User blog comment:Steelside/Do You Believe in Skill Caps?/@comment-4881935-20120613044417

To be fair, everyone does have a skill cap they can reach based on their bodies. Not everyone can perform at the exact same skill level that someone else can. Our bodies are just not built to be the same.

Saying that now. When I look at the prospective of reaching our skill cap for playing this game, I say, nope. Being a pro at of the fundamentals and mechanics of the game will require a good amount of skill, but in most cases (like 97% of the time), that skill requirement is within the skill cap of our bodies.

After that, it's just having the will and drive to be the best and always learning new tactics in the game. And that is purely knowledge and understanding how to use it or abuse it. And since this is a team game, chemistry with your teammates also counts.

Now, to finish it off by answering your last few questions.

1)Do I believe in skill caps? Yes I do, but do I think most people even reach that skill cap. Not really. To really reach that skill cap, you have to push yourself so hard and most people can't reach it by themselves.

2) Do I think anyone with sufficient practice can go all the way? No. Just practicing is one thing, but having the will and the ability to translate that practice in to actual useful information is completely different. I think this is the problem when people think that just playing the game for a long time will make them good and that is false. If you don't strive to get better and don't learn from your mistakes and success, then you won't get better in the game.

3) I have never hit my skill cap and I think any professional would answer the same way. There is always something new to be learn. There is always ways to improve. No one says they are prefect in the game/sport. They might say they are the best, but they always acknowledge that there are ways to improve.

If the game is always changing, there should never be a perfect skill cap that anyone can reach.

But does this game force us to reach our skill cap?

I would say, no.