That’s a load of crap.
Your basically asking everyone to stop being normal. Fact is very few people who get the game attend these events. I know better players online also. There is no support, I just don’t play a fken charge or a slow and simple projectile character.
If you, for one second, think that playing online benefits you more than playing offline in tourneys you are dumb.
Do tournaments cost money to enter?
You act like its really simple to just go to a tourney, but most people have no way to get to those tournaments. Most players live no where near a state with a FG scene and if they do its on the other side of it.
And most people think there’s no scene because they don’t even check the SRK regional matchmaking threads to see if people play offline. Guess what? If you live within an hour of any decent-sized city in the US, there are people offline you can play with. People traveling five hours to get to a major is pretty common. I know people that travel an hour each way to go to weeklies/monthlies.
Yea, these are the ones that get paid to play tourneys.
Bullshit. It’s the people that care enough to travel to level up and to make a name for themselves. Stop making excuses and just admit you don’t care enough about the game to spend the time and money to level up and travel.
You’re just wrong. I know plenty of people that travel this long just to play. They cram as many people as they can into a car to spread across the cost.
I would if I could but the fact that I barely have enough money to take care of myself kinda makes it difficult to save up enough cash on the side to travel halfway across the country to enter a tournament. Are you willing to offer me an extra 500 bucks for gas, tourney fee, food and hotel? I highly doubt it. Also, adding to your point of the people carpooling, none of my friends play Street Fighter so that doesn’t relate to me since I’d be going alone. Just because you and your friends have the ability to do all this traveling does not mean that everybody is in the same boat.
See this is a more credible argument than “everyone who travels to tournaments is paid to do so.”
But anyway you live in Arizona and we’ve demonstrated in another thread that you guys have a scene and you even had a major there recently. So your argument holds no credibility. Stop posting here, go find people to play with offline in the regional matchmaking forum, and make new additional friends that are interested in fighting games so that you can meet up with people and travel if you’re interested.
Hotels split 4 ways reserved months in advance can be pretty damn cheap. Also, everywhere has supermarkets. You don’t have to go out to eat every meal. Hell you could just live off ramen the weekend of a tournament if you wanted. If you really want it, you can make it happen. Stop making excuses and actually investigate your options and come up with a plan.
Traveling does always cost money but it’s not as much as you make it out to be if you’re smart about it.
Yea I guess you have a point. I’m planning on going to the next hazmat tourney but the only info I’ve been able to find is what day they do them and the location for it. I just need the entrance and game fee and what time they do it and I’ll be golden. EVO won’t be the only one that I attend.
Yes, but not much. For a local it’s usually $5-10 venue fee + $5-10 per game you want to enter.
For majors, you’re looking at maybe $10-20 more on top.
No one is forcing you to go to each and every event, but merely going to a couple in the span of your fighting game experience will make you understand why this community can be as strong as it is. We actually interact with people, IRL.
Post in the AZ thread and ask the organizer for all the details. The info on the first page may or may not be outdated.
Sometimes asking can get you places.
//Apologies for double post.
I did ask. After three posts someone finally told me the location and what days the tourneys are. Now I’m just waiting on the fees and times.
There’s a tournament coming up in Syracuse soon, don’t think it will be all that big but I’m planning on being there.
Interesting; thank you.
Perhaps once a stable paycheck and some good mapping abilities come, I’ll visit tourneys.
I’ve always wanted to go but it isn’t exactly a greenhorn friendly atmosphere.
On the contrary, it is quite a friendly atmosphere for newcomers compared to other things.
Don’t make assumptions. We don’t want the community to shrivel up and rot away.
We’d rather have you here than not, in the majority of cases… unless you’re an ass IRL, you’ll be more than welcome if you’re a cool dude.
Oh, I’m not making any assumptions at all; I know just how friendly and amiable fighting game communities can be.
But being an individual from the outside looking in, and experiencing the tournament scene vicariously from other sources; I have to admit that tournament scenes slightly scare and intimidate me.
But this is all based on my extremely limited experience of first hand tournaments. I have no right to pass judgement on anything unless I try the real thing.
I really need a job…