Lights on, Lights off

I'm getting a bit confused whether I should like or dislike light for the role it plays in the determination of the outcome of a contest or an election.

I still remember the Thomas Cup final at Jakarta between Malaysia and Indonesia in 1967.

The ebullient Indonesian fans tried to bring about a Malaysian defeat by making a din on the Malaysian serves, using flash photography at well-timed moments, and jeering loudly at Malaysian errors. Consequently, the Indonesian team nearly won the game unceremoniously due to their surreptitious act.

Luckily it was the swift and wise decision of the tournament referee, Mr. Herbert Scheele, who had halted the play and subsequently  IBF (BWF) had also made a ruling that the game was to be resumed in a third country, New Zealand, so as to minimize the repercussion of the crowd interference from the contending countries.

Indonesia protested at the decision and boycotted the game to give Malaysia a walkover with a 6-3 victory to win the trophy.

1967 Thomas Cup Badminton Final part 2 of 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IXEMXqCccA&list=PL4A0B67A7D0533588 )

1967 Thomas Cup Badminton Final part 1 of 2
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDlJsA-G1fs&list=PL4A0B67A7D0533588)

In another development, a blackout (lights turned off) for a few minutes was enough to turn the tables  for an apparent loser to emerge a victor in an important election; a feat which even David Copperfield would never have dreamed of performing.

~~ After the Turks went to the polls in a round of contentious local elections on Sunday, power outages forced some voting centers to count votes by candlelight. Accusations of election fraud ran rampant, especially in the closely-watched contest in the capital. In an attempt to ease voter worry, Turkey’s Energy Minister Taner Yıldız has now come forward with the culprit for the power cuts: a cat.

"I am not joking, friends," he said, according to the Agence France-Presse. "A cat walked into a transformer unit. That’s why there was a power cut. It’s not the first time this has happened. ~~

Turkish Official Blames Election Night Power Outages on a Cat

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/01/turkey-election-power-outages-cat_n_5068226.html

~~~ Even more disturbing stories of fraud tarnished the election night, including complaints from many areas that electricity blackouts were orchestrated during counting to allow BN to bring in boxes of votes and alter the outcome of several Federal and State seats.  This happened in several states where PR had been clearly leading.  In Lembah Pantai, the seat of Anwar Ibrahim’s daughter Nurul Izzah, residents took to the street to blockade police cars allegedly delivering fraudulent ballots to the counting booth, long after the polls had closed. ~~~   

(Malaysia’s 13th general election tarnished by fraud.)

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=14980 )

So my advice to you is " you don't play-play with light” as its source of illumination could create miracles and history that man alone could never have hoped to achieve.