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Disqualification-Induced Victory

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Disqualification-Induced Victory	comment	So you got your typical Underdog story. The protagonist tries to compete in a competition. Sadly, despite his best efforts, he ends up being juuust behind the winning competitors during the first round, and he seems to have lost. With his hopes crushed, he is about to go back home... but what's that? One of the winners is revealed to have been cheating! This results in their disqualification... Since this leaves an empty space among the winners, and the protagonist was the closest behind them, he manages to get in after all! That lucky bastard! Shortly saying, this trope refers to any situation where a character or a team loses in a competition, but still manages to either win or get to the next round because of the winner or one of the winners getting disqualified. A less frequent variant involves the original winner being unable to compete due to sudden injury or sickness, allowing the protagonist to step in. A likely outcome of Cheaters Never Prosper. See also Underdogs Never Lose and Second Place Is for Winners. Related to We Win, Because You Didn't. Compare Ring Out, where you could be utterly dominating the match but then lose because you happen to get bonked outside the ring. As this is a Victory and Defeat Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. Examples
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_10731e54	comment	The WipEout series has this happen at the end of the 2206 FX300 League Championship featured in Wipeout Pure, when Australian-based racing team Triakis is stripped of their victory by the Anti-Gravity Racing Commission over their use of the reverse-inertia deceleration system—a technology that let their Lightning Bruiser of a craft go through corners more quickly than any other team. Instead, the AGRC awarded the victory to the second-place team, Japan's AG Systems.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_15dfca99	comment	Red Line: JP loses the qualification round for the titular Red Line race. However, when multiple qualifiers back out (due to the race being set on a Death World), JP qualifies due to popular vote.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_1858fe06	comment	During the space arc in Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), issue #129 Sonic is forced to compete in a race for the prize money with his spaceship on the line. Sonic ends up coming in second, but is granted the win when his opponent was found using an illegal rocket booster.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_1ad6e2b5	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, this happens to IV/Quattro in a flashback duel. When it was revealed that Shark had seen some of Quattro's cards before the finals, Shark is disqualified, given Quattro the win by default.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_1d417633	comment	In Monsters University, Mike and Sully join the Scare Games with Oozma Kappa. The first game is a race where you have to avoid poisonous sea urchins. Mike and Sully run ahead of the rest of the team, cross the finish line, and at first it seems that they have made second place... but then they're informed that the entire team has to cross the finish line for it to count, and the rest of Oozma Kappa arrives last. Since each game ends with the worst team getting kicked out, it seems that all is lost... but then it's revealed that one of the teams used a gel that rendered them immune to the urchins, resulting in their disqualification. Hence, Oozma Kappa manages to move on to the next round after all. In a Call-Forward, viewers who watched the original Monsters, Inc. will recognize the member of the disqualified team who gets used as an example as George Sanderson, the monster who continually got in trouble for bringing human items into the monster world by accident.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_1d880fd1	comment	Patlabor: The TV Series: Kanuka Clancy cleanly beats Isao Outa during Division 2's Labor qualifications, consisting of hand-to-hand combat between Labors. Outa is still selected to pilot Unit 2 despite his loss (not to mention being a blindly aggressive dumbass), because Labors use machine learning to adjust to their pilots' patterns in order to become more capable machines. Clancy is only going to be with them for six months (she's an NYPD officer practicing with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police in order to head up the NYPD's nascent Labor crimes squad), and it would be cost-prohibitive to train a Labor on her and then have to reset it and train it all over again for a new pilot when she leaves.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_2223d84d	comment	Bunk'd: In "Sore Lou-ser", Camp Kikiwaka is competing against rival Camp Champion in the Sportsmanship Game, which Kikiwaka always loses. When the two are tied for the final event, Matteo ends up forgoing the victory to save a bird's egg falling out of the tree; at first it seems Kikiwaka lost again, but when Barb tosses her egg down, it does not break, revealing she used a hard boiled one. Thus, Champion is disqualified and Kikiwaka wins for the first time.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_22665be6	comment	Fast & Furious has a variation. Braga needs another driver for a drug delivery and holds a street race to determine who gets the position. Brian and Dominic both enter to be that other driver with Dominic winning by running Brian off the road. Later, Brian gets one of Braga's regular drivers arrested on a trumped-up drug charge which sidelines him long enough for Braga to require that position to be filled as well. Since Brian finished second in the street race, he's chosen.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_22e533d6	comment	The Great British Bake Off: During Series 9, one baker messed up all three challenges during Danish Week, but advanced anyway because another baker blew off the theme and did French bakes for the signature and showstopper challenges.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: "Deep Space Homer" has NASA look for ordinary people to become astronauts, ending up with Homer and Barney. Barney by far outperforms Homer, but as soon as he drinks (what he thinks is) alcohol, he reverts to his previous state, leaving Homer the winner by default. We see the other side of the coin in "Lisa the Beauty Queen" where Lisa is crowned Little Miss Springfield note Lisa was first runner up and gets the title when the winner is hit by lightning, making her unable to "fulfill her duties" as Little Miss Springfield. The pageant's sponsor (Laramie Cigarettes) doesn't like her speaking out against smoking so they find a loophole: on the entry form where it says "Do not write in this space" Homer wrote "O.K." Lisa is disqualified and the title goes back to the original winner. Another episode has Duffman retire due to injury, so Duff Brewery runs a reality show where the winner becomes the new Duffman. At the end, it's down to Homer and a guy we've never seen before. The guy we've never seen before wins...until he takes off his shirt to change into the Duffman costume. It turns out that he has the logo of a rival brewery tattooed on his lower back and is disqualified. Homer is then crowned the winner. "Saddlesore Galactica" has Lisa and her school's band lose to the Ogdenville band because they use glowsticks to create an image of the American flag note They had played Stars & Stripes Forever, something Lisa was mocking them for and saying that this song would never get them to win because it was a cliche, while Springfield Elementary (thanks to her) played a rendition of James Brown's Living In America that had people dancing and giving an ovation. She thus starts to file complaints to increasingly higher levels, eventually reaching the President of the United States Bill Clinton himself, who shows up and says that their glowsticks were visual aids that were forbidden, resulting in the Ogdenville band being disqualified and Springfield Elementary winning. The lesson Lisa says this situation gave her is that if you whine and complain long and loud enough, someone will eventually get on your side.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_26ef42e7	comment	Happened the other way in Kevin & Kell. The school won the finals, thanks to Rudy getting the elk's shed antlers to make everyone think he got the elk. But they were stripped of their title when it was found out that their teammate Vin Vulpin used steroids.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_2717dc7e	comment	In Miss Congeniality, it's mentioned that Cathy Morningside, the pageant's director and a former Miss United States herself, was actually the first runner-up the year she competed. It just so happened that the winner "mysteriously" came down with food poisoning shortly thereafter, so the crown passed to her by default. Sure enough, she turns out to be the Big Bad.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_27831967	comment	In the tie-in book for Parks and Recreation, it was stated that Pawnee won a game against Eagleton due to the players on Eagleton side were on steroids.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_2a4eae79	comment	Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves has the results of the Icarus Rally, where Gusuke (an Acrophobic Bird piloting a gyrocopter) and his fiercest rival, Tsubakuro, are both the only ones who passes the finishing line, and at the precise same time. It seems like the Rally will end with two champions, but Seagrid made a last-minute change to the rules; as Gusuke is flying on a gyrocopter instead of his own wings, he is disqualified from the rally and Tsubakuro is the champion. Never mind there are no rules regarding gyrocopters prior to this - the rally have several other gyro-piloting contestants around.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_2a5cb601	comment	A related phenomenon occurs in the first The Mighty Ducks movie. They lose at least half of the games in the season, but due to a series of extreme coincidences (chief among them an entire team coming down with a serious illness and forfeiting their season) they make it to the playoffs.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_2da0a35e	comment	Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker: During the Monster Scout Tournament, Solitaire loses her temper after being called by her real name and attacks the Incarnus, causing Dr. Snap to disqualify her for hitting a monster. And since this was the final match, the Hero becomes the Champion by default.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_2dd4e959	comment	In The Superheroics of Haruhi Suzumiya, Bakugou grows increasingly angry during the elementary school sports festival as Midoriya and Haruhi continue to upstage him in every event. It gets to the point that during the relay run, he uses his Explosion Quirk to beat Midoriya to the finish line when he realizes he can't catch up to him just by running, but since Quirks aren't allowed during the competition, he's immediately disqualified and victory is awarded to Midoriya's team.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_2e61fd98	comment	Slugfest: Mrs. Finerty once won an Olympic swim race despite being ranked forty-ninth among the competitors. She credits much of her success to the original favorite getting sick and wearing a borrowed swimsuit that was two sizes too small and made her swim faster so she could get out of the tight garment faster. The Slugfest team loses the flag football tournament's final game by two points but get the trophy anyway after the rival team's quarterback confesses to being an ineligible player who lives outside of town limits.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_309df9ea	comment	Downplayed in Atop the Fourth Wall's "Contest Of Champions" Grand Finale. Linksano is able to reveal that Bandit Chief has been cheating the entire contest during his finals match with Linkara, thus Bandit Chief is disqualified. However, not only does Linkara want to give the audience a show, he doesn't want any doubt in Bandit Chief's mind that Linkara could beat him in a match, so he goads him back to finish their fight... er... Duel Monsters match.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_32396c80	comment	Kronk's New Groove: Birdie's team wins the first event of a competition because Kronk's is disqualified for not waiting for their turn to perform.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_334120fc	comment	Played for laughs in 8-Bit Theater when Fighter comes last in a drownball tournament (due to not drowning) but is still given first prize (due to being the only surviving participant).
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_35e50811	comment	One episode of Gravedale High had Frankentyke befriend a racehorse whose owner is desperate for a victory. However, they are unaware the owner's assistant is secretly working for the villains. During the deciding race, the horse starts to take victory with Frankentyke riding it. Then, the traitorous assistant reveals his duplicity by knocking another rider off of his horse and riding it to victory. As he's gloating over his win, Sid informs him that he's been disqualified for changing riders during a race.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_38edcffe	comment	The B Plot of one Empty Nest episode has Carol and Charlie entering a chili-cooking contest. Charlie wins with Carol taking second. During his victory speech, Charlie thanks the folks at Hormell. After revealing that he was using store bought chili instead of making it himself, Charlie's disqualified and Carol wins.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_39183bf2	comment	Drop Dead Gorgeous has this happen twice to protagonist Amber Atkins. Amber wins first runner-up in her local beauty pageant, but then gets to advance to the state competition when the winner dies in a fire. She then gets to advance to the national competition after the every other member of the competition gets food poisoning at the rehearsal lunch buffet, leaving her the winner by default.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_3b08dfc9	comment	A legal variant happens in Pillars of Eternity — once you've claimed your Player Headquarters, Caed Nua, and built it up enough a Lord Gathbin shows up and tries to claim by right of inheritance, leading to magistrates judging the case. They judge in favour of Lord Gathbin, which would force you to vacate Caed Nua or become an outlaw... except Gathbin throws a fit when the presiding magistrate mention a clause requesting you be fairly compensated for your work clearing out monsters and repairing the place and storms out of the office, forfeiting the judgement.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_3ba81aa2	comment	During the Cooking Fest arc in Toriko, Setsuno reveals that this is how she won the first ever festival. She was the runner up, but the victor, Joie, was disqualified after it was discovered he had broken several rules.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_3e8948f8	comment	In Spookley the Square Pumpkin, Big Tom and Little Tom are repeatedly disqualified in the 'Jack-a-Lympics' contest for using their vine to give them an unfair advantage, leaving third-place finisher Bobo, a vain female pumpkin, to win most of the events.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_42c05590	comment	In the Rocko's Modern Life episode "Gutter Balls", Ed's team gets their trophy revoked after he's caught disguising himself as his wife Beverly, causing the trophy to go to Rocko's team instead.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_44715363	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh!: Jounouchi/Joey both benefited from and fell victim to disqualifying victories during the Battle City Arc. His first finals battle against Rishid/Odion has both of them being knocked out by lightning summoned by Odion's fake Ra card, with Joey only winning because he wakes up first. Then, he actually technically wins his semi-finals duel with Marik, but passes out from the cumulative physical and psychic damage he endured during the match, before he can declare his winning move, causing Marik to be declared winner by default. Zigzagged with Leon Wilsonnote or so we think he is at the time: When Kaiba discovers that Ziegfried Lloyd is actually Ziegfried von Schroeder, he is about to disqualify the latter for entering under a false name, which would have given Leon the victory by default. However, between Kaiba promising his public a duel, and Kaiba wanting a chance to humiliate Ziegfried on camera, Kaiba duels against Ziegfried, and if Kaiba wins, the disqualification holds, but if Ziegfried wins, he can stay in the tournament. Kaiba wins, causing Leon to win the match by default. This almost happens in the Virtual Realm Arc. Noah discovers that Johnson has been cheating in his duel against Joey by manipulating the latter's luck-based cards. At this point, Noah is about to intervene and hand the victory to Joey, but the latter insists on playing out the rest of the duel fairly. In Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, this happens to IV/Quattro in a flashback duel. When it was revealed that Shark had seen some of Quattro's cards before the finals, Shark is disqualified, given Quattro the win by default.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_47e018ee	comment	Manchester University were named champions of the 2008-9 series of University Challenge after the winners of the final match, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge were disqualified for fielding an ineligible player. This atracted a lot of controversy, with accusations that at least two previous winning teams had also fielded ineligible players and the producers had known this at the time, that the rules were ambiguous at best, and that the player involved had questioned his own eligibility only for the producers to decide it was fine before changing their mind after the show aired. Even the Manchester team came out in support of their rivals, saying it was all a fuss over nothing and Corpus Christi's win should stand. Nevertheless the official record shows Manchester as champions for that series, giving them the joint record for most titles with four.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_483044b3	comment	In the Gunpla Artistic Cup at the end of Gundam Build Fighters Try, everyone is expecting Minato to win... not without good reason, as it honestly does look like his "Super Fumina" model took a lot of skill to build. However, Yuuma and his Lightning Zeta Gundam are announced as the winners. When Minato demands an explanation, Meijin Kawaguchi explains that Minato had not received Fumina's permission to use her likeness (evident in her reaction of shock/embarrassment/horror when she saw the model), thus he was disqualified.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_4c949405	comment	The Hair Bear Bunch: Botch wins a wrestling contest when the adversary who defeated him is disqualified for being a gorilla (the zoo's main gorilla Bananas).
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_51a94dc	comment	This is played with in Slap Shot. In the final game, one of the players for Charlestown starts doing a striptease in the second period of the game. Seeing this, a Syracuse player beings yelling at the head referee in anger, eventually punching the ref. The ref disqualifies Syracuse and gives Charlestown the title. What makes this trope played with is that Charlestown probably could have won the game fairly, seeing as how there were at least two periods left to play- but where would the fun be in that?
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_529ee66	comment	Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: In a "Sonic Sez" segment about wearing seatbelts, Sonic holds a race between Scratch and Edgar Eagle to determine who is the real Edgar Eagle. Scratch wins the race but gets disqualified for not wearing his seat belt, leaving the real Edgar Eagle, who does, the winner by default. Another "Sonic Sez" segment about cheating involves Dr. Robotnik and Dr. Quark racing each other. Sonic disqualifies them both for cheating; the former for throwing a Banana Peel in the latter's path, and the latter for tying the former's shoelaces together.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_5400d19	comment	The Raccoons: In "The Evergreen Election!", Bert Raccoon competes against Cyril Sneer to become mayor of the Evergreen Forest. When the votes are tallied up, it seems as if Bert has won. However, Mr. Willow, who was in charge of tallying up the votes, finds out that Bert received 5,001 fake votes and disqualifies him as a result, leaving Cyril as the winner by default. The trope is subverted, however, when Cyril finds out it was the Pigs who rigged the votes and drops out of the election feeling it was an unfair victory.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_544a27d2	comment	Robbie the Reindeer: Blitzen wins a race but runner-up Robbie is declared the winner once Blitzen is disqualified for racing while under the effect of drugs.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_57debcbc	comment	Hover Car Racer: After Jason loses a race to his rival Barnaby Becker, Sally discovers that Barnaby has placed a microwave emitter next to her supply of magneto drives, draining their power. Barnaby is disqualified, and Jason is declared the winner.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_5ae0b268	comment	At the tail end of August in 2014, Luscious Latasha ended "Brittany"'s two-year SCW Florida Women's title reign. Few people were happy with the ending due to Latasha's cheating, so when it was clear next year that Brittany wouldn't be staying with a now Spike TV lacking TNA, Southern Championship Wrestling declared the match a draw and put the belt back on Santana Garrett.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_5b15000	comment	A rare instance of an inverted Dusty Finish (the heel wins the title rather than simply not losing it) occurred in mid-1998 WCW — Chris Jericho and Dean Malenko wrestled for the vacant WCW Cruiserweight title at the Great American Bash, with Jericho winning by disqualification. While under normal rules titles aren't won by disqualification, the next night on Nitro, James J Dillon ruled that Jericho now held the title because a) the match was made to crown a new champion, and b) Jericho technically won the match.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_5b33829b	comment	In Nacho Libre, the winner of a battle royale wrestling match gets a title fight against champ Ramses. Nacho is the last man eliminated, with the victory going to Ramses' goon Silencio. When Silencio is injured the day before the match, Nacho gets to fight Ramses instead.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_5b8abe25	comment	Rusty and Co.: In a game of gnomish baseball*(it involves a lot more weapons), Stabs Doogan engineers a victory by inciting a general melee, which leaves her team penalized up the yin-yang but the other team disqualified due to heavy casualties. It also gets her incarcerated, but that's neither here nor there.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_5ce9e127	comment	In Pitch Perfect, the girls are able to progress to Nationals because the soloist of one of the qualifying groups is too young. This actually has small plot importance, because one of the Bellas, believing her professional career to be over at this point, went ahead with a throat surgery that altered her voice. Had they won the traditional way, she obviously would have postponed the surgery.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_607f6b7	comment	Inspector Gadget once had to enter an auto race to stop Dr. Claw from cheating his way to victory. Gadget's about to win when Claw converts the Madmobile into a jet and passes him that way. The announcer initially names Dr. Claw the winner, only to announce seconds later that Claw has been disqualified for leaving the ground and Gadget has won. Then, it's revealed that Gadget was taking part as part of the investigation and could not claim the prize. The official winner is someone else.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_6274f3e4	comment	MAD: In "Malcolm in the Middle Earth", Malcolm wins a science fair because he's the only entrant using actual science instead of magic.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_6514d25	comment	In the Action League NOW! episode, "Danger Society", The Action League challenge the Danger Society to see who can save the most victims when a school bus teeters over a TV antenna. The winners will officially become the town's newest superheroes, and the losers will have to leave town for good. Naturally, The Action League cower out when they see the situation. When they are waiting at a bus stop afterwards, the Danger Society land their helicopter in front of them to taunt them. However, they have landed their helicopter right in the path of an oncoming bus. The bus flattens them, and by technicality, the League is back in business.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_6910a104	comment	Ballerina: Once per day, one of the girls trying to get a role in the opera must leave the tests. FÃ©licie would be out during the first day if not for the fact one of the other girls got stuck while performing a move.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_6a4c8f1b	comment	In the manga remake of One-Punch Man and its anime adaptation, this is how Suiryu became champion of the Super Fight Tournament, and given that his opponent in the finals was title character Saitama himself, that was the only way he could've won, with the latter getting disqualified when his disguise as Charanko was blown off. He didn't like this to say the least, however.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons module OA6 Ronin Challenge. The first part of the adventure is the Komite, a martial arts tournament in which one or more PCs will participate. One possible opponent for the PCs is the NPC Awang Sophir. If Sophir defeats a PC, the Komite officials will discover that he was wearing an illegal magical earring that gave him an unfair advantage. Sophir will be ejected from the Komite and the PC will win by disqualification, allowing him to advance to the Championship rounds.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_6ad790db	comment	One challenge on Top Gear (US) had the guys buy cars from The '80s on a budget of five thousand dollars. Adam gets a Buick Grand National which normally commands fifteen thousand dollars. He wins the challenge, but is disqualified when Rutledge tells the judge that Adam cheated.
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Top Gear (US)	hasFeature	Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_6ad790db
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_6e657b27	comment	In Chris Benoit's final WCW match, he beat Sid Vicious for the vacant WCW title when Vicious tapped out to the Crossface; the next day Benoit quit WCW and less than a week later he showed up on WWE Raw. The official WCW position was that Benoit shouldn't have won because Vicious's leg was under the bottom rope when he tapped, so the hold should have been broken; ergo, Benoit's win was vacated. A week later Vicious beat Kevin Nash for the title.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_6f1dfbf0	comment	In the Myth Adventures short story "Myth Congeniality", Bunny enters an all-dimensions beauty pageant to win a prize her uncle wants. She's picked last out of all the contestants, but still wins because she's the only entry who wasn't caught cheating.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_7013cf88	comment	Apprentice Adept: Intentionally Invoked by the protagonist in the climax of Blue Adept. In the midst of of a dance competition with Red, Stile is losing badly, being unable to keep up with Red's pace due to his bad knees (which she knew about, since she was the one who injured them). With no way to win, Stile threw everything into a desperation Batman Gambit: Using self-hypnosis, he convinced himself he was dancing with his true love, Lady Blue. The shift in attitude from Teeth-Clenched Teamwork to passion and adoration was enough to throw Red (who Stile knew was a devout misandrist on top of wanting him personally dead), who stops dancing and starts attacking Stile, throwing the match.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_7168911a	comment	Booty Royale: Never Go Down Without a Fight!: Two in the Tournament Arc. In the opening round of the Tournament Arc, Kazakh wrestler Nasstaja Ibrahimov faces karateka Kujiraoka Mika, whom she easily TKO's despite Mika saying she'll win with her first punch. A couple chapters later, however, Ibrahimov ends up in the hospital because Mika punched one of her floating ribs into her left kidney as she was being thrown. She's forced to withdraw from the tournament, and Mika is allowed to advance to the second round in her place. Lampshaded by an unnamed audience member who complains, "What is this, Fist of the North Star?" In chapter 54, krav maga practitioner Naomi Shapiro attempts to cheat by mugging her first opponent, judoka Alevtina Guseva, in the bathroom before their match. Guseva turns the tables on her and carries Shapiro into the ring to expose it, and Shapiro is kicked out of the tournament and Guseva given the win by default.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_71825b20	comment	At the end of Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies, Cuthbert Ware-Armitage wins the Monte Carlo road rally. Then he gets arrested for smuggling when stolen jewels are discovered in one of his spare tires (a rare criminal act that wasn't his fault given how much he had cheated earlier - he had stolen the tire from the actual smugglers to replace one he had lost). So the trophy is then passed to the German team. Then they get arrested when the police recognize them as escaped convicts. So the trophy is then passed to the Italian team, who manage to not be disqualified for anything. This also applies to Thomas Scofeld, who had a bet with Ware-Armitage over who would do better in the race. Scofeld came in fourth, and only completed the race at all because members of the audience pushed his car across the finish line after he fell asleep at the wheel (thanks to having been drugged by Ware-Armitage), but since Ware-Armitage's showing had been downgraded from first to disqualified, Scofeld was upgraded from fourth to second and thus won the bet.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_73456d8a	comment	In Carnival Phantasm, Berserker defeated Caster in a tennis contest when Caster was distracted, yet he was disqualified for swinging too hard and hitting the wall, Illya even called him out for not understanding any rule.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_75149ccd	comment	X-Wing Series:: Competition towards the end of the Wraith selection process in Wraith Squadron is fierce. Jesmin Ackbar is initially signed up just as the unit's non-flying communications specialist (much to her dismay, having originally signed up in desperation to get a job that didn't involve being tied to a desk on account of nobody wanting to get Admiral Ackbar's niece killed), but then a competing Quarren candidate slaps her in a racially motivated incident.note The Quarren come from the same planet as the Mon Calamari, Dac, and are their traditional enemies. He's washed out of the unit and she's tapped to replace him on the flying roster.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_757cf125	comment	In the Rocket Power movie "Race Across New Zealand", Theodore McGill gets his win revoked after confessing to taking an out-of-bounds shortcut in the final race. His dad's win over Raymundo in the very first competition was also revoked for the same reason. In "New Squid on the Block", Maurice (who's still "The Squid" at the time) gets the puck stuck inside the Stimpletons' new mailbox and Lars, who's playing for the other team, tries to claim victory by forfeiture, claiming that, according to international rules, whoever loses the puck loses the game. Sam (who still didn't become the new Squid at the time) averts this by recovering the puck. In "The Great Sandcastle Race", a little girl wins a sandcastle contest for being the only entrant whose entry looks like a castle.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_75bd5686	comment	Shining Time Station: In "Dan's Big Race", the kids of the station participate in a bicycle race for charity. Before the race begins, Schemee loosens the bolts to Dan's bicycle, causing it to get damaged and Dan to hurt his leg, disqualifying him. Near the end of the episode, Schemee appears to have won the race, but when he celebrates his victory, a lug wrench falls out of his pocket, revealing to everyone in the station that he cheated to win. Schemee gets disqualified and Kara, who was in second place, ends up winning the race by default.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_79328e7	comment	Dick Dastardly is the confirmed winner of the Scavenger Scramble (Wacky Races #7, Gold Key) when Penelope Pitstop—who was first to the finish line—is disqualified for misinterpreting one of the items. The first item was a "real gone muffler," a beat-up exhaust pipe, but Penelope brought a crazy-colored scarf.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_7c038c18	comment	In the Phineas and Ferb episode "Robot Rodeo", Doofenshmirtz and the rest of the members of L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. participate in an inator building contest. After struggling to come up with an idea, Doofenshmirtz clouds the contest with a fog machine and releases the O.W.C.A. agents from their trap, causing them to destroy every inator except Doof's and his rival, Rodney's. Rodney clears the smoke with his inator, a giant fan, but Doofenshmirtz's inator is designed to destroy Rodney's inator, leaving him as the default winner.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_7dbde88b	comment	Drake & Josh: In "Peruvian Puff Pepper", Drake and Josh steal a secret salsa ingredient from Megan to use in their recipe for Salsa Fest; they win first, but then Megan asks what their secret is, causing them to reveal they used said pepper in the salsa. This soon results in them disqualified because the pepper is illegal in North America due to causing side effects like kidney failure and chapped lips, leaving Megan, who was in second, to win by default. Of course, this was her plan the whole time.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_7e41486c	comment	Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Ricky Bobby and The Rival Jean Girard wreck their NASCAR vehicles, and run into the finish line on foot. They are disqualified, and the win was given to the third place Cal Naughton, Jr, who up until that moment was always Bobby's underdog.note This is not how NASCAR would rule the finish in real life. In real life, since Ricky and Gerard had taken the white flag under green, they'd use video replay evidence to decide who finished first. And drivers aren't disqualified if they get out of their car to sprint to the finish line, as Carl Edwards did in April 2009 at Talladega; for which Edwards scored as the first car not on the lead lap
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_85555ea3	comment	In Day of the Tentacle, it is impossible to get Dead Cousin Ted to win the beauty contest unless you arrange for the defending champion to be disqualified for illness.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_88609c3d	comment	In Shaolin Soccer, this was what Team Evil was going for in the title match against the Shaolin monks - rather than try to score goals, they would injure enough players to force them to forfeit by not fielding enough players.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_8a08048e	comment	On Taskmaster, Phil Wang wins his first ever prize task this way, despite bringing in the least creative and interesting thing, when they are tasked with bringing in "the most surprisingly beautiful thing". Phil has the most Literal-Minded interpretation of the task and simply takes a photo of Grace Kelly for the beautiful part, and tapes it over the head of a jack-in-the-box for the surprising part. However, the other entries were Rhod's photo of Greg "looking fat" (for about the third time) which got 1 point, Kerry Godliman's artwork made from a placenta for 2, James Acaster's drawing of himself with "witch's tits and two penises got 3, and Jessica Knappet's sand under a microscope which got 4, Greg begrudgingly gives Phil the win of 5 points purely because he technically had the best "beautiful" and "surprising" thing... by virtue of having the only thing that could reasonably be described as beautiful and surprising:
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_8d4db1f8	comment	Cheating Death: Those That Lived: A rare undesired instance of this trope happens to Platinum as the seventh-ranked District 1 female tribute for the 44th Hunger Games, and she only ranks that high because thirteen girls ahead of her dropped out due to being disgusted by the events of the 43rd Hunger Games. All of the ten highest-ranking tributes are considered to be volunteers and Platinum has no desire to actually compete in the Hunger Games, but she's forced to when the six higher-ranking girls are all hospitalized, arrested, or get pregnant during the weeks leading up to the 44th Hunger Games (which Platinum only wins by a fluke).
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_8d7f29ec	comment	Glee: In the season 4 episode "Thanksgiving", Marley passes out during the performance at Sectionals because of her eating disorder. Because the rest of the glee club left the stage to check on her when she fainted, they are disqualified, allowing the Warblers to win (though, honestly, they probably would have lost anyway). However, in the season 4 episode "Sadie Hawkins", members of the New Directions discover that the Warblers (the team that had won at Sectionals) were using steroids, leading to their disqualification. This allows the New Directions to take their place at Regionals. (It should be noted that a third team competed at Sectionals and wasn't disqualified, so logically it should've been them and not New Directions advancing to Regionals. When this was brought up on Twitter, the writers responded with the MST3K Mantra.)
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_8da3aa83	comment	In Disney's Planes, Dusty competes in a test race deciding which planes will get into the big "Wings Around the Globe" race. Dusty manages to get to the sixth place, just below the winner planes. He comes back home depressed, but a day or so later, a guy arrives to tell him that one of the winner planes was using an illegal fuel, and therefore Dusty got in after all.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_8dc57206	comment	Another "Sonic Sez" segment about cheating involves Dr. Robotnik and Dr. Quark racing each other. Sonic disqualifies them both for cheating; the former for throwing a Banana Peel in the latter's path, and the latter for tying the former's shoelaces together.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_8df07aaf	comment	In the Peanuts special You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown, Marcie wins the last leg of the decathlon this way. Charlie Brown gets disqualified for running off the track while Freddie Fabulous and the Masked Marvel are both ejected for fighting.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_8e077a1	comment	Power Rangers Ninja Steel: In "Monkey Business", Calvin and Hayley are running for School Council President and the rules say that, as the position's current holder, Victor will keep it if both candidates are disqualified. He tries to make it seem like each candidate is sabotaging the other. It doesn't work but the two candidates leave the run and he gets to keep his presidency.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_8e2b9d52	comment	This can happen to you in Quest for Glory III. During the Fighter (or Paladin)'s Initiation Ceremony with the Simbani, there will be a point in which your rival Yesufu gets his leg stuck in a trap, allowing you the decision to help him up or ignore him. Doing the former will likely make you lose the contest, but despite you losing, Yesufu will give you the Drums of Magic anyway as the true test is really about supporting your friends and tribe. But if you ignore him, you appear to win the contest at first, but the Simbani will disqualify you (and make Yesufu the winner) in the end, as winning at the expense of another tribe member is not really winning.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_8fd3db0b	comment	In the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "The Stars at Night", the Cerritos and the new Texas-class automated ship Aledo are in a "Second Contact race" to see which of them can do the job faster. Despite all the efforts of the crew, the Aledo wins due to a delay caused by Tandi having to rescan a barren planet for possible microbial life forms, as per the Prime Directive. While Captain Freeman is dejected at the loss and the likely decommissioning of the entire California class in favor of the Texas class, she realizes that the Aledo didn't pause to perform the same scan, which means there must be a flaw in its programming and that, given how important the Prime Directive is, this flaw makes the class unfit for duty.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_91f9e376	comment	The film Cannonball sees one driver in the cross-country road race (the one in the Blazer) cheat by flying across the country. He claims victory, but can't find the bottle of champagne he planned to use to celebrate. His female companion says they must have left it on the plane while surrounded by reporters and race judges. With everybody else in the cast not arriving to the finish line because of accidents, arrests, being assassinated and "Cannonball" Buckman doing a Rage Quit right at the finish line in revenge for his friend Zippo being killed by cheaters, it's Jim and Maryann (the teens in the silver Corvette, dead last because they took Cannonball's fiancÃ©e to the hospital after she was caught in an accident) who get the prize.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_93b87ae5	comment	The Wild Thornberrys episode, "On The Right Track" has Eliza Thornberry enter a reindeer sled race to stop Kip O'Donnell from winning knowing his intention to cheat. Eliza manages to catch up to Kip and comes close to beating him. Kip's reindeer crosses the finish line first. However, as Kip is being awarded the first place medal and grand prize, Eliza notices that Kip's reindeer has solid round hooves instead of cloved hooves. She exposes Kip as a cheat by removing the antlers from his reindeer revealing it to be a racehorse. Kip is ultimately disqualified and the medal goes to Eliza.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_960062b7	comment	A variation in My Hero Academia. In the sports festival, Ojiro, Shoda, and Aoyama advance to the third round due to Shinso brainwashing them into joining his team. While Shinso's strategy was allowable, Ojiro and Shoda back out because they won't accept a victory they didn't earn. Midnight offers to allow team Kendo (made of Kendo, Tokage, Komori, and Yanagi) to send two of their members to replace them, as they were the next-place team, but they insist that team Tetsutetsu (made of Tetsutetsu, Shiozaki, Honenuki, and Awase) deserves the place more than they do (team Kendo was incapacitated halfway through the second round and only didn't lose all their points because Todoroki was moving too fast to grab all their headbands, whereas team Tetsutetsu was in third place until Shinso brainwashed them into giving him their points at the very end). Because of the six people ahead of them backing out, Tetsutetsu and Shiozaki advance to the third round.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_97abe183	comment	The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: In the episode "Maximum Hugh", during a parent/child competition, Jimmy uses technology to augment his dad's athletic skills and ends up disqualified.... but before that, his Rival-slash-not-girlfriend also gets disqualified because she used an Olympic-athlete aunt as a Super Ringer for her mom (though even she apparently didn't know it was her in disguise, either)... and then every other team admits to doing a disqualification-worthy fault at one point of the competition or another, leaving only Jimmy's Chew Toy friend Carl and his equally-unlucky dad (who were dead last) the winners by default. The episode "Jimmy For President" has Jimmy, Sheen, Libby, and Bolbi each running for School President. Jimmy, Sheen, and Libby end up having a three-way tie, and Carl is the only student who hasn't voted yet. He ends up confessing to Ms. Fowl that Cindy paid him to vote for Libby, Sheen blackmailed him with an embarrassing photo of him at Ike's slumber party, and Jimmy was playing the "Best Friend" card and using scantily clad women. Ms. Fowl disqualifies Libby for bribery, Sheen for blackmail, and Jimmy for operating a zeppelin on school premises without a permit (which had nothing to do with how he tried to win Carl over in particular), thus resulting in Bolbi being the School President by default. "Best in Show" begins with Jimmy entering Goddard in the Retroville pet show, and competing against Cindy, who enters Humphrey. Goddard appears to win the pet show at first, but Cindy points out that Goddard is a machine and technically not a live animal. This results in Goddard being disqualified and Humphrey winning by default.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_985ad25d	comment	Subverted and played straight at the same time in Dragon Ball Super. During the Tournament of Destroyers, after Frost eliminates both Goku and Piccolo, he is found out to have been using a weapon the whole time which is against the rules, disqualifying him and giving Piccolo the win. Goku is also allowed back into the tournament after Beerus finds proof that Frost used the weapon against him too. However, Vegeta insists on letting Frost's disqualification be revoked and Piccolo forfeit so that he gets a chance to fight Frost himself. Not only is this request given the okay, but Vegeta also allows Frost to use his weapon in their fight with no objections from Beerus or Champa.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_987ae286	comment	During the climactic tiebreaker race in Cars, Chick Hicks pushes The King off the racetrack, heavily damaging him. As a result, Lightning McQueen, who having understood a similar fate Doc Hudson went through when he was a racecar known as the Hudson Hornet, lets Chick cross the finish line first so he can help The King cross the finish line one last time. Chick is still given the Piston Cup, but because of both his dirty trick and Lightning's noble action, he is denied the Dinoco sponsorship, which is offered to Lightning instead, but he too turns it down in favor of learning the movie's moral.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_9a0cb5f4	comment	Bob's Burgers: In "The Millie-Churian Candidate", Henry Haber wins the election for class president by manipulating the other students. First, he convinces Millie Frock to enter, which leads to Louise trying (and failing) to help Jimmy Pesto Jr.'s campaign, causing him to drop out. Then Louise gets Millie disqualified by exposing her as crazy in front of the whole school, but gets herself disqualified in the process, leaving Henry as the only remaining candidate.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_9a1c99bf	comment	Pretty Face: An unintentional example. When Randoh enters an arm-wrestling tournament, he fully intends to forfeit the championship match so he can win 2nd place for the prize of tickets to hakodate, where Rina and her friends were originally intending to vacation. Upon winning the semi-finals, however (and startling/scaring everyone with the strength this "petite high school girl" displayed), he learns that his opponent has forfeited instead, meaning he wins the grand prize. Luckily this works out, though, because the grand prize is an even better trip to Okinawa.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_9b1333a5	comment	Top Gun: Prior to the film, USS Enterprise CAG Captain "Stinger" Johnson was going to send his top pilot Cougar and his RIO Merlin to the Fighter Weapons School, a.k.a. TOPGUN. However, during the opening sequence, Cougar has a panic attack when an opposing MiG-28 locks weapons on him in a mock dogfight. Protagonist Maverick talks him back to the carrier, against Stinger's orders to land due to low fuel. Cougar turns in his wings, and despite Stinger wanting to ground Maverick and Goose permanently, they're now his top crew so they get the TOPGUN slot. Towards the end of the film, Maverick is two points behind Iceman in the competition for the Top Gun trophy and raring to overtake him. Then Goose is killed in an accident, and Maverick hits the Despair Event Horizon and drops out of the program, meaning Iceman wins by default even though Viper allows Mav to graduate.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_9b20c46e	comment	In Lords and Ladies, Granny Weatherwax and Diamanda Tockley are engaging in a public contest of magic in which the object is to outstare the Sun, to determine which of them is the better witch. Granny, weakened by thinking that she is suffering from Sanity Slippage, is losing, when a toddler runs into the magic circle and is knocked down by the magic. Granny immediately goes to see if he is harmed while Diamanda takes no notice. To Diamanda's chagrin, the townsfolk declare Granny the winner because a true witch would not ignore a child in distress. Narration makes it clear this is an Invoked Trope...Nanny Ogg LURED the child into doing that.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_9b530c26	comment	Happened in one Archie Comic where Betty and Big Ethel compete against Veronica and Midge in beach volleyball game. Veronica has hired a scorekeeper, who unfairly calls several fouls on Betty's team, despite those girls playing well. The judge soon states he's ashamed to even give Veronica the trophy, soon Veronica belligerently starts yelling that she is the daughter of the head of Lodge Enterprises. Then the judge states that her father's company is sponsoring the game and is therefore disqualified. Betty and Big Ethel win the game.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_9d80bbcf	comment	One potential option for the third round in a competition in Pitax in Pathfinder: Kingmaker (where cheating is expected, and thus partially overlooked) is to play fair for your own part...but rig every other player so they go beyond the acceptable amount of cheating, leaving you to win by default. Notably, this is the hardest outcome of the three choices, as it involves a Trickery 50 check.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_9f343695	comment	Jeeves once again saves the day in the Jeeves and Wooster short story "The Purity of the Turf" by bribing everyone in a race who might do better than the contestant his boss bet on to cheat to win and then tipping off the referee so they'll be disqualified.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_a2c7e6ce	comment	Happened once or twice on Robot Wars: In a heat final between Pussycat and Scutter's Revenge, Pussycat hit the arena wall and its blade shattered on impact because it was a hardened steel one which was not allowed by the rules (the team had previously been using a different blade which had been having limited success, and had swapped it for an off-the-shelf one before the battle). Although Scutter's Revenge broke down shortly after, the judges intervened after the battle and ruled that Pussycat was disqualified for the breach of health and safety regulations, meaning Scutter's Revenge went through anyway. In the First World Championship, one of the American entrants, Mauler, was disqualified before it even got into the arena, because the producers realised too late that the British arena was not built for its flailing weapon and there was no way to contain it safely. There was no substitute available, so the other robot (Cerberus, representing Cyprus) went through automatically.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_a2e92ab	comment	In The Weird Al Show episode "The Competition", Al is nominated for "best children's show host", but he and another nominated host spend the episode sabotaging each others show, and they both lose to, as the award presenter says, "the only one who played by the rules", though it's never said what the rules are or what constitutes "playing fair".
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_ad8541c9	comment	Inverted in the ending of one Encyclopedia Brown story, where Encyclopedia believes that the runner-up in a language contest deliberately threw the last round (the question asked about a word with three pairs of letters in a row, and the girl in question referred to herself as a bookkeeper) because she accidentally broke the prize for first place, so she decided to deliberately try for second or third in order to get a working prize rather than the one she broke. When she's confronted with this, she admits the truth and cedes her own prize to the winner in place of the broken one.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_ae54c340	comment	Reign of the Seven Spellblades: Played for Drama in volume 9. At the climax of their match against Team Andrews, after her teammates Stacy and Fay are knocked out, Chela turns into elf form in desperation to winnote Stacy and Fay are in it to prove that their battle partnership as mage and half-werewolf is a worthwhile avenue of research so that her family will allow them to stay together as a couple. and defeats Rossi in nothing flat, only for her father to interrupt the match and order her to transform back, since he had previously ordered her not to use her Super Mode as a condition of letting her join her half-sister's team (because he's one of the judges and wants to avoid the appearance of favoritism). Chela tries to attack him in a rage and he knocks her out cold with an Offhand Backhand. Team Andrews are declared the winners by default, to the pleasure of nobody present, including the audience and themselves.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_b032dd79	comment	In Akeelah and the Bee, Akeelah would have been out in the very early stages of the qualifiers to get to the National Spelling Bee if her competitor's mother had not been caught mouthing him words.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_b2ac2311	comment	Peanuts: Charlie Brown's baseball team once had a two-game winning streak when the opposing teams could not arrive and had to forfeit.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_b323afdf	comment	On Forged in Fire one contestant is eliminated at the end of each challenge based on the quality of their work. However, each challenge has a set of parameters (usually blade length and width) that have to be adhered to avoid disqualification. So a bad quality blade that followed parameters will advance if one of the better quality blades did not follow parameters and was disqualified. If multiple blades are disqualified, a tiebreaker is used so only one person is eliminated each round. Blades can also be disqualified if during testing they have a 'catastrophic blade failure' ie. the blade breaks and it is unsafe to continue testing. In this situation the only thing that can save you from elimination is if another blade fails even worse. In one throwing knife challenge, a contestant had his knife break on the fifth throw. He was ready to leave the competition but then another contestant's blade broke after three throws. Then the last contestant's blade broke on the first throw and he was the one eliminated.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_ba4f9669	comment	My Way: Jun-shik wins a marathon against Tatsuo, but the Japanese authorities refuse to allow a Korean to beat their champion, and disqualify Jun-shik by accusing him of cheating. A disgusted Tatsuo refuses the award and walks away, while the Koreans start to riot, ending with Jun-shik and several others being forcibly enlisted in the Japanese army.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_bb50b512	comment	The original book The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest has this. The contest comes down to three participants: Homestar, Pom Pom and Strong Bad. Homestar discovers Strong Bad getting some extra help from The Cheat and leaves his position to expose him. This disqualifies Homestar and Strong Bad so Pom Pom wins by default. Two different versions then transpire: In the book, Pom Pom defies this by sharing the trophy he's awarded with Homestar. The tenth anniversary Animated Adaptation plays this straight. Homestar is shocked to discover he's been disqualified, and when he insists that Pom Pom share the trophy with him, Pom Pom outright refuses to do so.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_bc758ea9	comment	In the short, "Bleacher Bummer" from the Tiny Toon Adventures episode, "The Wacko World of Sports", Perfecto Prep's baseball team clobbers Acme Looniversity's in a game that Dizzy and Furrball are trying to sneak into. When Dizzy and Furrball get chased by Arnold, who is working as a security guard, they break the Perfectos' baseball bat, revealing they have been cheating using the "Magnet-in-the-bat" scam, resulting in them getting disqualified and Acme Looniversity's team winning the game by default.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants: In the episode, "Slimy Dancing", Squidward fails the audition for the Bikini Bottom dance contest, and thus goes in disguise by going inside SpongeBob and having his arms and legs stick out of him. Squidward has a cramp during his dance, but actually does manage to win, until SpongeBob blows his cover and it is revealed that the contest states that all dancers are not allowed to be assisted by a partner. It is also revealed that every other dancer in the contest is assisted by a partner, except for Patrick, who also has a cramp during his dance, thus Patrick wins the contest by default. "The Great Snail Race" also does this. After Gary crashes into a wall (due to overexertion caused by Spongebob's Training from Hell), Spongebob runs to his aid, automatically disqualifying him. Squidward's snail, Snelly stops just shy of the finish line and leaves the track to comfort Gary, disqualifying her. Therefore, the remaining racer, and winner, is Rocky, Patrick's pet rock (somehow crossing the finish line, no less). However, Patrick acknowledges Squidward's desire to win, so he gives him the trophy... which is engraved to Squidward Tortellini.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_be68ee29	comment	In regards to the Smash Ballot, Bayonetta was declared as the winner, but this was due to a rule of "realizable candidates". What this meant isn't exactly clear, as Nintendo has never clarified the rule, but the most general interpretation was this being characters who debuted in works other than video games, or third-party characters whose creators could not be negotiated with in a reasonable time period. While the exact results have never been made public, Masahiro Sakurai eventually revealed that the final DLC fighter for Ultimate, Sora, actually got the most votes in the ballot, but the developers needed much more time to negotiate the rights for him than for Bayonetta. It was also due to the ballot that three heavily requested characters, Simon Belmont, Ridley, and King K. Rool, were implemented at launch.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic season five episode, "Brotherhooves Social". Due to Applejack having to go out of town on a Friendship Mission, Big Mac offers to compete with Apple Bloom for the Sisterhooves Social...dressed in drag as cousin "Orchard Blossom". Eventually, it comes down to the final event, a simple race, and Big Mac and Apple Bloom manage to win. However they're disqualified, not because Big Mac was disguised (In fact, the judge even mentions that it wasn't necessary and would've allowed him to compete regardless of gender. Didn't help that pretty much nopony was falling for the ruse anyway) but because of generally poor sportsmanship on Mac's part due to getting a bit too competitive and practically rampaging through the track, which is not something they endorse. Thus Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo, who came in second, end up winning.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_c58e3dfc	comment	In the Martha Speaks episode, "Wagstaff Races", the neighborhood kids enter a green go-kart race. T.D. and Alice's wind-powered go-kart places just behind Ronald and Reginald, whose go-kart appears to be powered by a swimming goldfish, and who have been sabotaging the other racers' go-karts. This isn't what disqualifies them, though. What does disqualify them is that their car is revealed to be a disguised gas-powered lawnmower when they crash into a lamp post after arguing over who gets to drive the victory lap. T.D. and Alice win the trophy as a result.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_c63366f9	comment	The animated television series Undergrads was created from a pitch creator Pete Williams made as part of a contest MTV held, which he only won because, of the 15 competitors who entered, Williams was the only one who bothered to follow the instructions.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_c67a1218	comment	In The Legend of Dragoon, Dart is required by the story to make it to the final round of The Hero Competition. Should the player lose any of the matches, his opponent gets taken out of the competition for either cheating (i.e using poison) or something completely contrived (falling over or getting sick and being unable to fight).
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_cb3f37de	comment	In DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story: The Average Joe's have to win at least one game to qualify for the championships. However they suffer a humiliating defeat at the hands of some evil girlscouts. Fortunately, one of the scouts tests positive for steroids and beaver tranquillisers, so the Joe's win by default. Another scout walks up to the offending scout and shouts, "God damn you, Bernice!â€� at her for added effect. Near the end of the film, there's a downplayed example; when the main antagonist appears to have managed to hit Vince Vaughn's character and won... but luckily his foot was over the line, so it didn't count. Thus, the finals match goes to a tie-breaker round and Vaughnâ€™s character properly defeats the villain. The DVD comes with an alternative ending where this doesn't happen and there's a Downer Ending.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_d2bae484	comment	Happens all the time on The Amazing Race, where teams who come in last are saved from elimination due to another team incurring a penalty due to breaking a race rule. The only time this has affected a finale was in the second season of the Vietnam edition, where the team who checked in first received three ten-minute penalties, giving the win to the ladies who checked in second.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_d5cc132c	comment	In Surf's Up, Chicken Joe wins the surfing contest when antagonist Tank was attempting to push Chicken Joe in an attempt to wipe him out, but Cody interferes, causing both to enter the Boneyard, an out-of-bounds area for disqualification.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_d69208d2	comment	By the end of the Codename: Kids Next Door episode "Operation: E.L.E.C.T.I.O.N.S.", it seems that Nigel (Numbuh 1) won the election for fourth grade president until Wilson Woodrow tells him that he lied about him winning in order to escape detention hence disqualifying him, and that Eggbert Eggleston is the true winner.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_d8040caa	comment	Space Jam: Attempted by the bad guys. Marvin the Martian warns Michael Jordan that, without a fifth player on the court, they're disqualified. Seeing as the Monstars had just pulverized every last Loony Tune at that point and left only Jordan, Bugs, Lola and Daffy still standing, being disqualified meant everyone gets to be slaves of an intergalactic amusement park. Thankfully, Bill Murray shows up to save the day.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_d97e4fa5	comment	In the Main Story of Ensemble Stars!, Trickstar know that fine is superior to them in raw talent, so they try to win through a Victory by Endurance, teaming up with the other units to tire out the chronically ill Eichi until he can't perform at his best. Despite all of this, after they finally face off against him, fine are initially announced the winner - but shortly after, it's revealed that the two units actually received exactly the same number of votes. In the case of a tie, the rules state that the winner is decided by sudden death, but due to all of the performing he's done at this point, Eichi can barely stand. Physically incapable of continuing further, he forfeits, granting Trickstar the win.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_d9c7aae2	comment	Played with in Bring It On: the Toros don't score very well in the semi-finals (using a routine that's the exact duplicate of another squad's routine, which is normally grounds for disqualification) but because they're defending champions they get to go to the finals anyway.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_da79ff74	comment	Used in Tru Calling to save Tru's brother from the mob boss he owes a favor. The brother was working as a judge for a beauty pageant that the mobster's daughter was entered into and had to get the daughter to win, but his attempts were so obvious that he was fired, and she doesn't win until disqualification. He's only saved because the girl who won was the murderer of that episode.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_dad73e07	comment	In both the 1971 and 2005 adaptations of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, this trope gets a lucky twist. Charlie buys chocolate just to eat it after learning all five Golden Tickets have been found, but overhears people discussing the news that one of the winners actually forged his ticket...he promptly opens his chocolate wrap, discovering the real final Golden Ticket inside. Played with in that the final Golden Ticket was always waiting to be found; the "victory" was a result of finding the real ticket (as it was for the other four winners), not because someone was cheating.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_db404a1a	comment	This is a plot point in Kengan Omega in the showdown between Kengan Association vs. Purgatory. The matches are fought under the Purgatory rules, where fighters are disqualified if: 1) They kill their opponents, or 2) They fall out of the ring. Since the Kengan matches had no such rules, this puts their fighters in a disadvantage, and they've lost a number of matches despite overpowering their opponent due to those rules.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_dd0d2b1e	comment	In the climax of Bad Words, Guy invokes Loophole Abuse in order to give Chaitanya the win. The way he does this (purposely misspelling a word on Chaitanya's turn, fully expecting him to correct the error) ensures that, even if Guy didn't get disqualified, Chaitanya still would have won.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_dd5c054	comment	In Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1998), Rudolph competes in the Sleigh Race during the Junior Reindeer Games. However Arrow, determined to be chosen to be a Flyer, starts cheating by knocking some of the other competitors off course. He then taunts Rudolph by claiming that Zoey told him that she's only nice to Rudolph because she feels sorry for him, causing Rudolph's nose to light up and make Arrow and his elf driver crash into other competitors. Rudolph, along with his driver Doggle, wins the race, but is disqualified by the Elf Referee who saw what Rudolph's nose caused as cheating and makes Arrow winner instead much to the dismay of Rudolph's parents Blitzen and Mitzi, Zoey, Santa and Mrs. Claus.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_dde91ea5	comment	A Knight's Tale: William wins the second tournament in part because his archrival Count Adhemar forfeited a joust when he learned his opponent Sir Thomas Colville was really Prince Edward of England incognito. William proceeds to tilt at Edward anyway, winning the prince's respect and ultimately the tournament. However, he's still miffed that he didn't get a rematch against Adhemar, who had beaten him in the first tourney. During the Paris tournament, William starts losing on purpose because his Love Interest Lady Jocelyn told him to lose to prove that he loved her. This would have been a problem, except that none of the other competitors did particularly well, either, so after Jocelyn relents, William is able to win despite losing his first round of jousts.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner: The original book The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest has this. The contest comes down to three participants: Homestar, Pom Pom and Strong Bad. Homestar discovers Strong Bad getting some extra help from The Cheat and leaves his position to expose him. This disqualifies Homestar and Strong Bad so Pom Pom wins by default. Two different versions then transpire: In the book, Pom Pom defies this by sharing the trophy he's awarded with Homestar. The tenth anniversary Animated Adaptation plays this straight. Homestar is shocked to discover he's been disqualified, and when he insists that Pom Pom share the trophy with him, Pom Pom outright refuses to do so. The same occurs in "A Jumping Jack Contest" which is the original book redone with a different competition. This time, Pom Pom is the one who exposes Strong Bad's cheating, allowing Homestar to win the contest. Subverted in "Kick-a-Ball" where Homestar whispers Strong Sad's name to secretly get him on his team. Strong Bad points out that doing such is cheating and that Homestar should be disqualified for it making him the victor, only for Homestar to point out that such an action is legal in the rules (ironically written in by Strong Bad).
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_e7357d38	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_e7357d38	comment	In Beverly Cleary's Dear Mr. Henshaw, Leigh enters a writing contest that allows the winners to have lunch with a children's book writer. Leigh initially got an honorable mention prize, but it was soon revealed that the 2nd place winner had plagiarized her entry so she was removed, and Leigh essentially was bumped up to 3rd place and thus is allowed to go to the lunch.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_ec2531c4	comment	Coco: The runners-up at the Battle of the Bands end up taking first place after Miguel leaves after being betrayed last minute. Fortunately, they offer to sneak Miguel into Ernesto's tower so he can perform there after all.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_ee66462b	comment	Dr. STONE: This is ultimately how Senku ends up winning the Tournament Arc despite being one of the physically weakest contenders; his opponent passes out before the final round due to injuries received in previous fights.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_f12f9b66	comment	Wander over Yonder: "The Time Bomb" has Sylvia and Wander competing in the Galactic Conjunction 6000. Wander has to help Sylvia keep calm due to her competitive nature causing her to lose her temper, which earned her the nickname "Time Bomb". She gets second place but is glad that she was able to finish the race thanks to Wander's help. Until it's revealed that the winner got disqualified for cheating, giving Sylvia and Wander first place.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_f347b552	comment	In Sunday School Musical, Crossroads is pretty dismal as a choir. Fortunately for them, two of the three choirs will go to State competition and the third team developed food poisoning.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_f73ffcb8	comment	The player can do this in Hitman 2 in the mission "The Finish Line". One of the targets you must eliminate is a race car driver during her big race, and you can manipulate events to get her or her main rival disqualified, resulting in the other person's victory (both outcomes will open up new opportunities to assassinate her post-race). Notably, if the racers are left to their own devices, the rival will eventually win on his own, which means that disqualifying him is the only way your target can win the race.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_f8956ef3	comment	In YuYu Hakusho, this happens to Team Togoro's Karasu posthumously. While Kurama was able to kill Karasu at the end of their match, he wasn't able to break the 10-count before it happened. The result is a ring-out disqualification for Kurama and the match victory going to Karasu.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_fbffa409	comment	Miss Moon: Jules and Lola are declared the winners of a pedal boat tournament when the judge finds the motor on Kevin's boat.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_fc06747d	comment	Troop Beverly Hills: When Red Feather leader Velda breaks her ankle, her troop abandons her and finishes the race without her. They finish first, but get disqualified for leaving someone behind. The heroes comes in second, but they're declared the winners.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_fc5cca12	comment	Wishbone season one ep, "Bone of Arc," featured Sam joining on as a replacement for the local soccer team when one of their own is injured before a championship game and managing to score the winning point. However because she wasn't properly registered as a teammate, the head coach of the other team contests it and unfortunately the judges, while impressed at Sam's ability, are forced to disqualify her team and give the victory to their opponents. The protagonists are bummed for a bit but find solace in the fact that they did beat them fair and square through ability, that the opposing side only won through a technicality and will be more then ready for them next year.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_fd49dcff	comment	In Die Another Day, Miranda Frost got an Olympic silver medal for fencing, but was upgraded to gold when her opponent failed a drug test. The Big Bad, knowing Miranda hated the idea of being second best, rigged the drug test in exchange for Miranda becoming his Mole.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_fdbace96	comment	Gravity Falls: "The Stanchurian Candidate" episode centers on Grunkle Stan, Bud Gleeful and a number of other people being candidates for the new mayor of Gravity Falls. After a long and troubled election, Grunkle Stan manages to win due to impressing people with his heroic rescue of Mabel and Dipper (his great-niece and great-nephew)... but then loses when many of his past crimes are discovered, and the position is instead given to Tyler Cutebiker, aka "the only candidate who bothered to fill out the paperwork".
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_ff9ab17f	comment	A tragic version in Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Lower Decks". Best friends Lavelle and Sito are up for the same promotion. It goes to Lavelle, because Sito is killed in the line of duty. Unsurprisingly, he's less than thrilled.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_ff9ab17f	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: The Next Generation	hasFeature	Disqualification-Induced Victory / int_ff9ab17f

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Disqualification-Induced Victory	processingCategory2	Competition Index
Disqualification-Induced Victory	processingCategory2	Universal Tropes
Disqualification-Induced Victory	processingCategory2	Victory and Defeat
Kiratto Pri☆Chan / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Panyo Panyo Di Gi Charat / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Patlabor: The TV Series / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
REDLINE / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Samurai Pizza Cats / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Asterix (Comic Book) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
The Flash Sentry Chronicles / Fan Fic / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Ambition of the Red Princess (Fanfic) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Missing Linc (Fanfic) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Raise Your Voice Against Liars (Fanfic) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
The Turn (Fanfic) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Total Drama Pahkitew Island Reordered (Fanfic) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Twice Gleeful (Fanfic) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
A Knight's Tale / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Akeelah and the Bee / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Bring It On / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Cannonball / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Creed II / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Die Another Day / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Mortal Kombat (2021) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Nacho Libre / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Pitch Perfect / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Slap Shot / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Sunday School Musical / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
The Mercy / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
The Mighty Ducks / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Top Gun / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Troop Beverly Hills / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
TheRussianBadger (Lets Play) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Dirty Bertie / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Encyclopedia Brown / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Hundred / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Myth Adventures / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
The Boxcar Children / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
The Eminence in Shadow / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
X-Wing Series / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro (Manga) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Kengan Ashura (Manga) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Shoulder-a-Coffin Kuro (Manga) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Kalush (Music) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Bunk'd / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Diana Boss / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Drake & Josh / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Glee / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Good Luck Charlie / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Greek / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Justified / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Kenny vs. Spenny / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Nickelodeon GUTS / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Power Rangers Ninja Steel / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Sister Boniface Mysteries / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Soy Luna / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Street Outlaws / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Supermarket Sweep / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker (Video Game) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Hitman 2 (Video Game) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Space Rangers (Video Game) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People (Video Game) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
The Legend of Dragoon (Video Game) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Battle for Dream Island (Web Animation) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Turnabout Jackpot (Web Animation) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Masako X - Dragon Ball What-If (Web Video) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Minecraft Raven (Web Video) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
8-Bit Theater (Webcomic) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Furry Fight Chronicles (Webcomic) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
PepsiaPhobia (Webcomic) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Showderp (Website) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Ballerina / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Cars 3 / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Coco / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Disney Fairies / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Fairy Idol / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Hurricanes / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Kronk's New Groove / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
MAD / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Martha Speaks / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Monsters University / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Planes / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Power Players / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Rocket Power / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Spirit: Riding Free / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Spookley the Square Pumpkin / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Surf's Up / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Thomas & Friends: The Great Race / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Tiny Toon Adventures / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Brock Lesnar (Wrestling) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Elimination Chamber (Wrestling) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
John Cena (Wrestling) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
National Wrestling Alliance (Wrestling) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
Unforgiven (WWE) (Wrestling) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory
WWE Fastlane (Wrestling) / int_2d3d3e0c	type	Disqualification-Induced Victory

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