Scar's post is great
Once again, a large amount of people in Tristate do not drive, or have cars. I wouldn't go out of my way to pick up Mango or PP or anyone for that matter for something like this. As for people ignoring your phone calls or "not caring", I say bull****. It's no one's responsibility but your own to arrange a ride from the airport, and expecting preferential treatment cause your good at a video game is sooooo beyond fake.
Frankly after a number of conversations I've had with some "top players" this week on AIM/FB/Smashboards, I'm sick of this scene. I'm about to pull a Prog and get the **** out of here
I don't think it's about being a good player at all. If I knew a smasher that was coming to an event in FL from NYC and I had a car and I knew they were stranded at the airport, it doesn't matter to me whether they are M2K or jo schmo who picked up the game last week. Especially if it was a smasher I'd met before and had spent time with, I'd take a little bit of time to go pick them up, especially if it cost me nothing financially to do so and they'd be willing to pay me.
HungryBox did arrange a ride, but that plan fell through as plans sometimes do.
It's not about HungryBox being a good player, it's about giving a damn about people who are a part of your community. That's what I've felt in the past differentiates smash from say a shooter community where no one gives a **** about you. We house each other, we know each other by name, and generally we give a crap if they are stranded. If you don't give a damn about other people then you do that, as for me, I actually care about the people I play smash with and wouldn't leave them stranded.
Naturally I place no blame on people if they don't drive or don't have cars, and I have sympathy for people who had driven for hours. The bottom line is someone did step up. I'm simply against the argument that we shouldn't care about other players.