Blowout (sports)

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In sports, a blowout or rout is an easy or one-sided victory. [1] [2] It occurs when one athletic team or individual performer outscores another by a large margin or in such a fashion that the second team or individual has little chance of a victory. The term "blowout" is often used in reference to athletic competition, but it is used in other contexts such as electoral politics (see also the synonym landslide). [3] [4] [5]

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Ethics and sportsmanship

During blowouts, some coaches and players are challenged by the ethics and sportsmanship of the event. Some believe it is not appropriate to give full effort when winning by a blowout margin or to "run up the score". Others believe that in athletic competition one is supposed to give full effort at all times.

Continuing to give full effort, and especially running up the score, can lead to the losing team becoming angry or upset. Yelling, fights and players being removed from the game often take place when a team is being blown out because the losing team is frustrated and embarrassed. [6] During the portion of the game that is played after the outcome has been decided, which is known as garbage time, most teams rest many of their better players and play reserves who do not regularly play in their place. This keeps the regular players from getting injured and to have rest. It also gives the reserves a chance to get experience under game conditions. [7] During blowouts fans will often chant for their favorite reserve players to get playing time and cheer loudly when this player does well. [8] [9] [10]

However in some sports, maintaining a large margin of victory must be done in order to retain the lead in statistical tiebreaker computations for playoff contention, and in other sports such as baseball, a strong inning or comeback win by the trailing team is always possible in pressure situations, due to the non-timed nature of the sport.

Notable blowouts

Some of the most one-sided sporting victories are given below:

American football

College football

NFL

International

Association football

Club (men)

International (men)

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A bar chart contextualising Bhutan's defeat against Kuwait amidst the largest margins of victory in international football since 1997.

International (women)

Australian rules football

AFL

Baseball

Major League Baseball

Basketball

NBA

Olympic Games

  • During the 1976 Summer Olympics, UPI described a 129–63 victory by the Soviet Union over Japan in men's basketball as "the most one-sided blowout of the current Olympic competition.". [25]
  • In the highest scoring performance by any team in Olympic history, the U.S. men's basketball team beat Nigeria 156–73 in the 2012 Olympics. [26]

Beach soccer

Canadian football

CFL

  • On 24 August 1959, the Edmonton Eskimos defeated the Saskatchewan Roughriders 55–0.
  • On 29 July 2017, the Calgary Stampeders defeated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 60–1.

IRFU/WIRFU

  • In the 1923 Grey Cup, Queen's University defeated the Regina Rugby Club 54–0.
  • In 1956, the Montreal Alouettes defeated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 82–14.

Cricket

Test format

  • In the fifth test of the 1938 Ashes Series, England defeated Australia by an innings and 579 runs. Winning the toss and choosing to bat first, England declared after scoring 903 runs for the loss of 7 wickets. In reply, Australia were bowled out for 201 runs in their first innings and 123 runs in their second innings. [29]

ODI format

  • In 2008, New Zealand defeated Ireland by 290 runs. New Zealand's opening pair James Marshall and Brendon McCullum put on a first wicket partnership of 274 runs and batted through 42.2 overs. New Zealand posted a total of 402 runs for the loss of 2 wickets and bowled out Ireland for 112 runs in 28.4 overs. [30]

Twenty20 format

Floorball

Men

Women

Formula 1

Futsal

Men

Women

Golf

PGA Tour

  • Three players have won PGA Tour matches by 16 strokes: J.D. Edgar at the 1919 Canadian Open; Joe Kirkwood Sr. at the 1924 Corpus Christi Open; and Bobby Locke at the 1948 Chicago Victory National Championship.
  • Tiger Woods has the largest margin of victory since 1950 with a 15-stroke win at the 2000 U.S. Open. [33]

Horse racing

Ice hockey

NHL

International (men)

International (women)

NASCAR

Rugby union

Tennis

Water polo

See also

Notes

  1. The blue bars highlight the Federated States of Micronesia national under-23 football team's performance in the 2015 Pacific Games; as of June 2016, the worst performance by any national representative team at an official event.
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