Applying the materialist, deterministic conception of history of Montesquieu, I would say that 'it is not chance that rules the world. There are general causes, moral and physical, which act in every monarchy, elevating it, maintaining it or hurling it to the ground.' (Considerations on the causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline, 1734). Paraphrasing monarchy with National team, moral causes with total number of hours spent on Cav Gf and physical causes with quality of connection I would say that his analysis fits Cavalry Tournaments pretty well 
When I heard the learn’d Puccolomini,
When the quotes, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I, sitting, heard the Puccolomini, where he lectured with much applause in the FSE board,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air of cav GF, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
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