dwayne

Look, I can see where this is going. You seem deeply certain about all of this, Will, and I’m not anywhere near as certain about it as you are. So either you know a lot more than everyone else involved, or you’re just totally certain without actually knowing why.

If you feel confident about calling Steve Weibe, his family, his friends, and the crew of this film all liars, then you go right ahead. If your world is that black-and-white, I’m not going to be able to make you see shades of gray.

But you’ll also remember that all of this fell
during a time when the website did not allow additions of new tracks. This was during the initial time that Brien was “unavailable”. You were falling desperatly behind in score entries and don’t believe you had the capacity to open the new category at that time.

If Robert was “falling desperately behind” in making the updates then clearly they were maintaining the database at this time. Just not fast enough. What they weren’t able to do was to create the new DDR category. This could be the reason why Steve had the record for the full three years; namely that they meant to change it and for technical reasons were delayed or sidetracked. (Greg certainly implies that he thinks it should have been reclassified before.)

As Robert says above, Walter Day

WD – “And, in November, 2004, it was publicly stated that Steve’s score would be re-categorized due to the presumption that he played on a “Double-Donkey-Kong” board. However, Twin Galaxies continued to evaluate that decision, but that decision was never put into effect.”

These are Walter’s own words which seem to support my own recollection about the re-classification of the scores…that they were announced but never enacted.

So yeah. Score in the official database. Change never enacted.

Twin Galaxies has made it very clear that they believe Weibe made his 2003 score on a non-standard board. They made it equally clear that Weibe was not the Donkey Kong record holder based on that score. Claiming that he actually did have the score just because their database guy wasn’t making updates is disingenuous to say the least…

I remain confident in my reading comprehension. The links are above. You can read them. You can continue to ignore them.

A couple comments above you asked if your statement that

In spite of the press immediately following the announcement of his score, Steve Weibe did not officially hold the Donkey Kong world record based on his score from July 2003. Rather, he held the only officially recorded score in a newly created Double Donkey Kong category.

To which Robert T Mruczek

As Greg Erway states, and as Walter himself did, the initial idea was to split the category but it actually was not formally done on the database until much later. So as far as the database went, Steve’s 947K was the top score from the initial 2003 submission until May/Jun 2005 when Steve hit 985K live. Afterwards, the 1.006M was reclassified to the DDK category at some point in I believe 2006.

My reading of that is that since Steve Weibe had the Donkey Kong record of 947K from 2003 until he had the Dong Kong Record of 985K from May/Jun 2005 until he had the DOUBLE Donkey Kong in 2006, that he had the Donkey Kong record from 2003 through 2006. At which point the ruling was made that he had instead the DDK record.

I don’t mean to be combative but this is why I said you have poor reading comprehension. Do you mean that there’s another sense of holding the record other than being in the official database? I really am just curious at this point.