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Originally Posted by Locke
I dont know why, but out of all of these scandals the fish one just seems scummiest to me.
Maybe because if the Chess guy cheated with an anal probe or whatever I could at least commend him for his dedication?
But the fishermen? That one just gets me the wrong way for some reason. And I dont fish, I dont care about fishing, the concept of competitive fishing seems ridiculous to me, so maybe the prospect of cheating at competitive fishing strikes me as insane?
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The thing with fishing is that it is almost completely luck. There are some things you can do to increase your chances. Know what kind of lure to use, in what habitat, and what kind of day increases your chances. As well as a general knowledge of fish and habitat biology can help you know where to find larger fish, but all these are things everyone else knows too. No one is discovering anything that everyone else doesn't already know, so it is basically luck.
I have no problem with luck driven competition, but it just makes cheating that much more ridiculous. No one is going to win all the time.
It reminds be of the bingo scandal that happened in the small town I used to live in. My friend's mom would always win, and people were like, how are you so good at bingo? As if there is a strategy involved. It eventually came out that her kid's father was the one calling the numbers and he would have people walk by to see what numbers she needed, and would then call out those numbers. Fixing it for her to win was his way of paying child support.