Please look at this sentence:

> あきらめたらそこで試合終了なので、最後まで頑張ります

How should I understand it? I tried to understand the meaning, and I think it
means, "if you abandon, the test will be over at once (which means that you
fail at the point where you choose to give up), so you need to insist on
studying hard until the last moment." Am I right? Or does it indicate another
meaning?
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Understanding 「あきらめたらそこで試合終了なので、最後まで頑張ります」
Nine times out of ten, this sentence is based on 「あきらめたら、そこで試合終了ですよ」, which is
a famous line from [_SLAM
DUNK_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slam_Dunk_\(manga\)), a manga series
featuring basketball:

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/l4fIP.jpg)

And the ["official" English translation](http://english-
cimic.hatenablog.com/entry/2014/06/13/155154) is "When you give up, that's
when the game is over."

This phrase is almost like a proverb, and used frequently at least by native
Japanese speakers, even when they're doing something not related to "games".
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