This is what happens when you remove actual competition and replace it with participation. When you remove rewards and honors and ranking. Their brains are looking for 'competition' and haven't had any during it's entire growth period. This creates a void that is usually filled with the Joy of Victory and the Agony of Defeat. They need to fill this void but were taught that this void is meant to be filled with unicorns and fairytales. Now, they need an outlet and with the sensitivity training they've received their brains are confused as how to express these feelings and what these feelings are actually about.

So, in essence, it's not their fault. They were created by our politically correct, feel good society.