating in a competition by a technology company that had a quiz bowl event. The final game was 4-team game. Naturally, I was in it. The scoring was: 1st half: 10 tossups, +5/-0/-5 negs. 2nd half: 10 tossup/bonusses, +5/-0/-5 tossups, +9/-0 bonii. The important rule was that only one could team could give an answer for a question (if they missed, no one else could try to answer). Going into the last question, my team was up 20-14, with the other 2 teams immaterial. So what I decided to do was to interrupt, make a decent guess, and if I got it wrong, we still win because our score would only drop to 15, with no one else being able to answer. I don't think anyone actually could've gotten the question right, but after I admitted that that was what I had done, the organizers decided to do one more final question (although they did not restore the 5 points to us), which was immaterial, and so we won 15-14. My question is, was this a legitimate strategy or was this unsportsmanlike? I've been pummeling my brain for the answer to this question, and I still sort've feel bad about it. Comments welcomed. Patrick King __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com
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