[natmaka]

The ringer is a single low-ranked guy, and he tries hard to wake everybody up. The plan is to sabotage their sleep, in order to have them commit blunders during negotiations.

As each party does it we obtain a "mirrored balance of error".

[animationwill]

Wait, so is this fairly common knowledge or expected behavior?

I thought that the Ig Nobel Prize was for discovery of the evidence of something funny/interesting/unusual, not for common knowledge...

[natmaka]

I have no information about this story, my reply was an 'hypothetical proposition'.

If it is the true explanation, then the loop is looped as it seems funny and unusual to me. May I obtain some 'Ig/Ig' (Ig on Ig) prize?

[srtjstjsj]

It's not common knowledge if the rest of us didn't know.

[animationwill]

It can be local common knowledge to one country (like a tradition/custom) while not being common to another country