Evo could but way too many majors have made smash part of their revenue streams.
finances wise you can’t get rid of them since after the breast fundaraiser stuff, it basically became easier to turn FG events into half smash/half FG and get in free money than to try and promote the hobbies and increase attendance pool by increasing members.
Guess I’ll just have to work hard and be the best Smash Ultimate player so there’ll never be any sandbagging in a Grand Finals again
Smash community is complete trash though, no doubt about that. Hopefully at the very least a player ban happens; I don’t want to see a game I love soured because of crap like that, no matter how vitriolic the community can be towards top characters. It’s no excuse to not play your best, you’re just giving into the hate at that point.
Why is two versions of the same game taking up spots at The biggest fighting game tournament when the creator himself doesn’t consider the game a fighter?
The Smash finals was garbage, and the community is garbage too. The games are a time sink on the schedule as it is, and the players intentionally dragging out a match that is already a grind to watch is messed up.
I don’t expect Smash to go away at evo, though I expect the players to get punished. I’m hoping that future evo events only have 1 Smash game, because the list of other games that can be a main event showcase is so vast now (not even counting future games such as Soul Calibur 6).
He has a good chance of taking it but not with Bison.
I’d say it’s between him, Tokido, Caba and Fujimura. They’ve all been playing exceptionally the last days.
Rashid isn’t cheap enough anymore, CoolKid already dropped every combo in semis so I expect the nerves during Top8 will kill him and Mika isn’t consistent enough against all those comeback characters.
It’s also super fucking lame to fuck with other people’s events with your own shenanigans. Still pissed I missed UNIST because of that though part of that is because I’m old.
About to get into GF arena. Gonna catch Rev 2, Tekken 7, and SF5. If you see a gamma Chad in the crowd with a crab hat and an SMB3 shirt that’s me.
My money is on Problem X to take it. Fujimura is the person I rate to stop him if anyone. Secret hope is fo Fuudo to take it all.
Edit: Forgot to add there is no way Smash is going anywhere. The lines for Ultimate were nuts all weekend. No one is gonna turn that money down. Best answer is to correct the community with a sack full of doorknobs.
I doubt they’ll reveal anything about Season 4 until Capcom Cup. If we’re lucky we’re getting Sagat stuff on top of G’s stuff, but I don’t count on it.