Hate Speech War Report: Our Own March Madness

[Sora]

my only request for NCR would have been a bigger venue with possibly a stronger AC system, obviously a wish list, as I had a great time doing casuals not having entered in the tourney ($60 entry when I realized I was going is not coo), I also have never felt more hyped about any other SC final since probably evo2k3

Agreed 100x on the AC. I know IFB got sick because of the temperature alone, lol.

I also hope that there is enough growth to sustain this game at both venues because I'm really worried about the longevity of this game now that SFxT is out, we have places struggling to field a 16 man bracket, and the amount of people who aren't thrilled with the latest patch. We'll see.

I too, am worried to some extent. Here in Vegas, we're definitely struggling to fill up brackets as well (we had 9 last tournament, including Genver who came down here). However, I believe this is more due to the struggle of getting people into 3d/SC, rather than the success of SFxT. We're fortunate enough that because of the World Championships happening here that we get a free chance to re-promote the game locally, but I'm still not sure how to encourage more people to come check out the game.

 

[Malice]

What game do you think the people who are struggling with 3D games are going to flock to naturally? Street Fighter.

 

[UnseenWombat]

Kids these days have no sense of sportsmanship...​

LOL, yup, that's me alright.

 

[TiZ]

SCV is luckily pretty strong in Cincinnati. Ranking Battles at Arcade Legacy had 26 entrants this weekend, and the first weekend had 26 as well. PowerUp has 11 pre-registrants, and I expect that number to increase as we come closer to the April 13-15 weekend.

 

[Slade]

Good article as always, but I would've liked to see a paragraph set aside to quell the complaints of Nightmare being "OP". Keev got away with a lot of stuff he shouldn't have, such as unsafe grim stride entries, multi-hit strings not being properly punished, people not teching GS K BE, and more. He's going to keep steamrolling people until they do their homework until they can exploit the big holes in Nightmare's game.