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I pay to watch a dramatization of that (it was most likely ZeRo so just use him)
i cant seem to figure it out but this does not make sense...
how pissed I would be if a 10 year old kid beat me in Smash Bros. I get mad when my 8 year old brother beats me in Project M.Update: Sky denies being in on the hoax but gives a detailed account of how it was determined at the event that something was wrong. It also appears D1 and other personalities had no knowledge of the marketing ploy. It is still unknown who was playing the game in a sealed white room behind the large LCD screen.
This weekend a GameStop in West Hollywood, CA held a event showing off the new Super Smash Brothers for Wii U. Despite little fanfare or forewarning to the competitive community, the event somehow garnered the presence of many top Smashers - and the special presence of D'Ron "D1" Maingrette who was among the commentators at the E3 Nintendo Invitational. During the course of the event, many competitive Smashers and some outsiders with a unusually high volume of Twitter followers began to speak of a 10-year old who had an uncanny handling of the game.
There was so much hope.
The 10-year old was labeled "Karissa the Destoyer" and reputable sites like Shoryuken, Nintendo Life, and Kotaku, all jumped on the story - eager to point to a child prodigy demolishing competitive Smashers. The narrative was exciting and unfortunately all to believable for many who are unwilling to acknowledge the huge skill gaps that exist in Smash or in competitive gaming as a whole. Some even savored that an unknown, novice at the game could defeat players with over 10,000 hours of experience and national-level tournament victories. The story only lasted a few hours before it began to unravel. The below was posted to an LA Casting agency site on November 3rd regarding putting ringers at the GameStop event:
"RINGERS / Non-Union / "GAMESTOP/SUPER SMASH BROTHERS" / Principal / Male or Female / All Ethnicities / 16-30
Looking for 6 gamers as planted people to compete against our girl. Looking for men and women, aged 16-36, all ethnicities. NEED TO HAVE familiarity and some skill at Super Smash Brothers the game. {The shoot is basically a hidden camera job where we have a little girl (RINGER/LEAD GIRL) play Super Smash Brothers against a series of opponents at a sneak peak before the launch.
Wardrobe: Casual
Rate: $350/10 HR + 20% 2YR BUYOUT"
The Casting Call for a Ringer at GameStop
In additional to the casting call, the sheer number of personalities from a variety of gaming backgrounds should have raised suspicion, along with evidence in the video itself where the ringer's hands aren't on the controller but the characters continue to move on screen.
Exactly which Smashers were in on it and which were innocent bystanders will likely be revealed in the coming days. Still unknown is who was playing the character on screen behind the curtains as well. The several thousand dollars that went behind this hoax likely paid off for a little while as the first video initially exploded to over 80,000 YouTube views. Who was behind the hoax - Nintendo of America or GameStop, also remains to be seen. You can check out Karissa's professional actor website here.
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Making a good point... Check.And you guys are going to make a huge deal out of this?
Maybe M2K actually stands for "Mew2Karissa"
There are very few people that can play Dedede, Diddy and Shiek at such a high level. It would have to be someone who's invested a lot of time into Sm4sh and is “famous" enough for GameStop to hire him.
Honestly though, whoever it was, you can't blame them for taking that gig. Getting paid to beat people in Smash all day sounds awesome.
Indeed it does.
Nintendo has been known to have negative views towards competitive smash, this could be a ploy to get kids to think they can be good too, .. If u wonder why does nintendo dislike the competition, the only reason could be is they think its negative for sales since that's all that matters to them.. Plus it can also be used as a jab towards the competitive scene... All that would only make sense if nintendo was involved..
It happened Arc. I tried to stop it.
Are you sure? With Sm4sh nintendo has been trying to cater to both audiences and not just casuals. I know it was just a fun tournament,but the E3 invitational was kind of showing the competitive players that nintendo wanted to try to make a game both them and casual players could enjoy. The same could be said about For Glory and For Fun, though FG isn't exactly the most competitive environment, they still tried to please competitive players. Another example is they removed random tripping, made the game speed faster than brawl, and (whether intentional or not) there are a ton of advanced techniques ( though most are character specific or only useful for few characters).
Yeah I know they tried to appeal to the competitive scene this time around but why did they strongly oppose it in the past? Tripping in brawl for example was purely made to make the game not viable for competitive play. They have been hostile to it.. The only reason to oppose it would be sales related. They did have the attitude of anti competition.. I bet some of that attitude is still with them Even though they did cave in a bit to the competitive scene this time around.
