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Crash Team Racing leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION7 /10READS3 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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Execution7 vs 8

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled leans harder on execution: Boost-chain execution and power-slide timing are the lead skill

Reads3 vs 2

Crash Team Racing leans harder on reads: Human races involve item baiting and blocking

Variance4 vs 4

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 6

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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