Hate Speech: Come to the Dark Side

[Signia]

I couldnt talk about everything, but shout..
IDLE! This already get 50 LIKES, it's a requirement to unlock, the locked thread you talk about!

*unlikes

muhahahaha

 

[Egg]

Of course, I then proceeded to get rolled, but the one and only Michael Jackson bought me a buffet pass at Golden Corral as my own little consolation prize. I didn’t need all-you-can-eat fried chicken and mashed potatoes to keep me interested, though — I was already hooked.

Yeah Micheal Jackson is a hell of a guy. And for all of you out there who don't know, that is his real name from birth, I also saw his drivers license.

This article made me think of the soul calubur 2 days and I just had to post.

 

[Sp1d3r]

Well this is a positive article about the appeal of the competitive scene. But there obvious challenges. Getting new individuals interested in the competitive side of an FG is hard. Getting them to spend money to travel for it even harder. I

Currently the community and Namco are both doing great. Jaxel keeps the site running, Hates keeps our focus, and Idle stirs the embers when they go low, not to mention the 8WR staff that keeps the lights on at night for us. Thinking back to the release of SCIV, Namco/Team Soul has really shown their wits and made up for their past mistakes in terms of marketing to a wider audience, but not only that... They are listening to us and being a part of us. Companies like these are few and far between. So if Team Soul continues to keep an eye on the game then pretty much everything will be perfect… except for one thing.

The ball right now is in the court of the tournament organizers and the scene leaders. It is up to them to ensure a certain level of quality for participants and spectators by doing three things: 1) have a large enough venue and enough space 2) have the proper equipment and a considerable amount of consoles/tvs for players 3) staff the events to accommodate the amount of people at the venue 3B) toil endlessly. These things, to me, will lay down the track for a long-lived and strong competitive scene.

 

[Xeph]

I'll talk about my first experience's later after I get home from work.

One thing though, Hates. For the "Fiero" example image, you should've put the Lolo dance via NEC. you're welcome.

 

[garjian]

http://8wayrun.com/threads/uk-arrangements-for-scv-majors-nationals.8897/

If that pans out, Manchester's probably accessible... London though, well we'll have to see if the Dragons invest in my cardboard beach furniture before I can go there regularly.

Well this is a positive article about the appeal of the competitive scene. But there obvious challenges. Getting new individuals interested in the competitive side of an FG is hard. Getting them to spend money to travel for it even harder. I mean even those that are willing and eager to go can't always do it for various reasons. And I never want to force anyone to go, only to have his/her wallet regret it afterwards....despite how fun it might be. And that's the reality of it.

But what I can sell you is the atmosphere.
Of course this requires a coordinated effort from us the community, and yourself the player. If we're doing our job right on 8wayrun, and promoting the right atmosphere to keep people interested...then bit by bit more people will want to invest into the tournament scene. Baby steps. If I am to ask you to support the community, in turn it's only fair you ask what has the community done for you.

Prime examples, VC and Hilde. Here on 8wayrun we have a habit of looking at the positives and ignoring the negatives. Blind optimism is dangerous because where an opportunity to fix an issue arises, we don't deliver until the problem festers.

But if you can't travel, you can still tune in for tournament streams. Remove your adblock, because we need that ad revenue :)

See, I'm by no means new to here or Soulcalibur itself, I first came here back before caliburforum went belly up. back then all I could see was constant arguing and complaining at each other, and while I haven't seen that since, people seem to still have those very polar opinions, they're just quieter. And I seen to be on the wrong side of the tournament=hardcore, not=casual argument, customs shouldnt be used online argument, blah, and I don't feel intimidated by that, but I don't feel like spending money to go meet these people, soulcalibur or not... experiences with others of a simlar background haven't helped either :/

I watch streams whenever I know they exist, provided the commentary isn't annoying. I use them for training see.

I hope SCVs online doesn't have this latency issue though because that seems to be a majorfactor in peoples opinions if each other. then we just need to get this customs thing sorted by removing all the normal characters, and everythings perfect! ...what? ... ...whaaat?