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Re:All eight women disqualified for throwing badminton matches by xcolour on Thursday August 02, 2012 @12:40AM (#4327293)
A bit off-topic, but my favorite example of incentives gone awry in sport occurred during the 1994 Caribbean Cup (football), which ultimately resulted in one team defending both goals while the other team tried to score in either. In this case, the rule that caused the chaos was recognized to be poorly thought out and replaced in later tournaments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados_v_Grenada_(1994)

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Re:All eight women disqualified for throwing badminton matches by nandemo on Thursday August 02, 2012 @04:38AM (#4327857)
Not only it's on-topic, it's even more amusing. At some point one of the teams was trying to score +1, but as the time passed it became safer to score -1 for a chance of +2 later; after deciding on scoring -1, the situation sort of reversed and the other team tried to score either +1 or -1.
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