The defendant ski resort held a competition which involved two$-$person teams sliding down a mogulled portion of a steep hill in oversized inner tubes. The plaintiff entered the competition, signed the entry and waiver form without reading it$,$ and paid the entry fee. During the competition, the plaintiff suffered a neck injury in the second heat and was rendered a quadriplegic. He was visibly drunk at the start of the second heat and had suffered a cut above the eye in the first heat. Defendant personnel asked the plaintiff if he was in any condition to compete in the second heat but did nothing to dissuade him from doing so$.$ The resort manager also suggested that the plaintiff not continue the competition but took no further steps to restrain him when he insisted on competing.

Was the ski resort liable for the injury to the defendant? CASE Crocker v Sundance Northwest Resorts Ltd$,[\mathrm{1988}]1$ SCR $\mathrm{1186}$