But John as you know there is a reason why you haven't seen a Spanish (or more Politically correct would be Latin American, Hispanic, or South American, Spanish would be Spaniard) person win SBO for KOF-
Money.
Talent is not the issue, it is lack of money. It costs $3,000 for an SBO Qualifier...that is close to 35,000 pesos basically, no way a person in Mexico will have that.
Thus the premise of my World KOF Cup, the only true way to show people that there is more to fighting games than Asia...
and I think The KOF Cup 2011 has clearly shown that you cannot determine what is going to happen until things actually happen in person.
Those that even praised Hummer on GGPO are no longer to be found as I have done my research, so the message is getting across, there is talent all over the world, it just takes MONEY (and a lot of it) to unite these people under one roof..which is what I am trying to do so that people can open their eyes and stop focusing on the glitz, glamour and other stuff and start seeing the skill level they have been missing in other countries.
Mexico has at least shown they can hang with the tops in Japan in KOF 2002, and that is one small step to my big puzzle to showing the world that being "Asia centric" does not apply to a true World Championship.
Hummer himself told me that SBO is only limited to Asia, Europe, and North America, when truth of the matter is Latin America doesnt get an invite even to SBO.
Thus again creating this Asia-centric mentality that Asia=greater than the others in all things fighting games when that is quite an overgeneralization.
There are people like Kula, Zeus and others that may live in poorer conditions, but should not be denied access to competition based off where they live.
I am learning the same even in Peru and other countries, very high level players but may not live in the best conditions.
That is the way it is...and people in the USA due to cultural values have been limited to only the glitz, glamour, presentation of EVO, SBO, Duelling the KOF etc, and have forgotten that it is all about SKILL LEVEL...