Ryan MacMillan

In an era when one’s sporting heroes are depressingly likely to turn out to be lying, drug-addled cheats who wouldn’t know an honest day’s steroid-free training if it jumped up and bit them in their lying, drug-addled behinds (Hi, Marion!), it’s nice to see that Great Britain can still turn out a good, clean winner. Congratulations, then, to Shaun Clark, winner of the Command and Conquer 3 competition at this year’s World Cyber Games in Seattle. He takes home with him a cheque for the tidy sum of $12,000 (here in the USA that’s tiday sum, at least. I guess with the amusingly brutal sterling/dollar exchange rate it’s probably enough for him to buy a copy of Nintendogs and his busfare home)

Anyway, it’s v. cool that Mr Clark has won this; Go Britain! and all that. But my question is this: is winning $12,00 for playing a video game cooler than winning $5,000 for being the Rubik’s Cube World Champion?