"Bald, you're sure to lose!"

"Silly, don't be arrogant first. Although you scored three goals, I also scored two goals. As long as I scored another goal, we will still tie!"

When the bald man and the black man were playing, they did not forget to let each other go, and the onlookers looked at the table with great enthusiasm, sometimes cheering for someone to score goals, and sometimes regretting that someone to lose the best opportunity.

The first billiards game in the history of the Magic World kicked off in this inconspicuous little bar.

The guests were full of interest in billiards, but Phil looked in a state of unbearable look. In Phil's opinion, the level of the bald man and the big black man was really bad, and it was really terrible. Some of the goals that seemed to be sure to score were aimed at the edge of various holes. Phil felt that if it were him, he would have beaten the two of them long ago.

"They are all beginners and can't ask for too much." Phil comforted himself.

After two geniuses pecked each other for 300 rounds, they finally decided to win. The black guy was better at it and scored the fifth goal first, winning the game.

"Hahaha, I won, I won! Prepare a bottle of champagne for me!" The big black man looked very excited after winning. He waved the club in his hand to celebrate with the familiar, but the bald man looked depressed and withdrew from the crowd in shame.

"Young Master, it seems we have lost a customer!" The voice of the old servant Harry sounded from the side.

Phil was a little surprised. He had no idea when the old servant Harry came to him. Harry continued, "That bald man lost, it's very shameless. I don't think he will have the face to come to our bar in the future."

After all, this is not the earth, and there has never been a sports competition in this magical world. People in this world are used to solving problems with fists. If they are not convinced and refuse to give in, then go to the arena to have a duel!

But if the guests regard sports competition as a duel, then the loser will really have no face to appear again. The bald man will not come to the bar again, and there will be only one customer missing from the bar. Instead, Phil is the person who suffered the most.

"It's time to establish correct values ​​again. Everyone needs to realize that this is just a game, not a duel." Thinking of this, Phil stood up, clapped his hands at everyone, signaled everyone to calm down, and then spoke:

"Everyone, we only have four tables here, but there are many people who want to play basketball. I believe that some people have been waiting for a long time but still haven't played the ball. I don't think so, so I compare the way I just did. Those who win can continue to stay on the table, and those who lose will come to replace the challenger. Of course, those who lose do not have to be discouraged. This is just a game, not a duel. You can continue to challenge, but you still need to queue up."

"Good idea, so I can play the ball, hey, the big guy who won the ball just now, I want to challenge you!"

"Old friend, how about we compete?"

"You have been occupying that table for a long time. Hurry up and compete with me. When I win you, get out of here immediately!"

There were seven or eight challengers at four pool tables, and the bald man who had lost before also returned and mixed in the crowd to watch the other people compete. The moments in front of the table became lively again.

Phil didn't bother to watch the roosters peck at each other, so he stepped aside. The old servant Harry came close to Phil without realizing it.

"Young Master, you are so smart. If more people participate, more people will lose. In this way, guests will not care about winning or losing, and we will not lose those guests who lost." Harry said flatteringly.

"In fact, it is a good thing to care about winning or losing. Only by being competitive can you make progress. But if you give up because of losing once, it will be too much of a loss. Failure will always make people grow. What's more, this is just a competitive game, not a life-and-death duel. Even if you lose, there are countless opportunities to start over." Phil explained slowly.

...

Phil set a set of rules for billiards. From this moment on, the newly born billiards in this magical world were given competitiveness and became sports.

The biggest difference between games and sports is not how much physical energy the participants need to consume, but whether they have competitive nature. A game, one person calls it "play", and two people compete with each other can be called "competition". Many competitive events in modern sports evolve from games. Games can kill time and bring happiness to people, but when competition is mixed in games, it becomes sports.

Sports was originally a modern word, and the history of modern sports was only more than a hundred years. In an era when modern sports had not yet formed a concept, all sports were regarded as a game.

For example, at the end of the 18th century, people played football games. Perhaps in the eyes of parents, those passionate teenagers who sweated on the football field were playing without doing their jobs. Football was simply a poison that poisoned young people and a cancer of society!

By the end of the 20th century, those teenagers who were squatting in Internet cafes became unemployed and played. Online games were poisons that poisoned young people and cancers of society! Playing football became a positive energy activity to improve physical fitness.

By the 21st century, online games also developed competitively and became e-sports. Therefore, online games became formal sports recognized by the General Administration of Sports. Famous e-sports players were very happy to count the money.

It can be said that competitive is the charm of sports. What attracts people is to compete. The decline in competitiveness will also lead to the sport becoming increasingly weak.

People always have a competitive mentality. Competition is the source of motivation for human progress. The competitive nature of sports just caters to the competitive mentality of human beings, allowing people to enjoy the joy of victory in competition.

Phil formulated the first set of rules for billiards, which also made billiards competitive. A large number of young and handsome boys in team-making "black" soon emerged in Phil's bar, and of course there were bald and greasy middle-aged and elderly people in team-making "black". They gathered at the only pool table and enjoyed the joy brought by sports.

...

Until the bar closed, there were still customers staying at the pool table and refused to leave.

Harry still appeared quietly beside Phil as before.

"Harry, when did you come? I was shocked!" Phil complained.

"Master, I've been standing here for more than a minute." Old Harry pointed to the pool tables and continued: "Master, we should close, but there are still many customers who are unwilling to leave. The last time I had such a good business was twenty years ago!"

"You can remember what happened twenty years ago so clearly?" Phil looked at Harry in surprise.

"Because that day was very special, that was the day you were born, and almost everyone in the town came here to celebrate you," Harry replied.

"It turns out that my birth brought good luck to the bar!" Phil said with a narcissistic look on his face.

"It has nothing to do with you. The master was so happy on the day you were born, so he announced that beer was free. The guests came for free. But I didn't expect that the people in the town had such a large amount of alcohol. That day we suffered a lot of losses and we didn't recover in the next year! Because I have never suffered so much loss, I still remember it fresh. To put it another way, your birth caused a big loss to the bar..." Old Harry murmured.

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Chapter completed!