Fonz
Smash Ace
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I think this entire thing is a bit silly. Of course they're in it for the money, smashers who are shocked by this are just naive. Even our beloved (at least I love them) C3 and the former CCX were in it for the money. A venue fee is perfectly reasonable, and almost expected. C3 recently beefed up its venue fee, but people didn't really mind. 8 bucks is pretty close to 10. The difference is C3 has proven itself to be a great time and reliable source for fun times. I understand some of you are rather young/unemployed so even entering tourneys let alone paying venue fees is a strain, but it's unavoidable. Theres little point to protesting them, they're not going anywhere.
While C3's tournament organizer is clearly more interested in fighting games like J-tyme, he has proven himself to the smash community time and time again, and has even learned our game. Simply put, Renegade is the ****. J-tyme, who you say is only your business partner, has made it shockingly clear he is only attempting to use the smash community's easy draw of 40+ players every weekend to help pay for part of the venue fee so he can run other games that he enjoys more. Time after time we have been promised, and always let down.
I myself have never attended a j-tyme tournament, the only one I ever planned to was canceled the night before it was supposed to happen. I felt everyone's reasonable complaints about lack of tvs/space/bracket running were reason enough for me not to attend. I've never seen/been to a single other smash tournament in the md/va area with more than minor complaints. I had to travel to the hole of a state called NJ to find a truely bad smash tourney. Based on reading all the threads about your tournaments where j-tyme is loosely or even more than loosely associated you probably think the smash community is terribly picky. That really isn't the case though. All we want is a room with space for tvs and plenty of time to smash. We'll even bring tvs/cubes if you make it clear you'll need them. If you don't want to waste any time on smash, give a respected member of the community free entry or something in order to get someone to run the brackets.
In the end I don't even really care that smash is being used to help pay venue fees, just give us whats promised and a venue fees more than fair. Showing up to a tourney where we're promised 10 Tvs and finding 2 is just bad business (George Mason). If you guys are really in it for the money, make smart business decisions. You say give us a shot, but in my mind we have. I don't care if you're not J-tyme, being his business partner is a pretty big deal. I hope my intuition is incorrect and this tournament has little J-tyme influence and goes smoothly so we have a replacement for CCX in maryland.
I think this entire thing is a bit silly. Of course they're in it for the money, smashers who are shocked by this are just naive. Even our beloved (at least I love them) C3 and the former CCX were in it for the money. A venue fee is perfectly reasonable, and almost expected. C3 recently beefed up its venue fee, but people didn't really mind. 8 bucks is pretty close to 10. The difference is C3 has proven itself to be a great time and reliable source for fun times. I understand some of you are rather young/unemployed so even entering tourneys let alone paying venue fees is a strain, but it's unavoidable. Theres little point to protesting them, they're not going anywhere.
While C3's tournament organizer is clearly more interested in fighting games like J-tyme, he has proven himself to the smash community time and time again, and has even learned our game. Simply put, Renegade is the ****. J-tyme, who you say is only your business partner, has made it shockingly clear he is only attempting to use the smash community's easy draw of 40+ players every weekend to help pay for part of the venue fee so he can run other games that he enjoys more. Time after time we have been promised, and always let down.
I myself have never attended a j-tyme tournament, the only one I ever planned to was canceled the night before it was supposed to happen. I felt everyone's reasonable complaints about lack of tvs/space/bracket running were reason enough for me not to attend. I've never seen/been to a single other smash tournament in the md/va area with more than minor complaints. I had to travel to the hole of a state called NJ to find a truely bad smash tourney. Based on reading all the threads about your tournaments where j-tyme is loosely or even more than loosely associated you probably think the smash community is terribly picky. That really isn't the case though. All we want is a room with space for tvs and plenty of time to smash. We'll even bring tvs/cubes if you make it clear you'll need them. If you don't want to waste any time on smash, give a respected member of the community free entry or something in order to get someone to run the brackets.
In the end I don't even really care that smash is being used to help pay venue fees, just give us whats promised and a venue fees more than fair. Showing up to a tourney where we're promised 10 Tvs and finding 2 is just bad business (George Mason). If you guys are really in it for the money, make smart business decisions. You say give us a shot, but in my mind we have. I don't care if you're not J-tyme, being his business partner is a pretty big deal. I hope my intuition is incorrect and this tournament has little J-tyme influence and goes smoothly so we have a replacement for CCX in maryland.