RJ's also traveled to NEC as well as THE ANSWER and others, and they also have seen the severe gap in skill in some of these other areas/regions of the USA in relation to where they currently are in California.
So I'm not just huffing smoke here, I'm stating a 6 year observation of what I've noticed here in the USA from traveling to NEC, MWC, Final Round, EVO East, EVO World, the old ChinaTown Fair, SoCal, North Carolina, Mexico, Minnesota, Texas Showdown, all these places and comparing what I have seen.
I wish more people had your attitude and wouldn't just say empty promises, I'm tired of empty promises, as someone who traveled around the USA for years and years, this is what I have seen. Some things just never changed, skill level never improved, and I could've stopped playing the SNK/KOF games for 2-3 years and still felt I could've shown up to many of these places and won the tournaments.
There is no glory in that for me, thus I am putting it before the rest of you to level yourself up so that more players from SoCal and other regions would want to come to your place to play!!
Remember how Justin Wong winning 98UM affected our community people at Powerup??
This is part of the stigma you have to lose. Justin Wong is not at the level in KOF to defeat veterans, thus you people need to be able to beat him!!!!
I'm just stating things the way they are guys the ugly, truth that we all must face and confront AS A COUNTRY!
You wanna talk about people "looking down" on others? You should see how other countries AS A WHOLE look down on the USA!
This history I have spoken about as well as GGPO and other things for years have contributed to this! We all need to look in the mirror and be on the same page to correct this!!!
I have much less patience more than likely with this kind of stuff than probably most people because of what I've had to deal with pushing the US SNK scene forward and getting little response in return!!!
I hope I am causing every one of you to look in the mirror and get motivated to prove ME WRONG..that is what it's going to take and I will feel GREAT for posting this in the end if that happens!
If it happens this way I will wish I would've done this EARLIER..instead of waiting 6 years to push a few buttons!!
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-DG