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Billy Mitchell stripped of Donkey Kong record

By viper001

5 years ago


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#70 5 years ago

This situation reminds me of the dust up in bowling a little over a decade ago. The USBC sanctioned not just one but TWO 900 series bowled by a teen bowler with no witnesses. He was prebowling by himself at his family’s lanes. He also claimed to have bowled a third 900 series, again by himself, for a different league but they didn’t sanction that one, and he told people he’d bowled two more in practice.

Mind you, this is the same league that still refuses to sanction Glenn Allison’s first-ever 900 series, bowled in front of a huge crowd, because the “oil pattern was too favorable” or something ridiculous like that.

The fallout was that the league allowed the two awards to stand, but changed the rules. The bowler went from getting 900’s and 300’s “regularly” to being a low ranked pro on the circuit once he could no longer bowl by himself with no witnesses.

I didn’t realize that the Donkey Kong records, etc, weren’t logged under more controlled conditions. I thought they’d all occurred during publicly monitored events. It’s a shame, bc much like the bowling example above, many people who legitimately earned their scores were overlooked bc of these fraudulent scores.

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