I remember reading Robert's report on Abdner's Ms. Pac Man world record back in 2005, long before I started playing any of these games seriously, and it was pretty influential. I'd love to read it again.
i would love to have robert come to the forums and discuss anything really. his stories and write-ups are very interesting even if its about a title ive never played.
I feel the same way.
was a great asset to TG. When I first found TG in 2002, Robert was the main person that responded to my questions and was willing to work with me to get a record track set up for a modern console game that I was playing. For the next few years that I participated at TG, he verified records as chief referee, helped set up rules/tracks, responded to people on the forums, wrote great articles, set up bounties, and did all kinds of behind the scenes work. He was often the voice of reason when things got crazy. When he resigned at the end of 2006, I was pretty upset and wondered if TG was headed down the wrong path. If things were bad enough for someone as dedicated as Robert to resign, something had to be amiss.
Sadly, it was true. I remained optimistic, but I was not privy to TG's internal affairs and didn't realize just how dysfunctional the organization was. I was on my way out of gaming when the Jourdan/Richie era started, but what I had seen of their plan for TG was not encouraging. I was not surprised at all after the KO3 when I heard that TG was done.
Even though I don't play competitively any more, I'm cautiously optimistic about TG under Jace. It will be interesting to see how it plays out.
