Again it doesn't matter. You're hung up on this idea of scoring individual effort in team events, that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about having absolute scoring of the whole, teams in team events individuals in individual events. Like I said already, the goal is an absolute way to say "yes these people were better at this today than those people". These people would be an entire team when aplicable, so you don't need an absolute way to score a member of a team when the team as a whole can be scored in absolutes.
Bottom line is training doesn't make it a sport, I went through a lot of training to be a QA engineer, it's not a sport. Difficulty doesn't make it a sport, there are many difficult things that aren't sports. Athletic ability doesn't make it a sport, there are many things that require athletic ability to do that no one is trying to make sports.
Absolute in arguable scoring systems make sports. Judged events are in their own continuum, competitions left to the whim of a faceless judging panel, they can never be sports because there's no absolute. As soon as your scoring system allows one non-participant to change the score because they didn't like how it looked you stop having a sport. Figure skating, gymanstics, ballroom dancing, all that X-Game crap, they aren't sports; they're judged competitions.