system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Harry Potter] What was the point of the Triwizard Tournament’s first two tasks if the winner is decided entirely by whoever touches the cup first in the third task?
gpt
Spectacle, and advantage in the final task. And this way, they avoid the final task ever being rendered pointless. No matter how poorly a school does in the first two tasks, they *always* have a chance to win the tournament. If the tournament was decided by, say, the point totals of the three tasks, it would be possible to enter the third task with no possibility of success. 

Not fun for the participants, the schools *or* the audience.