I'm not beign negative, I'm being realistic. We can have a mediocre tournament this year and kill our chances for next year or hold on and wait for people to get the game, really practice, catch up to the rest of the country (Cali) and then really put on a show.
It's been ten fucking years that we get no type of love from EVO because one thing or the another Mr.Wizard has repetedly said that he will have the finals for the best side tournaments on the big state and live stream. This is what's going to happen:
Top 4
1. AI player
2. AI player
3. AI player
4. AI player
and then people are going to be like fuck this shit was rigged, why so and so where seeded, blah, blah, blah, and there goes our chances for being on the big stage or on next year's lineup.
Give me 2-3 months of playing this game in Mexico and watch me rank right along with you guys hahahaa. Remember Nouveau Defi Prologue 2009 with me putting Mr. KOF in Losers?
I only had about 2-3 months of playing KOFXII against people I was beating in Mexico all the time!!!
Again, don't say I can't, I got to Winners Finals vs. Reynald in El Paso...(all in the good, healthy spirit of competition)
Top 4 for KOFXII that particular tournament were:
1. Reynald
2. Mr. KOF
3. Me
4. RJ
Basically guys I totally understand what Oscar is saying. He's saying in a pretty nice way compared to how it COULD be said that we have to make sure we are ready if we hold a tournament in the US in KOFXIII and the WORLD watches. If not then I'm telling you guys like I have been telling you guys for a long time since I have been running the EVO World SNK series, people are going to laugh at us around the world. Also now with me travelling and seeing the different levels of skill around the world it's hard for me not to see the perspective of these other countries.
So I am going to take what Oscar is saying and expand that to an international perspective. I am going to go even further than what Oscar is saying.
Bottom line is give me 2 months of playing vs. people in Mexico/Kula and the EVO results for console KOF13 will come down to:
1. AI/Japan/Mexico/Me.
And if the people in the USA see a 60 man tournament with only 7-10 people knowing how to play, that will NOT help our chances with it going mainstream! If the people around the world see that they are going to wonder WHY DID WE BOTHER? I know I would and thats what I am saying. We can't take chances to screw this one up guys, we really can't. We need to make sure you guys get with the program if we as Americans want ANY type of respect not only around the world, but the chance for KOF in our country to go mainstream!
Also Oscar isn't questioning you guys skill,
but I AM. I do question the skill level of you guys because I do not think I should be able to pick a game up and in 2-3 months be able to beat the majority of the United States when there are others that have been playing the game longer than me!
Also the inexposure thing can be an excuse
if you let it! I didn't have anyone really to play on my level yet I was able to hang with Mr.KOF in KOFXII but you guys in Oregon are saying you wouldn't be able to hang with the AI players?
Something is terribly wrong here and this may be brash but I feel it needs to be addressed on the ENTIRE USA level. I comment in my podcast many many times on what would help SOLVE this problem (hint TRAVELLING).
We are tired of carrying the US SNK scene just ourselves basically, why does everything come down in the USA to me and AI?
This needs to change basically or to me it is not worth my time attending! (Hence I would bring Mexico to come or SOMETHING to stir up the pot! AI players would go to play Japan and others like myself that they don't play all the time THAT THEY FEEL ARE GOING TO PUSH THEM otherwise they WON'T GO!!!!!!!)
I am sorry guys but I simply find that to be unacceptable. This HAS to change if we have any hope of anything else happening or mark my words final results are going to come down to:
AI vs. Dark Geese vs. Mexico vs. Japan/Asia.
Where are the rest of you guys????
Not in the running. It may sound harsh guys but this is what EVO with KOF13 is going to boil down to. While that sounds fun on paper, to me it is NOT. I'd rather the level across the board be similar instead of seeing those results. If those are going to be the results I don't see a reason mainly to even go to EVO, if I wanna play AI guess what? I'll go to AI! (I'm sure Mr. KOF feels the same way as do a lot of them if they are going to leave their place to play talent, what's in it for them?
Why leave their place of skill to play substantially LESS SKILLED PLAYERS???????? )
If I wanna play Mexico guess what? I'll go to Mexico!
To add onto that, if those are going to be the results
then I feel a change of location needs to happen, we can make those results happen in many variations in a BETTER location (Mexico!) with more SKILL across the board of similar levels!Thus again bottom line is it would still come down to AI vs. DG vs. Mexico vs. Japan (whoever we bring from Japan/Asia), but the skill level across the board will be about 100x better.