Excuse me? How the hell do you know that? That is straight up wrong. Did you run the numbers, and if that race would have counted do you think all things would have transpired exactly the way they did throughout the rest of the regatta? Is that your thesis "It doesn't matter anyway"? That race sure did matter. Fact is, that race was HUGE in the standings at the time, and the order could have come out much differently in the end.