#WII SPORTS GOLF RECORD FULL#

There is no 'settings pages' on the system or the game to let you compare your performance to anyone else online. Wii Sports doesn't have any 'global leaderboard,' as Sacca claims. Reading this detailed explanation only set off more alarm bells in my head. вЂњIn fact,вЂќ he continued, вЂњon the Wii Tennis global leaderboard, I am currently tied for secondВ in the world.вЂќ While talking, he used his controller to navigate through the settings pages on the Wii to a list of high scores. IвЂ™ve played a fair amount of Wii Tennis before,вЂќ.

a touch of consolation' to his vanquished opponent: The key detail in Sacca's story comes next, when Kalanick tries to 'offer.

#WII SPORTS GOLF RECORD FULL#

'With full Princess Bride panache,' as Sacca writes, Kalanick switched to his dominant hand and proceeded to win every single point going forward. until the Uber executive revealed that he was using his weakerВ hand. In a 2015 Medium post, Sacca uses a 'Wii Tennis' anecdote to highlight Kalanick's extreme competitiveness.ДЄs the story goes, during a holiday get-together with friends and family, Sacca's father challenged Kalanick to 'a friendly Wii Tennis match.' The elder Sacca held his own against Kalanick. What Sacca sawДЇor more details on the 'Wii Tennis' story, we need to rely on Chris Sacca, the ( recently retired) silicon valley investor who became something of a household name through ABC's Shark Tank. As it turns out, getting to the bottom of Kalanick's Wii Sports skill requires delving into the vagaries of human memory, reverse engineered asymptotic leveling systems, and the semantic meaning of video game achievement itself. I've spent an admittedly ridiculous amount of time looking into this one sentenceВ over the past few days. What's more, the paper of record doesn't hedge its declaration with a 'he said' or 'he claimed.' Kalanick's 'Wii Tennis' high score is stated as a fact, and one that piece author Mike Isaac said on Twitter was 'triple sourced.' (Isaac didn't respond to further request for comment on his basis for the line.) If this was just a fabulist boast, why limit yourself to number two? And if it wasn't just puffery, who was number one? Kalanick hadn't earnedВ the best 'Wii Tennis' score in the world according to The New York Times. Absent some sort of sanctioned tournament or logical third-party ranking system, the claim just doesn't parse.ДЄnd yet, the boast is oddly specific. Claiming the 'world's second-highest score' in Wii Sports tennis is like claiming the second-highest score in Pong based on nothing but playing against the computer and your friends.

The line baffled me for a number of reasons, not least of which was that the concept of a 'high score' in 'Wii Tennis' didn't make much sense. 'In other personal pursuits, he once held the worldвЂ™s second-highest score for the Nintendo Wii Tennis video game.' But there was one incidental, almost throwaway line buried in the piece that made me stop in my tracks: Further Reading UberвЂ™s app fingerprinted iPhone hardware, breaking App Store rules Last weekend's New York Times profile of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick had plenty of important revelations about Kalanick and the company he runs, both of which have been facing some tough PR lately.

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