[Ari]

"Right to lose" is interesting.
Losing is important for all sorts of reasons, one being that you know it was a challenge and you learn from challenges, and if something was learned then it really wasn't a loss. And that isn't just something cheesy to say but exactly how people get better.

4th place is a strange way of putting it, it was always handed out to us as 'honorable mention' which confused me when I discovered in some places 'honorable mention' actually means something.