Their actions are less tacky than what public school teachers typically demonstrate during class discussions. Critical thinking skills are taught as challenging your parents’ beliefs...never the teacher/professor’s beliefs.
This photo shows poor behavior but so is spitting on the ground. Perhaps they were disqualified in an effort to advance another team and is simply favoritism.
Well, in that case, then none of us here know the rest of the story. If there’s an untold story/back story to this, then maybe none of our comments make sense, if we don’t know how this entire event transpired.