Proud of cheating??? (More of a rant than anything)

kittyhasclaws

Not cheating in the "cheating on your significant other" kind of cheating. Cheating as in competitions. I have a couple of friends who coach MMA, including Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. They have a younger girl (15) that has been training for four months and entered the Big Sky State Games in the beginner category- for people less than six months. She lost, which would be fine except the person she lost to cheated. She had been trained for over a year. This isn't a one time thing, either. This gym has been sandbagging for a while and boasting about it, and how proud they are of their achievements and of their fighters. But they're cheating. How can you be proud of an accomplishment that's not really an accomplishment? I can't wrap my head around it. I can't understand how you could feel good about your "win" record when you're not even competing at the right level. And there's no one to complain to because there's no real fight commission here, so even though they've been red flagged by other events, there are no repercussions for it it. It irks me to no end. How can people be so proud of cheating and also ENCOURAGE their fighters to keep up the cheating?