Before reading this post…Try to take it with a grain of salt, people may read it and think I’m on some LTB shit, but really, I’m just trying to better the scene (to an extent where it’s not overwhelming to others).
Ya know, I had a long discussion with Mandel regarding “team Seattle.” When we say team Seattle it’s not just Marvel…thats the POINT, is we’re breaking away from that, we’re trying to become Team Seattle as a community. I mean personally, I think that later on when I see who’s going to be serious into the community, I think it might be smart to deem a name for our community mainly because I think that it can get us somewhere. I mean, you look at Empire Arcadia, and they hold all these events and shit…I’m not saying that we should partake in that if we don’t have interest, but I look at the San Francisco Street Fighter Club…and they’re getting this SF4 console play thing…I just look at that and say to myself "Seattle won’t EVER be looked at to do events like this, because for one, we haven’t made to much of a staple in the scene, and two we don’t have a brand name like Arcadia does, or like “The San Francisco Street fighter club!”
Ya know, within the past year, what with Brent holding North West Majors, it’s clear that this scene has actual interest. It showed me that people are down to really play and try to do well. It kind of revived the “serious’ness” of our scene. People started getting out and practicing to do well for the first time in a long time. Oregon and BC came through! The fact that these guys came down here…TRAVELLED to us to play in this tournament. We’ve said that we want to be looked at more seriously as a scene…We want an Evo Qualifier…we want to prove to people we’re good…Well lets make it happen.
What it really gets down to is that I think it’s important to know, WHO is ready to play? How far are you willing to go right now as far as Evo goes or as far as getting “serious” into these new games? I understand that priorities are taken first, and that this is “just a game.” But right now if your going to Evo I see NO reason for someone to cop out and say that they aren’t practicing hard because it’s “just a game.” Ya know…basically, how serious is this scene right now? And if there’s a group of people who are willing to grind, then I think that we can put Seattle on the map with a vengeance, become better as players, create an actual “Team Seattle” brand name so that maybe we can get shit going, and just have a bigger and better scene at the end of it all.
I am going to go to Evo (unless some SERIOUS as health thing happens with me). I plan to be a heavy hitter in games. I plan to practice A LOT with the games I’m competing in. I want to represent Seattle, put it on the map…and when I say this I mean Seattle as a WHOLE. I hate that Seattle is now just “Row, Preppy, Jmar, Rat, and Beasley” it’s nothing against those guys at all, they represent HARD…But how can we get TEAM Seattle to represent.
This really can go as far as YOU make it. It’s up to you how good you want to get. So all I ask is…how far do you want to go as a scene Seattle?