Gichan
Smash Champion
Alrights, so I read some posts while at work but wasn't able to post.
I'll explain one more time about the situation with the venue and people's complaints.
1. The heat, ok, it ****ing sucked! I KNOW ALREADY! Like I was ****ing dying as much, if not worse, as you guys. I nearly passed out a ****load of times because of forgetting to hydrate due to being so damn busy with the ****ing tournament. My throat was parched at the end, and throughout, of the tournament and I couldn't believe how much I needed a drink that when I had one I must have creamed my pants.
2. The whole thing about too many people in the room: Too many games. Alright, it was definitely a surprise that that many people even showed up for a tournament in Sauga, and I'm glad it was the case. But a tournament is a tournament, there are times people are crying for one, and when they get it, cry some more. There is no way that venue can be used for two days if people are complaining about $10 venue fee, what the **** do you think we'd have to charge if we did it another day, or made it a two day event? Venues are not cheap, back then $5 was possible, not anymore. Let alone venues that allow the hours that we need for these tournaments.
3. Food...ok I understand where you guys are coming from but do you know how many people ate? How much food was consumed? I'm telling, if there was no food and drinks, people would be crrryyiinnng just as much, if not less, of the cooking that took place. The heat was unbearable, but if people wanted a drink from a convenience store, good luck to you, the closest one was like an 8-10 min walk away.
4. Seeding. Googs, you are right, that sucks. But from your posts you seem to be claiming a high *** seed, which I don't understand how you can warrant for that. Your gta placings till now have been 13 and 17th, and the first one you came to in Jan you lost to pharaoh and raidos, not holy. I don't know what you want man, but I hope you get the seeding you wanted next tournament. Sauc3 is another guy who puts up with Holy every tourney, but you know what? Who the **** wants to play Holy? That's an automatic loss, we've all been there and done that with ally and holy
5. Schedule....wtf...this one made me ****ing blow up inside. I waste my ****ING TIME doing this **** to get the tournament count up for our scene and there's a waah about 2 hours of which was next to impossible for me to close? I had no microphone, or even a megaphone, to call out matches. I ahd to bug Tin for his loud *** voice to get some matches. So what did I do instead??? Run around finding you ****ers to play your matches. Talk about heat, I was nearly always moving. With lack of set-ups, that show lack of support from the community, I think I still did great. Not as good as OPC, but still a good job. I was ****ing stressed and when my T.Oing skills are questioned, **** that, not gonna just take it. I don't mind feedback on certain things, but like a situation like this tournament, there was not much I could do. That venue wasn't necessarily that small, just a lot of stuff in it. I couldn't reach you guys with my voice, and even the louder ones could not be heard here and there.
6. I saw Tin being blamed for not announcing matches, he was not co-hosting this at all, he did me big favours by calling out some matches, and by doing the seeding, which prsonally I trust a lot. To anyone else who were calling some matches I ****ing thank you so much cause there were times I really just wanted to throw the towel and not host this one, dat heat man, it contributed to much to the stress I had.
7. GUARD, if you don't like multi-game tournaments and don't wanna come to GTA for them, fine, by all means. There's always those 15 man tournaments at KK's place that I hear also reaches like 40 degrees cause he ALSO does not have A/C.
I'll be honest for this one, I did not enjoy hosting, co-hosting, this one at all. I did not have much fun and I was dying throughout that day. Lack of set-ups pissed me off to and just overall wanted to have fun like the rest of you but was denied due to time restraints and ****. I've considered all my tournies, hosted or co-hosted, as my babies, but this one I would have loved to abort.
And Googs, I'm really sorry for you man. I know how it feels to lose a friend and just hang on to something of theirs, in your case, damn, that's special and it's sad to hear. I hope someone forks it up. But I gotta say, Hype brought it up, smash scene isn't that innocent, we have had our deal of theft whereas I hear SRK community have not had an issue like that in a loooong while...
That's all for me now. Man the time spent on this I could have done some shoutouts....oh well.
I'll explain one more time about the situation with the venue and people's complaints.
1. The heat, ok, it ****ing sucked! I KNOW ALREADY! Like I was ****ing dying as much, if not worse, as you guys. I nearly passed out a ****load of times because of forgetting to hydrate due to being so damn busy with the ****ing tournament. My throat was parched at the end, and throughout, of the tournament and I couldn't believe how much I needed a drink that when I had one I must have creamed my pants.
2. The whole thing about too many people in the room: Too many games. Alright, it was definitely a surprise that that many people even showed up for a tournament in Sauga, and I'm glad it was the case. But a tournament is a tournament, there are times people are crying for one, and when they get it, cry some more. There is no way that venue can be used for two days if people are complaining about $10 venue fee, what the **** do you think we'd have to charge if we did it another day, or made it a two day event? Venues are not cheap, back then $5 was possible, not anymore. Let alone venues that allow the hours that we need for these tournaments.
3. Food...ok I understand where you guys are coming from but do you know how many people ate? How much food was consumed? I'm telling, if there was no food and drinks, people would be crrryyiinnng just as much, if not less, of the cooking that took place. The heat was unbearable, but if people wanted a drink from a convenience store, good luck to you, the closest one was like an 8-10 min walk away.
4. Seeding. Googs, you are right, that sucks. But from your posts you seem to be claiming a high *** seed, which I don't understand how you can warrant for that. Your gta placings till now have been 13 and 17th, and the first one you came to in Jan you lost to pharaoh and raidos, not holy. I don't know what you want man, but I hope you get the seeding you wanted next tournament. Sauc3 is another guy who puts up with Holy every tourney, but you know what? Who the **** wants to play Holy? That's an automatic loss, we've all been there and done that with ally and holy
5. Schedule....wtf...this one made me ****ing blow up inside. I waste my ****ING TIME doing this **** to get the tournament count up for our scene and there's a waah about 2 hours of which was next to impossible for me to close? I had no microphone, or even a megaphone, to call out matches. I ahd to bug Tin for his loud *** voice to get some matches. So what did I do instead??? Run around finding you ****ers to play your matches. Talk about heat, I was nearly always moving. With lack of set-ups, that show lack of support from the community, I think I still did great. Not as good as OPC, but still a good job. I was ****ing stressed and when my T.Oing skills are questioned, **** that, not gonna just take it. I don't mind feedback on certain things, but like a situation like this tournament, there was not much I could do. That venue wasn't necessarily that small, just a lot of stuff in it. I couldn't reach you guys with my voice, and even the louder ones could not be heard here and there.
6. I saw Tin being blamed for not announcing matches, he was not co-hosting this at all, he did me big favours by calling out some matches, and by doing the seeding, which prsonally I trust a lot. To anyone else who were calling some matches I ****ing thank you so much cause there were times I really just wanted to throw the towel and not host this one, dat heat man, it contributed to much to the stress I had.
7. GUARD, if you don't like multi-game tournaments and don't wanna come to GTA for them, fine, by all means. There's always those 15 man tournaments at KK's place that I hear also reaches like 40 degrees cause he ALSO does not have A/C.
I'll be honest for this one, I did not enjoy hosting, co-hosting, this one at all. I did not have much fun and I was dying throughout that day. Lack of set-ups pissed me off to and just overall wanted to have fun like the rest of you but was denied due to time restraints and ****. I've considered all my tournies, hosted or co-hosted, as my babies, but this one I would have loved to abort.
And Googs, I'm really sorry for you man. I know how it feels to lose a friend and just hang on to something of theirs, in your case, damn, that's special and it's sad to hear. I hope someone forks it up. But I gotta say, Hype brought it up, smash scene isn't that innocent, we have had our deal of theft whereas I hear SRK community have not had an issue like that in a loooong while...
That's all for me now. Man the time spent on this I could have done some shoutouts....oh well.