If Winning isn't everything, why do they Keep the Score?

Hi all,

'Winning is not everything'. But it is surely a lot of things. History remembers winners while the runner-ups are, more often than not, relegated to the category of 'also-rans'. No doubt, playing with your heart is by itself its biggest reward, but winning is like a STAMP OF AUTHORITY on your performance.

Now, coming to the habit of keeping scores-it can be best defined as a method of indirect motivation. On witnessing oneself falling behind the opponent in the scoreboard, the adrenaline kicks in and player is inspired to put the last ounce of his energy in the game.

Thus, in conclusion, winning may definitely not be everything, but score serves a bigger purpose- it reminds you that the game is still on.

According to me Winning and Losing are a part of life. We should treat them normally. Score is important just to bring about zeal and that feelings to achieve that score that feeling of having an ambition in life to reach that particular score. If there was no score system then what would you fight for or work for so hard. We give exams for iit's engineering, jobs etc. What do wait for ?we wait for a score.

If we get less we try to improve that score and if get more we get satisfied that my hard work paid off. Winning isn't everything because at times when we lose at one point in life we gain even more after that, so this score system just makes aware of our hard work and efficiency.

Thankyou. :).

No, well winning a match and keeping the score are two different things. Whenever you are playing, you play with an expectation of winning. Everyone plays for it. But the question is what if you don't win?

In every match, each player gives their best to make their team win. The competition is not only between the two team, it is between the players as an individual. As individual players need to improve their skills too by making more score than their previous one. The winning of a team doesn't depend on a single player but an individual winning definitely depends on their daily performance. And if there any lack of their performance they can learn from it and do better in their next match.

Hi everyone, score is to analyze and improve the performance not to only know winner or loser. Score is only the factor which holds the attention of people.

For example in case of Cricket, if winning will only be most important thing than none of the audience will watch the complete innings, audience will only check result of the match. On the other hand the players of losing team will not have the target to work-out for improvement in their performance.

Another example is, if students will get result in form of "pass" or "fail" they will not know about their rank or position in competition.

So, it is concluded that winning isn't everything but scores has a great importance.

I think winning is important for every individual. Any person who is not having the confidence that they are going to win makes them feel confident that they are going to achieve anything and everything in their life if they win.

Similarly if a person looses also they may learn a lesson from it and should not repeat the mistake again. But winning doesn't matters, one should learn some important concept and boost their knowledge.

So as to increase and to inculcate the habit of learning score is the most important thing which makes them feel satisfied and it gives an encouragement to gain more knowledge and they will also try to gain more and more knowledge in their future.

This is quite an interesting topic to discuss; I believe wining is very much important in every aspect whether it is School, Sport, Election, Job etc. Wining shows where you have stands.

Wining would be judge by report card, scores, voting, rating etc. So we always need to score higher and higher to get the medal of wining.

The feeling of wining is always different it boost our confidence level, energy etc. One should always need to be creed for wining but should be in a true manner and scores helps you improve yourself.

Sometime we would failed to achieve our goals but we need to try to win until we get success. Once achieve it also try to maintain it.

Hi friends.

The topic "if winning isn't everything, why do they keep the scores" is about two things mainly- winning and scores. According to my point of view winning is not so easy, to become winner one should know how he/she has to perform, how much more efforts he/she has to give, how many more steps he/she has to take, how long he/she has to survive etc. These can only be known if we know the score.

Score tells the way to become winner. Scores are necessary to know individual performance. We can identify the winner on the basis of scores only.

As water is necessary for life, in the similar way scores are necessary to become a winner.

Hi everyone.

The topic is " if winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?".

According to me, we humans have a mentality that until we are motivated with some internal or external source we generally don't put are 100% into that, similar is the case in score thing.

True! winning isn't everything but I feel score acts like a motivator for participants or competitors which puts them in stress for a while that in return helps in the betterment of their performance.

Undoubtedly what matters is participation but again at the end I would conclude by saying that scores actually enhances the enthusiasm and spark in the competition.

Hello friends,

According to this topic, winning is not everything, your participation and sincere efforts is what of utmost importance. If you think that by completing certain work in life, will notakr way for your goal. So, if you choose to not to work on that and wait for your type of work then it's wrong. If you choose to work on it, then you will gain experience of how to tackle problems, your weakness in certain areas. So it will improve knowledge that will help you to gain success in the work that is need to be achieved.

So, we always need to score or participate, although the winning or achieving it is not important to us.

A score is necessary because,

* It is used as a measure of the performance index.

According to My Opinion Winning is Not Permanent, and Failure is Not final So, Play a game To know your ability not to Judge your fate, People love winners.
So Everyone trying To Win, Failures teach you How to Win.
* It helps the player to compare their performance and encourages them to perform better.
* Awarding prizes and medals to the highest scorer motivates him and encourages other players.
* Prizes can be awarded only if the scoring system is there.
* In the absence of a scoring system no player will take the pain to perform better.