Quote Originally Posted by Rocky View Post
What's that if it's not a suggestion that the event organisers are conspiring with the judges to create a required outcome then?
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I'd say (purely in the McDonalds context) that it's a suggestion that no matter how scrupulously fair and well-run / judged the event was, and how deserving the winner, the more cynical elements of the viewing public would be very inclined to believe that something underhand went on. It implies nothing about actual conspiracy being the reality - the reverse, if anything.
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