: Looking at last week's Halo Bulletin, I couldn't help but feel that
: StrongSide's overbearing win to get that truck was unfair. In addition to
: the fact that professional gamers have infinite advantages over even the
: most hardcore players, it also gives them an enormous boost to make it
: impossible to even shadow.

: Think about this--a casual gamer like me, I have a job, a girlfriend, a life
: away from Halo, and more importantly, porn. ;-)

: Hardcore gamers have the dedication(or insanity) to take days off work to
: participate in contests like these, or just to play. Neglecting said job,
: possibly same for the mate(or none at all), rarely a life outside
: Halo.....and I don't really know about the porn thing in their case.

: Professional gamers--their job and their lives is Halo. Girlfriend?
: Groupies. Outside lives? Refer to previous statement.

: Porn?

: ...their dick don't work.

: I'm joking! :-)

: But honestly, it's like Bill Gates hosting his richest people in the world
: contest...in like, Uganda or Haiti.

: If I had the money, I'd seriously buy this "Infinity Truck" and
: give it to someone more...well, maybe not "deserving", but
: someone who doesn't get opportunities like this every single day.

: And no, I don't mean me. I hate trucks. Would've loved to get the Walk-On for
: 5, but again, Job, life....and you guessed it!

: But anyway, I'd love to hear the responses on how ignorant/ass I'm being.
: Besides, I didn't rant today, so that's a good thing! :-)

Agreed with all of your post. I think the fact the Infinity Challenge was accumulated score based was what made me not bother. The pro players who live and breath halo and the kids with infinite spare time had the edge over me considering I work. I mean even if they where not very good if they can spend 16 hours a day playing, even if they only average a low score each match, the accumulated score will far outstrip mine.

I think the most elegant solution to this would have been averaging the players score rather than accumulating. That way a good player can get a high (perhaps truck winning) score with a few hours of playtime. Obviously they would need to enforce a minimum number of games played to avoid letting someone play one game and win because they fluked a high score.

If you had to play a minimum of 15 games but your leaderboard score was an average of how ever many you played, the (skilfully) good players would rise to the top without having to play a ton.