KanyeRest
bair-condtioned nightmare
i feel like all this animosity between smash and the FGC, and especially melee and brawl is so over-exaggerated and worn out, that it's useless at this point.
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Get Melee into Evo 2013! (FOR REALS... maybe)
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Atlus8
Smash Master
Bones0 is so hot right now! Bones0!
I can only imagine the backlash EVO could receive if they just brush off the results of the poll and went on ahead in making their own line-up for games that didn't do so well on it!
I can only imagine the backlash EVO could receive if they just brush off the results of the poll and went on ahead in making their own line-up for games that didn't do so well on it!
KrIsP!
Smash Champion
I never noticed the exclamation points until someone pointed them out
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Emily (Doll666) showed me text messages from Atlus once at APEX and they all ended in exclamation points as well. It was hilarious.
You mean like when they'll probably run UMvC3 on PS3s again despite many complaints of the game lagging on that console, and how they'll probably run PlayStation All-Star Battle Royale because if Sony's sponsoring EVO hard enough to run everything on PS3's, they might as well cough up a bit more to run their flagship mascot title too? Or how SFxT's possibly gonna be in next year's lineup anyway because Capcom is really pushing it hard as its most current title?
...Nah, that'll never happen.
KrIsP!
Smash Champion
I'm sure we'll be able to take SF4's spot. I mean just LOOK at the votes! Of course KOF's making a push and that sony thing is a big problem. I guess we'll have to wait and see, and keep fighting.
Bones0
Smash Legend
I didn't even notice them in his last post until after I read yours!
Habefiet
Smash Journeyman
In other news, those of you that check Melee Discussion will have noticed that a Street Fighter player by the name of Atomi has made an account here after seeing the success of our voting campaign and has made a topic asking for advice on how to get started in Melee, which to me means we succeeded. Someone with a self-proclaimed bias against Melee was impressed enough by our poll results that he's going to try it out. That's astonishingly cool, and hopefully it means there are some other people whose perceptions are at least being altered a bit.
SUNG666
Smash Ace
^Thats what its all about baby
DrinkingFood
Smash Hero
Somebody should refer him to this thread. And one of those general guides as well, of course.
Habefiet
Smash Journeyman
... why not do it yourself? The topic is on the front page of Melee Discussion. 
He's been referred to Wak's Advanced How to Play vids and such.
He's been referred to Wak's Advanced How to Play vids and such.
I hope that all of this attention will in fact foster some more respect for smash at the least, and possibly get us into larger FGC nationals.
Maybe if we get into EVO it will even get MLG to take us seriously again. Or at least stop taking away features from Smashboards and recognize that the melee community is stable, and dedicated to an undying game.
Maybe if we get into EVO it will even get MLG to take us seriously again. Or at least stop taking away features from Smashboards and recognize that the melee community is stable, and dedicated to an undying game.
rawrimamonster
Smash Ace
What people gotta remember is the traditional FGC is full of people who will discard smash at its image. They'll see the rainbows on dreamland and just go "HEH GAAAAAYEEEE" and dismiss it completely because it doesn't pander to their specific mindset of what a fighting game should be.
I hate the FGC, I'd rather not affiliate with their dumb ***** but we do need the help to make the community grow so w/e.
rawrimamonster
Smash Ace
What stages do you think might appeal to the FCG? Planet Zebes? It's so gruely looking. What about characters? Perhaps Captain Falcon. He's a human and he's muscly so there we go.
falcon isn't turtle enough
Pritch
Smash Lord
Honestly bro, you're welcome to your opinions and all, but the last couple of days have obviously gotten us a lot of attention and this atomi guy is probably not going to be the last person to wander over here as a result of that poll. They might just find their way into the thread discussing said poll.
And it would suck if their first impression of our community was someone calling them a dumb *****. Just sayin'
EDIT: Or to put it another way, which of these 2 statements is the more negative one?
And it would suck if their first impression of our community was someone calling them a dumb *****. Just sayin'
EDIT: Or to put it another way, which of these 2 statements is the more negative one?
hey guys
i play ssf4. lets be real for a moment; smash bros is a joke to the majority of our community. there is the "lol at least its not smash bros" gag being thrown out there every once in a while
im biased against your game. im self aware enough to admit that. all ive heard is that its bad, and its a completely different system from the fighter games that ive played. plus, i find it hard to take a fighting game with peach seriously (lol). when i saw melee as an option on the evo poll the first hour it was up, i laughed.
as comfortable as it is to hold onto bias, the simple truth is...you are crushing the poll. no, youre dominating it. i wasnt even aware that smash bros melee had a competitive scene, let alone one that was 11 years old! then you went and ****ing garnered 4,000 votes in 2 days? more than that, you actually have widespread support of high level matches being at evo.
im not a fan of the philosophy of "ive never played that game, but omg its so bad". im willing to give it a shot. in fact, the facebook poll results have convinced me to give it a shot. so, for the next 5 months, im going to be giving ssbm my best effort. lol i put a number on it, because i know that ill get mad sometime along the way, and thatll make me stop if i dont have a time set
unfortunately, i have absolutely no idea where to start. i bought a gamecube today (shouting out to my local dave's video, $30.00 for a gamecube and controller), and im getting a copy of ssbm tomorrow. i took a look at your faq, and your basics threads dont tell me a lot
my basics are probably really basic lol, so...hey, im Atomi. where do i start?
Juggleguy
Smash Grimer
Come at me bros. I challenge anyone to get a higher number of FB friends to vote for this thing.
That's great and all, but will your friends attend upcoming tournaments? It's not a really good idea to have a bunch of people that don't even play Smash vote on the poll if they won't also back up tournament attendance where it matters.
Come at me bros. I challenge anyone to get a higher number of FB friends to vote for this thing.
kd-
Smash Lord
We're usually pretty good about attending tournaments, Michigan's attendance rate played a part in allowing us/Juggleguy to host The Road to Apex: The Big House (1)
Edit: Not that all of his friends are from Michigan <_< Definitely some road warriors in there, i.e. the Pittsburgh crew
Also, love the name. Part 2 is probably my favorite
Edit: Not that all of his friends are from Michigan <_< Definitely some road warriors in there, i.e. the Pittsburgh crew
Also, love the name. Part 2 is probably my favorite
MajorMoses
Smash Journeyman
It's not just about tournament attendance. It's about livestream attendance.
Stratford
Smash Champion
Hahahaha. Get 'em Rob!
Come at me bros. I challenge anyone to get a higher number of FB friends to vote for this thing.
Yes.
onionchowder
Smash Journeyman
If we get into EVO, we better hope that GFs aren't HBox vs. Armada. Otherwise smash will just get laughed out again.
R2_GP
Smash Journeyman
I think about this everyday since melee started dominating this poll, now this is a real problem
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Not when MaNg0's 1 of the 2 players in grand finals
Nah, it wont get laughed out, the players will just get a bunch of hate like Chris G.
R2_GP
Smash Journeyman
they will laugh! they will leave! it could be a complete disaster!
Smooth Criminal
Da Cheef
Lovage
Smash Hero
u guys are all silly
pretty easy to see the only "animosity" comes from random SRK n00bs raging at random smashboards n00bs
people who are actually good at games know melee is ****
Thanks
Is it? Maybe it'd be a good thing to have a lot of viewers on Smash streams, but I dunno, if I were EVO, I would prefer having a large attendance at my tournaments than a lot viewers on my livestream because in the end, the tournament attendees create the entertainment and pretty much make up what EVO is today. So if I were EVO and I'm looking at Smash tournaments to see if Smash might be worthwile to add to the lineup, I would pay close attention to tournament turnouts moreso than livestream viewers.
KrIsP!
Smash Champion
If you read the FGC threads on this, they're more worried about smash being on stream/smash bringing large audiences on stream in their arguments. They'll make more money off of us watching ads on their stream than they would at the tournament since they can't take from the pot and have to pay for the venue. They get sponsored and are more worried with the 'best' competition and most viewers than 1000 entrants who don't play very well showing up. Of course attendance is still needed, we can't let 40 people show up, it has to be in the hundreds but that's not the only thing they're looking for, if they were we'd be in every year and it'd be advertised to casuals.
No, no, I'm talking about tournaments right now. Tournaments that we as a grassroot community are hosting; not EVO. It just would make sense to have large turnouts in our tournaments in light of the recent EVO poll. Great, we have a bunch of votes on Facebook. Now let's show them we mean business by having large turnouts at tournaments.
There's a tournament happening in my area and someone put it very nicely and I paraphrase:
"If you live in SoCal (because the tournament is in SoCal) and voted for Melee on the EVO poll and you don't go to the tournament, you're an *******"
There's a tournament happening in my area and someone put it very nicely and I paraphrase:
"If you live in SoCal (because the tournament is in SoCal) and voted for Melee on the EVO poll and you don't go to the tournament, you're an *******"
R2_GP
Smash Journeyman
we have to shine at apex13, but we have to do it wayyyy better than brawl!
Gliffie
Smash Apprentice
My blog on ScrewAttack got featured has about 1500 views! I could use some help with the commenters though, lol
http://www.screwattack.com/news/vote-super-smash-bros-meleebrawl-evo-2013
http://www.screwattack.com/news/vote-super-smash-bros-meleebrawl-evo-2013
Revven
FrankerZ
That's the mainstream audience for you. Those comments on there? They're by gamers who probably haven't played even Brawl for several months now or more.
Gliffie
Smash Apprentice
The first page has a lot of scrubby comments, but some a very positive about Smash. If any of you have an SA account, help them understand!
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Nope. I aint reading a thing more. Well, at least the last sentence is kind of correctish
Stevo
Smash Champion
it is amazing how ignorant people are. In every aspect of life.
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