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Thank you for round-about explaining why the market for "educational video games" is much larger than parents define it, and simultaneously smaller than they want it to be. As someone who did mediated-by-adults competitions I can confirm that parental viciousness is far worse than anything anyone has ever said in \all.

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exactly!

the presence of arbiters who directly interfere with the competition makes many of the best (& hardest) lessons impossible to learn.

"Educational games" are always horrible affairs. Barely educational and not at all fun.

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