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On the EVO donation drive

If you’re reading this on Tumblr and still following me you probably know that I pretty much only come around to post about EVO and then peace out a few days later. I’m not sure how many of you that is because Im not 100% on how the new dashboard works but if you are here then you know I’m around a little early. But I’m posting *about* EVO anyway so there ya go.

If you’re reading this on Facebook then I know a lot of you guys probably only have at best a passing knowledge of what EVO is but you’ve seen me post about it, particularly Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 a lot, so I’m just gonna ask if you guys have any spare money please consider donating here:

https://www.generosity.com/fundraising/evo-2017-player-vote-ultimate-marvel-vs-capcom-3

Your money goes to the Make-a-Wish foundation, and you make a guy you know personally really happy as well.

And as a final pretense before I really get into this I’m just gonna be honest this is gonna be pretty rant-y, so it might not be a super focused read and will probably contain a few expletives so just be pre-warned.

Originally I was gonna come here and I was going to break down the poll game by game, essentially breaking down why I felt like each game shouldn’t be voted for and why Marvel should. But as it stands right now the winner is going to be either Marvel or Pokken, so this is mostly going to be centered around why I think Marvel is the most deserving game, and why I feel Pokken just might be the least deserving, or at least one of the least deserving.

And every time I look at that generosity page my stomach does flips because it’s literally like a best/worst case scenario. But the funny part about this entire situation is I feel like Marvel shouldn’t even be on this poll. Marvel absolutely *should* already have its spot. Regardless of how you the individual might feel about Marvel 3 in particular, Marvel vs. Capcom has been practically synonymous with EVO. Up until only last year Marvel, be it 2, 3, or Ultimate 3, has always been sort of the penultimate game for EVO, only behind whatever Street Fighter was out at the time. I don’t know if I agree with IFC Yipes in that Marvel made EVO (mostly because I haven’t been around *that* long), but I do agree that without it EVO never would have reached the point that it has. And you look at Marvel 3 specifically, and that game has been a staple of EVO through damn near every iteration of Street Fighter 4, even lasting long enough to share the stage with Street Fighter 5, outlived who knows how many Netherrealms games, Soul Caliburs, Tekkens, Personas, you name it. And that’s not to knock (most) of those games but to make a point that not even taking into account 2, Marvel 3 specifically has been a prefixture of this event for a long ass time

And never mind the countless moments that the game has given us. Back in 2013 what was one of the top things people talked about when EVO was over? Justin’s absolutely incredible run, beating odds on favorite Chris G and going on to nearly defeat Floker to win his first Marvel 3 EVO. Then there was the following year when he clutched it out against F Champ and beat Chris G once more to finally actually do it.

Hell even last year, Chris G, despite being the odds on favorite to win several years in a row, *finally* went ahead and took the one tournament that had alluded him for years. And the year before that when KBR (even though I dont much care for him) became the first non-American to win Marvel at EVO.

People have known for a minute with MvCI on the horizon that this was probably going to be Marvel 3′s last year at EVO, and so people were gearing up for it’s proper final sendoff and now you’re telling me that Marvel might not even be *at* EVO?

And I know there’s a lot of people who agree with me on this because every where I go, even from people who voted for different games, even for people who voted for Pokken, I keep hearing the same thing: “I’m voting for Pokken, but Marvel absolutely deserves to be there”

“Marvel shouldn’t even be a part of the poll”

“There shouldn’t even be a poll, Marvel should take that 9th slot”

And don’t even get me started on how tight I am that there are not one but TWO Smash games, games that barely even qualify as fighting games, games that a good chunk of the FGC never wanted around in the first place, at EVO, but Marvel might not. Especially since y’all are a good chunk of the people pushing for Pokken (which we’ll get to trust me). If I hear one more Melee player complain about Melee being on Saturday and not Sunday while Marvel might not even *be* at EVO I honestly might lose my shit.

And I mean no disrespect to my Smash 4 community, particularly the local Nebraska scene cuz y’all know I have nothing but respect for you guys. My problem really mostly is with Melee, that relic of a game that people just cant seem to let go of. But it’s so funny to me at how often the Smash crowd, particularly Melee, talks about how much they don’t need the FGC and yet they won’t leave.

But it isn’t even really about that. I could sit here and talk shit about Melee all day long but you know whatever. They have there spot and that’s fine. But suffice to say that if it were up to me, Melee would get booted in favor of Marvel in a heartbeat.

But let’s talk about this poll for an honest minute though. If you remember the donation drive they did a while ago and compare it to this one, the last one blows this one way out of the water. Every single game on that list was at least, you know, a fighting game, with actual communities that would absolutely show up to play. I mean there was Melee and Brawl of course but again shit, at least those two games are closer to fighting games than shit like Windjammers, and Nidhogg. There wasn’t goofy meme-y shit like those two, and ARMS. And dont get me wrong I’m excited to play ARMS but THAT GAMES NOT EVEN OUT YET (and before anyone brings up “Injustice 2 isn’t out either” just know that in my book that game can go fuck itself for about the same reason. BUT EVEN THEN, that game at least has a known community that will come out and play it). We don’t even know what community, if any, is gonna come out for ARMS, by that point, since it’ll be coming out 1-3 months before EVO (I’d remind you that ARMS doesn’t even have a set release date. Just “Spring 2017″), that game isn’t even gonna have any real advanced tech discovered yet, if there even is any to discover. Not that any of those stand a chance at winning at this point but the fact that they were included kinda pisses me off. I can kind of see Windjammers since a lot of the FGC likes that game but Nidhogg? Do most of yall even remember that game? And ARMS? REally?

I know someone’s gonna be like, “Well the last donation drive had Divekick, and Fighting is Magic”. And I was one of the first people to say that FiM was probably the weakest, meme-ist option put up there but you know, that was happened because the FGC is filled with trolls. If you remember, the only games that made the donation drive were games that got at least 500 votes on the Facebook poll and I’m pretty confident that 490 of FiM’s votes were trolls being trolls. And at least in Divekick’s defense, that game was made by a dude from that community, for the community. Divekick is basically one massive FGC in joke anyway so if Divekick had made it, it basically would’ve been a big thank you to one of the FGC’s own.

But I think what makes me the most upset about the whole situation isn’t even just that Marvel might not get the proper sendoff that it deserves, but that it’s Swan Song stands a strong chance of being snatched away by Pokken. And just, let’s review Pokken for a sec.

First off, this was the game that was being removed from Japanese arcades in droves because nobody gave enough of a shit to play it. And we’re talking about a culture that loves both Pokemon AND fighting games, and they wanted absolutely nothing to do with that game.

And then, when it came stateside, those of yall that watched tournaments saw that pretty much ever ad breakthere was a little vingette for Pokken. They tried their hardest to get people to actually care about this game, and yet... you pratically had to dig through the Twitch trenches just to find Pokken tournaments. People weren’t watching, and people weren’t entering. Then it got to EVO because Nintendo money, and it had one of the lowest entrants and viewer rates of any of the games there.

Then post EVO, a lot of majors didn’t even run the game because people weren’t entering or watching. And speaking of Nintendo, I would remind you that Nintendo themselves have since dropped Pokken from their Pokemon Championship Series. So not even the parent company gives a fuck about the game at this point.

So with all that being said, never in a million years did I think that Marvel would be neck and neck with Pokken. KI, maybe. MKX, maybe. Shit I figured even Windjammers had a better shot than Pokken and yet here we are.

And you might wonder where the fuck the money is coming from if nobody gives a shit about Pokken. Simple, its coming from Smashers (and you can go check smash websites, most of them are advocating super hard for Pokken), and people who are just fans of Pokemon and will throw money at anything Pokemon. And look I love Pokemon too. It’s top 3 favorite Nintendo franchise and might be top 5 favorite franchises of all time. But I have no doubt in my mind that a lot of the people throwing money at this, barely know what EVO is, probably don’t even know the dates of EVO, and have 0 intentions of watching that game at EVO much less showing up to play the game. Case in point, Shofu is out here on Twitter advocating and donating to this game, and you would think that Shofu, who runs one of the biggest Pokemon related YouTube channels, would probably have a lot of Pokken content right? Well guess when the last time he even posted a video about the game was. I’ll save you the search, it was 6 months ago. One of these videos were, ironically enough, entitled “time to come back”. And then there were two more videos within the same time span, and he hasn’t touched the game since.

And this is kind of the additude that I’m talking about. I read a tweet earlier that summed it up perfectly. About how people never want to watch or come out to support Pokken, and then want to wonder why there aren’t any Pokken tournaments. That game died forever ago. You might even argue that that game was dead on arrival but even if you don’t, then you have to agree that there hasn’t been a game that died out quicker than Pokken did. For all the shit people gave SFxT at least that game lasted a couple of years as opposed to about 3 months. And at least that game had some potential at release, instead of being booted from Japanese arcades Y’all are throwing money at this game and I have no doubt in my mind that it’s going to once again have abyssmal turnout/viewership.

And that’s to me, is the most upsetting thing. That Marvel stands a shot of being robbed by a game that people don’t actually care about, but has a fanbase that will throw money at anything with Pikachu’s face on it. If it were KI, I wouldn’t be super happy, but it would be ok. MKX, kinda upset because I hate that game but you know what, fine. Or even Skullgirls which to me would be best case scenario, if your top two games were SG and Marvel because easily and measurably those two deserve it. Skullgirls is a fantastic game with an ultra dedicated community that only got treated like shit by EVO. I have no doubt in my mind that had SG’s won the last donation drive that game would be one of the biggest in the FGC right now and might even still to this day be a mainstay at EVO. And so if *any* game was gonna be Marvel, I’d wish it to be Skullgirls. But at least I can say of any of the games I mentioned above, people would come out to play it, and support it. In the example of MKX, it would be the exact same people that would be playing Injustice but fuck, at least it’s *someone*.

And I know someone’s gonna be like “well what did you ever do for Marvel?” and yeah, I’ve never been to a major, because I don’t have money like that. But at least every time there is something local for the game, I go out and play. I took time off of work and drove an hour out one time just to get 0-2′d in Marvel on a couple of occasions, but at least I went out there. And I’m out here watching the streams, watching the VoDs; 90% of my “watch later” playlist is Marvel shit that I didn’t get to watch live.

And with that said, yeah I’ll admit that a bit of it is personal for me. Marvel is absolutely my favorite game out there right now. Without Marvel 3 I probably would not care about EVO and the FGC as a whole. But that’s why I don’t want to see it get robbed of a proper sendoff by a game that’s just gonna die out again the minute EVO is over.

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Individual medley may be added to trials program

MITCH Larkin is toying with the concept of including the person medley to his Commonwealth Games trials program in a bid to keep the starvation that may gas his Olympic redemption.

Larkin received the 400m IM on the Queensland titles on Sunday, beating medley specialists together with Commonwealth Games consultant Jared Gilliland and Olympian Travis Mahoney on his manner to gathering gold in 4min 20.45 sec.

FREESTYLE CHAMP: MISSILE RETURNS FIRE AFTER 100M WIN

A twin backstroke world champion, Larkin is having fun with the problem of the medley and whereas he may add it to his program for the Games trials on the Gold Coast subsequent February, he won’t let it take away his focus from his pet occasions.

“As for whether I’ll swim it at trials and Commonwealth Games, I’m not quite sure yet,” Larkin mentioned.

“I’ve obtained that day probably free (on the program).

“It’d be good to signify Australia in that occasion and at a house Commonwealth Games, the extra swims you may get, completely the higher.

“I’ve stored my thoughts open and if I’m proud of the place issues are, I’ll swim it at trials and we’ll look to see if I can qualify.

“But to solely concentrate on it, no, I would like to get my backstroke again to world-class swimming and I’d love to do this on the Gold Coast.”

Larkin received the 100m and 200m backstroke double on the 2015 world championships and headed to the Rio Olympics final yr as raging gold medal favorite.

While he completed with silver within the 200m, he missed the rostrum within the 100m and was amongst a number of Australian swimmers who failed to convert their trial type into gold medals on the Games — one thing that has left him hungry for redemption.

After splitting with coach Michael Bohl following the Games, Larkin had a stint in Simon Cusack’s sprint-focused program, earlier than settling with Dean Boxall.

The switches meant Larkin has had a troublesome yr, however he has no regrets.

“The work with Simon was really good, I certainly learnt a lot from that and I don’t regret anything I trialled or experimented with and it opened my eyes,” mentioned Larkin, who appears to reply higher to the cardio and endurance focus of Boxall’s high-volume program.

“Because I didn’t have one of the best yr this yr, I’m again to my hungriest.

“I would like to be again (on the prime) greater than ever and it’s actually allowed me to work on these one per facilities in coaching.

“Not that I used to be getting complacent however my want and my search simply to be certain that all of the packing containers are ticked once more and ensure every thing’s achieved correctly is ignited once more and I believe it’s time in a four-year cycle to be hungry with three years to go.”

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Individual medley may be added to trials program

MITCH Larkin is toying with the concept of including the person medley to his Commonwealth Games trials program in a bid to keep the starvation that may gas his Olympic redemption.

Larkin received the 400m IM on the Queensland titles on Sunday, beating medley specialists together with Commonwealth Games consultant Jared Gilliland and Olympian Travis Mahoney on his manner to gathering gold in 4min 20.45 sec.

FREESTYLE CHAMP: MISSILE RETURNS FIRE AFTER 100M WIN

A twin backstroke world champion, Larkin is having fun with the problem of the medley and whereas he may add it to his program for the Games trials on the Gold Coast subsequent February, he won’t let it take away his focus from his pet occasions.

“As for whether I’ll swim it at trials and Commonwealth Games, I’m not quite sure yet,” Larkin mentioned.

“I’ve obtained that day probably free (on the program).

“It’d be good to signify Australia in that occasion and at a house Commonwealth Games, the extra swims you may get, completely the higher.

“I’ve stored my thoughts open and if I’m proud of the place issues are, I’ll swim it at trials and we’ll look to see if I can qualify.

“But to solely concentrate on it, no, I would like to get my backstroke again to world-class swimming and I’d love to do this on the Gold Coast.”

Larkin received the 100m and 200m backstroke double on the 2015 world championships and headed to the Rio Olympics final yr as raging gold medal favorite.

While he completed with silver within the 200m, he missed the rostrum within the 100m and was amongst a number of Australian swimmers who failed to convert their trial type into gold medals on the Games — one thing that has left him hungry for redemption.

After splitting with coach Michael Bohl following the Games, Larkin had a stint in Simon Cusack’s sprint-focused program, earlier than settling with Dean Boxall.

The switches meant Larkin has had a troublesome yr, however he has no regrets.

“The work with Simon was really good, I certainly learnt a lot from that and I don’t regret anything I trialled or experimented with and it opened my eyes,” mentioned Larkin, who appears to reply higher to the cardio and endurance focus of Boxall’s high-volume program.

“Because I didn’t have one of the best yr this yr, I’m again to my hungriest.

“I would like to be again (on the prime) greater than ever and it’s actually allowed me to work on these one per facilities in coaching.

“Not that I used to be getting complacent however my want and my search simply to be certain that all of the packing containers are ticked once more and ensure every thing’s achieved correctly is ignited once more and I believe it’s time in a four-year cycle to be hungry with three years to go.”

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