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I suggest a better lesson to learn is to not join competitions in which the difference between a winner and a loser is measured in ridiculously small numbers.

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That just a measure of how accurate the judging process is. It's why FIFA are now going to experiment with goal line technology

Indeed. In many disciplines we would actually need multiple runs to find out who is best with some statistical significance.

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