Yeah, I meant top 8 locally…like at AI. Still a tough feat. But like I said, good luck. And I really wish SF appealed more to women. Maybe this is the beginning of something great.
Gaming does provide a lot of opportunity, to work in the industry, to help develop games, etc… but pro gamer shouldn’t really be a goal IMO.
The goal is to enter an open tournament with a chance to test your skill against anyone else who shows up. There are players that are already millionaires, there are players that saved all year just to get plane tickets, young, younger, not as young… just a wide variety of players that show up to play. If you want a place where you can be given a fair shot at being the best player, then this is the place.
Most of the ‘eSports’ movement is less about taking games mainstream, and more about extracting money from kids and companies who believe they are taking a game mainstream, then folding and/or moving onto the next game. If someone were to post that they are selling out their primary game and jumping onto the new SF4 game to become pro, it would sound pretty similar…
Almost everyone that expects to play all day every day and become pro burns themselves out, meanwhile a lot of the champions now have jobs and/or school. Almost every entity that wants to bring eSports and sponsors to the gaming scene has folded or faded out, on the other hand we have people who have been making tournaments happen for 10-15 years, with sponsors, without sponsors, with high turnout, with low turnout, regardless of circumstance. New players should ask themselves who they want to emulate.
We want to see new players of all kinds, but we want them here for the right reasons, not because they were sold the same esports scheme that comes around every time SF gets a new game.
Stay with your current game if there is money in it, or your job is there is money in it, and see if you can get to a competent SF level part time. That should allow you to ‘waste’ more money on tournaments and events that will actually help you to learn how the game works, and as important, how the scene works. Time doesn’t necessarily mean skill, unless someone had the arcade machine to play full time before everyone else and was trying to cash in before everyone else caught up.
Should hit up Vid94 late night when some of the regulars are around, you will get good Sagat practice, since I believe you are playing Sagat based on your trial mode video.
I’m already pro FMJaguar. I’ve been pro status for 3 years… I’m just trying to “go pro” at a new game. I’m pro status with 3 games right now… going for 4.
I have a job as well, and it’s part of the Technical Recources Group testing microsoft games. I am a great gamer at multiple games… I game for about 70 hrs a week with my job and pro gaming… I’m not some random person off the street trying to go pro and seeking help from gootecks.
As FMJ said, it’s not the quantity, but the quality. I can only play Blazblue on weekends, yet I was able to qualify for SBO on my 3rd try. Some of these guys who I beat in tourney play almost every day for way longer than i do. But I prefer to get much more out of the practice sessions I DO have, and I just learn quickly in general, so it’s more my own personal doing than say, playing 6 days a week for 5 hours a day.
Starslay3r - I’ll give you the nice response as to why everyone is probably picking on you:
You come across as saying “I’m a girl gamer.” You repeat that a lot. So instead of giving a positive impression like “Hey, I’m a girl who games, isn’t that cool?”, you’re giving off a “Hey, I’M A GIRL LOOK AT ME!” type vibe. If you really want to be good, then who cares about gender? I didn’t go to tourneys here in Japan going “LOOK AT ME I’M A FOREIGNER!” I went here acting the same as everyone else. Just go the tournaments, and do things as you will. Nobody is asking you to sell all your guitar hero stuff, i actually think that’s a pretty bad idea because if you the game that much, there’s no need to sell the stuff to show you’re SERIOUS. You can be serious about more than one thing.
Either way, if you wanna play SFIV competitively, cool, welcome to SRK, hope you have fun and enjoy SFIV. However, don’t make winning your sole goal, just always strive to get better. Even if you lose, it’s ok, as long as you’re learning. However, if you win, it doesn’t mean you’re awesome either. It means you might be getting better yeah, but you can ALWAYS improve.
So just tone down the “LOOK AT ME” factor, and just post like normal. You’ll find people will PROBABLY be more friendly if you don’t bring up HEY IM A GIRL every other post, you know? And if you get mad at me for offering constructive criticism, then so be it, but I’m trying to tell you this for your own sake, since nobody else was saying anything and you couldn’t seem to figure out why people are “being jerks” or whatever you said. GL
And if you want to bring more girls into it, then show up and act like a regular. Don’t go acting like a star just because you’re a girl, just show them you can fit in no problem, that’ll help more than anything.
I can’t help but imagine what it would be like if a GUY made that same exact post here on SRK
Wow. She really comes off as obnoxious. We don’t care that you are a girl, we don’t care that you are already a pro gamer at 54698485 games. Seriously.
Just play the game. Quit trying to make yourself out to be something special.
The female SF quota has already been filled. Might have to come back in 5 yrs.
edit: wtf, back to watson vs gootecks
Mod: Close this thread. Thread has gotten out of line now and this MM is probably not gonna happen.
People will hate on this board for no reason… Guys who make a thread introducing themselves will gernerally get hate.
I’ll just say stay away from GD, SF4 General, and FGD forums.
If you need mentoring, i’m pretty sure the SF4 general thread has a mentor/student program.
Good luck in tournaments though. You’ll need it, trust me. You live in the best place to get an asswooping, which in some ways is a good thing.
Do you happen to have time for a boyfriend too cuz you know…I’m single…Anywho I wish you luck with SF and I think Gootecks is a good person to help you.
I think the reason you are getting so much flack is the mentality of this sentence. In the Street Fighter community, yes you are some random person.
SF has a long history and a (relatively) steep learning curve. So for people who have been around for a long time, yes you are just some “noob” that wants to get good. And that’s great, our community always has room to grow. I think the problem is that you’re throwing around your “pro” status a little too much, especially in the SF world, we already have our established “pros” and “champs” people who have been playing for over a decade. It’s not to say some new person couldn’t come and knock the champs out, but it’s highly unlikely.
That being said, I think it’s great that SFIV is drawing so much new blood. And given your 'pro gamer" mentality you probably have more dedication to learning the game than some random joe. Good luck!
Honestly, I don’t like how the majority of the people here have treated you, but you got to stop posting like this.
You are giving the impression that we NEED you, that you are doing this for us. Please get off your high horse lady. And it seems like you have a major “look at me” complex. stop telling everyone how “pro” you are at other games. Nobody here cares. And I mean nobody cares
Go to the Street Fighter 4 section and go read. That will help you a lot. Please stop posting about how you are pro in other games. Nobody is taking you seriously because of that. It feels like you came in here, announced you are pro, and expected us to treat you differently.
Now with all that said, I wish you luck, and Gootecks is a cool guy to learn from. If I ever see you at AI when I am town I’d be very willing to play you and help you any way I could. Good luck :tup:
qft.
Starslay3r got rolled up in the sf hype train. Ultra David said it right, this is fucking speed chess, not golf.
CLOSE
You sure she is a she?
I check her blog, probably Lobelia’s new account.
How bout closing this thread once we hear from Gootecks? Its a real simple yes or no.
starslay3r,
just some quick food for thought, you are competing in a game where you are playing a guiter vs a song that you can practice and memorize and get awesome at, aka no adaptation required. this is a completely new scenario and you are now going in a head 2 head competition vs people that have actually been playing this game for years. with that note these players that play for years are not always capable of beating all the players and tiers are created where you have your top players and your casual players. you wanting to be top 8 is one thing, but i mean lets be realistic here. southern california has always been pretty much the top place for SF since forever and you just instantly believing you can be top 8 isnt practical at all. not to be rude or judgemental, but even if you were a guy who played 60 hours a week, that doesnt mean you can achieve success. SF isnt all about mastering some combo or getting a pattern down which is why SF is a very special game that we have all grown to love. SF can almost be related to poker where as you have to adapt but yet also need to be knowledgable in many situations. you can seriously play for many many years, and once again not to put down anyone, but still not place at any tournies regardless of your dedication. the fact that you are trying to make sf4 appeal to the female gender is kind of cool i guess, but to think you have a grip on whats really going on in this scene just from being associated with gootecks might steer you down a very tunnel visioned road. gl in your practice and i sincerely hope you get better, but im not gonna sit here and bs you and say you will be awesome. SF requires a certain skill set and over the 15+ years i havent seen many players who have this skill.
ps, stop derailing thread 
watson, who you gonna dust goobertecks with? chun?