User blog comment:DE-Note/New Character?/@comment-24891101-20151024041808/@comment-24891101-20151024043935

Au contraire. While fights are not useful for such, the medium of a grand international event gives great opportunity to see how the world acts on a geopolitical level, and thus extrapolations can be made. We see the society in action, rather than in microcosm. That's priceless.