You don’t have to win Evo to be the best player (if you attended). Also, failed to qualify what? There weren’t any Evo qualifiers in Japan, to my knowledge…and there should have been many.
The fact that it houses a large concentration of all the godly players, means it is still more relevant compared to a tournament like Evo, even though the fact that it’s not a singles tournament makes it somewhat ambiguous when it comes to deciding who the best player is. The majority of the top players in the world are absent from Evo, so there is no basis for Evo determining who the best player in the world is.
No, and again I already explained why. The bracket is very massive, to the point that even if we knew who the very best player in the entire Evo bracket was, it would be very risky to bet any money on it. It is also risky to bet on who the winner would be in a tournament like SBO or Godsgarden but not because of the giant bracket but because every player is grandmaster level. Why do you fail to understand this?
Already shot down like twice…not sure why you keep bringing this up.
I think you are forgetting that Americans outnumber the Japanese players on a factor of like 1:100, at a tournament like Evo. For the amount of Japanese players that are losing to Americans, probably about 3 times as many top Americans are losing to Japanese players.
What’s clearly not a myth is how uneducated you are about the international scene. Like I can probably list you about 20 well known top players that have never come to America or any tournament outside of Japan, and you wouldn’t know who they are or what character they play, except by youtubing their name.
Kawaguuchi, Younashi, Y., Vivi, Juso, KichijojiKen(this guy actually did come out to a tournament and I bet you don’t even know which one it was…but he is godly), Michael-tan(he also came out to a tourney, you probably don’t know which or who he is), dath, KojiKOG, Darui, YHC Mochi, etc
Edit: I hate to have to use the argument of authority but I think that’s the only thing that can get a flag waving american patriot like you to understand…
Interview with Dieminion:
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CoolGrayAJ: Regarding international competition, Infiltration’s been winning everything, but do you think people should be more concerned about a single player, or an entire country?
Di3mini0n: Japan is still way past the American level of play. Being in Japan recently really woke me up to how behind we really are. On a daily basis, you’ll see Daigo playing against Kazunoko, Mago, Nemo, Nekojita, and countless other players that you will have never even heard of. If you think for a second that our challenge right now is Infiltration, Daigo or any other big name foreign player, you’re wrong. The real challenge is if and when the rest of these Japanese players come over to play.
Japan is no stranger to taking over EVO Top 8, and people need to be aware of this. Just because Daigo was the only Japanese player in EVO Top 8 last year, you need to pay attention to what happened to the rest of the Japanese players. Kindevu, Haitani, Fuudo and Dogura all placed 9th, so if you really think about it, we were four matches away from having 5 Japanese players place Top 8 at last year’s EVO.
I don’t want to sound like a defeatist, but really ask yourself, do you play 6-8 hours a day against the best players of your country?**
You just don’t know…and I haven’t even been to Japan, but I’ve sat down to watch almost every Japanese tournament in existence. Dieminion has actually been there and seen/played all sorts of random players that you will likely never see attend Evo, so I’m pretty sure he knows what he is talking about.
And really, all this arguing just for me to finally get this basic point across - there are TONS of master players out there, especially in Japan, that will never come to Evo…so saying Infiltration is the best because he won Evo and some other tournaments that lacked a lot of strong competition, and not even knowing/watching who these othersplayers are that don’t come, makes your statement pretty retarded.