I totally understand where you are coming from, as a 360 player who has been forced to play Ps3 versions of games since SF4 came out. And I still think this is super gross double standard. There are lagless converters. There are dual modded controllers, and Mad Catz MLG pads. There are options, and the announcement of MK on 360 was made a good 5-6 months ago, more than enough time to prepare.
But as you said, why prepare when you can just go to a nearby tournament that suits you? This is simultaneous a great point, and an extremely depressing one.
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 hate to phrase it this way, but the tournaments you are used to on the east coast are generally nothing like mine. My brackets are done days in advance. We actually start on time, to the minute, in every game all weekend as a result. Emergency registrants are simply dropped into available byes on the pre-made brackets with no regard for region or skill. Its effortless if you do it right, so why is it so expensive?
Because I don't want you to do it.
I can run on time because I've de-inscentivised at the door registration, a mainstay feature of FGC events that must go away if large scale events wish to maintain a schedule. Running pools is completely pointless if they don't start on time, because all that effort of telling people where to be and when to be there is suddenly a mystery, and you can't hold players accountable anymore.
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?
There are literally dozens of reasons to be at UFGT over any other tournament in the world. I work very hard to make it that way. It just so happens that tournaments are not all we offer, not by a mile. If you don't know why UFGT stands out, simply ask anyone who showed up last year.
While some of the community may be ungrateful, we're getting spoiled at the moment...
Indeed you are. Some of you are acting worse than Smash players in 2008.
...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).
Perhaps this is because of most people narrow view of what a weekend long even is, compared to my view of what it should be. Unfortunately, you aren't coming, so you wont get to find out this year why prize money, pre-registering (actually making travel plans, oh my!), and lack of off-stream (show up, stream the event into your own eyeballs) aren't really very important things at all when compared to giving people the best FGC related party in the world. Everything I do is for them, the people that show up, so that they can have an incredible weekend. If you think that your ability to have an amazing weekend would be destroyed by making travel plans early or using a converter and playing on someone else's favorite system, I'm sad to hear that is the state of thought in the community.
You'll have to agree, though, as you seem to have a pretty good head on your shoulders, that having a dedicated stream is not an attraction to get people to come to the event. If anything, it just makes the choice to stay home and watch even easier.
Best of luck with UFGT; sorry that there has been so much backlash from the community.
Thanks for the well wishes. I wish you luck at ECT or whatever you've decided to attend. I'm also sorry there has been so much backlash from the MK community. I don't like feeling regret, and some of these people have made me feel just that.
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.
So I've noticed. Another motif around here.
Back to work for me!
