When I play snakes and ladders with my kids we always stop in the 90s, same as checkers whenever a player has only one piece left. In connect 4 we stop at 3 in a row.
In all the games we shake hands and call it a draw. No way would I want my children to experience the emotions of winning and losing. They're far too fragile for that.
Thankfully they play in the league that Cowboy cited.
They think it's a silly rule but what do they know?
The only "sport" where the score doesn't matter is pro wrestling. so if these people are so foul up fired up about the score not counting, and for their kids to have fun without the pressures of winning and losing, well I hear Lance Storm runs a pretty good wrestling school in this city.
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
I don't know about you guys, but when I got into my teenage years where winning and losing meant something, I would both look forward to and dread those big games that we're almost all or nothing.
Part of you wanted to be the hero, you wanted your memory to include you getting mauled by your team mates, with your arms in the air and spotting your proud parents in the stands along with all of those other parents applauding you.
But at the same time you had that dread dream, where you couldn't make eye contact with your team mates, and the arena or the stadium was dead quit because you made that big mistake that cost your team the win, or the championship or whatever.
And I'm sure all of us have stories from both sides of the fence.
In hockey I didn't score many goals, but I remember scoring a championship winning goal.
I also remember a team that missed the playoffs because the good Captain put a beautiful pass right on the stick of the best player in the league to kill a comeback.
But I learned from both experiences. I learned when I won that you had to respect the win, and you had to be grateful for the win because they don't come everyday. I learned in losses that there were things that I could do better, and there was maybe that extra effort that was lacking.
But a day after the loss, just like the win, life went on.
I can't imagine a game without scores, it would be pointless and useless, and a little boring.
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Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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I don't know about you guys, but when I got into my teenage years where winning and losing meant something, I would both look forward to and dread those big games that we're almost all or nothing.
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But I learned from both experiences. I learned when I won that you had to respect the win, and you had to be grateful for the win because they don't come everyday. I learned in losses that there were things that I could do better, and there was maybe that extra effort that was lacking.
But a day after the loss, just like the win, life went on.
I can't imagine a game without scores, it would be pointless and useless, and a little boring.
you also learned these things as a teenager, when you were mature enough to deal with winning and losing games of such importance. They have no scoring in hockey until age 8. Then they keep score after that.
No one is taking scoring out forever, just until the kids are ready to actually play the sport and learn how to win and lose. What's the point of those lessons in bumblebee hockey when chance and luck have more to do with winning and losing at that level than skill and determination.
