Just need to quickly chime in on what I meant by donating to the lineup cause too.
I am 100% down for this side event and will be donating towards the pot. However, the reason Mustard and I suggested the idea of perhaps taking some of the proceeds and donating it towards the EVO Charity cause has multiple reasons behind it. All of which are good intentions IMO.
Allow me to list some of them:
1. "We don't need to donate any money to the EVO lineup charity because every other scene is already doing it" looks dreadful on us as a community.
2. We also must consider that the EVO staff could be reluctant to let us use any of their facilities for this side event if we completely ignore why they're putting the voted games in the list and just do our own thing. It's naive to expect them to let us use EVO as the venue for this important side event but give them nothing for it.
3. An extension of point 2, but I can see there being potential complications if we still raise money for MK, but basically turn round and say "Yeah we put nothing towards your MKX funding, but we'd still like to use your venue!" We all care about EVO because of how it's brought the FGC together, but we still need to show that we care about why the donation system is the way it is, and that we can still be a compassionate community that appreciates MKX even being in that list to begin with.
Donating any amount of community funding as a nod to say "Thank you EVO, but please understand we had to raise our own pot so that MKX could exist in this years finals as a side tournament".
I personally haven't donated towards MK in the lineup because I am content with Injustice 2. I would much rather we have a game to call our own already in there, and give the final slot to another dedicated community that would otherwise not make EVO if their game doesn't make it. Doing the side tournament this way means everyone gets the best of both worlds. We still get to play MK and another scene still gets to go to EVO for the game they love.
I get what some of you guys are saying. Just wanted to give you all some context behind what I think.
Side games have always been at EVO. They're free, and we definitely don't need to bribe or pay off the Cannons for the privilege of having a side tournament. The donations are going toward a main game, and should be considered as such.
If people just want to donate to charity, that's admirable -- but they definitely shouldn't be doing it as some sort of motivator to get what's been at EVO every year anyway.
The more we donate to our pot, the more coverage this will get, which in turn brings positive press to EVO.
I think if any compromise is made, maybe the one Pig suggested is best, but the donations should go to support our community and the prize pool.
P.S. I'm willing to make stream graphics again, but Piglet I need to teach you guys how to use them this time, haha. Maybe we do a test stream a couple weeks before and get the layouts together so it looks nice.