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Recently, I participated in corporate challenge — it’s an event where companies get together and participate in a number of ‘sports’. I say sports in quotes because there’s a number of sports and different events such as team trivia, unknown challenge and more that I don’t think are considered sports (though please correct me if wrong).
The event that I participated in was badminton — it’s a team event where six people at least (three men and three women with one extra man and woman as extras) compete against other teams of at least six people in nine badminton games up to 15. Whichever side wins 5 games first wins and the scores are up to 15 — that is, whoever reaches 15 first wins that game (in badminton there are rules to win by 2 unless you reach 30 then it is whoever reaches 30 points first).
As we were playing the games, one of my teammates was cheering on and while this isn’t a post directed at him or to make him feel bad because I know his intentions were good, I was slightly bothered by the language that he was using. Every time our team won the point, he would cheer “great job” or “good shot”. That part didn’t bother me. Every time the other team won the point or we made a mistake somehow, he would cheer again but this time would say “bad luck” or “nice try”.
