Ch0zen0ne
Smash Lord
Good Day Sirs. reguardless of whether or not you know who i am.. this post is being written by ChozenOne. A melee and brawl veteran that [during one point or another] has made his stamp on our community. It has recently come to my attention that since the start of brawl [i would say roughly 6 months after its realease] the game has taken a turn for the worse and what used to be a fun and enjoyable atmosphere.. has turned into one driven by anger and animosity. I recently was speaking with a smasher that has played a significant role in the community since before the massive swarm to SmashBoards.com, and what i heard was quite disturbing.
It seems that very recently ChiboSempi held a very poorly run tournament that broke out in a riot and there were almost fights breaking out. What Chibo did with his poor tournament organizational skills was horrid and he should never run any events ever again.. but our community has NEVER had such outbreaks in the past. It seems like the world of smash has become a powderkeg.. just waiting to ignite and destroy the game. Playful banter is one thing.. trash talk is another.
Threats are entirely something else.
During the "melee days" tempers never ran this high, and players would come to events for the experience and comradery [no homo] of each other's company. Happenings like this do not nessesary deterr the players that win money from events.. but the players that go to have a good time will probably cease to travel for tourneys.. and this will cause the pots to lessen.. and this will cause the "big name" players to not travel.. and this will cause tourney organizers to not want to hold large events.
In turn this will cause the game to cease being a grassroots community.
This will cause competative smash to end. This sounds like i am saying the sky is falling.. but ask yourself.. has anything close to the happening @ Chibo's tourney happened.. EVER?
Something needs to be done.
-MLG needs to pick up competative smash instead of just buying out smashboards.com
-Melee needs to come back as a competative game
-We need to make a circuit that works
-There needs to be a reliable ranking system
Something needs to be done if we want Smash to continue its time as a competative game.
Good Day Sirs.
It seems that very recently ChiboSempi held a very poorly run tournament that broke out in a riot and there were almost fights breaking out. What Chibo did with his poor tournament organizational skills was horrid and he should never run any events ever again.. but our community has NEVER had such outbreaks in the past. It seems like the world of smash has become a powderkeg.. just waiting to ignite and destroy the game. Playful banter is one thing.. trash talk is another.
Threats are entirely something else.
During the "melee days" tempers never ran this high, and players would come to events for the experience and comradery [no homo] of each other's company. Happenings like this do not nessesary deterr the players that win money from events.. but the players that go to have a good time will probably cease to travel for tourneys.. and this will cause the pots to lessen.. and this will cause the "big name" players to not travel.. and this will cause tourney organizers to not want to hold large events.
In turn this will cause the game to cease being a grassroots community.
This will cause competative smash to end. This sounds like i am saying the sky is falling.. but ask yourself.. has anything close to the happening @ Chibo's tourney happened.. EVER?
Something needs to be done.
-MLG needs to pick up competative smash instead of just buying out smashboards.com
-Melee needs to come back as a competative game
-We need to make a circuit that works
-There needs to be a reliable ranking system
Something needs to be done if we want Smash to continue its time as a competative game.
Good Day Sirs.
not saying melee had alot of old people its just from my understanding and being in the community for over 6 years that most tournaments ive been there a majority of the players are ages 18-25 for melee. where brawl has keets ages between 13 - 24. I've only been to a few but each time I see more younger keets than those in my age group. THis is just from what I see from experience I could be wrong but young keets tend to be more immature than the older crowd. Even at nightclubs. young crowds 18-21 fight over silly girls or guys w/e over something small. where the clubs that are 21+ has less fights over something silly. not saying that it doesnt but the %.
