The document summarizes an annual rowing competition between the Malaysian and Japanese rowing teams. It describes how the Japanese team won the first race by 1 km, causing the Malaysian team to feel humiliated. In response, the Malaysian management vowed to win the next year and set up an expert think tank to analyze what went wrong. The experts discovered that the Malaysian team had 7 captains and only 1 rower, while the Japanese team had 7 rowers and 1 captain. Various recommendations were made to restructure the Malaysian team, but they continued to lose to the Japanese team in subsequent years. The management then proposed rule changes to guarantee a Malaysian victory.