Wiebe again challenges Mitchell to a public competition, but Mitchell refuses. Nine months later, Guinness World Records has published Twin Galaxies' records - including Mitchell's latest score – and hosts a tournament in Mitchell's hometown of Hollywood, Florida. When Wiebe asks to see the tape himself, Kuh refuses. In a hypocritical reversal of their new policy on video taped scores, Twin Galaxies proclaims Mitchell the record holder despite some skepticism about the video's authenticity, as head referee Robert Mruczek claims to have noticed the tape jumping from score to score. However, contrary to his statements that videotaped scores carry less validity than scores achieved in public (which had also been upheld by Twin Galaxies and was in fact the entire reason Wiebe came on site), Mitchell sends his friend Brian Kuh to Funspot with a VHS depicting himself achieving a higher score of 1,047,200 points, which Kuh plays for the patrons and referees at the arcade. Before a crowd, Wiebe sets a new high score of 985,600 and reaches the kill screen, ending the game. Observing that Wiebe is playing a strong game, Brian Kuh proceeds to alert nearby gamers that there could be a Donkey Kong kill screen coming up. Wiebe challenges Mitchell to a Donkey Kong competition, but Mitchell does not attend. Wiebe travels to a tournament at Funspot in Laconia, New Hampshire, to attempt a live high score for high-ranking Twin Galaxies members. Twin Galaxies suspects that Shildt may have tampered with Wiebe's board, and does not recognize Wiebe's record because it was made on video and using a board which may be questionable due to its association with Shildt. Unbeknownst to Wiebe, Shildt and Mitchell have been at odds for years after Mitchell questioned Shildt's high score, causing Twin Galaxies to disqualify it.
They learn that the machine's circuit board was provided by Roy Shildt, a self-proclaimed fitness guru and pickup artist who claims the high score for Missile Command. Mitchell and Twin Galaxies send two referees to investigate Wiebe's machine. Wiebe sets a new record with a score of 1,006,600 – the first-ever score over a million. He sends the tape to Twin Galaxies as evidence and becomes a Seattle celebrity. Using his mathematical knowledge to identify exploitable patterns in the game, Wiebe sets a new record of 947,200 points in 2003. In Redmond, Washington, out-of-work engineer Steve Wiebe has purchased a Donkey Kong cabinet in hopes of achieving the world record. Restaurateur Billy Mitchell holds the high score for several arcade games, including the original 1981 release of Donkey Kong. Walter Day is the founder of Twin Galaxies, an organization dedicated to tracking high scores in arcade games, especially those from the golden age of arcade games of the early 1980s.