[slphil]

It's important to remember that most cheaters are actually good at the game they're cheating at. They're just not as good as they want to be, so they cheat. It's too obvious if they're clearly just not good at all -- a new chess player playing like a Grandmaster because he is using some secret radio tech in his shoes is obvious cheating, but a Master or Expert who needs advice from his scheming coach for exactly one game to win a tournament? That's the more common scenario.

Todd Rogers is a genuinely excellent video game player. He's also a blatant cheater.

[phire]

It's quite common for professional video game players to get so consistently good at the games they are playing that getting the top score becomes more about luck than skill.

Sometimes this causes them to think that a game owes them a certain score/time (maybe they they pass all the hard 1 in 20 RNG events and then a stupid 99 in 100 RNG fails them) and occasionally decide to cheat just to get that score/time.