jerflip
Smash Apprentice
Now I'm wondering how many of those donations are legit... I'm sure the totals for both SSBM and SG will be lower in 4-5 days
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Event - EVO 2013 (Breast Cancer Research Drive) Melee @ Evo2k13 Donation Topic
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sheikamaru
jive
Congratulations!!!!!!!!!
For anyone who's wants a play-by-play of what happened last night...
I joined the stream at around 9pm (midnight EST), with 3 hours to go. We were donating strong at first, but then it started to stagnate at around 62k. Skullgirls was rising up from 39k to 41k and were doing crazy things on their stream for the drive, like a guy shaving his head for the sake of it. The Melee streamers were doing simple raffles for stuff like a Pink Captain Falcon drawing, a copy of Magicka or an Amazon giftcard.
We consistently kept a 10k lead, although at one point it dropped to 9k. We had a few big pushes in the last hour: The Spirit Bomb at 9pm, then the 11$ at 11pm, and the 11.30 at 11:30. The last two literally crashed the site so no one could donate, that's how many of us were donating at the same time. It came back up within a few minutes. In the last 15 minutes or so, people were donating so fast that it wouldn't even update. People were saying Melee hit 77k when I could see it stilll being stuck at 65k or so. One it finally refreshed again, the final numbers were in. Couldn't believe it, we won by a huge margin, but literally around 40% of the donations came in during the last 15 minutes.
I joined the stream at around 9pm (midnight EST), with 3 hours to go. We were donating strong at first, but then it started to stagnate at around 62k. Skullgirls was rising up from 39k to 41k and were doing crazy things on their stream for the drive, like a guy shaving his head for the sake of it. The Melee streamers were doing simple raffles for stuff like a Pink Captain Falcon drawing, a copy of Magicka or an Amazon giftcard.
We consistently kept a 10k lead, although at one point it dropped to 9k. We had a few big pushes in the last hour: The Spirit Bomb at 9pm, then the 11$ at 11pm, and the 11.30 at 11:30. The last two literally crashed the site so no one could donate, that's how many of us were donating at the same time. It came back up within a few minutes. In the last 15 minutes or so, people were donating so fast that it wouldn't even update. People were saying Melee hit 77k when I could see it stilll being stuck at 65k or so. One it finally refreshed again, the final numbers were in. Couldn't believe it, we won by a huge margin, but literally around 40% of the donations came in during the last 15 minutes.
NickSF93
Smash Cadet
I suppose its possible, but both communities really pulled out all the stops for this. I never really donate to anything and I ended up donating $100. So I wont be surprised if the amounts dont go down.
Habefiet
Smash Journeyman
Oh hush, what reason is there to suspect either community of fraudulence? The EVO staff themselves only ever singled out one game as having suspicious donations, and it wasn't Melee OR Skullgirls. C'mon, why so pessimistic?
Jinyasha
Smash Rookie
It's been so long since I've played Melee. To see this at EVO 2013 is just amazing.
Supermodel From Paris
Smash Hero
So lie, basically.
KrIsP!
Smash Champion
http://shoryuken.com/forum/index.php?threads/evo-players-choice-congratulations-ssbm.174416/
There's also a thread titled "smash and skull girls: bonding communities"
There's also a thread titled "smash and skull girls: bonding communities"
DJLO
Smash Journeyman
this is so awesome you guys, we did it! i threw in 10 bucks, so i feel pretty awesome.
i think this just furthers shows how awesome the melee community is(cue the video of everyone singing the pokemon theme song), and i also think maybe we all felt like "you know what, **** you fgc, we ARE real fighting game and we're gonna be at your tournament iF YOU LIKE IT OR NOT."
now lets blow them away with our tech skill and show em that Melee is a real mans game.
i think this just furthers shows how awesome the melee community is(cue the video of everyone singing the pokemon theme song), and i also think maybe we all felt like "you know what, **** you fgc, we ARE real fighting game and we're gonna be at your tournament iF YOU LIKE IT OR NOT."
now lets blow them away with our tech skill and show em that Melee is a real mans game.
Yeah I made that XDhttp://shoryuken.com/forum/index.php?threads/evo-players-choice-congratulations-ssbm.174416/
There's also a thread titled "smash and skull girls: bonding communities"
jerflip
Smash Apprentice
I'm just sayan, it's possible to donate like 30k and retract it after the fact to fake a win
Like, let's say I wanted to screw over SG, I'd donate 30k to make it look like they won
then cancel it days later
Arzak
Smash Cadet
With the way that credit cards work, this scenario is highly unlikely, unless you think that someone with a >$30k limit on their card decided to ruin their credit rating just to troll smash (which they didn't because the donation increase didn't happen in lump sums). I know that /v/ and /fgg/ think that it's all CC fraud and our parent's money, but watch that total. It's not going to go down at all, because it's 100% legit, straight from the community.
lol, *****. The drive ended at 9am for me and I didn't sleep the entire night.I never even went to bedAnd I wo,rk at 3AM. I feel pretty horrible right now
Totally worth it tho.Yes, totally worth itlol, *****. The drive ended at 9am for me and I didn't sleep the entire night.
Sedda
Smash Champion
Very proud to be a new member for the Smash community and having had the opportunity to be part of the Spirit Bomb.
Congrats everyone!
Congrats everyone!
Babatunde
Smash Journeyman
Welcome, this means you made a difference in the cancer fight, and contributed to the community as well. Thank you!
Renji64
Smash Lord
Congrats to everyone I'm so proud of the smash community. But Reading that thread on shoryuken.com Why people hate on smash so much T.T. Good Luck to everyone I will be watching evo for once now. That amount is amazing.
lordvaati
Smash Master
Crispy4001
Smash Ace
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Judging by the response, they're still mostly irked about Smash's competitive ruleset (ie: no items, some stage bans). Seems silly to me to complain when it's clearly a more engaging competitive game without random drops and whatnot, but it's probably not worth pressing the issue.
Someone brought up their trouble with the gems in SFxT as a counterpoint.
Renji64
Smash Lord
Yeah that is a good point. Smash is not a traditional fighter so course stuff is gonna be different i can't wait to see smash at evo. But it is amazing how everyone came together for such a good cause how is on any gaming sites for news?
LLDL
Smash Hero
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somehow I doubt that anyone that places in the money will be wanting to split with anyone else that places lol.
Revven
FrankerZ
It seems Brolylegs may enter Melee at Evo :o https://twitter.com/xD1x/status/297267229844709376
That's just awesome.
That's just awesome.
We goin' home baby
It's hard to take it seriously when I'm pretty sure some of the people complaining about the rule set have never seen a game of melee before, much less played one (with or without items on). It's like when MLG tried to apply halo rules to starcraft 2 in the first season where if someone got a penalty point their opponent could pick one unit the guy with the penalty could not build... Complaining about a rule set for a game you know nothing about is ridiculous, especially when the reason is "well pick character random stage with default rules work for all the games I play".
Scar
#HarveyDent
There are a fair few comments about no one liking SSBM or whatever but to that I say - some will, some won't. We're not here to force our game on anyone. We never expected that everyone would like it.
And of those that do check our scene out, of course some of them will think it's boring or dumb or whatever. That's also totally fine.
But IMO it's insane / ridiculous to think that there won't be homies that check it out and like it.
Also to the points about evo not accommodating us - I will work as closely with them as I can to make sure this is an awesome event for both Smash and EVO. I don't see any reason why it's not in their interest for us to succeed.
And of those that do check our scene out, of course some of them will think it's boring or dumb or whatever. That's also totally fine.
But IMO it's insane / ridiculous to think that there won't be homies that check it out and like it.
Also to the points about evo not accommodating us - I will work as closely with them as I can to make sure this is an awesome event for both Smash and EVO. I don't see any reason why it's not in their interest for us to succeed.
Gea
Smash Master
We've already had some people step up and offer to broker deals concerning equipment like CRTs and gamecubes. EVO will be a blast, yo. I'm gonna get in on some Melee and AE at the very least.
Exeggutorr
Smash Cadet
When they try to use this argument I just can't take them seriously, it's like they will just look for any reason not to like the game.
CloneHat
Smash Champion
Yah it's just a horrible argument, made more so when the person has no idea what they are talking about.
I remember when I first played Street Fighter II and found out the stages were all exactly the same. I was not impressed
Grinin
Smash Journeyman
Broly is a super cool dude and his marth is pretty legit. He used to come out to Houston tournies all the time, but he hasn't been as active in smash recently.
Gea
Smash Master
Broly has some hype trash talk
Shadocat
Smash Ace
Broly!!! Get hype!!!!
Veggiez
Smash Apprentice
First Ken, and now Broly? Holy **** this is mad hype.
Everyone get on the #megabus
Everyone get on the #megabus
nube
Smash Apprentice
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KrIsP!
Smash Champion
If crowd monsters start a f*** smash chant I'd be down to start a F-Smash chant 
Pengie
Smash Lord
10/10 idea: bonus points if it's during a marth or falco match.If crowd monsters start a f*** smash chant I'd be down to start a F-Smash chant
Also ignore the haters and let them hold that salt. Focus on riding the hype train from here to evo.
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