Settle a Bet, Please

[pete fabrizio]

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Whatever you obviously win this bet

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Actually I think it's obviously no bet, and not because of a hyper-technical interpretation of the language. This is basic fairness. If you accept an interpretation of this bet that allows OP to win when Sanjaya is told he's not in the bottom 3, but where no bottom 3 is announced, then he's on a total freeroll. Had Sanjaya been eliminated, there would have been no bet, so the other guy had no chance to win. This was exactly the same concern that motivated the negotiation in the first place, except in reverse. Fortunately, the language they adopted is fair in both directions, so why try to re-write it?