Congrats. You are still complaining about of ton of stuff that is either solved (coverters), irrational (360 version hate, thinking everyone should just do what EVO does, even though EVO's system choice is purely based on the fact that they own PS3s), or based on self entitlement. As well as just plain making stuff up (WB sponsoring all road to evo events).
You are not doing your community a service behaving this way.
Hey Keits,
Coming from the perspective of someone who attends tournaments as both a competitor and organizer I see where you're coming from in terms of getting frustrated with some members of the MK community; at the same time however it seems like similar problems that a lot of us have had in the past could occur again.
I'm not speaking for everyone here, but every tournament that I have been do there has been at least one loss resulting from a converter issue. For instance, at Civil War I lost a round due to playing on a 360 with a ps2/converter, TrickyLizard lost a whole match and Blackula lost a round to me in losers finals. Now while one can make the argument that people who wish to play on 360's pads would have to use a converter while playing on ps3; the large majority of pad players use the ps3/ps2 pad. At each tournament I've only seen one or two players per tournament use another controller. When running a tournament on 360 you are forcing most likely over 50% of your player base (for a game like MK at least) to use converters or another controller. I commend you for taking the responsibility and having the organization to have rental converters, but gather ps3's is not that difficult. The MK community is extremely self reliant and when asked for help we supply a lot of our own equipment. There is no fact that MK runs better on either system; the hell stage lags on ps3 but the desert stage lags on 360 - those are your difference in gameplay.
On to pre-regestering: this is a pain in the ass to be honest. Unless I know for sure that I can get my money back just in case I have to back out, I will never pre-register for an event. I understand the benefits of having everyone register a week before the tournament; but the fact that you will still take at-door people and still have to change brackets is confusing to me. Why push the issue then; and why increase the coast by so much?
I believe AC1984 meant to say that all 3 upcoming evo events have the $1000 pot bonus. Who knows why or how the other events got the money; but everyone attending UFGT owes you thanks for that. Regardless, from a consumer point of view; why travel half way across the country when a tournament closer to us is going to offer the same prize?
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While some of the community may be ungrateful, we're getting spoiled at the moment with a lot of MK-only events such as Flawless Victory and then there's MLG. With all these great MK events, we actually have the ability to pick and chose which ones we want to go to now. Again, from a consumer point of view, I don't think there is any reason for the north east to travel over 15 hours to worry about converter issues/new controllers, pay double the price of other events or face pre-registering, have the same prize money as something much more local, and lack a small off-stream for pools due to contract issues. A professional tournament like UFGT is a business in a sense, so I hope you can look at this from that point of view rather than thinking I'm bashing or complaining about the tournament you hold. UFGT is a nice product, but just not for me (and what seems to be a large majority of MK players on travel restraints).
Best of luck with UFGT; sorry that there has been so much backlash from the community.
And most insulting of all, is that a comment like this will probably get looked over by our community. Had I just called you an asshole for insulting my friend; I would probably get a quick response and a few likes from the TYM members.
