First are foremost let me cut to the chase:
I will not be playing Reo in a MM or Exhibition match at EVO this year. Mortal Kombat has ran its course and history has been made.
This all stemmed from Arturo Sanchez on the Apex stream stating that Reo was the best player of MK9’s prime. I of course disagreed.
There was a constant twitter arguments back and forth but let me clear the air:
Reo had a great MK season after the last patch was released for the game. Leading up to the last patch his MK career it was a bit lackluster.
I’m not going to go into a further history lesson than this but: I won Evolution World Championship back to back 2011 and 2012. Denzell Terry won 2013. Reo won neither of those.
To apparently “prove himself” or try to rewrite history he wants to do an exhibition. It doesn’t matter. You can beat me 100-0 in a set. It will not change the fact that I am the two time back to back 2011 and 2012 Evolution World Mortal Kombat Champion. Me beating you also doesn’t do anything for me. It would just be another day in the office as it was when I beat you at EVO both years.
Accept it MK9 is done competitively as a major game and Injustice is here and MK10 is around the corner.
You however have another option. You can play me in Injustice: Gods Among Us to try to get your “Justice” or wait until Mortal Kombat 10 where its a clean slate.
Now onto FGC twitter wars. I believe we can all co exist. I agree with a lot of what Black Mamba stated in his post here: http://blackmambamoan.blogspot.com/2014/01/fgc-manifesto.html
The problem is a lot of that requires money and to get money there needs to be structure. FGC needs work in this department. Beginning from determining what exactly is a Major tournament and what makes it different from a regional and a local.
Traditionally there are tournaments that are Majors that have been that way for quite sometime.
There are newer tournaments that have also become majors. I will use two examples one of an older tournament and one of a new tournament. A great example of an older major is Final Round. A great example of a new major is CEO
The above mentioned events are what I believe are majors and are must attend events for fighting game players every year. Going from that we can build off what we know is a major tournament or not.
Evolution doesn’t need to be mentioned cause we all know what the deal is.
Now as far as structure we need some kind of power ranking that factors in Majors and Regionals. Locals not so much because they are so widespread they are a bit hard to even record for data unless it is a ranbat like WNF, NLBC, Michigan Ranbats, Final Roundbats etc.
After that we need to have designated commentators so random people aren’t on the mic just chirping chicken scratch to the viewers.
From there we can go down the totem pole to fix things that need fixing.
In my next blog I am going to go over what I think needs and can be improved during and for our tournaments as well as what needs to stop.
I however need to end this cause I am attending a dinner party soon (Happy birthday Thug-Geek big 30!)
Continue with your regularly scheduled program.
If a dude can beat you 100-0 (I don’t think it would be that bad but close) then you suck. Period. MK at evo in 2012 had barely 300 entrants. The lowest of the entire tournament. (I think the BB side tournament had more). In 2011 at the birth of the game is the ONLY time you could say you were the best, and even then it was barely 500 people that ended up playing. After that, the game you had amazing early access to you knew how to use what won. When your character got patched out fully, so did you. Evo2k13 was a fun year to watch you play that game. Where you ended up seemed more natural.
Even with Ed Boon throwing as much $$$ and blowing the SRK staff numerously to get that piece of trash game on the line-up (marvel had 4 times the entrants, and marvel had $8000 less in total prize money than MK at 2k12). Thank God that game’s run finally ended. The game was trash, and anyone’s claim to fame running on the back of a shit game like MK9 or a game no real good player gives a fuck about (DoA) is sad and pathetic and you should stop. I mean the top players know for the games in your field are the ever so retarded DoA Master (whose name is definitely a reflection of the douche inside) or the liar, camera holding at computer screen, and literal crazy person Tom Brady. And finally you, Perfect Legend. Someone who tried SF but turns out it was a real fighting game and you couldn’t do well. Attempted Marvel for a slip second. Thought about RTS or shooter games, but lets be realistic you don’t have the mind to get good at anything people actually care about. So just shut up already. No one gives a fuck about your thoughts on something most people in the FGC already agree on. Reo is a talented fighting game player and was better than you at MK9 straight up. You, not so much.
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All I see are tears of a person who got bootyblasted by our based god REO in EVO 2013 and clings to ancient victories.
As our based god would say, “Stay free”.
DAMN BRAH THATS A BITCH MOVE AND YOU KNOW IM THE FUCKING GODDAMN BEST LOL. DUCKING LIKE A LIL BITCH LIKE ALWAYS LIL CUNT AND I LOVE HOW YOU ACT LIKE EVO IS THE ONLY TOURNEY THAT MATTERS. LIL BITCHES LIKE YOU GIVE THE FGC A BAD NAME.