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This Is the Best We’ve Got, Huh?
The Evolution tournament is this week, and it looks to be one of the biggest yet. I certainly don’t envy the task of running a 7K-person tournament, but it’s good to see the Pandemic didn’t affect every tournament running. While I had my problems with last year’s Evo, the first under new management, I trust
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In the Esports Swamp, You are Only Someone’s Plaything
Counter Logic Gaming is dead. Team SoloMid is pausing its Esports endeavors after suffering massive losses from the fall of disgraced cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which had brokered a lucrative $210 million naming partnership. Activision-Blizzard’s Overwatch League is continuing its freefall into a full-fledged fiasco. Riot Games’ League Championship Series is experiencing a significant decline in
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Millions of Dollars Can’t Hide the Ugly
Capcom has announced that their annual Capcom Pro Tour circuit will grant a $1,000,000 prize for 1st place in 2023, and that curdling squelch you hear is the sound of blood rushing to the skulls of fighting game players as they collectively blow their top. Street Fighter 6 will have, merely by existing, the largest
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Follow-up on Arturo and Matcherino
Two weeks ago, I posted a blog that examined the outstanding claims made against longtime fighting game communities member Arturo “NYC_Furby” Sanchez regarding his sacking from eSports platform Matcherino for “mishandling prize pool funds.” Up to the time of that post and for several weeks afterwards, Matcherino had remained silent as allegations of theft ran
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Arturo Sanchez, Matcherino, and the Slow Heat Death of the FGC
AUTHOR’S NOTE: There has been an official update to this situation, which I have responded to. You can read that by clicking here. Some of the information in this blog was disproven, and if so, the text will be struck through like this. Thanks for reading. If I had to find some sort of definition
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Crypto or Despots: Matcherino and Picking Your Poison
A piece of wisdom that I always hear about eSports is that it’s an “emerging industry,” some 20+ years into its inception, and that means there will be crooks and thieves skulking in the shadows trying to bilk people. It’s also said that everything must be done to shoo these people away, as it reflects
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2022 – Learning to Speak a New Language
Earlier this year, I re-read Moby Dick. I do this every few years, as may have been apparent, but being the brilliant work of fiction that it is, there’s always something new to find. This quote, in particular, stuck with me a lot throughout the year: “Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it
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There is No Easter Bunny, There is No Tooth Fairy, and There is No “FGC”
It’s often said that the definition of insanity is repeating the same mistakes over and over again and expecting a different result. This quote is often attributed to Albert Einstein or Ben Franklin, but the truth is neither man said it. Nevertheless, the whimsical, folksy nature of the quote is more fun to imagine as
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I Don’t Make ‘Content’
Most days I conscientiously try to avoid being perceived as ‘pretentious’. It’s a pretty nasty marker in many circles. There’s often a social pressure to present oneself on the internet as the ideal over the real, and no one’s ideal has traits that aren’t cool. But I will be pretentious today, because I’m goddamn sick
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