KingHippo
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The problem is not that every top player thinks every event is trash except for a few, the problem is that many top people probably have a different mentality than most.I agree with tweedy tbh. Its not fair to treat up and coming competitors as if their achievements meant nothing just because they arent a top 10 ranked player. 2ez, atai, cossner, kevo, hell even me have put in work when we can attend offline. Yet every event is "oh no yomi, trash", "oh he only beat 1 or 2 top players, lucky"..."oh he made top 16 3 times in a way, no sonic so tourney is fraudulent".
Like damn, i guess every new competitor has to quit his job to be able to travel to every major when an nrs game JUST releases so that they can fight every single top player before they drop the game a little over a year later...because its our fault they dropped it right?
I'm positive a guy like @cR WoundCowboy absolutely gives not one iota of shit that someone got top 16 at a tourney outside of Evo or maayyybbe ESL. Even less so when it's a tourney with like 50-60 people; many MK9/IGAU era players think this way. Their expectations for themselves are different, thus their expectations for basing who's good is different too.
Mind you, I don't think this idea is "toxic" at all. At best it's elitist, and maybe a little annoying, but when you are elite you can probably afford a few elitist opinions. The beautiful part is you can always prove to even those guys that you are good if you go out and place enough. It's nothing to get hurt feelings over.
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