The face of sport is great athletes either making themselves very slightly superhuman with damaging drug abuse, or, if they can, lying about their performance to make it look like they did the former. The same mechanics are why many sports not only have problems with doping, but organized doping rings that expend lots of time and energy on figuring out how to beat anti-doping tests. Schmooey's actions are explainable purely as a way for an otherwise amazing competitor to get their 'edge' by cheating 'just a little'. The search for an 'edge' - some split-second advantage to go from being effectively tied at #2 with 30 other competitors to being consistently #1 - leads competitors to do one of two things: Distinguishing competitors any further becomes impossible, with what is effectively random chance deciding (honest) winners. In many competitive sports, the top players will all plateau at nearly the same level of performance. Schmooey had been an active member of the community, and had even attended live events and played alongside fellow players like CarneyJared (whose exploits we featured last year). >What’s wild here is that Schmooey was a really good Guitar Hero player! This wasn’t a case of some kid sitting alone in his room faking his way to the top through video alone.
