Major Games Closing Ceremonies:What's the Point?

Thought they may have been a knees up for all the background people to let their hair down

Gives them chance to do a headcount to confirm how many athletes have gone missing.

rather than close them you,d have thought they,d have kept them open till most people had realised they were on, I,m an avid sports fan and watched sport and sports docu,s for over 12 hrs today,but I managed mercifully to not watch a nano second of the commonwealth games from beginning to end