SwiftTomHanks
missiles are coming
ECT4 was the worst experience I have ever had with the MK community. Before anyone starts to think that this has anything to do with critiquing how ECT4 was ran; that is an extremely minor factor. John and Joe did an amazing job with ECT4 and restructuring from all the issues at ECT3. The two of them deserve a ton of credit and I would be glad to support them in the future.
What I will no longer be supporting is the Mortal Kombat community. A lot of you should be ashamed of yourself and how you represented MK this weekend. While 9.95 was not there this weekend, that should not have slowed us down. Pheerleece knows what he is doing with the stream and was more than prepared. I run the most efficient brackets in terms of time that I have seen in our community. Summoning and Shock (Ultraspec) had all the equipment not only for MK, but all of ECT ready before any of you got there. So how did this go wrong?
The biggest mistake was not getting the full list of people for MK from John right off the bat. All the pools started at once so I was given a list of pools 1 and 2 and told to make adjustments if necessary. People who played in more than one game couldn't be moved so they were not playing two games at once. Some of these pools looked like this right off the bat: Chris G, KTSmith, Zaf, SonicFox, TOS Nerd, KevodaMan. Another pool had ClaudVonStroke in it 3 times (WNBA ClaudVonStroke, ClaudVonStroke, and BRZ ClaudVonStorkinIt)! A lot of edits were necessary, but since I didn't have a list of who was there I had to go by who I knew was around. Thank god I know the community very well; who knows what would have happened if I was some 3rd party member. And to make things even worse, people were showing up even after registration was closed. We went from pools 1 and 2 only being 8 people to pools 7 and 8 having up to 11 people! That's not fair to anyone in pools 7 and 8.
What is also not fair is how Korpse paid $40 to enter the ball room. Why, you might ask? While running pools at ECT4, I received no help from the staff outside Pherleece who was in charge of the stream and making sure that our internet connection could get back online. The reason people are given staff positions are to help run the tournament. When I would ask anyone in a pink shirt to go announce a player's name at the main stage to report to MK, they would look at me with disgust; that I had just sent them on a task that was too good for them. Let me tell you that sitting on commentary does not warrant you a staff position. Watching MLG does not warrant you a staff position. Leaving the ballroom all together for hours does not warrant you a staff position. After pools 5 and 6 had started I had been taken past my breaking point and needed to step away for a while. There were a total of 4 other staff members there. Who ran the show.... Everyone tells me it was Korpse and Relaxedstate! These two amazing people should be given the $40 that other staff members STOLE from them at ECT4.
I don't think there are many people who know how hard it is to plan, run, and place top 8 all on a consistent basis. It's fucking stupid hard.
Speaking of stealing; the reason why Pherleece had to step away from the ballroom was due to getting no sleep. The reason for this was due to over a dozen people sleeping in our hotel room in which we paid for. Of the 12 people that were in our hotel room, over half had not paid for the room; most of which had no intent to ever do so the whole weekend. After I was kicked out of my own room which I had paid more for than anyone there I went to sleep in my car. AC1984, Pheerleece, and a few others followed to their cars as well. I'm not sure how it went for others, but once I was in my car it got even worse... MikeMetroid's brother then came down, got in my car and forced me to attempt sleeping in an upright car seat. I spent most of the night sleeping on the parking garage floor.
A similar situation happened in Rapzilla's room. He was forced to spend Saturday night in his car while tons of people claimed his room without paying a cent. Only after forcing people to give him money did he earn his share back. @Danchoke left Saturday night to give his hotel floor spot to someone else after being the man who reserved the whole room and paid more than anyone else! He drove all the way back to up state New York! At least in our room everyone easily paid for the whole weekend Saturday night. Even people like @W1nterWarz offered to pay us for just hanging out in the room for a few hours!
Players at ECT4 were treated like shit. Not because of John and Joe nor the Capcom community (outside Mike's brother). MK players were treating each other with such animosity and disrespect; we should be ashamed.
Ask yourself this: Did you thank Pherleece, Summoning, Shock, Dan, Rapzilla, Storms, John, or Joe for what we did this weekend? Some of you did. Some of you are amazing people; I'm honored to call some of you friends. I've meet some new people at ECT4 that were outstanding guys and girls. But the percentage of assholes were just too high this weekend.
From here on out I will only be hosting private events, helping with the Kombat Network, and hanging out with the WNBA/VSM crew. A select few members of this community have ruined it for me. And once you ruin it for people like Summoning, Shock, and Phil - then you will ruin it for everyone! Without them you have and are NOTHING!
What I will no longer be supporting is the Mortal Kombat community. A lot of you should be ashamed of yourself and how you represented MK this weekend. While 9.95 was not there this weekend, that should not have slowed us down. Pheerleece knows what he is doing with the stream and was more than prepared. I run the most efficient brackets in terms of time that I have seen in our community. Summoning and Shock (Ultraspec) had all the equipment not only for MK, but all of ECT ready before any of you got there. So how did this go wrong?
The biggest mistake was not getting the full list of people for MK from John right off the bat. All the pools started at once so I was given a list of pools 1 and 2 and told to make adjustments if necessary. People who played in more than one game couldn't be moved so they were not playing two games at once. Some of these pools looked like this right off the bat: Chris G, KTSmith, Zaf, SonicFox, TOS Nerd, KevodaMan. Another pool had ClaudVonStroke in it 3 times (WNBA ClaudVonStroke, ClaudVonStroke, and BRZ ClaudVonStorkinIt)! A lot of edits were necessary, but since I didn't have a list of who was there I had to go by who I knew was around. Thank god I know the community very well; who knows what would have happened if I was some 3rd party member. And to make things even worse, people were showing up even after registration was closed. We went from pools 1 and 2 only being 8 people to pools 7 and 8 having up to 11 people! That's not fair to anyone in pools 7 and 8.
What is also not fair is how Korpse paid $40 to enter the ball room. Why, you might ask? While running pools at ECT4, I received no help from the staff outside Pherleece who was in charge of the stream and making sure that our internet connection could get back online. The reason people are given staff positions are to help run the tournament. When I would ask anyone in a pink shirt to go announce a player's name at the main stage to report to MK, they would look at me with disgust; that I had just sent them on a task that was too good for them. Let me tell you that sitting on commentary does not warrant you a staff position. Watching MLG does not warrant you a staff position. Leaving the ballroom all together for hours does not warrant you a staff position. After pools 5 and 6 had started I had been taken past my breaking point and needed to step away for a while. There were a total of 4 other staff members there. Who ran the show.... Everyone tells me it was Korpse and Relaxedstate! These two amazing people should be given the $40 that other staff members STOLE from them at ECT4.
I don't think there are many people who know how hard it is to plan, run, and place top 8 all on a consistent basis. It's fucking stupid hard.
Speaking of stealing; the reason why Pherleece had to step away from the ballroom was due to getting no sleep. The reason for this was due to over a dozen people sleeping in our hotel room in which we paid for. Of the 12 people that were in our hotel room, over half had not paid for the room; most of which had no intent to ever do so the whole weekend. After I was kicked out of my own room which I had paid more for than anyone there I went to sleep in my car. AC1984, Pheerleece, and a few others followed to their cars as well. I'm not sure how it went for others, but once I was in my car it got even worse... MikeMetroid's brother then came down, got in my car and forced me to attempt sleeping in an upright car seat. I spent most of the night sleeping on the parking garage floor.
A similar situation happened in Rapzilla's room. He was forced to spend Saturday night in his car while tons of people claimed his room without paying a cent. Only after forcing people to give him money did he earn his share back. @Danchoke left Saturday night to give his hotel floor spot to someone else after being the man who reserved the whole room and paid more than anyone else! He drove all the way back to up state New York! At least in our room everyone easily paid for the whole weekend Saturday night. Even people like @W1nterWarz offered to pay us for just hanging out in the room for a few hours!
Players at ECT4 were treated like shit. Not because of John and Joe nor the Capcom community (outside Mike's brother). MK players were treating each other with such animosity and disrespect; we should be ashamed.
Ask yourself this: Did you thank Pherleece, Summoning, Shock, Dan, Rapzilla, Storms, John, or Joe for what we did this weekend? Some of you did. Some of you are amazing people; I'm honored to call some of you friends. I've meet some new people at ECT4 that were outstanding guys and girls. But the percentage of assholes were just too high this weekend.
From here on out I will only be hosting private events, helping with the Kombat Network, and hanging out with the WNBA/VSM crew. A select few members of this community have ruined it for me. And once you ruin it for people like Summoning, Shock, and Phil - then you will ruin it for everyone! Without them you have and are NOTHING!
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