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After enjoying this video immensely, I got to wondering if this sort of thing has happened in other competitive games on a tournament level. Obviously it's more likely to occur in fighting games than other genres, given the quick nature of sets during pool play, but I'd be really interested to see similar situations in other types of games. If you know of any other videos of this kind of scrubtacular upset, please share them in this thread.
This is only possible in fighting games. In any type of competition level fps like CS or Quake twitch pixel accurate shooting abilities would negate any type of unorthodox playstyle even if that playstyle were to trip the better player up. The close distance between the players in a FG probably helps in that regard. Even a bad player is close enough to his opponent to perhaps win if he can throw his timing off enough.
This would also never happen in an rts or moba. Never. The skill ceiling in those games is enormous. It's just too high a hill to climb over an entire match for any truly bad player to overcome. I suppose the skill ceiling problem applies in fps games as well. The ability of players to twitch shoot someone almost instantly is just too much skill for a bad player to overcome.
Maybe a game like the COD games? Those games dont have a high skill ceiling and are only played competitively because of their sales numbers.