Re: i'm going to go ahead and say this right now
There are only a few people who I will believe the scores of without any real doubt. These are the people that I have seen progress through the game along with myself, and get better over time. Furthermore, their scores have always been consistent to some extent.
The biggest reason that I have a hard time putting faith in the scores of the current big one handers here (Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss and Macgyver, I guess) is because I never saw them improve. My first sight of their scores was when they were already at a very high level of play. And I know, from personal experience, that building skill as a one hander is a very slow, gradual process - my biggest evidence for this is that both Kilga and I improved at practically the same rate for well over a year.
I understand that the Brag Board is a much harder place to make any sort of impact on now than it was back in the infancy of my SM days. The bar is simply much higher now than it was in the past, and thus it isn't unlikely that someone waited until they had substantial skill before posting. However, I have run into a lot of people that claimed to have substantial skill in the past after playing for only a few months, and that simply does not compute.
Oh, and I'm not calling BS on either Yesssssssssss or Macgyver. Both of them have always posted consistent scores, as far as I am aware. I just wouldn't bet anything important on the credibility of their scores.
There are only a few people who I will believe the scores of without any real doubt. These are the people that I have seen progress through the game along with myself, and get better over time. Furthermore, their scores have always been consistent to some extent.
The biggest reason that I have a hard time putting faith in the scores of the current big one handers here (Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss and Macgyver, I guess) is because I never saw them improve. My first sight of their scores was when they were already at a very high level of play. And I know, from personal experience, that building skill as a one hander is a very slow, gradual process - my biggest evidence for this is that both Kilga and I improved at practically the same rate for well over a year.
I understand that the Brag Board is a much harder place to make any sort of impact on now than it was back in the infancy of my SM days. The bar is simply much higher now than it was in the past, and thus it isn't unlikely that someone waited until they had substantial skill before posting. However, I have run into a lot of people that claimed to have substantial skill in the past after playing for only a few months, and that simply does not compute.
Oh, and I'm not calling BS on either Yesssssssssss or Macgyver. Both of them have always posted consistent scores, as far as I am aware. I just wouldn't bet anything important on the credibility of their scores.
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