Competition and Winning

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Competition and Winning

• By
• Samantha Walter
• Tyler Bruening
• Brad Joniec

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Competition

• is any occasion on which a winner is selected
  from among two or more contestants (i.e., persons
  who are striving in opposition to one another)

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Winning

• is the act of achieving victory or finishing
  first among all other contestants
• Winning isnt everything, its the only thing.

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Winning cont

• Losing is equated with nothing and hence has no
  value
• Health, social and psychological benefits, even
  financial benefits are lost

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How you played the game

• Grantland Rice, American sportswriter author
  composed this poem.
• When that One Great Scorer comes,
• To write against your name,
• He marks not that you won or lost,
• But how you played the game.

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How you played the game cont

• Spirit of the rules assumes a more central
  position.
• Victory is related to a secondary position
  replaced by a greater concern for how one behaves.

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Concepts of Competition

• Winning is EVERYTHING!
• Benefits of sport are disregarded
• Health, social, psychological
• How you played the game
• Directed to process of how the game is played
• Victory is secondary

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Concepts Cont.

• Mutual quest for excellence
• Excellence is to be attained through the response
  to challenges created by an opponent.
• Can these three concepts find a balance?
• Is the mutual quest for excellence the most
  important concept?

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Ethical Sport Principles

• Promise keeping
• Respect for persons
• Responsibility and/or Duty
• Balance

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Promise keeping

• The Function of Rules
• Constitutive Rules- Regulations, what you can and
  can not do, how the playing surface must be, how
  long the contest lasts.
• Proscriptive Rules- Certain behaviors, Example, a
  keeper is only allowed to touch the ball in a
  certain area, no other players may touch the ball
  in the playing area.

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Promise Keeping cont

• Two Presumptions
• You know the rules of the game, if you do not
  then you cant play the game.
• By taking up a position on the field of play an
  athlete signifies their agreement to abide by the
  rules.

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Athlete

• People who play sports are called athletes

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• Rules of the game
• Winning is the only thing, anything done to
  ensure victory appears to be justified

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• Ways to view opponents?
• Obstacle to overcome
• Means to a end
• Enemy
• Partner or colleague
• Is violent behavior acceptable?
• relation to our opponent can be that mode of
  positive encounter.

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Responsibility and/or duty

• Responsibility
• Encompassing a set of tasks for which one is
  accountable
• Duty
• Things on is expected to do by virtue of having
  taken on a job or assumed some define office.
• Player has duty to obey rules

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Balance

• Refers to a state of equilibrium
• Sport is only one part of your life and you have
  to balance family, school, work, relationships
  and many more aspects of life.
• Investing to much time in to one can lead to
  disappointment and imbalance

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Vince Lombardi

• Winning isnt everything, its the only thing
• Rights Theory
• Playing to win does not void a persons natural
  rights
• Justice Theory
• Players are dissimilar in work ethic and talent
  (better players should win)