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by Retric 1370 days ago
That ultimately impacts one player if Hans gets in instead of them, or zero players if it doesn’t change the results.
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Talk about moving goal posts
“all the other players” vs 0 or 1 other players.
In addition to that one, very concrete impact, the situation may also have subtle effects. Players may be going into matches against Hans being down a point when they would have been tied, changing the psychology of their play style. Similarly, Hans may play more confidently being up a point. Even spending a single second thinking about the situation is an unnecessary impact forced on the other players by Magnus. Pretty unsportsmanlike.