"so GAMME is not happening! Now what?" tourney discussion thread

Stop lying please.

I have been watching this situation unfold since the beginning and it’s a real disappointment. For Calibur, we either had people who planned months ahead for GAMME or were travelling internationally for this event. It’s already hard enough to get people to come out of the house and play as it is.

I think it is a good idea for you guys to put something together for those who have no other option but to go to Orlando on that date. But for those who are able to do so, there’s also Devastation to go to. I think it would be better to show the love to a tournament that’s ready to go. It may costs a few bucks extra, but people should be able to call their airline and change flights with this much advanced notice.

http://shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=221222

I will be at Dev hyping up Calibur and playing SSF4. The organizers have been more than helpful and went out of their way to address any concerns that we had. And with this GAMME shadiness, it made me really appreciate the organization for this event.

But I just wanted to take a moment to throw that suggestion out there. I hope everyone is able to salvage something out of this bit of ugliness.

-Malice

Nah dude he’s not. At least directly. I was told the same thing by Manny. If he really is sick, then I hope it works out for him. But as I told Plank earlier this evening, I’m very skeptical.

It would have been so much easier to find a venue if this was in Miami. >_< I’m trying my best to find something though.

I was really looking forward to the TvC tournament, now the only major I’ll be going to that has it as a main tourney is Evo. :frowning:

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This type of shit just irritates the piss out of me and you guys can all jump on my back after this comment I really do not care at this point.
Manny has been sick for some time now and was in the hospital all day yesterday getting more tests done so back the F*** off. Saying ignorant stuff like that does not help anything.
For one there has never been an official cancellation from the convention. Until/if that happens everyone should really stop jumping to conclusions.
I really can not believe after all the work the Manny and GPX gaming has done inside the scene that everyone just gets up and turns face on them so easily. They have been helping tourneys all over the central to eastern U.S. everything from supplying TO’s to Consoles, Televisions and games and not getting anything but gas money and hotel room for dragging stuff across country.
Even some of the players that they sponsored (paying for their travel, hotel and entry) turned on them like it was nothing. WTF! So much for loyalty I guess.
I really hope everything with GAMME works out, but I can GUARANTEE you that Manny is NOT the type of person that would take your money. If GAMME truly does not happy I am positive that he will refund all the tickets that everyone purchased.

Sorry if this came off as harsh guys, but someone had to say it.

To be honest this whole thing would’ve never exploded or went down like this had he or one of his representative just did one simple thing, answer people’s questions. He did not do this. He has left people in the dark for a while now. And if he couldn’t answer at least get someone to answer on his behalf. I see that the thread was posted by someone else. Why can’t some representative, a PR come and tell us something. See how the way three people came into the thread on MLG’s behalf? I understand GPX isn’t as big as them but if they were trying to pull off an event that huge you could at least have a PR, someone on staff speak on behalf of Manny. Something on the website, a phone number, heck a podcast for everyone to listen to, something. But when you give everyone nothing and stop answering (conveniently after your registration closes) there’s something not right. And now you have a lot of people with simple questions they just want answered by him or a representative and they have no one to turn to or ask. What are they suppose to think? And it’s been days and no official response. How can you trust them after such a thing. And to attempt to move the date without anyone’s permission, blame it on MLG, then NOT answer once you’re called out by the top cats of MLG? All people want is a response back that’s all. Something logical and even if he answers with something illogical at least there’s a formal response. Saying nothing at all. :frowning:

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Lastly look at how many people on the website are under the tab “contacts” http://www.gpxgaming.net/?page_id=36 why can’t any of them come in and speak on GPX’s behalf?

I AM NOT A NUGGET!!!

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Exactly. If very valid concerns cannot be answered for long periods of time because Manny’s sick or whatever, well, that doesn’t exactly speak well to the collection of issues getting resolved sufficiently, does it?

wtf just happened? oh my…

Has anyone thought that this all might be a case of people assuming things and panicking prematurely? There has been no *official * word on it being canceled and pretty much all the threads on various sites are getting closed by moderators solely on assumptions.

Now I know that people have very valid reasons for assuming things and that Manny has many things that he should address, but if it turns out that GAMME is still on and all these tournaments will indeed still be scheduled to run with good pots, then everyone here will look pretty dumb for assuming things. Only 3-4 days have passed since he went MIA and everyone has gone in a frenzy over this.

I’m not siding with anyone here, I’m just sayin…

I’m fairly certain GAMME is still on. On Smashboards the TO (Plank) resigned his position as TO for the tournament because he thought it was shady and didn’t want to be associated with it. I closed the thread then since it no longer had a TO. If the tournament is still going on (no one from GPX has said it isn’t) then they will need to find a new Smash TO, and that TO can make a new thread on the forums.

There does seem to be a lot of people jumping to conclusions that the entire event was canceled because Plank decided to shut down his support of the event on Smashboards.

Well I have this question for those saying we are jumping to assumptions prematurely- At what point should we jump to the conclusion that this event is NOT going to happen? At what point should people decide to not go to the event?

Bottom line is this, if we are to plan a replacement tournament we ONLY HAVE 3.5 WEEKS TO DO SO, that is not a lot of time to plan a tournament so we cannot sit idly by and WAIT for word to happen if we are to plan something salvagable. It’s called having a backup plan, which if GAMME is on and people go to it fine, but we have a backup plan just in case.

-DG

What a piece of dog shit that is? I mean I wasn’t going to attend but its pretty fucked up that all these people bought plane tickets and reserved hotel rooms for this.

I like how his last profile activity was this morning at 2am. So this fucker has obviously been on here reading this and hasn’t said a word. I hope SRK is blowing up his phone.

It sounds to me like the event will still be happening – if you have a venue isn’t hard to put put a bunch of TVs in a row and let people play.

A more accurate description is whether people are boycotting because they don’t believe the promised players/prize money will be there and over the MLG claim/date-changing controversy, but that’s up to GPX to comment on. I hope someone from their org can get on SRK soon.

if someone finds a venue for all the people that were coming, i can supply three evo monitors and 3 xbox360s to help the cause.

i will leave my personal opinion out of the GAMME situation, but i will defintely help salvage what is left. PM me if you need any assistance with anything else.

SO just because Manny is Sick the community should sit and stand by, wait until June 4 so that they can say “Hey guys, sorry but No GAMME cause Manny is sick”… Man GTFO!!

How about we not lose focus of what you folks were trying to get started. I know ALL of us are still heated about this whole GPX/GAMME bullshit, but if we get all caught up with that shit again nothing is going to come out of what you guys are trying to salvage.

PLEASE READ
By the way for those that did use paypal… IF YOU DO FILE A “DISPUTE” MAKE SURE AFTER YOU FILE IT, THAT YOU THAN GO BACK AND “ESCALATE” IT. THIS WILL GO STRAIGHT TO PAYPAL AND NOT GPX.
BY “DISPUTING” IT ONLY MEANS THAT PAYPAL IS SENDING IT TO GPX AND THEY WILL NOT GET INVOLVED UNTIL 25DAYS AFTER DISPUTE WHICH MEAN YOU WILL GET THE RUN-A-ROUND BY GPX. SO AGAIN AFTER YOU “DISPUTE” MAKE SURE YOU “ESCALATE” IT TO PAYPAL. IT WILL GO STRAIGBHT TO PAYPAL OVER GPX.

Thank you spektrum, I will keep that in mind as I am sure everyone else will as well.

I understand that the guy might be sick and, i feel for him, Really i do. But this “TOURNAMENT” is his brain child and, even if his sick in the hospital i’m pretty sure someone got through to him about whats going on. Even if he himself could not post he would of had someone post something for him. After doing all this work sick or not there is no way he would let the biggest tournement he ever threw just die like that. Whith out saying something, Thats why im inclined to believe that this is a rouse of some sort.

Really guys? Random angryman comes on here and posts shit that happened 5 years ago and we let the whole thing devolve to this within a matter of 4 hours without ANYONE actually talking to a GPX employee first? I think we owe GPX a little more than that.

I’ve been following this situation for the past few weeks but chose to stay silent because I hate netdrama, but something needs to be said. So I’m just going to say my part and slink back into the shadows.

  1. Manny has terminal cancer and having dealt with this when my grandparents got told the same thing and currently with someone a LOT closer to me, I can saw that his absence for the past few days is understandable. Manny may be elusive from time to time, but u have to realize that this is too big a monkey to dodge.

  2. Until Manny says otherwise, GAMME is still a go with or without your support. It’s not a question of is it happening, its a matter of are we, the SRK community, going to show. GAMME is too big to cancel.

  3. I really don’t know what to think about the whole MLG situation and only Manny can answer that. I just find it funny that everyone believed what the MLG guy said without question before Manny had to opportunity to respond. I know Manny personally and I’ve never met these MLG peeps, so maybe its just my hoping for tje best that makes me take his side.

At any rate, I’m removing myself from this thread as netdrama is my bane. So that u guys don’t think I’m some hired goon, I’ll leave my contact info to answer questions as best I can. Oh, and I am, until Manny says otherwise, the head of tournament organization for GAMME if that matters at all.

Kurasa at gmail dot com

I posted this from my phone so just email me if u have a question and I’ll try to get Manny on here ASAP. it won’t be pretty though…he is rather pissed atm.