Melee gets to more French tournaments? Answer the poll!

[Qlex]

The French Melee Community needs your help!

The SouthWest Gamer Arena (short for SWGA), a notorius French fighting games community, has recently gotten interested in Melee. Their next event :

Les Veaux Bordelais. That's a pun referring the name Evo, from the Evolution tournament.

Ironically enough, they made a Evo-like poll saying "What fighting game do you want to see at this event?", and Melee's on it!

https://www.facebook.com/LesVeauxBordelais

The SWGA will take these results into account, not only for Les Veaux Bordelais, but possibly for other tournament-related events where Melee will gain more weight in France, like the Stunfest, or the World Game Cup.

If everything goes well, that makes :

Les Veaux Bordelais -> Stunfest -> World Game Cup

Everything in France, but the latter two are the real deal. They gather players from across the whole World for video game tournaments, the event is very professional and broadcasts the top 8 of way more than ten 64-spot tournaments.


The poll is absolute : The winner of this poll definitely makes it to Les Veaux Bordelais, no money needed at all, and there's only one week left before it closes!

We're counting on you!

 

[foshio]

Three mouse clicks, that is how much effort I put in to helping you. Hope it was enough

 

[Qlex]

Trust me, this is more than enough. Thank you for your time!

 

[CyberZixx]

I need to move to France apparently. They seem to have a big DOA and SC scene. Very refreshing considering the Capcom saturation in NA.

 

[BTmoney]

I helped out as well, everyone should really. The effort it takes is completely minuscule compared to the reward even though most of us won't see the reward. It's just a matter of being unselfish.

 

[Armada]

Three mouse clicks, that is how much effort I put in to helping you. Hope it was enough

That's all the effort that it takes to help out in a case like this. I find it so weird that so many people are so lazy that something that take 2seconds is something that is "to much" to do.

 

[Jolteon]

Voted, posted on Smash UK's fb page. Spread the word, guys.

 

[Slhoka]

I helped out as well, everyone should really. The effort it takes is completely minuscule compared to the reward even though most of us won't see the reward. It's just a matter of being unselfish.

When a scene grows, it can affect the other ones. More activity in a country can help the neighbourg communities. So you may end up seeing something :D

Thanks for the help, guys !

Edit : LOL, Melee went from 33 votes to 140 in a few minutes

 

[ycz12]

Is SFIV not on the poll because it's already guaranteed a spot? Seems weird because Marvel and KoF and TTT2 are all choices.

(PS I voted. Good luck!)

 

[Upke]

Voted for Melee and shared the poll on Facebook for all my Smash friends to see. I believe! Or should I say, je crois!

 

[Strong Badam]

I voted for Melee. Good luck bros

 

[Slhoka]

Is SFIV not on the poll because it's already guaranteed a spot? Seems weird because Marvel and KoF and TTT2 are all choices.

(PS I voted. Good luck!)

Yep.
I can't remember the other games, but the poll will allow to chose the 5th game.

 

[Tarv]

Vive le Melee!

 

[standardtoaster]

I voted. We need smashboards and vgbc to post this on facebook and it'll be a shoe-in.

 

[TreK]

It needs to be on the top of the page like Prog's thread was last month.

Or something like that. We need to get it exposure.

 

[♡ⓛⓞⓥⓔ♡]

Just deleted my Facebook but I forwarded this to the Finnish Smash forums, this should be a snatch after the EVO run

 

[Vkrm]

How many votes needed?

 

[standardtoaster]

We easily managed to dominate the EVO polls. I know we can dominate this one too.

 

[Slhoka]

How many votes needed?

More than the other games ?

 

[Professor Pro]

Melee needs to do an Evo and unexpectedly (from the outsider's POV) destroy the competition.

None of that close '20 votes difference' garbage.

Only destruction is acceptable.

 

[pokemongeof]

Wish I had a facebook!

 

[Doomolish]

Melee it's gonna own this.

 

[KrIsP!]

I vote, behind by 300 votes and barely ahead of the rest of the games. "Man I hope people care about the French scene enough to help them out."


I check later, ahead second by 100 votes. <3 this community...except we actually have to go to the tournaments when they accept us you know T_T

 

[Jeapie]

voted

10melees

 

[Tero.]

Voted. Posted in the German FB Group and on the German boards

 

[Gastogh]

Vote + bump for MELEE

 

[♡ⓛⓞⓥⓔ♡]

We are leading the poll but let's not stop voting, let's show them how big melee is !

 

[Slhoka]

WAIT !
Please stop voting now.

Basically, we showed how strong a support Melee has, but that may have been a bit too much. The fact that this many people from abroad voted is amazing, but let's be realistic: hardly a foreigner would attend this tournament, unless it turns out to be REALLY big.
That's what the other communities are saying (even though it's fair to add they have a good share of foreign players and false accounts among their votes), and it's quite true.
Melee is currently developing a lot in France, and this requires to get rid of this separation between us and the local FGC. Winning this sondage with the brute force we've displayed so far wouldn't be a smart move right now.

The important thing is that the Melee community showed it was ready to step, and that's what really matters.

Basically, you've been too amazing guys, thanks a lot :D

 

[Upke]

Well, I can at least speak French, so we can pretend I live there and would potentially go to the tournament.

 

[Qlex]

Just a quick word to say they got it all sorted out. We are having a premiere 32-man tournament with cash prize there, and the French smashers are increasingly interested in coming to make a good contact with the French FGC. Hopefully more to come

Thanks a lot guys, we love you

 

[Juggleguy]

Only in the Melee community could we have a situation where our game got "too many votes" haha. Good job guys.