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[–] GabrielBell12fi@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Counter point :- (not to do with American sports -- they are ridiculous)

imagine you're watching a quidditch game where one side has an overwhelmingly good set of chasers. I mean unbelievably good. Far better than the other side. Within five minutes they are 50 points up, and another 30 minutes later they are 250 points up. There is literally no chance of the other side catching them.

Do you really want to sit and watch that? It's like the Brazil - Germany game. After a while you would just be "Stop -- you are hurting them too much. It's getting embarrassing and we are all now going to leave because even the home team wants you to stop"

At least with the snitch it means there is a chance that it'll be evened out.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Conversely, literally every other game becomes meaningless. Catching the snitch gains SO many points. You could literally just play defense and snitch support, and never try and score.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 13 points 4 months ago

Remember you also have to catch the snitch to end the game. Otherwise it would just go forever

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