You invented a ‘direct participant’ criterion which appeared nowhere in the other dumbass’s definition of gambling.
Then you somehow misapplied your own invention.
Then to cap it off you said a youth baseball tournament doesn’t count as games.
When I was giving you the benefit of the doubt, I assumed you meant to type, “[A]nd thus don’t count as gambling,” which would almost make sense, but you just confirmed that you meant a collection of baseball games do not count as games. That’s certified brain genius stuff right there.
But all of that is beside the point. The goofball who pitted a thread he didn’t read gave some criteria which he believes define gambling. I replied that by those criteria there are lots of things that are obviously not gambling, that would be categorized as gambling.
Then you came along with some version of, “If things were different, things would be different,” and somehow fucked that up which is pretty impressive since it’s a tautology.
You should now.