The Art of Cheating

Couple of acknowledgements: Lot of Emplemon comparisons (mostly positive some negative). I definitely was very inspired by "Art of the Choke" in making this video (even the title). I might have slipped too much into imitating his speaking cadence, (it felt easier to record my dialogue), but I definitely think I did add my unique style of doing things in this video, same as I've been doing in my past video essays. Forgot about Domed football stadiums! specifically Vikings, Lions and sometimes Colts, that shouldn't be as impacted by the weather, definitely a dumb mistake Idk how I called a run in baseball a "point" considering I myself get annoyed when people call it that,I think in general I was just standardizing my language across sports using "refs" and "points" for all of them but should have gone back and fixed my script Barry bonds batted left, thumbnail makes it look like he's righty (I mirrored image didn't really think about it) I bring up Hearthstone a lot cause, that's my biggest area of expertise and I like talking about the stories There are a lot of examples people in the comments brought up that I wish I covered but, only so much time and I wasn't sure I wanted this to be an hour. Also its US centric cause im from the US, and its a lot easier to look into sporting events here. (Also i just like Baseball a lot) Maradona's handball was probably intentional, NBA probably rigged the 2002 champs etc. I prefer to keep it more open ended in this video regardless of what I believe personally Never watched a solar sands video, so was surprised to see people saying I copied them.

i cant watch a single video essay without dantes inferno randomly being brought up 😭

It is interesting that cheating is such a problem in Hearthstone because one of the benefits of online card games is that they eliminate so many “opportunities to cheat” by eliminating common TCG cheating methods like marking cards, deck manipulation, misrepresentation of health, false shuffles.

The deepest pits of hell in the maximum singularity: Billy Mitchell

The Emplemon influence is so strong here. Not a bad thing tho

I fenced for many years and the cheating in that sport is pretty rampant. A lot of male fencers will wear plastic chest protectors that they dont actually need so that their opponent's blade's simply glance off of them instead of registering a hit. Also, there are many rules about yelling/celebrating, mostly having to do with provocative speech. I have seen multiple instances where this happens and the fencer's coaches basically gaslight the refs into not giving out a black card. Also, ever since the sport was adapted to electronics, there have been fencers that will manipulate the circuit in their favour, to the point that there are a million tests on all of the equipment before actually fencing lol.

The fact that this was a hearthstone video disguised as a sports video is really funny to me. Also seeing Jayhuang, someone who got my friend temporarily banned because of his ban, really threw me through the ringer

"we have emplemon at home" keep up the good work man, quality documentaries like this are what i yearn for

Blizzard doing dumb shit is basically a meme at this point. They're just as bad, if not worse, than Wizards of the Coast when it comes to doing ridiculous shit and then acting all surprised when their fan base gets mad about it.

When youtube's recommendation system works, I get to see gems like this. Great video.

Never thought I would see Barry Lamar Bonds and Dream in the same thumbnail

Another example of local advantage would be the Bolivia soccer team, they play all their matches at high altitude

As a Brazilian, that intro hurt, to add salt to the injury, Brazil just got eliminated by Uruguay hours ago.

I thought you'd talk about boxing since the cheating is so bad, but ufc is quickly becoming the new example of rigged sporting events.

edit: apparently it was a joke by fortune, the player who requested the stock loss, whom unfortunately passed away recently the chess one reminds me of that one clip in smash bros where someone accidentally unplugs their controller, and in response, their opponent kindly pauses the game. pausing is usually not allowed and requires you to lose a stock if your opponent asks you to,normally in this situation you would allow your opponent to puase, it was to help you, but he asked them to lose the stock.

The reason why the Vikings are seen as a outlier in the Cole weather graph is because they play indoors with a dome so weather doesn’t matter

this amazing video on the history and ways of cheating in sports just being a video about heartstone in disguise was crazy you are truly a artist

A thought on how it seems cheaters are punished. To me, it seems that many teams and individuals cheat. But when punishments are doled out, unless the offense was egregious, repeated, or violent, it seems only the winner gets punished. Example: when the Astros won they weren't the only ones stealing signs, but in order to downplay the prevalence of it only the Astros get punished. Another example is deflate saga. While many talking heads officially nodded that deflating balls is bad and definitely not a thing that can happen at different atmospheres, sometimes you'd catch one saying he prefers a ball one way or another and would tweak it. But only Tom gets punished

I got 25 minutes through this video and just only realized you have only 400 subscribers. This is a great video, you deserve a lot more.

11:40 Man that is such a infuriating response