It's a possibility.

About a week or two ago, one of the members on this very site ( I'll keep his name private.  He'll come forth if he wants to.) asked the question if he was the worst Grand Slam Tennis player in the world.  He said that he lost every match that he played online and I tried to give him some advice. 

I don't know if he's gotten better at the game, but the next time that I went online I came across something alarming.  I will show you statistics for the top 3, 79th and 84th out of the top 84 countries in the world that are competing in the Battle of the Nations in order to make a point.  The three numbers shown after each countries name will be wins, losses, and points.  I am in between secretaries and too lazy to make a graph.  Sorry.

Here are the numbers that are 100% accurate as of 7/5 at 2:15 A. M.  CST in the U.S. 

Top 3  (W,  L,  points)

1)  United States  (W 35432,  L 28588,  points 178772)

2) France (W 42503,  L 39872,  points 88211)

3) Germany (W 21931, L 20492,  points  48764)

79)  United Kingdom (W 32195, L 41460,  points 60)

84)  Ireland (W 1428,  L 2192,  points 1)

The reason that these stats are alarming to me is that the person that was asking if he is the worst Grand Slam Tennis player in the world is from the United Kingdom.  Maybe it's the Wii Motion Plus and not him.  I only included the statistics for Ireland because it is on the same island and  I hope that this doesn't mean that a bad shipment of Wii Motion Pluses went to this part of the world.

For the record, my Wii Motion Plus is fine and my record in Grand Slam Tennis is 39-17.  Not great but good.

So what do you guys think?  Is my detective work accurate or am I off base?     

I'm guessing with Wimbledon going on a lot of people in the UK are trying the game out.. for fun.. and not really playing it and doing your best... henche giving the UK a sucky score..

@ topic... that does indeed seem odd.

@ quoted section... In a way that is true, but it is a very odd way to describe it... Northern Ireland (which is classed as part of the U.K.) is on the same island as the Republic of Ireland. But the main part of he U.K. is a seperate isle to Ireland.

I never thought of it that way.  You might have a point.

What exactly is the "points" system by the way, it doesn't seem to be tied into the win/loss ratio in any way I can tell.

So Southern Ireland isn't considered part of the U.K., but Northern Ireland is? 

Is that right? 

Poms suck at sport.

Real or virtual.

interesting....if their is a high number of faulty motion+ add-ons, then how would Nintendo respond to this? and how would this affect the uptake of the device as not to splinter the market? and how would it affect motion+ game sales with the spread of negative word of mouth?

Hypothetical questions of course, but it'll be interesting to see if it actually happens.

1) You can get secretaries to do graphs for VGChartz? Why don't I have one??

2) same island??

3) Your detective work implied that England and Ireland share a land border. You are way off base! :P

In an online match you win or lose a certain amount of points for yourself and your country.  I believe that each match is worth about 30 something points depending on how good your competetion is.