OK I got to page 1 and a half of this thread before I had to stop reading and just post. 16bit and Cat, you guys are missing the point COMPLETLEY. Joe doesn't like your game. I don't either. And yet, as an organization, East Coast Throwdown has been behind MK9 every single step of the way. Even when you guys were in MLG, we advertised ECT by saying "hey if you can't make to to MLG, come here!". I was even at VSM the week prior to ECT and was saying ON STREAM to all the guys going to MLG, "Good luck, we'll try to watch, get that money!" I was TELLING people to go to MLG to get the money. You know why? Because we BOTH knew that the money wouldn't be there for more than a year. And guess what? PROPHECY FUCKING FULFILLED! So you guys should really check your facts before you say Joe doesn't support you guys and just shits on you. You two are a fucking joke.
We've been behind you guys every single step of the way, even after MLG dropped you. We are always here with open arms for you to come to our tournaments. We always support your games, no matter what they are! Are you guys aware that
Shock and @summ0ning come with us to EVERY SINGLE hotel we scout out to help us with floor plans? Are you aware that when the MK TOs ask us what they can/can't do at ECT, we just tell them "whatever you guys want to do, it's your area, run whatever, just make sure it's on our schedule". But right, Joe (and subsequently ECT) doesn't care about your community. We hate MK so much that back in 2010, we put UMK3 on stream and I had to literally scold Seb from Frame-Advantage to have patience while
9.95 and
Dark_Rob were setting up their mame setup for the first time on a stream. But right, we hate this community. Joe does it for money? Are you kidding? We could give two shits about the money. We run ECT because it's fun and it brings people together. We pay for that shit out of our own pockets for what? FOR YOU TO ENJOY YOURSELVES! All we ever hope for is to break even! Whenever we have ideas of where to put money into, all we care about is "if we spend more, are we going to be able to break even, or how much will we lose?" We never say "man this is really going to cut into profits". We're not in this for the money.
Now here's what I will say about a lot of you. You guys shoot yourselves in the foot every chance you get. It happened when MLG picked you up and this self-righteous crybaby sub-generation of MK9 players came about and claimed that community events were only harming the community, and it's happening now. You can't unite on any sort of front. Yes, people have differing opinions, but it's incredible the amount of bullshit drama that happens here. Any time someone says "I don't like your game" you get up in arms saying that they're destroying your community. Guess what guys? We both hate SF4! Marvel 3 is a joke compared to Marvel 2! You don't see everyone on SRK or EH telling us that we need to get out of the community because we're just poisoning it. You guys have access to a man with a wealth of fighting game knowledge who has a full copy of Injustice and is willing to answer your questions and learn with you. And what do
Cat and 16bit do? Start chastising the guy for his opinion on a game and say he's worthless to the community. Stay classy guys.