First off for the smash community, TG is a great and wonderful thing. In fact, I can’t think of something that would possibly be better. You get a plane ticket, and just find a way to get there, and get to hang out at someone’s house, free, for close to a week, playing and hanging out with practically all of the best smashers in the world, most of which are incredibly fun and cool people to hang out with.
So in that regard TG^(set) was a huge success. My feelings about how the tournament was run and the turn out are nothing but positive. If someone missed this tournament that cared about the smash community, I really feel for you, because it was effing amazing. Both tournaments finished around 10, which for tournament turnout, is incredibly good. Specially when the final matches, where we used minimal TVs so people could watch, took up a good portion of the time. The main parts of the tournaments were I believe done before 8, and we started late both days. (due to effing difficult brackets to put together. Seeding systems = too hard) I’d like to give a nice “eff you buddy” to the nay sayers who were doubting our ability to put on a good tournament, even though this is our 6th time doing so. Only 10 tvs biotch.
And the environment at the tournament is incredible. It probably had one of the friendliest competitive environments I have ever seen at a tournament. People were quiet during important parts of the matches, and clapped during the exciting parts. There was no out loud trash talk, or people trying to disrespect the players. It was truly a fun and exciting place to be at.
So with all that said, I know I have already got the question asked, and it’s probably been asked on the thread as well, “Why does this have to be the last one?”, or “Why wouldn’t you host another one?” Well I guess my answer to the people who want to know whether I will do another one would be this. There is absolutely positively no possibility whatsoever that I would put myself, my family, my neighbors, and my friends through the absolute **** that this past week has been. Let’s put you in “Mr. Host’s” shoes, and do a bit of role playing to try and put things into perspective.
First off take $1250 out of your pocket to rent a facility. I won’t go into details the work and effort it takes to track a place down, and deal with insurance companies and whatnot. Let’s start out by you picking up around 30+ people from the airport by yourself. The airport is around 15 mins away, (providing you don’t get stuck in rush hour traffic, which people do end up having flights arriving at that time), and that is also providing that you don’t have to pick people up from SF, which is an hour, one way. In general the amount of time spent in driving alone on a particular day is around 5+ hours, that’s a trip from San Jose down to LA, and a full tank of gas. That’s also not including parking costs. (I might add only 2 people that I picked up offered to help out with parking.) Let’s also not go into detail of the wonderful people who don’t give correct flight information, don’t have any clue how they are going to get home until after the tournament, or don’t give flight information until the day before, or morning of, who expect me to somehow just deal with their own lack of responsibility. Also take into consideration that all the wonderful people you are picking up are currently at your house not only having the time of their lives, which you don’t really get to take a part of because you are always working, but they are turning your house into a place where it looked like a nuclear bomb had just dropped. If you want some wonderful examples of the good manners of some of our wonderful guests, here are a few.
- Mr. I’m going to clog the toilet with a gigantic sheit, and although there is an effing plunger NEXT TO THE TOILET, I’m not going to have the respect to deal with it myself, or even tell anyone about it. Mr. Host will be there eventually to deal with my sheit, literally.
- Mr. I’m going to knock off the towel rack on the wall of the baffroom, and rather than try to attach it myself, or tell someone about the damage I have just done to their house, I’m going to leave it on the floor for someone else to deal with.
- Mr. I’m going to eat a lot of hot sauce, and almost kill myself, and then puke in around 5 cups, and rather than have people actually clean up after themselves, leave them on the counter. (One of which btw, left a nice puke ring on the countertop. Wonderful.) And why I also realize that being put in a state of feeling like dying from eating hot sauce may not put you in a mood to want to deal with cleaning up your own vomit, there had to be a bunch of people watching the event, who just thought it would be nice, or funny perhaps, to leave 5 cups of puke on the countertop. Let’s make this incident a nice group “my bad.”
Trust me, there is plenty more of where that came from. Let’s just say the respect that my house is shown warms the deepest portions of my heart.
If you guys should thank anyone it would be my parents, who get nothing out of letting me host this tournament but a destroyed house. They do a LOT of work behind the scenes. My mom made tons of trips to pick up drinks and stuff for our guests to ravage, and couldn’t sleep each night of the tournament cause of the noise, yet didn’t come out to complain once. My dad had to go persuade the neighbors not to call the cops on the 50 wonderful house guests that were currently destroying his residence. Oh yea, this is the same guy who became a victim by eating an apple that was covered with death hot sauce as a prank, that was forgotten to be thrown away after it didn’t work. Again, no complaints from him. Each and every one of you, who stayed or even hung out at my house, should send them a thank you card. I’ll leave this section with a quote from my mother, “I’m just trying to survive this weekend, and then it will never happen again.” or how about this one "If you love me, and I'm serious, If you love me, never do another one of these things again." Do those two quots help paint a picture of the stress this crap puts on family and friends?
252 Cresta Vista Way
San Jose, CA 95119
Or how about my friends who, btw, don’t play smash, and don’t get paid, who drive up from LA to sacrifice their week to slave away trying to get the tournament to run well. TG would absolutely not be possible without them, and we as a whole have gotten good tournament running down to a science. It was one thing when they used to hang out to help, when they actually still enjoyed playing the game and the company they were surrounded with, but now they just come up to help serve people they don’t know, and end up not having an ounce of fun.
So yea, I’m not posting all this to complain. I’m just trying to put stuff into perspective. If I am upset at any one person, it’s myself, for being too nice and putting up with a lot of that crap. I should have added the 5 dollar registration fee per tournament, which would leave me currently with an extra 1200+ dollars in my pocket, which I could use to help compensate my wonderful friends and parents. It sucks to go through this ****, but still be too effing nice to add a small fee per tournament, that no one would miss. We had the donation box this time around, and got a lot of generous donations. But all the donations combined equal around 450 dollars, which is less than half of what I could have gotten if I just added the small fee. Also take into consideration that some people gave 20-50 dollars. I thank you so very very much from the bottom of my heart for your generosity. It sucks that the people who were very thankful and willing to help took a larger blow, for us to be compensated. You guys effing rock. *tear* (btw if this guilt trips anyone, which it should, I still have a pay pal account for donations, heh heh)
Mattdeezie@hotmail.com.
Also for the people who gave overly generous donations, I by no means want you to donate anymore. You guys have already helped out tremendously, and I thank you very much.
Also, Im not upset at the people that stayed at my house. I welcomed the abuse. I just am trying to put things into perspective for those that ask the questions in dumbfoundedness as to why I won’t consider doing this again.
And I don’t regret making TG. It has been a truly wonderful thing, and an extremely large accomplishment. (If you don’t think so, go read the abuse we received from skeptics back at TG1.) TG pretty much paved the way to build the smash community, and it has accomplished practically everything I wanted it to. I’ll give a more positive write up on the DVD.
As or the DVD, I’m going to work my hardest to get it out asap. I don’t know anything about authoring a DVD yet, so it will be a learning experience. If I see any matches up on the internet, which I was nice enough to let be taped, I will hunt you down in your sleep. The DVD is basically the one and only thing I can do to recover the costs spend on the tournament.
So yea, now I can address specific people from the tournament. If I end up disappearing from the scene after this tournament (which is a good possibility) I will miss talking and hanging out with a lot of the people that I met here. Some crews which we had shaky starts to begin with, like WA, CC and EC, you have turned out to be some of the coolest mofos I have had the pleasure of befriending. If I end up in those vicinities traveling for a T5 tournament or something, I’ll try and hit you guys up for a place to stay, a game of poker, or for some casual smash. If I forget anyone here, I apologize, or maybe I don’t like you, heh heh.
Staff
Words can’t describe the amount of thanks I have for you guys. You are truly great and dependable friends. There is no possibility that I could pull something off like this without you guys. Thanks and as Takuto would say, I give my deepest apologies.
Crystal City
TG would not be the same without you. You guys are uber badass and really really fun to hang out with. Too bad I was too busy this time around to be able to hang out with you guys more. Caveman is one of the most fun docs to watch play, and you and Rob make a killer team. As for Rob you earned your respect at this tournament, and you hold the title of best Falco. Definitely good stuff. You guys pulled off hardcore likes at this tournament. I hold no hard feelings against you guys at all for stuff in the past. Like I said earlier, you guys had me at hello at the start of TG5. And congrats for not falling through a table this time. Heh heh. *passes out* I got tricksied again!
WA
You guys are awesome, and definitely repped your region to the fullest. There are so many coolass people in WA I don’t even know where to begin. Sas – you easily had the most amazing match at TG^(set), and took the title as best peach. You are cool to talk to, and your generosity was unmatched. Jeff – Also another very cool person to hang out with, and congrats for taking top 10. Yagi – Your luigi is pretty effing sweet, and you were a pain to try and deal with in teams. Thanks for coming and I’m pretty sure down the line I’ll end up at your house at least once in the future. Jeremy – never wearing shoes is a solid accomplishment in itself, but I think you got top 10 as well, so congrats. Jon – good match in 1v1, I know we were both nervous and not playing to our fullest. Good thing it wasn’t taped, heh heh. Kei – thanks for translating, and I hope to get that wonderful pass out footage in the future. You pwned me hardcore in the tournament. Silly – I didn’t get to hang out with you much at the tournament, but you have come a long way from where you were at back at IVGF. It was cool to see you become a part of the community. Congrats on taking that critical match against Yurameshi in teams. I was impressed. And wallet dude, james? – sorry you had such a bad time here, poor guy was stressed the whole time about your wallet. I apologize for not being more sympathetical, but I was in a pretty jaded mood all week. Good thing you found it at the end. Rori – eff you for not showing up, but its understandable. I was looking forward to hanging out with you, cause you were one of the people who I really didn’t respect or like in the beginning, but have become a member of the cool group in my eyes since TG5.
I know I am leaving someone out, but oh well, I apologize. You guys were as a whole probably the most respectful group. Im going to be in a smaller place in the future, but if you are ever in the region again, I will do whatever I can to accommodate you guys. Again, *tear*
The Japanese
You guys are very respectful, and the tournament would have not have been as good without you. I enjoyed having you here. You were very fun people to have around, and I hope your trip to America was very enjoyable. You have lots of skill. I was rooting for you to win the tournament.
Watashi wa “The Japanese” ga daisukidesu
(I think that means I like “The Japanese” a lot, that’s probably going to be the only use I get out of my 1 year of Japanese in college, and its probably not correct anyways. Heh heh.)
DA
It’s hella fun having you guys along, although Wes causes more trouble than we need. Heh heh. It’s a good thing that guy is intimidating, cause some of the stuff he pulled off on people would have gotten a weakass beaten up. Again too bad I didn’t get a chance to hang out with you guys. Thanks for coming, its not the same without you guys.
Azen
Uber congrats on taking the tournament. You have definitely proven yourself as one of the most dominant forces in smash; if not the most dominate force. It’s nice to see some variety in the winnings of tournaments, and I definitely think you deserve your win. Good luck getting that trophy back home. Heh heh. I’m very glad you were able to make it, and may there be more tournament wins in your future.
Chu Dat
Out from effing nowhere. It’s effing sweet when someone can take third with a character that before now hasn’t been regarded as anything above middle tier. Good stuff dude.
Kens Group
Thanks for coming as always. It’s a good thing we have learned to get along, because these tournaments are much more enjoyable without all the drama. Too bad Ken wasn’t able to place higher in the 1v1s, but at least you took teams so you were able to walk away with something. Looks like you get to keep the TG belt permanently. I know it looked like the nerves got to you, but I’m sure you will come back in full force in future tournaments.
AL
Sorry for not having ice. You looked like you were about to die of heat stroke. And fun stuff playing Carlos in GGXX. Probably the only time I was able to sit down and play a game for fun the whole week.
The Doug
Too bad we didn’t get a game in of Mario Party for blood. Heh heh. You should come hang out with us on poker night before you take off again.
European Mofos
It’s not the same without you guys. Thanks always for making a showing.
I know I’m leaving out a lot of people, and I apologize.
I’m truly glad this thing is over with. I wish the best of luck for anyone trying to take over hosting large tournaments like this. I would recommend that you don’t provide housing for so many people, because it was probably the hardest thing about the tournament. I think it works best for a few groups to house a few people. That’s how most communities run. I think I was too stuck on promoting the tournament in the beginning, that is why the hospitality given was so great, because I pushed so hard to create something great. But in the end it has grown much larger than a single group should ever have to deal with. Basically free housing for 2-3 people is fine. Free housing for 50-60 people is ********. I’m gonna ask the TG name to die with this tournament. I’ve put a lot of effort into creating this thing, and would like it to remain a thing that was run by my group.
Now its time to learn how to author a dvd.