Quote Originally Posted by Welsper59 View Post
It's about know-how (aka knowledge) about the game. For example, if you were in 1st place, but someone was right behind you, would you pick up that Bacchus's Water or Graviball when there's a good item like a Trollteor, Hero Tonic, Sprint, Caltrops, etc as the next item behind it?

This same degree of knowledge is all that you need in any facet of the game, which is why people tend to refer to it as "skill", since that's really the only thing to go on.
Kid. When there are seven NPC behind you, it does not matter if you pick this one item up or not, some of them will get these meteors. Often enough you can't even see the meteors, because you only see four items, not what comes afterwards. Or you don't see the chest at all, because you were too fast.

This "take item/take not" is banal. Of course, there is this little you could do, but only in 5% of races it makes any difference.