I got tired of arguing about other people's rulesets because I don't like feeling like I'm throwing my (light) weight around. This is CW's tournament. CW is a cool, enthusiastic guy who does good things for the SA community. Tournament hosts are spare in Texas... right now we have TGA, Chickenwing, Tsetse, and the Dkrew. The Dkrew hasn't hosted a big tournament since Akon, or a big 1v1 since Moast2.
Texas has a huge amount of variety. Just look at the incredible difference between the TGA, GE2 and Moast3 rulesets. I'd say look at the GE3 ruleset only... we don't know what it is yet. ****, look at how different Moast2 and 3 are. They're almost as different as TGA back in February vs TGA's most recent!
Texas. We're huge. SA Knights, Team Swhippy, Dkrew, Dkrew Foreign Legion, Houston, Converse, Victoria, Crystal City, Copperas Cove... smaller crews within regions, because who can forget players like Marcos and Quinten, or Vinnyman, or Sam Shapiro, team Ichiban, Setsuna, Tim and Cleon, Taz, Kingwood, Pearland, Flower Mound, Plano.
We have personalities that rival the best and worst. Throw Sevens against Majin or Kenshin against Sos. Have Sintenal and Jesusfreak compete for who knows more nationwide smashers. Essence and Bluk are convinced they're black, and nobody's understood anything Crystal has said for about 2 years now... but we keep playing them.
This is what Moast is about. Not smash, not who's the best at 9ing with Game and Watch. It's about the Texas community, which we've all spent years trying to gather together. 2 years ago, at the time of Moast1, we were nothing. 27 people. But over the course of 2 years, more people appeared, and more people kept playing because of the fun of the game.
We don't play for the competition. We play because it's fun. If we only played for the competition, why the **** are we still playing? Most of us SUCK!
Our goal has never been to get Ken or whoever to come. Our goal is to unite what we -- as a community, not a crew... as a state -- have strove to create.
I'm embarassed that people go into the GE3 thread and say "come to Moast3." I don't want the two to compete. I don't want SA to boycott us. I don't want Dkrew to boycott SA. I want people to decide to go to a tournament based on its own merits.
No matter how long you've been here, Texas smash has been a long time in the making. We're so big, so diverse, and so strong-willed that we'd probably have more luck coordinating a donkey race. At least in a donkey race we'd have fewer people looking like an ***
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Squabble about rules and who's-going-where all you want... but in the proper thread. Don't discuss GE3 rules in here, and don't discuss why Moast does or doesn't rock in the GE3 thread. I'm glad Chickenwing does what he does. Would I do it differently? Of course. Does that make it better? Certainly not. San Antonio is a very strange place
Lets see some Texas pride!
-Scav
The truth is, I have friends from just about every state and elsewhere.
