Name them pls. I want to learrrrrnnnn everything. I will not let this once great state fall. Tyler will reign.
Also I'm young but I'm def not younger than melee looool
I'm like within a months age of smoom btw.
No joke, im not gonna list 30 reasons why our state/city died but ill cover a few big ones because this **** is REAL.
*listen to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVEvg4jtGlk to help the truth not hurt as much*
1. Brawl just sucks from A to Z. From tripping to grab armor to transcending priority to ******** *** hit boxes to bananas (an ITEM that TRIPS) to infinite/semi infintie grabs to jab/tilt locks.....ect. Oh and did i mention that this game is a defensive campy camp fest? The list can go on but there is no need to continue, the game just overall is a pile of steaming Chewbacca ****. Because of this fact, CoD, marvel, LoL, WoW, melee and other games (lmao almost any game is better than brawl imo) have taken our players.
2. Metaknight. It been a mathematical FACT since year 1 that he has taken over this game. Whether its money won or tournaments won or simply spots held, he takes the cake by a HUGE margin in both singles and teams. Hes the only character that cannot be counter picked and the only character that can be used as a "pocket character" and still have a rather large success rate no matter the person using him. Thus proving there is literally no reason why anybody on this planet should pick any other character. We literally had to create certain RULES, special rulesets and even GROUPS of people (BBR:RC) to deal with this character. LOL that is lunacy.
3. The terrible 3 (or 4). Gnes/Razer/Trela and perhaps Dojo. Very Good players. Very Good people. But claiming the top 3 spots for 2+ years (maybe more?) straight is just ridiculous. Whether we (the people) allowed it to happen or not, it did damage to our scene. Its not their fault (dojo/trela/gnes/razer) at all but it did damage to the scene. Countless Tx players don't want to go to an event with these guys because they know ALREADY that they must settle for 4th place (assuming they are playing their best) or lower.
4. No Co-operation and lots of greed. I wont name them but do you know lots of Tx TOs make decent amounts of money off of running events? When making money off of running events becomes a goal, you damage your community. No longer will you co-operate with other TOs when it comes to times/dates or simply running an event WITH them because you want to make money. The other part of this coin is the fact that many TOs don't care what other TOs are doing, they will run events WHEN THEY WANT TO AND POO POO ON YOU IF YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE AN EVENT THAT DAY/WEEK. It happens in Dallas now and at one point in SA. People will literally hold 4 tournaments in one month. That not only means ALL events will get low turnout it also means people will get burnt out on smash. Its selfish and damaging to the scene.
5. Bad tournament experiences. For this part, i will use myself as an example because i have definitely hosted some **** tournaments in my time. HOBO 19 was held at funplex and had 71 people. It took me from 12noon to 6:30am THE NEXT DAY to finish that event......yea thats 18.5 hours for an event that had 15 set-ups. We had to finish the event in a HOTEL ROOM. Now lets look at QuakeCon 2010. Over 200 people were standing in line to sign up (i had to end it at 123 entrants) all for a shot at 500$. We had less than 11 set-ups, no microphone and there were about 300 other people in that room playing nerd computer games so yelling out names was in a pool of 500 people was impossible. The point is, its experiences like HOBO 19 and QuakeCon that cause newcomers and even older players to finally say "WTF am i doing here? this **** sucks. im done" Well i feel too many times people in this city/state have simply had too many bad experiences with tournaments and they decided its better to stay at home from now on. Ask anybody who went to Ascension 4 and they WILL agree.
6. Money and cars. No need to really go into crazy detail with this but it is a fact. Tons of people do not have reliable cars to drive to events. The ones that do must ask for gas money and that is a problem as well because tons of players have no jobs or have very limited funds. Gas money+food money+venue fee+tournament event fees= EASILY 50$ or more for 1 day of fun. For lots of people its just not a financially sound decision.
7. Texas is HUGE. From Houston, it takes 4-5 hours to get to Dallas. 3-4 hours to get to Louisiana. 3-4 to Austin. 3-4 to San Antonio. 4-5 to San Angelo. 12 to El Paso. How many times do you wanna drive those distances before you realize "holy poop scoops, this is not fun."
8. This **** is getting old. Ive done 38 HOBOs, 4 WHOBOs and helped run COUNTLESS other events in Houston like OzzFest/Sync Sex Saloon/P4's PeeHole/Smoom Boom's Room of Doom/MarBar's BarHar/Batman's Booty Bustin BirthDay Brawl Bash and events in other cities. The sad part is......that is just ME. How many other TOs out there in Texas run events (remember the Phase series and the Final Smash series)? How many events have they done? In your short time here in texas smash, how many fests+tournaments have you been to? The point is, i truly believe that Texas brawl has been played more in the past 4 years its been around than the entire 7 years melee was around. People are just smashed out.
9. Housing. How many times do people abuse free housing? When i say abuse i mean STEAL/BREAK or just TRASH OUT a house? The host is literally taking a chance with his LIFE and PROPERTY in order for you guys to have a free (or dirt cheap) place to stay and people STILL abuse it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRgzrURCDlo
Anyways, its all of this^ and more that has caused our scene to decay to the point it is at now. I honestly dont think it can recover to the point of the old days...even if it can recover at all. Though if the people want to STILL try and pump water out of this sinking ship (omfg did i just say brawl is a sinking ship? may god help us all...) then there needs to be a Bat signal aimed at the skies very soon.....
