Frosty Faustings is an anime Major. IGAU is not a small game. The issue is that we've broken 100 several times and we're consistently 3rd highest entrants. BB has us beaten for now at SCR, and that's great for you guys, but we've delivered too many times to be treated like a side game.
even though i do agree with you, i dont think its a good idea to keep saying that we consistently the 3rd highest entrants, because we really don't. sure we have come strong at KIT (which from what i heard tekken had more than injustice) and NEC (which blazblue had more) but there have been a handful of events like Defend the North and Apex that had much lower numbers. whenever this happens people just say that these events aren't majors but its hard to make a case for that when there are 200+ entrants for other games.
Woah SCV is still alive in the States? I thought it was pretty much only active in Europe now.
not incredibly active. id say theres around 120 competitive players in the states but most of them don't travel. there are usually around 30 entrants at your average major, but NEC and Final Round usually get 60+. This years Final Round Lolo from Mexico is coming and there is word that Kamichan from Japan is coming with some other Japanese players (which i hope are also SC players lolol). Even though its a small scene, it's by far my favorite game that has an active community (prob my favorite fighting game ever) and I really try to do whatever I can for the community since we lack a solid community leader.
That's not even fair to say. KIT was capped at 67. Blazblue had 91 for singles, but more for teams. This came from Big E personally. We had 120+ at NEC as Shock told you in the other thread. Apex is a Smash Major-obviously people won't travel for that, and no one wanted to take a chance on DTN when NY stopped supporting Injustice in June. They didn't even have sufficient setups. Lets be serious here.
Man, I loved that game despite being terrible at it and enter the very few locals we have for it, but I had pretty much given up on it since our average tournaments had 4 entrants...
maybe DTN would have had more setups if they didnt get under 30 prereg and was getting zero attention from tym. that doesnt surprise me at all. blazblue had 51 teams (153 players) and the singles event was single elim and was not the main BB event at NEC. putting that into persepective, it would be like them having 153 entrants for singles and 30 teams if singles was the main event instead of teams. KIT being capped I was unaware of so my bad on that one. As for Apex, capcom players traveled. No idea why nobody else did, most TOs don't through 500 dollars at Injustice. That kind of money should get people traveling.
Don't even blame the community. Again, no one(in this community) is jumping up and down to support an NY Major when their local scene died 7 months prior. Big E gave us a $500 pot bonus with 27 preregs at WB and ALWAYS has sufficient setups. It's the TO's job to be prepared for door registrants.
Okay I can feel you on DTN but on Apex I honestly can't. They gave us the pot bonus with low pre reg and they had something like 10 setups for injustice. regardless of what you guys consider Apex, I would strongly suggest that you guys look into this event for the future. its a damn shame that we didn't.
Well, I can respect that, but this community tends to save their money for Majors where their game is a main focus, and I don't blame them.
I say Midwest because of all the tournaments we've lost there. That region needs it more than any other because of the heavy concentration of NRS players, and the absence of Majors.
yes but MK9 certainly wasnt the main focus of MLG, or any fighting game for that matter. Apex is an example of something bigger than us offering us a chance to become a part of what they do and we ignored it. sure its on a much smaller scale than MLG is but its the same concept.
It's not a Major for our game. This is what people mean on this website when they say that.
i guess, i just never really thought of it like that.
It is an Anime Major but it's not an Anime only major. Doing a NRS only major or only a Smaller Scene major would be really hard for the first time, I wanna see it happen but I;m not sure it would work right now.
Which is why we should get the ball rolling now and start suggesting ideas.
Just so you know, APEX 2 years ago was big for MK9 and it was a great tournament. Then the next year, they announced it again, but dropped it with no warning. So people kept asking for details/updates and got no reply, until it just wasn't there.
This isn't about excluding other communities-it's about showcasing our game. The ignorance in the chat was unbearable this past weekend. People assume that no one plays the game because it doesn't get stream time. I am proposing this to change that mentality. When a large amount of viewers sees the entirety of pools along with Top 8, they will understand the true strength of the patch and not dismiss Injustice as the boring Superman fest it was at EVO. That really hurt us, so we need to show everyone how far we've come since then. KIT was a great start with 6 hours of pools on the main stream, and WB Top 8 left an exclamation mark, but we have to keep the hype train moving.
it'll be like I'm at home.
I understand wanting to showcase the game, the problem is that to run a sustainable major my guess would be that it would be hard to do with the support of the NRS community alone... until our community for a game like this grew in way larger numbers. I for one would love to see a huge NRS event, but from the business side if I was going to run an event it would make no sense to outcast the games drawing big numbers right now.