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This just in: Apparently every Chess and Go champion in the last millennia is younger than the game.
by mproud 8y ago
This just in: Apparently every Chess and Go champion in the last millennia is younger than the game.
- cableshaft 8y agoYeah right? I don't see why they felt the need to include 'older than he is' in the headline.
- dfxm12 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait
- CM30 8y agoSame goes for any LPer, speedrunner, eSports player or gamer involved in playing basically any video game before the last generation or so. Bet most Smash Bros Melee/GoldenEye/Ocarina of Time players aren't older than the games they're playing!
- smus 8y agoYou'd be surprised, the Melee scene is fairly old on average. I compete regularly and I'd be shocked if even 5% of the scene is younger than Melee.
- cjCamel 8y agoOP here. That isn't the title I submitted. Mine was pretty boring, but factual. Bit miffed that it has been changed to that (though I did forget the [video] tag). The original BBC headline was "Teenager beats Tetris champion at game old than he is", which I didn't like. I note they have now changed it to "Teenager beats man at Tetris to become world champion". tl;dr headlines about retro computer game championships are hard.