[thecavemaster]

And your point is?????

My point is simply that which is stated: if I take
a group of players to a tournament, go onto the
floor and find no opponent, so on and so forth,
at the end, am declared the "winner"... go home
and put in the paper and announce at school that
my team won the championship in our division...
I have been somewhat less than forthcoming if I
do not add that no other teams were competing.
That's the only point. It doesn't mean my team
did not work hard. it doesn't mean my team is not
talented. It doesn't mean my team is not athletic.
It simply means we won a division in which we were
the only competitor, which isn't actually winning,
it seems to me. Competition requires competitiors,
doesn't it?