why is the most honorable player on my team referred to as part of 'their' team?
it should be the other team's most honorable player being referred to as that, but why is this dialogue also used for my team? https://ibb.co/mdkiza
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Their refers to the player mentioned
It's a general statement informing everyone of the fact. A neutral term. Seems appropriate to me.
Because the message is displayed in chat for both teams to see. Using a neutral statement makes sense
"Their" can be used as a neutral form to represent and function as both "his/her".
Also, it prints identically for both teams, it doesn't say "our team" when the mentioned player is on your team, as "their" works just as fine it's just from a 3rd person perspective.
Think of that announcement as something said by a referee.