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I'm playing ball at a gym I've never played at before. Me and 5 of my friends are there, and this is the first time any of us has played there. We get there, and the game before we get on the court is played to 11. The next game is played to 11. The game after that is played to 11. Then we're playing against two new dudes that show up, apparently regulars. We hit a 2 to "win" the game, walk off the court, the new dudes say games here are to 12. They say if we were going to play to 11 we had to announce it before the game since they always play to 12 there.
My response was that we had no way to know what they usually played to, so why would me make an announcement when we assume we're following the norm? One of the dudes calls me an idiot, and I initially get in his face but say F it and walk away. (I'm a lawyer and can get disbarred for someone pressing charges against me. I could have easily bodied this dude. He was frail, I had 30 pounds on him and we were the same height). So we say F it and just play to 12, but our best player has to leave. We pick up a random scrub. They hit two 2s and win the game and jump around and start celebrating their "comeback". They maintain that they were right and we should have announced that games were to 11, although we had no way to know what games were played to and followed what was going on when we got there.
Who do you think won that game?
My response was that we had no way to know what they usually played to, so why would me make an announcement when we assume we're following the norm? One of the dudes calls me an idiot, and I initially get in his face but say F it and walk away. (I'm a lawyer and can get disbarred for someone pressing charges against me. I could have easily bodied this dude. He was frail, I had 30 pounds on him and we were the same height). So we say F it and just play to 12, but our best player has to leave. We pick up a random scrub. They hit two 2s and win the game and jump around and start celebrating their "comeback". They maintain that they were right and we should have announced that games were to 11, although we had no way to know what games were played to and followed what was going on when we got there.
Who do you think won that game?