How high can the ceiling reach at the international/world championship level? (For reference, here are some examples, based on my terrible attempt at classification - feel free to skip to poll) adventure & VN: Ace Attorney, Hitchhiker's, Myst board: backgammon, chess, othello, shogi card: bridge, Magic, Mahjong, poker, Yu-Gi-Oh! fighting: Smash Bros, Street Fighter, Tekken first-person shooter: CoD, CS, Doom, OW, Quake logic & puzzle: Bejeweled, Sobokan, Tetris open-world: GTA, Legend of Zelda, Minecraft programming: Codeforces, Leetcode, TopCoder racing & sports: FIFA, Madden, Need for Speed rhythm: Cytus, DDR, osu!, Rock Band, StepMania RPG: Diablo, Final Fantasy, Runescape, WoW simulation: Roller Coaster Tycoon, The Sims strategy: AoE, Civ, Dota, LoL, Red Alert, Starcraft third-person shooter: Fortnite, Tomb Raider, Touhou
I thought about comparing them by peak ELO/rating of the top players, although this is somewhat biased toward communities with larger populations. And normalized data is not always accessible.
Strategy is an odd grouping. RTS has the highest skill cap because there is no human cap. It’s impossible to play perfectly. Broodwar, in all its imperfections, is a perfect game.
Fighting or RTS
Where is Pokemon?
Starcraft 1 How can any game even compare in terms of top skill level? Every day we stray further from God’s light...