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

"Winning is not everything".

This can be understood in 2 contexts.

1. For people who lost their game despite sincere efforts.

Here winning might relate directly to success. The team or individual is completely. Motivated to play hard. So loosing does not mean a great deal because such motivated. Teams and individuals are going to win someway near.

2. For situations where knocking down someone just means breaking a relationship.

In this context, you might win an argument and prove you are right but you lose. A valuable relationship in either of the contexts, the sentence is true.

Definitely, winning is not everything. Every experience in our life teaches us something to learn. Suppose, there is a task: There are a group of 20 people and the person who climbs the mountain first will get 20,000 cash. Now, all the 20 people can't win the game. But, all of them will make new friends, share each others stories and while climbing the mountain they may even get to see beautiful scenery. More than 20,000 all these are the moments we will remember life long that 20,000 might get done in 2 months. So, participating and enjoying things matter a lot more than winning.

Winning is not Everything. But the zeal to win make people learn better and the scores help them understand the improvements they are making. So be it a sports, curriculum activities or your academics, Competition and scores teach you to learn and improve. This helps in positive contribution in any real task that he/she must have to undertake in any point of time in her life.

Friends, with this note I would like to bring about one more view that no learning is a waste. The learning and effort put by you may come into effect at any instance or age till you live. So be Positive!

Hello everyone,

Yeah, we often say winning is not everything and we really mean it too. But we are participating in a competition, the goal is to give your best, to be on the top. How can we compare ourselves with our competitors without maintaining score? This is the one thing that keeps us pushing forward to work harder, to play more dedicated if we score lower than our opponents. The aim is to give your best shot and to get better and better every time. The moment you stop counting scores you are gonna lose your interest to play. So after everything winning doesn't matter.

Hello everyone according to me, assume life is like stairs or steps through which we have to pass if we reach up to certain level it doesn't mean you are win. If any one loss it doesn't mean you can't do any thing. If we learn from failure we can do better and better thing which is an not expected by any one. I can give example, everyone know sir Thomas Alva Edison invented bulb, before this invention he fails many time. Edison believe in his ideas and result is we are able to enjoy electricity. If we talk about score it is only system which is used to filter any candidate.

Yes, winning is not everything but it means a lot. I would like to say;

By keeping score, performance between the participating teams can be compared and analysed. It tells about the strength and weakness of a team.

By keeping score, there will always be an enthusiasm among the players to do better the every next time.

It also makes the game interesting, the players, as well as spectators, enjoy the games.

The Score system is one of the best criteria to award any deserving candidate/player.

And this is all how the scoring system keeps the spirit of games alive. Thanks.

We do not keep score for the sole purpose of deciding the winner. Scoring is used as a feedback mechanism.

In exams or sport, how do you know that a concept is wrong, a strategy is not working, a performance is not up to the mark if we are not keeping score? Scores help us to quantify our efforts, and help us achieve more and move more closely to the idea of perfection.

Of course this only applies when you are trying to enhance a skill, arts, sports etc. If your sole purpose of a activity is to have fun, like a friendly children game etc, keeping scores is unnecessary.

Games and sports are loved for their competition entertainment zeal and teamwork. A country like India where cricket is part of day to day life of people if scores will not be kept then there will be any competition as players will know that they are not going to loose team spirit will vanish there will be no entertainment and zeal as there will be no hustle and games and sports will lose their fan following and charm.

However, this is also right that winning isn't everything because by participating you at least learn every time. So scores do matter.

Thank you.

Winning isn't everything, which the subject of our discussion is, but it certainly is important. A great deal of exuberance enlightens our mind and soul when we end up on a winning note be it in sport, competitions or in any sphere of life. And scores add value to it. They keep an eye on the status of the players' performance. What if there is no concept of scores! There will be no competitiveness among the participants, also the spectators or the audience won't relish the proceedings of the game.

Bottomline, scores are essential for any sport!

Yes, winning is not everything but at the end of the day when we achieve something with a decent score it keeps us motivated. The will to work harder drives us which fetches better results in future. So we can say wining is one of the best possible way to decide where one's life is heading and one can also unleash their hidden potentials at times.

And when it comes to score it acts like a benchmark which helps in distinguishing between the meritorious and non-meritorious people. Basically, this is one parameter to decide between win and lose.