Everyone quiting: DON'T QUIT!!! local STL tourneys will still happen and the dumb **** that happened at this tourney won't. Kurasa doesn't understand the smash scene and him loosing money is in a HUGE part his own fault. Him dropping smash is definitely going to be good for the local scene and theres no reason to quit when everyone has a good time going to the tourneys.
Hi guys,
I am one of Jeff's sponsors, and I work with all gaming communities, fighters, shooters, MMO's, RTS - it doesnt matter to me, we have fun with all of them.
We love our SF community, we love our Brawl communities...to me in the end its about playing the games we love and competiting in the games we excel in.
with that said, I wanted to chime in to the above. While I have already read through most of the posts and see that Future to a degree had realized his error in his post. My point is not about Future, rather your post future is my example.
Jeff is a great guy and really thinks like I do, support all gaming communities bring everyone together - Let them play - if you will...
The Venue fees aside and covering events is a risk, in this scenario it cost him a little bit. While that hurts a bit, he will be fine and we move on. The point here overall, while the drudgery of argument continues about validity of a game, is a simple point. The Smash community as a whole had all the tools in their hand to make this happen for them, there were even extra CRT's we (GPX) brought in for you guys at Jeff's request.
The folks that ran this aspect did a fine job at event, this goes without question, you ran your tourneys, you organized your space and you tore it down effectively and maintained professionalism, that is always appreciated.
The issue here goes to the heart of the problem, and this is the only reason I am posting my message - as an organizer of hundreds of events myself I like to incorporate everyone in as many communities as possible and I like to put the tools in the hands of those groups to do what they need.
In this case Jeff provided the location, and also provided a bonus pot.
The remainder is in the hands of this community. There is toooo much drama, if I may be allowed to use the word in this community. Why? and for what reason?
It really does not matter whether you used Brawl, Brawl+ or BBrawl....you guys were able to really setup whichever titles you chose, while my understanding is there were changes made in some degree as to which title was the main with bonus - that does not change the fact that you can still come and gather and hold the tourneys for your communities.
Do you guys understand where I am coming from with this?
The place is provided, come and play - that simple. whichever title is made main, fine - hold the other tourneys yourselves in the same space and organize, its not as easy at it sounds, but all good things like this take work guys.
EDIT: If your only supporting your own community when money is involved you will have to work within the confines of he who gives it, and that means you need to play nice with them...if the community does not come when no money is involved, my opinion on this is simple - you just have no real love of your game.
I hope that all these issues can be resolved within all your communities here in St. Louis and surrounding, there are a lot of great people here, who cares about Brawl or SF as separate communities - you are all
gamers...that unites you all - act like it...wait..you guys know what I mean.
If solutions have been resolved to a degree behind the scenes for this I hope to be able to help in anyway shape or form, for me I speak in many languages - I am fluent in Finance, to make sure this is not dangerous for Jeff and I l33t 5p3ak to make sure the gamers are happy...
If I can see the middle ground, there is no reason the rest of you can't. Blame is no longer a necessity - Learning from the experience, growing from it, accepting personal responsibilities, adapting to make things better, and then making it happen are whats important.
I retreat now back to watching Jeff play Magic at a local Comic shop as I work on my own events. I wish you all well.
