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Re:Tool to cheat on any Skillz-based game, including cash games by jsnell on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @07:22PM (#34798272)
If it's players competing against each other, then skill-based matchmaking would lead to most players having a roughly 50% win rate naturally. But the win rates are the only real reason the OP gives for this being a scam. So the submission could really do with some extra context.
Re:Tool to cheat on any Skillz-based game, including cash games by dangero on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:20PM (#34800053)
they claim to have very sophisticated anti-cheat tech that he was able to overcome with a simple MITM attack

This is from their IPO S-1:

"We collect over 300 data points during each gameplay session to feed our big data assets which augment all elements of our platform. Our key data science technologies drive our player rating and matching, anti-cheat and anti-fraud, and user experience personalization engine."

Re:Tool to cheat on any Skillz-based game, including cash games by brianhama on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @01:40AM (#34800801)
Wow - that’s just a blatant lie.