Sedda
Smash Champion
Just something I was wondering after reading this on the miom fb page:
"I want to talk about something that has been personally bugging me for quite some time. Before I go any further, let me say this isn't targeting anyone in particular, or an event that happened recently. This is a general statement to all the past perpetrators I've witnessed for years:
If you know you're going to be playing on stream and you don't feel like putting your all into it, do us all a favor and just forfeit next time. Its a slap in the face to the T.O. that put all their time and resources into making the event possible. A spit in the face to the streamers that buy tons of expensive equipment, then lug it over to the venue to put on a show for the viewers at home and potential sponsors. Its disrespectful to the commentators that spend most of their time at the tourney on the mic to have to sit through it.
Think about it, your job compared to everyone else isn't that hard. All you have to do is play your best. You don't have to look for people to report their matches, tell people to stop playing friendlies to get a tourney set going, having to setup the stream, making sure camera shots are spot on, going through the stressful task of trying to remain entertaining and insightful for hours on end in front of thousands of viewers.
You only have one job, and that job is to play for real. Doesn't matter what happens behind doors, just put on a good show. Treat grassroots events like preparation for the big leagues in the future (where they don't take things like that lightly.) I understand playing for long periods of time is an endurance test, but that doesn't warrant playing obviously sub par when people know what you're capable of. Be more considerate of others please.
Thank you.
Apex | D1"
Basically, what I got from that is that their community is at a point where they have to worry about things like this to the serious extent that they do if they wish to keep on growing. This is just one example, and it's not an extreme example or anything, but there are other scenarios where some of those issues become huge flame wars (the comment section on that post is... phew) on smashboards/reddit/fb. All of that, plus the ****load of personal arguments that go on daily over on Melee's side, ends up turning what would be regular situations for us (64) into really ****ty situations for them.
I think that what attracts me the most about the ssb64 scene is that it's not so big that stuff like this happens. Instead, it's small enough that everyone seems to know each other, but not so small (anymore) that there are no tournaments or just general activity from the community.
I'm not saying that I don't want ssb64 to grow or anything, but our size certainly helps this community avoid some problems that pretty much every other competitive community runs into, and maybe they run into them a bit too often (Melee being the 'closest' one to this one).
What do you guys think?
"I want to talk about something that has been personally bugging me for quite some time. Before I go any further, let me say this isn't targeting anyone in particular, or an event that happened recently. This is a general statement to all the past perpetrators I've witnessed for years:
If you know you're going to be playing on stream and you don't feel like putting your all into it, do us all a favor and just forfeit next time. Its a slap in the face to the T.O. that put all their time and resources into making the event possible. A spit in the face to the streamers that buy tons of expensive equipment, then lug it over to the venue to put on a show for the viewers at home and potential sponsors. Its disrespectful to the commentators that spend most of their time at the tourney on the mic to have to sit through it.
Think about it, your job compared to everyone else isn't that hard. All you have to do is play your best. You don't have to look for people to report their matches, tell people to stop playing friendlies to get a tourney set going, having to setup the stream, making sure camera shots are spot on, going through the stressful task of trying to remain entertaining and insightful for hours on end in front of thousands of viewers.
You only have one job, and that job is to play for real. Doesn't matter what happens behind doors, just put on a good show. Treat grassroots events like preparation for the big leagues in the future (where they don't take things like that lightly.) I understand playing for long periods of time is an endurance test, but that doesn't warrant playing obviously sub par when people know what you're capable of. Be more considerate of others please.
Thank you.
Apex | D1"
Basically, what I got from that is that their community is at a point where they have to worry about things like this to the serious extent that they do if they wish to keep on growing. This is just one example, and it's not an extreme example or anything, but there are other scenarios where some of those issues become huge flame wars (the comment section on that post is... phew) on smashboards/reddit/fb. All of that, plus the ****load of personal arguments that go on daily over on Melee's side, ends up turning what would be regular situations for us (64) into really ****ty situations for them.
I think that what attracts me the most about the ssb64 scene is that it's not so big that stuff like this happens. Instead, it's small enough that everyone seems to know each other, but not so small (anymore) that there are no tournaments or just general activity from the community.
I'm not saying that I don't want ssb64 to grow or anything, but our size certainly helps this community avoid some problems that pretty much every other competitive community runs into, and maybe they run into them a bit too often (Melee being the 'closest' one to this one).
What do you guys think?
