Difference is, if you understand the game, you should be able to compete at a high level. Because knowledge is all that matters in a game.
Whereas in real life, you also have to have physical talents. So someone may be an MMA genius, but he’s not physically capable of competing with the elite.
When it comes to EA UFC 3, I absolutely believe that to partake in discussions about competitive, high level meta, you have to be a top player. I’m not saying you can’t participate in discussion at all unless you’re good. But you shouldn’t inject your opinions as truth, because it just detracts from the productivity of the discussion. This is sort of my (and many others) issue with sugata. He’s talking about things that basically, unless he’s truly elite, he shouldn’t be talking about.