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Thirteen lead changes, decided by one point: the live feed's wildest two days

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Duel's sports feed tracked 36,540 events across 66 sports in three days — and 1,261 of them changed leaders at least twice. Two stood out: a university basketball game that flipped 13 times, and BC Dubai vs Real Madrid, which ended 78–77.

National Chengchi University vs National Taiwan Sport University started 0–4 down, led 8–6 eleven minutes later, trailed 9–15, led 30–29, trailed 30–32 — all inside half an hour. It kept going for nearly two hours: 63–63, 65–66, 67–68, 69–70, 72–72, then 78–77 with six minutes left and 84–78 at the close. Thirteen times the lead changed hands, the most in three days of records.

Lead margin, Chengchi minus Taiwan Sport
Every score update we recorded, 11:47 to 13:42 UTC Sept 23. Above zero: Chengchi lead. Below: Taiwan Sport.
Chengchi lead margin

Decided by one

BC Dubai vs Real Madrid, September 24, needed fewer flips and cut it finer: eleven lead changes and a 78–77 final. Dubai opened 2–4 down, led by 8, trailed by 10 at 33–43, and the last twenty minutes went 65–66, 70–75, 73–77, then 78–77 with ten minutes left — which is where it stayed. The last snapshot of the game reads 78–77, third period.

Lead margin, Dubai minus Real Madrid
Every score update we recorded, 16:07 to 18:01 UTC Sept 24.
Dubai lead margin
Down 10 at 33–43. Final: 78–77. Eleven lead changes in under two hours.

354 to win

The biggest chase in the window belonged to Kerala vs Mumbai on September 24. Mumbai batted first and put up 354 by 14:13 UTC. Kerala's reply started at 14:49 at 5–354 and climbed all afternoon: 101–354, 204–354, 304–354 — and at 18:57:17 our records read 354–354, level, with no further updates in the window. What happened next isn't in our data, and we're not going to guess. But 349 runs in four hours is a chase whatever came after.

Elsewhere on the cricket board: England vs Sri Lanka finished 305–321, South Africa vs Australia 297–230, and India A vs Australia A ended 199–200 — one run in it.

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