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Originally Posted by m00g00
see thats what I thought too, but I mean how many people have achievements like theirs? I honestly don't know but it seems like they had their fair share of tournament victories in all around gaming. Obviously they're not the best in the world, but I'm sure they'd give you a run for your money
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Who in the cast would you consider as having a notable achievement? The only thing that really stands out is the guy who won the 2007 WCG SC in the US region, but that's somewhat dulled when you consider the fact that in 2007 the US didn't really field many serious players to begin with.
Everyone else besides that guy did absolutely nothing that was notable, at least nothing that even remotely justified some of the **** talk that was being thrown out. Lets review the the list -
1 guy who played in competition for a fighting game that the fighting game community sees as trash (as far as the real competitive fighting games go, he's not terrible by any means, but he's also no where near the level that people like Wong/Daigo/etc are at)
1 girl who's only claim to fame was being mediocore at guitar hero style games.
1 guy who played for mid level CS teams at best.
1 guy who went on a similar tv show in the past
4 women who have the honor of being in all girl clans that have never been remotely competitive in anything ever.
1 guy who was pretty good (not top but decent) at SC
1 guy who was able to beat the rest of his frat in Madden (lol)
1 guy who is a low level QA staffer
1 guy who played at a medium level on a league that's TWL caliber or worse (note - that's an insult given that TWL is basically garbage in every non tribes game).
In short, everyone they picked (with the exception of the SC guy), are people who are completely unknown in their respective communities. They didn't go out of their way to pick people with actual fame, rather they went for people that could fit certain images that they wanted on their show.
If the producers weren't concerned with getting the proper images/gender count ratio, they probably could have gotten a list of 12 people or so that were all mostly known and respected within their genres.