As usual, the match at San Mamés was an entertaining, up-tempo contest of two contrasting styles.
In a contest of two equally poor teams, another kind of parity followed as Bolton, too, were denied by a goal-line clearance.
He then defeated Peter Dunn in a bout on 3 June, again on points, in a contest of four three-minute rounds.
This election was the first in which the incumbent, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, was term-limited, and the two-man race was a contest of two starkly different candidates.
Even the commonplace activity of house hunting leading up to this was the subject of considerable media attention; coverage of personal lives would be the norm in this contest of two "electrifying and polarizing figures".
Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas, the Acme Oyster reigning queen with 47 dozen in eight minutes, was concerned that the short form contest of five minutes, would not allow her to overtake competitors down the stretch, when her "economy of motion" technique (four oysters to a fork, a dozen downed in roughly 12 seconds) would propel her to victory.
Each contest consisted of three parts: a question-and-answer session, a talent showcase and a formalwear catwalk.
The CASMI 2016 contest consisted of three categories.
The duration of the contest consists of three rounds of two minutes each, with a one-minute rest period between rounds.
But a book and two television advertisements, backed by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group of anti-Kerry Vietnam veterans, contest four of these five medals.
It was also a contest of tongues: two mellifluous men, each striving to outdo the other in enunciating the high-flown melodies of Tolkien talk.
