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See also [[Instant Win Condition]] (and all of its varieties) for situations where points and scoring are not involved in determining who wins.
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* [[Katekyo Hitman Reborn|Katekyo Hitman Reborn's]] [[Tournament Arc|Ring Conflict Arc]] involved Tsuna and his Guardians battling the assassination group Varia for the [[MacGuffin|Half Vongola Rings]]. Whoever's side can claim the most completed rings (out of seven) wins. After [[Bad Boss|Xanxus]] succeeds in his [[Evil Plan]], he and Tsuna have a final battle with all of the rings at stake. Thus rendering the other fights entirely pointless.
** It doesn't end there. {{spoiler|Xanxus wins and gets all the rings. Then it turns out that he's Ninth's ''adopted'' son, and can't inherit the rings ''at all.'' Meaning '''''everything was completely pointless.'''''}}
** It gets even more stupid; The ''only'' ring that really mattered was the sky one - when he had that he was within his rights to end the conflict and have the heroes killed as the successor. It was only because he [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|sadistically wanted to see Tsuna's guardians beaten up]] that he didn't go through with that, and got to the stage where the ring rejected him during their fight. Yep, all the other 6 life and death fights where pointless, and they found this out after fight 2.
* An episode of ''[[Gintama (Manga)|Gintama]]'' revolved around a pet competition between Sadaharu and Elizabeth. After Elizabeth gains 1000 points over Sadaharu in the talent portion of the show, the host reveals that the final round -- a race to the finish -- would earn 20,000 points and the win. Katsura gets annoyed by this and demands the rules be changed to be more fair, but the race continues as planned. {{spoiler|Neither of them win, anyway.}}
** When questioned, the host admitted that the first part of the competition was a ratings booster.
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== Film ==
* Parodied in ''History Of The World - Part I''. When in a tight spot during a life-size game of chess played in a castle courtyard with people wearing costumes, the King executes "Royal Privelege" and declares that he gets three moves. After getting himself out of trouble, he loses interest in the game, declares his next move to be "Gang-bang the Queen!", and rushes onto the field. [[One
* In ''[[The Mighty Ducks (Film)|The Mighty Ducks]]'', the Ducks lose almost every game, forfeit one because the team revolts, then have a few [[Training Montage|Training Montages]] in time to sneak into the playoffs with a 2-11 record. Of course, they sweep through and win the Minnesota State Title. (Truth inTelevision, of course, in that State sport Championships ''are'' decided by the playoffs, not the season record.)
** Perhaps it was a case of Gordon's motivational speech holding too much weight:
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** Also each contestant got a different set of questions, so they'd just have to hope they get easier ones.
* On the British game show ''The Million Pound Drop'', to win anything at all, contestants must answer one final [[All or Nothing]] question correctly, picking from two choices. Picking the correct answer means they get to keep their winnings, while picking the incorrect answer means they leave empty-handed. The show has already seen a team lose £525,000 on the final question, and as of this writing, nobody on the show has won a single pound after 5 episodes.
** This has, unfortunately, transferred over to its American counterpart, ''Million Dollar Money Drop''. [[Fridge Logic|It makes you wonder why anybody bothers going on these shows]], [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|since an otherwise perfect game can be absolutely shattered]] [[All or Nothing|by a single question that]], [[Averted Trope|unlike]] [[Follow the Leader|other game shows of its ilk]], ''[[Serial Escalation|can't]] [[Harder Than Hard|even]] [[Fake Difficulty|be]] [[But Thou Must|opted]] [[Unwinnable By Design|out of]]''. [[Who Writes This Crap?|Seriously, who the hell thought of these rules?]]
* Averted in German game show ''Beat Raab'' (''Schlag den Raab''): A series of twelve contests (contender vs. the show's host), awarding one through 12 points. Thus, similar to the Eliminator, contestants have to judge when to put in the most effort, as giving all in the earlier contests might leave one too weak for the more rewarding ones.
* Parodied by one Japanese variety show, in a game where the celebrity guests were asked questions worth 1 point each. However, the final question was worth 1,000,000,000,000 points. The score at the end humorously showed the winner's score as 1,000,000,000,003 (give or take a point or two) squeezed into very narrow digits.
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* For that matter, Sandbagging works in every competitive weaponised racer. Stick around in second place waiting for a good homing weapon (you have three laps to bide your time), then blow up the number one with two seconds to spare and win the game. Somewhat averted in games with powerful backwards firing weapons.
* Multistage Payload Race maps in ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' (including Pipeline and Nightfall) work this way; if a team wins both of the first two rounds, they can still lose the third round and the game. While they are given a significant edge (their bomb stops up further in the last round), whether this is worth the effort to win those first two rounds is debatable.
* Parodied somewhat in ''[[Mother 3 (Video Game)|Mother 3]]'', when the player has to compete in three games in order to continue. As the third game begins, the host alerts you that the third game is worth enough to win everything, but the point of the whole thing is to [[Do Well,
* In the video game version of ''Scene It?'', the final round is completely broken. Some versions have the final round set to where getting a wrong answer takes away points from your score, and most recent versions have the point ''multiplier'', which doubles the amount of points you get ''each time'' for repeatedly answering correctly (2x, 4x, 8x, etc.)
* In ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]'', a player receives 50, 100 or 300 points for successfully tapping "hit markers" in time with the beat of a song, with more points for a more timely hit. However, you then get a multiplier to that score that depends on the number of markers you've hit in a row, which can get up to ''hundreds of times'' the original score. So markers early in a song are mainly only good for raising your combo numbers, and the actual score only makes a difference later on. Except for one thing - on higher difficulty levels, 50s and 100s give you next to no life, so you ''need'' 300s.
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