Opinion or not, winning team of the qualifier goes to SBO. That’s the SBO rules; the US shouldn’t be an exception.
come on emotiger just let zinac and his TEAM go to SBO, you already payed for kensou’s way up to AKON last month, how much more you gonna give him?
LOL USA gonna lose all future sbo qualifying events because of this bs
If people need me to buy a board and get GGAC a qualifier for SBO for next year I’ll make it happen, someone just has to point me in the right direction. There’s a ton of GG players out in TN/KY, and we can throw this at MWC each year since we are big supporters of the GG scene. I would make sure it’s top 3 that WIN the team tournament if that is the case.
you are the man. do it.
Jason Wilson to the rescue. Win win tripple win. Thanks Dream.
emogear is a such a little bitch. This makes me sick. what a dick.
This is an unfortunate turn of events indeed. I’ve contacted SBO committee and notified them (again) of the situation and received an initial reply stating that any kind of qualifying criteria other than by tournament result process is strictly against SBO policy. I’ll put up some excerpts from the response here:
From Tetsuro Sugita:
“No, winner should be selected by qualify. And let us know result of qualify by public webpage to see fair play. Selecting winner by an interview is banned. The same is equally true of voting, lottery. I’ll write immediately a letter of complaint to Emotiongear. We allow no exceptions of this rule.”
“Team member of Planet Zero created an incident involved in a immigration control law last year. Planet Zero caught it from their sponser SUBARU because the Planet Zero undermined confidence in the sponser company. In order to prevent a similar problem Planet Zero review the human dignity of player this year.
SBO committee have no concern with this matter.
Then, they are in tune with that process.
I thought Planet Zero should notice about that in advance.
I heared that great while ago. I’d forgotten about that!
This is against SBO rules for a fact and should not be allowed.
Select team member by individual match is against SBO rules too.
They are exceptionally admitted taking the circumstances of outside Japan into consideration. Both exception are not allowed in Japan.”
Please excuse the English as it is difficult to understand but I’ll try to put it in perspective.
This isn’t the first time I contacted SBO staff regarding this controversial qualifier. There have been concerns from players since the beginning and I’ve been contacted by a handful. I’ve voiced their concerns by passing it onto the committee and the response is always something along those lines stating that those actions are not in accordance with policy.
However, saying something is not right and actually doing something is a whole another story. Although they state that they do not agree with his actions, they do not really do much about it. If you look at this situation from their point of view (Japanese business culture) there is little motivation or incentive to do anything about it. Why should they concern themselves with US politics? They’ve already made arrangements in their event allowing for a certain number of players and they do not have the bandwidth to concern themselves about how all the players will get to the final tournament. Especially with affairs that are outside of their home country.
That is a reason they’ve appointed me as a point man to handle such matters in the US. Unfortunately, Emotiongear applied for and secured his qualifier directly through SBO and not through me so this is out of my hands. Note that SBO is partially funded by money contributed by the featured game companies and qualification locations. I’m not sure of the arrangements they had with Planet Zero but most likely he’s paid his dues some way or another. Hence he was awarded with a spot. So even though they may not approve of his actions, they’ve already received the money from him and they have little reason to concern themselves with foreign politics.
Now in terms of from the US side of things. I did not ask for a Guilty Gear spot for SBO this year because at the time for qualifier applications, there just wasn’t any arcade Guilty Gear availability in the US. Hence I did not request for one. I only requested for ST and 3S which I thought we would be able to run a fair qualifier throughout the US. Note that a stipulation in SBO rules is that the qualifying event must be run on arcade hardware, not console. So with no Guilty Gear cabinets around, I could not request for one.
Due to his ability to secure that rare arcade game for Planet Zero, Emotiongear was able to get a spot for Guilty Gear. Now players and the SBO committee may not agree with his actions, but bottom line is that he is footing the bill and the qualifier is under his own control. We can complain all we want but we have little power in this situation unless SBO committee steps in and does something. (which is unlikely)
So instead of complaining about something we do not have control over, here are my thoughts. For next year, if the Guilty Gear community can pull together and come up with a suitable qualifying location/event, then I can request for a spot on your behalf. If the spot is granted, then the qualifying event rules can be under more fair controls rather than being dependent on someone else’s rules. We can work out details when the time comes but if the community can come up with a suitable event location and at least half of the plane ticket costs for the winning team, I will try to cover the other half. (assuming 3 players ~ $3000. So I’ll throw in $1500)
So that’s my offer to the Guilty Gear community. Instead of complaining about something we do not have control over, take action now and start planning to hold your own qualifiers next year.
In the meantime, I’ll keep discussing with SBO staff about the situation. If they propose on any kind action, I’ll update everyone with an announcement.
Best of luck to all,
John
i dont play gg
but good shit choi
could always see if tga wanted to do it
being that they have a gg ac machine and have done sbo quals in the past
:tup: choi. fuck emobitch.
Thanks John Choi!
lollllllllll
Honestly, the only reason it sounds like anyone (SBO staff included) give a shit about this dude is because he has money to throw around.
thanks a ton, choi! i know the gg community will come up with a solution - definitely a motivated group of people!
anyway back to the planet zero guy
this guy tried to come up with an excuse to screw arturo out of his arcana spot last year - wasn’t until like 2 weeks before that he was finally confirmed iirc
like apparently he raped everyone at the qualifier and emogear was looking SO pissed the whole time.
also, i just thought of this:
Zinac = Bret Hart
Jais = Owen Hart
Raekwon = British Bulldog
Emotiongear = Vince McMahon
Mystery PZ Rep = Shawn Michaels
Ranma = Earl Hebner
Hopefully this doesn’t mean Jais & Isaac die within the next 5 years…
Im pretty sure TGA would be interested in doing them again, but the Evo staff asked for their permission to take over last year.
I wish my dick game was like emotiongear’s…no homo. The way he dickin’ boys, you’d think he was a porn star.
Although maybe not 100% suitable for a qualifier, but rather a heads up, Chinatown Fair has a GGAC arcade machine.
This would not have been a problem if he would’ve made clear that a planet zero representative had to go in the first place instead of springing it at the last minute when all was said and done. As it is now it is like not delivering on prize money, which is apparently something he is known to do as well.
He will lose some business over this, but hopefully he will learn to be honest and forthcoming to players in the future. Still it’s a real shame and it shows a real lack of respect to the people who support his tournament and his business.
This spells out two things:
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sounds like Japanese people are lazy and therefore the decision of Emotiongear is going to stand. therefore, do everything you can to shit on him by next year.
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MWC will have exclusive Guilty Gear SBO quals next year.
Any questions?