So yeah apparently watching Japanese play BBCS2EX is more important that supporting a game that already has a hard time in America
As for streaming for 13 hours, well you guys wanted to watch other people play (and let others do so) instead of playing yourself.
As I understand it Gods Garden was a special stream airing live in Japan with skill level akin if not greater than SBO. St1ckbug got the permissions to stream it in English and they were the official English cast for it. I'm pretty sure this was set up months in advance, as opposed to attending one local. You cannot blame St1ckbug/LK for not going. Admit-tingly, the stream did last a few hours longer than intended, because they originally wanted to do both. I think if "anime games" like BB or MB are going to survive (because they keep getting kicked out of Evo for "only having" ~150 participants), the scenes should help support each other best they can even if we don't play the other game. Not run down each other's throat. There are a lot of cross-players for these games.
I don't want to hear
anyone criticize Team St1ckbug for doing Gods Garden over attending a local. Allen has stuck his neck out for melty blood more times than you guys have fingers over the last 2 years so we could get a fair shot at playing even though he doesn't even play the game himself anymore.
If you're going to blame anyone for low attendance to this tournament, blame
me. I will explain clearly what happened to the 4-5 some players we were going to bring up and the setup before anyone talks shit.
Me, Jimmy, and Nadakai had intended to stop at St1ckbugs and play with LK/St1ckbug, watch SOME OF and support God's Garden, and get an early start up to NY the next morning. That night, I accidentally hit a car while I was parking before we left. This got us into a huge late start as I had to be investigated to file a police report. After Nadakai drove up from Delaware we went to St1ckbugs, Jimmy would meet us there. Unfortunately, Jimmy got lost on the way there, and wound up out of the loop for over 3 hours. 2 minutes away from St1ckbugs he got pulled over for a speeding ticket. Needless to say this dampened our morals a lot. After God's Garden started we all got some sleep and woke up to LK and St1ckbug still streaming it 12 hours later. LK was dead tired and told us he couldn't go, the stream was still going and he had a responsibility to the existence of the international relation of BB in America and Japan to finish that event (which can indirectly benefit MB in America, by the way, because LK was plugging the game on the stream and did so more than once by having talks with me and Jimmy between matches). At the same time we knew Zar wouldn't be going because of the 10$ entry fee.
At the same time, we heard there was no setup at Next Level. We had my setup, but it was speakerless. It has a loud pair of headphones, but you could never hear it at Next Level (though you can easily in a normal room). We called Fox hoping he could get another setup and a pair of speakers for mine, which he could, but he was without transportation. After a bit Fox pretty much knew his chance of getting transportation down to Brooklyn was nil. We contacted Comic who had went up there himself, he said he didn't bring a setup. He had a laptop, but he wasn't sure if it could run melty, and meltyblood wasn't installed on it.
So at this point, all of us who had incurred a huge monetary fuck-up between minor car accidents, speeding tickets, and were tired all around had to make a choice to go up to Next Level and run an entire tournament on one soundless setup, while we were dead tired and pretty much spent from the rough night. Furthermore Roku got bodied by school and never showed up, and Generic couldn't work out a system of transportation in the time we had left to get up to NYC (we were told by DaiandOh we had to be up in NYC within an hour to start the tournament - an already near impossible task in which we could never swing by to get Generic at a bus stop.) In the end we pretty much decided it would be a bad/impossible idea to go. So we just asked comic to do what he could with the laptop and run casuals so the people who did go wouldn't be disappointed, and we should probably reschedule the tournament itself for a later date. Because I was pretty sure there were no setups for this tournament, I asked someone to post that it should be rescheduled and pushed to a later date, which Kamina executed for me (so, no one should fault him for that, either.) After that I called MakotoFox and told him next time, we will work together to make sure we personally can assure that this
would not happen again and we would bring setups ourselves.
Fortunately, Comic was able to get his laptop running for Melty and Min helped them stream it (as I heard it worked out on breadcast). So you guys ran a tournament and were able to keep the bi-weekly spot which I'm appalled to hear it's existence was threatened because of one low attendance-low prepared event (naturally it's going to take some time to get used to the new format).
So overall for all people who tried desperately and planned to go up there, it wound up being one of the worst weekends ever and we had to cut our losses a bit.
NO BODY sat around and just streamed/watched BB instead of playing/supporting meltyblood. Infact, we all incurred huge losses because we wanted to support this game best we could. No one should doubt anyone, here. Team St1ckbug are our friends in getting the most tournament presence on the East Coast. The underhanded comments in this thread are ignorant and unfounded by a huge margin. Now you know.
And yeah, it was timed horribly. Even if it was announced before Mustache/Gods (which I don't think it was) If we want to be serious about not running MBCC as a dinky little side tourney, we can't be running it on major event days for other games. I would even go as far to say that Next Level is becoming an increasingly unattractive place to run our events between venue fee and the other events. Maybe we could trust NEC/WB/FR in the winter and then start running BBG's again this Spring/Fall/Summer? Perhaps even with other major games supported by Team St1ckbug? I think it would help a lot if the community had a more direct say in what is going on in at these events, and we could plan it away from other big events.
:planning: