Earth's population recently hit 8 billion but the only population milestone I'm interested in is 8,589,934,592. This is the next largest perfect bracket size.
The player entering Grand Finals in this bracket on winner's side will have won 33 straight sets.
Ally let me make this abundantly clear. I don't care what happens with you and Zack and the CoC or any other panel or any country's legal system, as long as I have anything to do with Genesis, you will not be attending under ANY circumstances.
If I said anything, Zack has nothing to do with it. I'll just make a statement on everything at this point, I'm tired of people picking up convos from a year ago when I was mentality gone and trying to tell people stuff. I'll address why I'm mad at the CoC, I'll never 1/2
If you have a friend that is toxic online but fine IRL, you have a responsibility to talk to that friend about their online behavior & why it's shitty.
This isn't a suggestion. It is a real, actual, moral responsibility, because as their friend you have some influence over them.
The high DQ rate at G8 also tells me there were a LOT of homies out there that ended up not being able to come, but decided not to ask for a refund. Just want to let you know I see you & deeply appreciate you for that
And we have some ideas about how to make it up to y'all at G9
So far the most interesting comment on the G9 feedback form, in response to "what does Genesis need to start doing?"
"Ban boxx style controllers (except for medically exempt players: Bald, Married and or 30+ years old)"
How many times does leffen have to not make a salty tweet after a loss to get credit for an attitude change, feels like the salt tweets been very infrequent for a while
To add onto this, I'd like to cite a situation that happened between Genesis and BTS that
@Hot_Bid
could have completely thrashed us over privately and publicly but didn't really even get mad or remotely raise his voice at us, and kept us as a friend and future business partner
Theres so much in this new statement to parse that frankly I have a hard time digesting it all
But since his name was brought up, I'd like to stand up for a friend:
@Hot_Bid
is one of the best people in this industry and doesn't deserve to be slandered like this
This is so ugly
So I don't know if y'all realized this, but Melee at Genesis is on pace to go UP from last year, which would be a first for Genesis.
G6 Melee Singles had 844 ppl reg'd on the Monday before the deadline.
G7 has 890 right now.
1107 is the number to beat, let's make it happen!
It's insane to me that people say that community offenders should just "go through the legal process" to determine what we as a community should do about them. Have you not seen how slow and shitty the legal system is in this country, especially to abuse victims?
Robin has done everything by the book since the beginning, and cares more about the future of our community than basically anyone I can think of; it's not lost on me that his event was the first that Nintendo targeted with a C&D
I'm absolutely devastated and I need time to unwind.
This is bigger than Big House. It's the future of Melee on the line, right in front of us.
I appreciate your support.
Melee's story is never finished. Samox gave himself an extremely difficult task this time by taking a more timeline-based approach to the doc. It needs to render itself complete after Apex 2015 whereas we all today have the benefit of contextualizing it with almost 6 more years.
A week later I had to walk the verbal offer back and say we were going with VGBC. We had a discussion where Ken frankly but cordially said he was very disappointed and didn't like how the negotiation was handled. That Ken is completely at odds with the Ken in Alan's statement.
Hi friends, yesterday was my last day at smashgg, so I'm looking for new work.
I'm a Physics PhD turned data scientist and tournament organizer (I lead
@Genesis_Smash
). If you or anyone you know is looking for someone like me, please be in touch!
See my skills/interests below:
It's really easy to be negative on Twitter because the platform is just functionally designed to make people mad at each other for engagement, but I am truly grateful for Samox and Metagame overall, I hope he'll continue to tune Metagame and return to work on documenting Melee.
On a personal note just want to apologize for not doing a better job overseeing the seeding team. I've done a lot of seeding in my time and if I was watching like I should have been I would have seen some of the fallacious reasoning for the seeds & intervened.
This is not nor should it be illegal. It isn't excessively delaying the match or making it unplayable for an extended period of time. It lasted under 10 seconds.
We are a community that has different standards and expectations than the general public. We have the right, and responsibility, to set and enforce our own standards for acceptable behavior and being a part of our events.
If tournaments were won by whomever appreciates Melee the most, to me there's no question that
@TempoAxe
would be the
#1
player of all time. His love for the game shines in his gameplay and everything he posts on Twitter.
During the negotiations for the stream rights for G6 we gave BTS a verbal agreement for them to be our partner, but I had forgotten that I personally had promised VGBC they'd have a chance to counter-offer (w/o disclosing BTS's terms).
Pro-tip for all you CRT hunters out there:
Go on Google maps and search for video production studios and just email all of them asking if they have any lying around. I snagged this beautiful 20" PVM-1954Q for $200 from a local guy.
10 yrs ago today I started on a crazy journey as a TO, helping run what was by far the biggest smash event ever to that point. The venue was 8,000 sq ft and drew almost 600 ppl. I thought it was likely the pinnacle of what smash could be
G6 was over 60k sqft with ~4500 attendees
Thank you everyone who came to G7, who watched us online, and who labored to make this event happen.
Honestly this is the first genesis that I feel was up to my standards as a TO, but I know we can do even better.
Big love to the smash community, you make us what we are.
@SkyWilliams
Can confirm, I distinctly remember him being super annoying and terrible at smash in 2005.
And now he's, well, at least he's not annoying anymore.
Multiple AZ Smash Ult players that attended recent locals got COVID. It makes me sad to see my friends get sick and spread the virus so irresponsibly. I'm keeping the quote tweets out of this. PLEASE STOP ATTENDING LOCALS. You are putting yourself and others in danger.
Hey fucksticks if you bring alcohol into the venue and start offering it to other random people we reserve the right to indefinitely ban you from Genesis
Already made an example out of one person, don't be the next
If you're still confused about why I ban ppl who consistently harass/denigrate trans ppl or from Genesis even though it's "just words" or "opinions," please consider the following thread.
If your opinion is something that actively contributes to the marginalization of a certain type of person and would further the very pain they go through from having to exist in the same world as someone like you, then yes, a community has the right to show you the door
ITS TIME!!
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Ppl are acting like Samus can do this at any time and it's a free win, but Samus hit her win condition 92% into the game. There's no sense in which Roy was 'cheated' out of the game IMO. Is it bad Melee? Probably. But let's not pretend we're talking about one when it's the other.
So far the reaction to the G6 Ultimate ruleset is like
70% positive
15% unsure
15% negative
Definitely going much better than I thought and makes me feel good about sticking to my ideals about rulesets. Only major thing is that is looks like ppl still need to be educated on DSR
The solution to this we came up with for Genesis was to add an even more expensive Emergency Registration option that's like $20 more, which only appears after the deadline
Nowadays everyone knows TOs can add ppl after the deadline so might as well charge them for being annoying
@SFS_A_Rookie
@MeleePensacola
The idea that you're getting around anything by just using 'they' or avoiding pronouns is pathetic, it's obvious what's in your heart and it's not love, despite what you claim in the tweet posted in the twitlonger, it's simply a cowardly desire for people not to be mad at you.
I'm incredibly grateful to everyone working on this.
We went into the decision to postpone G8 with no expectations on anyone for assistance; this is all being organized independently by fellow community members to help us out & put on a good show for all. I hope you'll join us!
Genesis got postponed to April... but we couldn't wait that long for some Melee.
Join us this weekend on
@BTSsmash
for thirty-four (34) hours of premium Melee content to raise money for the Genesis crew.
This is
#GenAssist
.
Smash Summits are really only half of BTS's legacy in the Smash community
The other half is the tremendous amount of professionalism, creativity, and community heart that the BTS team nurtured in everyone that worked for or with them, and how it fed back into the Smash community
Apparently a lot of people are saying that Sky owes them money, you can add my name to the list, he owes me $3k. I lent it to him in like 2017 and received several promises it was coming soon.
We did top 64 bo5 at G8 and got no complaints I'm aware of, so I feel it's incredibly disrespectful to TBH10 TOs to complain about something nobody even knew was a "problem" 36 hours before the bracket starts, as if this is just a knob you can turn independent of everything else
Data on reducing police violence:
"Better training" doesn't work, bodycams do not work
What works is giving them less responsibility, restrictive use-of-force policies, prosecuting them more, taking away their military toys, reducing their union power etc. See the pattern here?
For those who are interested in research-based solutions to stop police violence, here’s what you need to know - based on the facts and data. A thread. (1/x)
I cringe any time I see a "Make [noun] [adjective] Again" joke/parody because to me it validates the effectiveness of Trump's stupid fucking slogan and his ability to worm his way into people's already shitty meme vocabulary.
They say if you don't stop your friendlies when the TO asks you, this apparition will visit you the night before your Round 2 pools and deprive you of sleep, causing you to lose to your local unranked sword character player.
Today was my first day at my new job, data scientist at Nike! I'll be working at the HQ in Beaverton. KD greets me every day.
Don't worry I'm still going hard with Genesis forever too.
@SFS_A_Rookie
@MeleePensacola
Love is believing they are who they say they are, accepting them and genuine empathy and compassion for them. My gf is trans, and her extremely conservative christian parents refer to her as a woman, because they love her, and they understand that love is the whole of god's law.
@ContraPoints
What I appreciate the most about your vids is you never waver from the ideal that we should start by seeking to understand the roots of people with abhorrent views rather than writing them off as irredeemable eternal adversaries, but we can also still dunk on them in the process.
The way you are approaching everything shows a desperation to somehow get back into smash or redeem yourself, which leads me to believe your therapy was not as effective as you claim it was and you still in your heart see this community as something you *deserve* to be a part of.
I don't understand the obsession many ppl have with psychoanalyzing their netplay opponent quitting out. Feels like it's just making up a guy to get mad at
I play Puff so I deal with it all the time, and there's zero point thinking about it bc I can find a new opponent in <2 min
Watching his set against Swedish I realized there is no Fox I enjoy watching remotely as much as
@TSM_Leffen
. I'm always going to root for Mango, SFAT, and FatGoku first but his play just so goddamn aesthetically compelling.
This is Deep Norcal erasure.
The real history is that in Madden '05 there's a commentary line where Al Michael says what sounds to me like "solid hit, just trunched him" and I started saying it around The Deep.
It's when you truck and crunch someone at the same time.
I'll really miss Hawking.
A Brief History of Time was a big part of why I ended up studying Physics instead of Chemistry, without which I wouldn't be where I am today.
I'll never forget attending a public lecture of his where he wheeled himself out to Ride of the Valkyries.
Hi friends, my contract with Nike has expired, so I'm looking for new work.
I'm a Physics PhD turned data scientist and tournament organizer (I lead
@Genesis_Smash
).
If you or anyone you know is looking for someone like me, please be in touch!
Big House 10 travelers:
There is a $2 bus between the airport and downtown that comes every 30 min between 5am and 10:30pm.
It's the 261 or "Fast Michigan" SMART bus.
Don't pay $30 for a shuttle/rideshare! Just make sure you have cash!
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Sucks about Jmook's controllers, but TOs need to make a call that it's a game loss minimum for him imo. If you ask moky whether he's cool with playing it out, you put him in a terrible position. If he says he wants the game, he looks like the bad guy. Lose-lose
I think it would be really funny at a future Genesis to keep everyone waiting outside the venue until 5 min before pools start, & when attendees finally open the doors it's just Boback in there setting up tables & chairs and he's like "Oh hey guys you wanna give me a hand here?"
Smash commentator: OK we have some content coming up for you real quick
Me, slavering: Hell yeah I love to Watch Content, it's my 2nd favorite thing after Consuming Products
One of my earliest memories is watching Jeopardy with my mom in the late 80s. We watched Jeopardy together a lot especially as she herself was fighting cancer. I take the Jeopardy online test every year. Hoping for the best for Alex, he's been a significant part of my life.
@AllyUltimate
Then why don't you stay out of this community's business?
Everything I read from you makes me think you have an unhealthy hope deep down that you will somehow come back, and you only say you're staying banned for good optics.
I talked with Dr Piggy about this case many times, and everything she says here is completely consistent with our discussions. I never heard Nairo mentioned in connection with this case until yesterday.
This thread seems to insinuate that I knew about Nairo/Zack. Although it's difficult to prove a lack of knowledge, I'm going to post here screenshots from conversations with D1, D. Disciple, & Ally, and clear up misconceptions presented in this QRT thread.
The 64 guys are 100% correct here and are the last people anyone should blame about Genesis 6 running late
The schedule we put together was too optimistic on time. In the future Genesis Sunday will plan around things going long but have extra content on deck if things run short
For everyone blaming 64 for the delays @ Genesis 6 on Sun
64 was given a 2 hr block
The production started 2:51:34 into the stream
The first game started at 2:56:00
The last game ended at 4:55:45
The production ended (replays etc) at 5:01:43
Matches ran inside of the 2 hr block