So, I've decided to not look into this at all, but my understanding is that you're scored by like, size and weight of the best fish or added up fish total by the end of some fishing time limit. So like...isn't this mostly up to the fish? This meta feels VERY rng driven and hardly suitable to competitive play. im-vegan , but it came to kind and I'm curious how the fuck anyone gets credit here. If anything it should be whoever can catch any fish first.

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[–] niph@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I don’t know but they had the most unhinged cheating scandal in competitive sports ever. The top fisher was found to be cheating by putting lead weights into his catches.

The video of when they were caught is extremely worth watching (CW: dead fish)

[–] the_itsb@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

as soon as I saw "competitive fishing" in the title, I thought of this video and hoped someone would post it

Iirc, that dude had been on a winning streak, which is why this was a Big Fucking Deal to all the onlookers in the video.

[–] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

damn cheating CHinese, wait

[–] Fundle@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Didn't these guys get a jail sentence for cheating at a fishing game?

[–] niph@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

Did they?? I had stopped following. But iirc they basically defrauded the competitions out of hundreds of thousands of dollars of prizes