I don’t see why that would ever happen since it is as you say one on one. That and there’s no real way that could ever pass anyway in an actual event. Really that doesn’t sound like anything worth thinking about at all.
The whole point of joining a real league is that not only will most pay for your tournament, including travel and hotel expenses, some will also provide housing and even pay you a salary. In addition, the league provides exposure and services such as “pros” teaching those who pay them to learn. Becoming a successful league is important to attract sponsors and having top players requires it. Having multiple top entrants in the same tournaments is a strategy known as pot control. Triforce was doing this with the Battlefield tournaments.
By League do you mean they will hold tournaments amongst themselves and what not. I’m really trying to learn all the pros and cons of joining a team/league .
I think you’re confusing yourself by using the word league, toss that out of your head since that’s not what this is/not what is happening.
Eldergod threw me off with the word league man . My bad man I’m still new to this stuff even though I have been here for a year now . Just breakdown the whole point of Wong joining EG and its significance.
Just read ElderGod’s post but replace league with the word team and you’ll have a decent idea of why.
EG is not a league. EG is a team. Justin can’t refuse a match against Marn just because they’re both on EG. Any leagues operate independent of influence from EG. Therefore, if there were a SSF4 league, and Justin and Marn had to play each other, well they just have to play each other.
The signing significant from the standpoint of arguably the best SF player in the US is now with EG. Most of the other posts got a little off-topic from that, but that’s what it comes down to. Justin and Marn left Empire and joined EG. This is a big thing also because it’s the first time (outside of the CGS) in a while that an “E-Sports organization” has picked up a fighting game player.
This was the worst thread I have ever read on any site.
And I have been to Smashboards I will have you know!
For the longest while I always held the viewpoint that TriForce was pimping these players for personal gain; however, he did create a community for top level players to get together and become better. Now that the fighting game community is peaking right now, Justin and Marn left for greener pastures. Still, I ask you, how long will this fighting game scene pan out? Not long if you ask me. We need grassroots organizations such as EMP. What we don’t need is EMP members behaving and acting snobbish towards new players and fans. A little foresight from TriForce would have been smart as well. The ARC is nothing more than a personal apartment. There equipment is dated (TVs) and nothing about it says PROFESSIONAL- CASUAL is more like it believe it or not.
Good luck to EG, hope the investment pans out.
lmao I couldn’t even watch that, Tri started talking and I hit that X with the quickness.
When are these guys going to setup a commune in Ghana and start chugging some cyanide-laced Kool-Aid? If this video is any indication, they’re well on their way to ‘Heaven’s Gate’.
i meet Triforce a few times hes cool, but i can agree on some emp members calling people pot monsters and acting disrespectful. the biggest one of them all being Arturo. i meet this guy also and let me tell you he is really immature and disrespectful. he does not represent the community well by treating players like rejects by calling new players you guessed it “pot monsters”. He likes to make fun of so called “scrubs” for paying money for tourneys and losing badly. As a new tourney player i can tell you it is not easy playing your A game in a room full of people, especially good players watching you. see he likes to attack people for being “scrubs” but i personally with my own eyes seen the man depressed for losing badly at the first guard crush while drinking a 40oz. he looked like the world was about to end and was ready to jump off a roof. He looked like profound sadness. i loss early just like a lot of other players but we have fun and socialize and share advice on the game and stuff not game related. the top players who tell others to “stay free” are the only ones who are actually “free” when they loss because they lost there prize money to pay for their grocery’s
Well I’m not qualified. I don’t even follow the scene or watch streams anymore or any of this shit. But I remember a few weeks ago, someone in our crew was watching the MWC stream and Sanford got beat by a Fei player and shook his hand or somethin, but if he had won, he would have been walking away talking the guy down about how garbage he was like he did other matches apparently.
I’m not saying they’re like this, but I think this is what Shinji is getting at: trash talk is fine and all, and the slang is alright… to a point. But when you constantly, openly trash anyone that isn’t your crew then people start to take it personally.
Edit: seems like others recanted this.
Good luck and congrats to Marn and Justin.
(sandford vs Inthul)
… except they play each other before, and they know each other.
Whoa who is the nigga with the power glove and those group of decrepit lookin negroes in this vid?(seriously)
How long before Flash M gets signed
always thought Triforce was a cult leader for some religious sect with a fetish for gaming
all in all Justin just wants to be in Westcoast cuz all the Asians are here.
Yipes is like the only cool dude there.