So his situation was to win the other group, but he might be too lazy to do the work. He would prefer not to do anything, and let other members in the group do all the work. When they asked him to do his work, he would do it as little as possible, enough for not being blame once the team lost the competition. That's how he got by. – More @Wikipedia
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