i was disqualified from marvel while playing in the st tourney
then i got thrown into a new marvel pool that already contained 2 people from my hotel room i was pissed cause the judge said he couldnt do anything
after like half my matches i went and told the cannons and they said they would put me in another pool or give me a refund but i said i was all set
that pretty much destroyed the rest of my tourney play i just didnt feel like playing anymore after that
but he they were willing to rectify the situation so i can hate to much
These are not excuses, IMO. There’s no respectable entity or charity who says “it’s OK to fuck up because we don’t want to make a profit”.
Saying that they may change things is not a free card to fuck up either. It’s just a security blanket (IMO a good idea) because something can always go wrong.
The best option is always to plan right. If one or two things goes bad, that’s understandable, but Evo is having lots of issues, and by pointing them were helping the staff to make something better next year.
And, seriously, Evo doesn’t make money because they don’t want to. The staff seems even proud to get a loss every year. Whats teh averag total cost for an Evo atendee. I guess something between 500 and a 1000 bucks (hotel, plane, food, lets not even get into teh cost of opportunity). Charging 50 bucks for Evo would add 30 over these 500 or 1000. A pretty good deal for most players and a way to solve several Evo problemas jeck, you can probanly charge 90 and have a pretty good turnout (BTW; this is not my opinion, you can find pricing research in any library explaining that point, with sttistical tables and everything).
The biggest downside is that the organizers will not be able to bitch about how they take a loss to make everybody happy and what not.
For Evo staff - BTW, I realize that there are many good things and improvements going on with Evo and srk, bt its a moot point to tell you about stuff that is already OK in my book, so I came bitching but, deep down, I am really trying to help.
It is still a slap in the face, but thats what sponsorship does I guess.
Is it a slap in the face? No. Why? Because it’s our fault, not theirs. If you want that kind of prize money, the community should be a little more accepting of sponsors, and media, when it’s very obvious that a large majority don’t want that at all.
Even back when sponsors were a part of SF2 community, the prize money often was nothing more than a SNES with that port of the game, perhaps a jamma board with a controller.
That was when tournament gaming was still relatively small, though. It’s starting to get bigger, and really fast, with hybrid leagues (VGL) PC leagues (CPL) and console only leagues (MLG), and they’re all pumping out hundreds of thousands of dollars into the prize money. Tekken got on the MLG schedule, and they blew it, so who’s to say that MLG wouldn’t consider adding a 2D fighter like 3S or Marvel, even after all the shit that’s happened?
Winar.