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The World of Competitive Gaming
cphilo wrote to mention an article in the AP about the world of competitive gaming. From the article: "Welcome to the basement lair of the 24-year-old Wendel, the man known and feared by aficionados of multiplayer games across the globe as 'Fatal1ty.' If you deign to think of video games as simply a childish pastime, consider this professional game player. He collects a six-figure salary, has his own brand of gaming merchandise and travels the world to compete - regarded by those in the know as one of the most gifted players of his kind."
Seeing how abusing bugs, short cuts and general lamer tactics will get you booted and/or banned from most organized gaming I can't agree with your statement.
There is a HUGE difference between knowing and using a map to it's full potential and exploiting bugs.
Bunny hopping is something I personally don't like but I don't see anything "cheat" worthy about it. Neither is spawn camping with a rocket launcher. It's just part of the game.
I'm sorry but when I read your collecting all the weapons before anyone else can get to them I actually laughed out load... quite hard too. The whole point of the game where there are many weapons is to limit the amount your opponent can get thus maximizing you potential to frag the hell out of 'em.
I think you're confusing PRO with NOOB. I've been in many MP servers in all kinds of games and it's the same crap all the time. Get pro's playing against each other and you'll see some of the best game play you could imagine.
(and trust me, they all do. It's become socially acceptable)
I don't and no it has not. Exploits get you banned, simple.
There are only 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that don't.
That if you go to this guys site http://www.fatal1ty.com/players/?players=f and click on his picture, and click on his record this is what you see for 2005:
--------2005-------
(1v1)
2nd - CPL Turkey Qualifier for Spain (PainkilleR) - Instanbul, Turkey
4th - CPL Turkey World Tour Stop (PainkilleR) - Instanbul, Turkey
6th - CPL Spain World Tour Stop (PainkilleR) - Barcelona, Spain
2nd - CPL Brazil World Tour Stop (PainkilleR) - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2nd - CPL Sweden World Tour Stop (PainkilleR) - Jonkoping, Sweden
Certainly better than I would do, but he is losing to people. Good, but I don't know how much of the talk about 'the best in the world' isn't just marketing and PR. Most stories like this that you see on AP newswire and the like are there because of PR firms. My bet is that we are seeing him now becuase Abit wants to make sure they are getting thier moneys worth from their deals with him.