Hank, just for the record on that "the third person" line, if you listen to the audio commentary on the DVD during that scene, Seth Gordon says that Brian Kuh was referring to himself there. (According to Seth, Brian was claiming to have done it in private, but he wanted to be the first to do it at Funspot.) Take that with a grain of salt, because I have no idea if he was right, but according to Seth, Brian was talking about himself.
I still maintain that Brian Kuh was
probably referring to Tim as the third person to killscreen DK. Obviously the only that truly knows is Brian himself and that's a question someone should probably ask him. My reasoning:
1- If Brian Kuh was referring to himself as the third person, there would have never been a caption saying that Steve was actually the 2nd. Certainly the camera person/filmmaker would have asked Brian 'Who was the third?' and Brian would have cleared the air by saying it's himself. The fact that a caption was placed later indicates the editors felt Brian was wrong (which by the above reasoning can't be) or they were excluding Tim intentionally.
2- The KoK producers inserted their own scoreboard throughout the film (see [noembed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWaQhChOH_U[/noembed] at 0:40). They include Brian's 2001 score and Leo's 2004 score. Certainly they would have seen Tim's score which was set before both of these scores. They not only excluded Tim but several other players (there were several 700K official scores as well). I believe they made the scoreboard look like that to make it seem like no one was even close.
I do agree that the players' statements throughout the film exclude Tim. This is probably because Tim only beat Billy's score by a small margin and also there was no back and forth between the 2, so most players probably still considered Billy the better player (given that he did it 17 years earlier and did it live).
As for when Brian killscreened, I'm not sure. I do believe he has killscreened, but his statements as to when seem inconsistent. I don't believe Brian killscreened before KoK was filmed. My reasoning:
1- One of the KoK postscripts is: "Brian Kuh is still in pursuit of his 1st DK KS." Again I'm sure Brian would have bragged to everyone while filming if he had indeed killscreened.
2- Brian even says himself: "And in fact, some of us have played this game every day or every week or every month since then, and no one's gotten close to that." The statement seems to imply that he is in fact one of those people. Again if he had killscreened before filming, I'm sure he would have considered his own score 'close.'
We should probably ask Brian directly who he was referring to as the third person. If he says himself I'd ask him 'What about Tim?' Brian certainly must have known about Tim's score being the DK guru that he is.
EDIT: You cannot rely on the producers' commentary as they are the ones we are accusing of excluding Tim.
