Only real punishment we could see is if these kind of things happened on a Road to Evo event and Mr. Wizard brought the hammer down. Otherwise we're obviously looking at the individual TOs enforcing their own event.
Only real punishment we could see is if these kind of things happened on a Road to Evo event and Mr. Wizard brought the hammer down. Otherwise we're obviously looking at the individual TOs enforcing their own event.
FChamp is a smart guy, he picked his real teams. Chris G and Flocker not so much (or they don't care). I wonder if Flocker realizes he's participating in the troll grand finals in an event that is sponsoring his team.
On the subject of Champ and security, it was after his match with Chris. He was trying to get a mic from Neo/Yipes to spread some salt on the stream, and after they refused started causing a scene.
I think another problem with it is that smaller tournies need big names more than big names need smaller tournies. The only reason most people care is to see the big names at tournies. Tell me how many of you would have cared about April Duels or TxS is the big names weren't there? Hell, it is probably beneficial monetary wise for those players to not be able to go to those tournament, so it places those TOs in a tough spot (imo), where you do nothing and you are not upholding the integrity of your tournament or you ban them from the next tournament, and you lack a big name to help your tourny grow by drawing people in.
That's where EVO and eSports has the advantage. They already have the crowds and the people (many eSports events are invite only, no?), and the prestige of it, so they can make that decision to ban someone easier while not only causing no detriment to themselves, but also making themselves look better. People care if they are the EVO champ compared to smaller events like TxS/GUTS or other smaller regional tournies.
DABEECH
Remember when bands would fail when they said they would be bigger or as popular as the Beatles?
This is kind of like that except VxG claimed to be as big as Evo, yet it was weaker than Next Level Battle Circuit, The Runback and Wednesday Night Fights which happen every week.
Again the FGC is poverty and always will be, spending their day playing video games instead of perhaps getting a better job. But it must be worth it to practice for an entire year to win an event and get at the most $7000. You can easily make that in two months without a college education and way less hours of doing something repetitive.
Want people to go to your event? Host it at an accessible location where people actually can drive to or live. Having it on an Island that requires you to pay anywhere from $300-$1200 on flight alone (depending on where you are in the US) is 100%a call for an event to fail. You can even get a flight for Socal/NorCal to Las Vegas for about $150 or guess what? You can drive there with 3-4 people for about $100 in gas, same shit with SCR, NCR as for events on the east coast people actually live in the areas or near the areas they are hosted and even flying from the West Coast to the other side of the country (about $300-400) is cheaper than flying to that stupid island.
About the comments about Jessica clearly demonstrates the trash of the FGC at it's finest, it will never level up in the US until it at least grows up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIk7e...tu.be&t=53m10s
^^WATCH THIS.
@Shine, I don't think VxG ever claimed to be as big as Evo, that was only triforce hyping it up. They wanted to build something like the EVO of the carribbean so to speak, much in the same way TFC would be the EC evo. Yes, weaker in terms of numbers and probably how the tourny was run, but it had better/more high-tier competition compared to TRB, NLBC and WNF.
I agree on the latter part. I think the event would do 10x better on an island like PR, Jamaica or Aruba. Easily accessible for Americans, with (likely) hotter women, and better things to do. Can you imagine Eduardo trying to gate keep for his home country while playing there? That'd be sick. But again, the only reason VxG exists is because of the island it's on. Only reason St. marteen is supporting it is because they want the tourism benefits.
Also, for Marvel players: I'm learning hyper grav loops and it is stupid hard for me to plink L+M~H (I do all my plinks H~L+M). BUT, I can do it relatively easily (I tried for like 5 minutes and was able to hammer out 2 reps) using the schmidt select, which I'm trying to incorporate anyways into my game with dante because his plinks are insanely hard to do consistently. Do you think it would be detrimental at all to learn hyper grav loops using schmidt select over the traditional 3 button way? I want to say no because mvc3 isn't played in arcades anyways so I'll always be able to set up my buttons how I want.
90% of the vxg press I saw/heard was via Triforce, just saying.
So then what's the fucking point? Oh hey another tournament in xxx location that has nothing to offer besides the tournament itself. That's pretty much everywhere except Vegas, Florida and a couple places on the WC, that might be just me though. I, personally, liked the idea of VxG: Vacationing and having while 1st, with a little bit of a tournament on the side. I think I would alter the times a little bit though. Something like 3-9 instead of 12-6.
It's all about what people can afford liroy. FGC is serious poverty no matter how you look at it. We keep shoving off esports, we will continue to be poverty. A trip to miami prolly costs a shit-ton cheaper than PR, aruba, jamaica, bermuda, bahamas, or key largo/west.
Calli, I think it's time to get that mixer.
Compared to places like Vegas or the Bay Area, any island that's not part of NYC is remote.
I know that, I simply said that something like VxG, if you REALLY wanted to do it on an island, then St. Marteen isn't as good as some other islands, and that I liked the idea of a vacation with a weekend tourny. If you keep viewing it as tourny first, vacation second, then yeah it'll never work or grow to as large as you want.
Although, I don't see Miami and Key Largo/West being that much different in price, then again normally when going to the keys you stay with people you knew, haha.
Do something on spring break in the middle of like... wherever niggas go to in Mexico, and get a bunch of gamerbros to bring bitches in on the weekend during the day to play vidya. Will totally work guys.
yeah, well, fuck WC. And it could work if you did something or worked with Evo to do it inbetween CEO and EVO. But then again this might work better if people won money from Evo and then went to an island to spend it, nawmeen. Like the pro-bowl when it was after the superbowl. Fuck it, let's have a tourny in Hawaii.