If you are not Gary, then you may not want to read this post, but you might find it fun.
@Gary:
You didn't even coherently respond to what I said, and you took nothing on board from it.
You clearly can't see why Jei has gone above you, you can only see good points for yourself and you have made no effort to think about why you are where you are and what jei has done. If you cannot see that you and Jei are close in skill, then your judgement must be clouded.
This PR is supposed to inspire competition as well as let me make fancy artworks.
I am satisfied that you care this much. It's only sad that you take it in a negative aspect.
You choose to insult me and attempt to critique me as a person and make some bull**** claims about authority that are neither here or there. If you are going to attempt to attack me when the problem is one that clearly pertains to only you, then you could at least not be a wuss about that as well, but even this is a vague attempt.
You then try to dismiss this and act all cool with "K thanks". You have shown no consideration for other people, the other people who deserve to be on the PR, the people who worked to make the PR, and you act as if though you have authority yourself. You don't own this forum. You don't own the free speech of a collective, that collective being me Jei and Dean.
I believe the "splice <3 authority" reason to be off the PR is a lie and you just looking for a scapegoat while in the meantime you put up no effort to make a satisfactory defence to back up your place on the PR. BTW, a satisfactory defence would be if you get better at the game. Not that you'd attempt it that way? Easier to give up and whine. That's why I don't even have to try and do anything to stay 4th, because you don't get better. Jei's taken his damn time but he's getting better, and whether he cares or not here is his reward. You control how hard it is for him to obtain that, and you failed to make it difficult enough for him. maybe I will have to defend my position from Jei too :o
What place you get put on there makes a difference to the representation of his scene. Jei is 5th because he has achieved something and made an effort, not because you are being a whiny loser who wants to be taken off the PR. I am going to leave this fact represented in the PR. This fact is represented by the PR itself. Have fun with that or improve at the game. Everyone else on there is trying to, at some extent.
If this kills your drive instead of provokes it, I strongly recommend you readjust your mindset and outlook on such things in life. It worked wonders for me, in areas other than just competing at this game.
Also I'm just going to clarify my interpretation of Jei's post; You were above Jei beforehand and we decided that. We decided it was a very close call though, and Jei would only have to outperform you once tbh and it'd already be in his favour. Since that time you have not done as much as Jei. Jei beat me and I beat ZXV and I also come to more Melbourne tournaments than ZXV, and you haven't done anything beyond that. Jei has also beaten tibs which is beyond what you've done. Beating tibs also makes up for things like losing to nicks from time to time, and we look at you and you've still done nothing. Same old Gary. You are the one that came in here with a closed mind and obviously you will take nothing from the explanation. Your first mechanism of defence when hit with a criticism is to assert that you are the only person who is right, and if your not, then your opinion matters the most. It's not like that all.
That's a lot of paragraphs but it is coherent. I don't see how it is possible for you to not see how we could make the decision of you being below Jei, and I don't see how you will still not understand that you hurt others experience as well as the PR by making your decision. And also I wait for you to not understand that you have no power over this PR except the power to get better, yet funnily you'll try everything but that, won't you?
@Dekar:
If anyone was rewarded for improvement, it would be Jamwa. Sebby hasn't improved that much since the Soleil Bar tournament, he's just had more chances to prove that he was as good as I thought he was then. You are a scrub dog though Dekar, have fun trying to get back on the PR now
especially with ur broken melee psyche as well ehheheh.
