If MLG bothers to run a tournament, then it should be run correctly. I don’t care if 9 people show up for that shit, they chose to run the tournament, so they should run it professionally. It’s not the players’ responsibility to make a tournament worthwhile. If they knew that they would do a shit job in advance then MK9 shouldn’t have been on the tournament roster.
Look kid, the FGC has been growing 20 years on its own just fine. It will expand without MLG.
You’re the only one here who seems to believe MLG is necessary at all. Do you own a share in the company or something?
The burden of proof is on YOU.
I know you just started playing, so you don’t know any better, but there are already been team-ups between EVO and MLG in the past and it didn’t go too well.
In fact, MLG’s track record with just about anything outside of Shooters has been extremely spotty.
Im sorry but MLG and its handling of ANYTHING in the FGC is just piss poor, plain and simple. They want to branch out? THATS BULLSHIT. If they wanted to branch out they would bring in people from the FGC who knew what the fuck was going on and how to run a tournament. But instead they “branch out” by giving out guaranteed paydays to lure in the players, but then the players have to deal with stupid ass rules. Like the little MK “side event” they had this year.
Dumb shit #1. qualifying for the tournament by playing in an ONLINE tournament
Dumb shit #2. qualifying for the tournament by playing in a sloppily monitored “win streak” challenge
Dumb shit #3. organizing a “top” 16 where all the players arent even there, thus giving people byes…in top 16
Dumb shit #4. SINGLE ELIMINATION
Dumb shit #5. uneven payout. the 70/20/10 structure makes it more exciting and gives a larger incentive to play hard. but as is in MK 1st got $3K, 2nd got $2K, 3rd got $1250 and 4th got $750. IN A SINGLE ELIMINATION TOURNAMENT, THAT BOTH THE 2 seed AND the 4 seed GOT BYES INTO MONEY GAMES.With the payouts structure like that, who the fuck wouldnt pull the SSBB pot split with this structure. If you and a friend can secure first and second by manipulating the rules why not split the 1st and 2nd money? Had it been split 70/20/10 the payout would have been $4900/$1400/$700 and I can GUARANTEE there would have been a whole lot more fuss over who actually made it into top 16 and motherfuckers getting byes.
FUCK THEM. REAL TALK.
Then if you wanna talk about how they handled T6. Lets not get on the stupid “continuation” rule. The rule that got me eliminated from the tournament. Basically if you beat someone in winners bracket and then you get put into losers bracket and run into the SAME guy you put in losers bracket. Instead of it being a “reset” match where either player has to win 3 games to win, the way MLG goes is that the match “continues” where it left of but in a “FT5” format. So the person who won the first game of 3 only has to win 2 games to win but the person who lost has to win how many ever games will bring them to 5. So if you lost a straight 3-0 in your opening game then you have to win 5 straight games against someone who only has to win 2 games against you.
ONCE AGAIN. FUCK THEM.
MLG needs the FGC much more than the FGC needs MLG. Its no secret that MLG is in financial trouble, hence the reason they are cutting their Pro Circuit season down to 4 cities next year. Its also no secret a few sponsors are jumping ship. But on the flip side of that the FGC has only grown exponentially and exploded in popularity. More corporate sponsors are coming in. EVO alone in ONE event eclipsed all of MLG tournament circuit events in online viewership, it broke records left and right. And thats a fact that isnt being overlooked. It might not be the best thing to happen, but in the near future I see the FGC having more of a league structure, with regional teams and contracts. Its not an impossibility, because its happened before. Does anybody remember the Championship Gaming Series? It was a nationwide league that had regional teams, where the players got contracts that werent anything to scoff at, $30K per season, then a bonus if your team made playoffs. They had a draft, they even had a combine where unsigned players could go and tryout. I went to the combine and became a second alternate for the Carolina Core team. Sadly the only “new” fighting game at the time was DoA4, which wasnt exactly lighting fires. But now with the sudden resurgence of fighting games, I definitely see the league structure coming back in a big way.
But back to the topic. MLG is ass. If it doesnt change its ways, its on the way out. END OF STORY.
Nevermind, I can make it now.
Though I won’t be able to bring a CRT… I will bring my PS3 / Tekken / Arcana / Third Strike.
Also, Jon if you wanna learn Arcana, I’ll definitely play.
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I only play Tekken6, MvC3 and Calibur4. And Jojos Bizzare Adventure in the event of someone else besides me having a working Dreamcast.
Devo >>> your dead dog
Wow, Demo, that’s even worse than I thought.
That’s really terrible formatting.
“Continuation”?
That would be like in the NBA Playoffs if your team lost Game 1 by 30 points, and then in Game 2 the refs told you have to win by 31 or more points in order to go to Game 3.
Terrible.
BTW Evo I think last year gave out seedings for folks who won an online tournament.
That said MLG is stupid, and the FG scene is growing. We just need to get the community more accepting of other games to grow the scene and make it less dependent on one company.
Yea that Evo Online SSF4 tournament. Although I think the FGC personally does somewhat decent growth wise and doesn’t really need MLG if they are gonna do things “like that”.
Thanks for TRYING to play devil’s advocate, but if im correct the EVO seeding was for your POOL play. Meaning those mofo STILL had to play and qualify just like every other person. In the MLG shit the online qualifiers didnt even have to play AT ALL the first two days. They were just automatically placed in the top 16 bracket. And what makes it even worse is they could come down and end someone’s win streak that was trying to qualify, but if you beat them it didnt count. I beat the 1st, 2nd, and the 4th seed in my winstreak challenge…but those wins didnt count towards my seeding because all they had to do was look at the ref and say “oh im an online qualifier, this match doesnt count”. And so did Jon. But we ended up with the 6th and 7th seeds? Now think on this, had I had those 3 wins counted towards MY streak I would have ended up with the 5 seed. Had Jon had his wins against them count he would have ended up with the 4 seed. Meaning Jon would have gotten a bye and I would have gotten put in the mystery match with the random scrub that NOBODY saw play but ended up in the top 16 with the 5 seed. Im talking this motherfucker was so random he didnt know how to do EN moves or use his breaker, he spent the ENTIRE match holding the block button. He played Ermac and allowed Raiden to jump in (NOT TELEPORT) on him over and over, cross punching him into kick strings. He had a 50% life lead in the last round with a full bar and still LOST!!! He died…in the last round…with a full bar…with Ermac? But he not only got a higher seed than BOTH Jon and I but he played an EQUALLY scrubby mother fucker who didnt know how to do a single combo.
Its bad when the producer of the game says the event was a piece of shit. Yes Hector Sanchez was there. And he said the event was ass and if it wasnt for Sony and MLG fronting the money, he wouldnt be there or support them. Long story short…Sony had a booth there showing off their new 3D televisions, MK is a 3D game that has Sony’s posterboy Kratos in it, MK has also sold a shitload of copies for them, Freddy DLC is a big crossover deal…do the fucking math.
FUCK MLG with a sick dick. booty butt aids infected deep dark african motherland monkey diseased dick.
Happy Birthday Priest
TELLEMWHYYOUMADSON!!! :clapdos:
ill gladly play jojos despite not knowing how to play it at all
Considering I play on a dreamcast controller because it makes no sense to even try to get a stick for a dreamcast, we are probably at the same skill level despite me actually knowing how to play the game.
And me :party:
Man, being able to play JoJo against someone else would be great B-Day present.
Too bad this state is too fuckin lame to play anything like that.
Pretty sure MLG worked with Evo one year and got Evo to hold a Mario Kart tourney LOL.
Um, as bad as MLG has been running tournaments for the FGC, isn’t it the player’s responsibility to know what they’re getting into? Like, if the format for MLG heavily rewards winning an online tournament beforehand, shouldn’t you guys have entered said tournament? You can’t bitch at them because the format was bad after the fact. If the format was so egregious you should have known beforehand and not wasted your time/money in the first place.
This logic is why I don’t go to Goldsboro or Gamefrog tournaments anymore.
online + tournament
does not compute
They did not give seed points, just a free Trip.
One of the winners was wolfkrone anyway…
Happy Birthday to you and Priest. Didn’t know yall had the same b-day.
happy birthdays