As described by David Sirlin in his e-
book "Playing to Win"
A person who plays a competitive game with a personal set of rules that the designers game and the tournament community don'
t recognize. Usually these rules prevent the scrub from having to put forth the effort to to learn to beat tactics that are above his skill level in a game.
Scrubs will feel that those that don'
t follow their personal rule-sets as if they were cheating, and complain incessantly attempting to peer-pressure others into following their personal rules for the game.
Scrubs can be recognized by the cry of "That'
s cheap!" in most
player vs.
player, competitive video games.
Playing Street Fighter:
Scrub: "You just threw me, that's cheap as hell!"
Competitive
player: "Stop being a scrub and learn how to tech throws..."
Playing a Trading Card Game:
Scrub: "Using
deck lists off of the internet is unoriginal, and takes no skill since all of the cards are expensive..."
Competitive
player: "Whatever, do you want to go best out of 6 now that I've beaten you three times in a row?"