What motivates you to be the best?

Jagger · March 28, 2010, 12:35pm

Yeah, ace, not being S tier pretty much just means he’s not S tier.

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Mihai · March 29, 2010, 10:33pm

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omfg · March 30, 2010, 12:53am

so, Jagger and Mihai, what motivates you to be the best?

CaliPower · March 30, 2010, 1:09am

No more feeding the trolls.

People will have their differences, but only realists go to events and contribute to these forums.

Anyways,

I enjoy reading everybody’s posts on this topic. The important thing here is that you guys manage to find that one thing which keeps you coming back.

Turning that fun into winning can do some damage to your opponents =)

parabellum · March 30, 2010, 1:41am

One thing that I can add is this: Since we changed up the format of our local gamenights here to a ranbat format (instead of just casuals)…people are really energized and playing at their best.

No one wants to lose on video, or see their name at the bottom of the rankings.

So while this is not a self-motivation…not wanting to be embarrassed is one HELL of a motivator.

Darklightjg1 · March 30, 2010, 2:39am

People tend to play harder when there’s something on the line for them (be it rank, money, impressing opponents/spectators, family is kidnapped, whatever). I like playing people going all out and seeing if my strategy and execution can beat theirs. I like to continue doing so in a gathering/competition, so winning in order to move on to the next opponent would be my motivation during those times. It’s also just satisfying to see if my training is paying off against new opponents or players who may have given me a hard time before. Finding the answers to shit I didn’t know about previously is what makes me want to improve my game.

Mihai · March 30, 2010, 2:47am

I’m gonna answer this truthfully.

In my area, I’m one of the best, but that doesn’t mean anything to me cause there are other ppl outside London that are way better than me and I know this cause I’ve played top players from Toronto in various games. I’ve even played Justin Wong in tourney. I got owned, no surprise to me. Now, if some top player moved here, I think given a few weeks to a couple months I would hang with him and go even at the very least. But that’s a scenario that will never happen. So what would really go down (and has gone down a few times before) if I played someone good that places in tourneys is that I would get owned, feel horrible, not sleep well that night, then let my ego heal the pain, and then let my brain rationalize the previous scenario I mentioned. Shit, I’ve lost to people I don’t even think are good, but it’s my fault for being the type of player that needs a bit of time to adapt to a style.

Anyway, bottom line…I don’t have a chance in hell to become the “best” (read: a recognized top player), and realistically 99% of people on this forum don’t either. At this point in time, I’m satisfied knowing that I know how to play SF. Given a chance to play a few solid hours with me in pretty much any SF game, I don’t think anyone would consider it time wasted.

Digital · March 30, 2010, 4:01am

Watching Daigo play instead of Alex Valle, makes me wanna be the best I can be.

Zaruka · March 30, 2010, 4:23am

when i get my ass destroyed from my opponent, yea it makes me frustrated but at least in 3rd strike i usually keep playing them, to try to learn something. when i get beat like that i just want to keep playing so i can stand a chance against good players.

although i mostly play online since Oklahoma fight club is once a mouth, but it a lot more fun to play local.

KMD · March 30, 2010, 4:54am

Nothing really. I used to want to be the best, but I’ve never had a scene, or a car, or comp, or talent, or pride to defend. The urge just sort of died once I hit college and realized that I don’t have the time, the patience, or the energy to actually get past noob tier. I’m just glad to be a part of a community that discusses something unexpected and enjoyable in a technical and trenchant way.

Chun-Li_fanboy · March 30, 2010, 8:00am

I’m not motivated to be the best at all. As a matter of fact i just play for fun. i don’t practice, i tried and it didn’t work. I memorized all of c. vipers moves and couldn’t pull a single one of them off in an actual match. its more fun playing against another living person. I’m okay with some characters but majority of the roster i don’t like using because they’re movesets are so hard to pull off for me on a pad. I’m too cheap to buy a stick so i just stick with playing cammy, chun and sagat and call it a day. I’ve actually beat a few people with fei long but i just chocked it up to them being 10 year olds. I stopped caring when one day i got online and couldn’t win one match, practiced for a few hours and still couldn’t win a match. I just chalked it up to me not having the talent and went back to playing for fun. Its just digital W’s.

Kazuhiro · March 30, 2010, 8:45am

The motivation for me

was them telling me what I couldn’t be…

Oh well~

Yanushik · April 7, 2010, 10:34am

My motivation? my motivation!!!

Im comin for ya.

System_1 · April 7, 2010, 10:47pm

My motivation is stems from 2 reasons:

People telling me I’ll never be good at anything. I compete to prove them wrong. It’s an on-going thing I say. I’m so much better than almost all of those people now that they refuse to even play me…even made a couple of them quit playing for good.
I see how good people can get at FG’s, and it makes me think “I can be that good too”. I want to be awesome at something I feel that I am quite good at, which leads me to tournaments and watching vids.