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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 08 December 2015 03:09:08PM 1 point [-]

My guess is that a sales tournament would be a sufficiently simulated environment that it would train skills similar to, but not the same as, those used in actual sales. It would also be optimized for dramatic contests, which isn't quite the same thing as real world sales.