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Fighters in Westeros enter tournaments of their own free will and directly benefit financially if they win. Fighters in Slaver’s Bay fighting pits are typically slaves who have no say in whether or not they fight, and their owners, not them, benefit financially. This has shifted somewhat with Dany’s change in policy, but Tyrion and Jorah’s experience shows that slaves still end up in the pits even after Dany says that’s no longer allowed.Tournaments in Westeros are regulated, include very specific types of events, and have codes of conduct, structure and organization. Slaver’s Bay fighting pits are a free-for-all.While fatalities do occur in Westerosi tournaments, they’re (usually) not the goal, whereas Slaver’s Bay pit fights are to the death.Westerosi tournaments generally don’t include pitting fighters against wild animals.Westerosi tournaments don’t include children (with extremely few exceptions, and there it’s the children who sneak into the tournament, as Barristan did as a child) or the elderly (against their will, anyway).Westerosi tournament participants as a rule wear armor (such that not being able to afford armor or not having armor means you don’t compete), whereas fighters in Slaver’s Bay pits traditionally don’t wear armor, specifically to up the violence quotient.

Here’s how the TSA completely broke the rules of probability, just on my behalf.A few weeks after 9/11, I was taking a trip around the US (for an international Magic the Gathering tournament, if it means anything to you).I was standing in line to board the airplane for an internal USA flight, when suddenly the TSA agents announce that they need to conduct a random check, and call out my name. What are the chances of that happening randomly? Around 1:100 (~100 other passengers were waiting in that line).Oh well, that’s luck for you. I went along, got checked quite thoroughly, and then boarded the airplane.A few days later, when I board another internal flight, I stand in line again… and again there’s a random check. Whose name comes up? You guessed it - it’s mine. What are the chances of that happening twice in a row? Around 1:10,000 (100 * 100).Two days later I board another flight. Another roll of the dice - and again I get called. That’s 1:1,000,000 - one to a million chance.Finally, at the very last flight back to Israel, I randomly get called yet again, out of freaking 300 passengers. Chances of all that happening randomly - 1:300,000,000, or 0.0000003%.So, at that last check I explained my calculations to the TSA agent checking me, and asked her how it is possible for such a result to happen on its own. She just looked at me, and said calmly -“There’s nothing strange about it. We break the rules of probability all the time.”But still, I’d really like to think they did it especially for me.

Undoubtedly, the captaincy swap between Sangakkara and Jayawardene in the 2012 T20 World Cup.Here's what happened in the match between Sri Lanka and England.Kumar Sangakkara turned up for the toss as Sri Lanka's stand-in skipper, with his official explanation being that Mahela Jayawardene did not want to captain, despite being in the team, because of his bad luck with the toss.Now here's the real reason why this was such a clever move.In the previous game against the West Indies, Jayawardene had been fined 20% of his match fee, for maintaining a slow over rate.What was really worrying him though was not the fine but the looming one-match ban that he faced if Sri Lanka once again failed to complete their 20 overs in the stipulated time period under his captaincy.But in one quick, clever move, Sri Lanka side-stepped the ICC rule, by making Sangakkara the stand-in captain.In the post match press conference, Jayawardene revealed the ploy had been thought out by team manager Charith Senanayake and that the team had verified the rules and consulted the ICC code of conduct before proceeding. "I'm sure they'll change the rules after this, but hopefully not in this tournament", he joked.