I just got the King of Kong DVD and it's pretty great. The commentary tracks are especially interesting, as there's one with the creators (sadly, no Wiebe or Mitchell) and one with guys from IGN.com and Iam8bit (the latter's more enjoyable than you would think).

Anyway, on the creators' track they make a big deal about how they get along with everyone from the movie and how they're great friends now with Walter Day (Twin Galaxies' Founder/Head Ref).

Unfortunately, I'm not sure if this is accurate. Day's released a series of editorials that are very critical of the movie's sequence of events. Suffice it to say, Wiebe was actually the reigning/recognized DK champ for 4/5's of the movie's runtime.

You know, in watching the commentary, I noticed that the creator's routinely mention how the movie we see is not the movie they set out to make. Originally, they were focusing on the Q*Bert story and the Ms. Pac-Man story, both of which got reduced/cut from the final film, respectively. In fact, they say that at first they weren't sure where Steve Wiebe fit in because he was so "normal."

After reading Walter Day's critiques, I'm beginning to think that it wasn't because Wiebe was normal, but because his drama was largely non-existent and had to be massaged and even manufactured. They themselves say that they didn't know that the story was going to be Steve vs. Billy until April '06. Hm...