DryEyeRelief
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I think it's fuckin fine, Leffen and people should be thinking long term, if this community actually and truely wants to be respected then yes we should be doing stuff like other "real" sports. I can't just walk into the dug out and start telling Ichiro to sign my shit, that's unreasonable and most of the time it's their buisiness time so you're getting in the way and making them uncomfortable. It's a danger both to the player who sometimes just wants to get their shit done, and to the venue with constant clogging of areas making the M2K line fire hazard worthy and destructive of the con experience as well.
I remember reading on the smash reddit someone saying that it was important to prop up the top players because the community can't rely on corporate sponsorship like other games. I think there's some validity to it. Nairo from Smash 4 was sponsored by Shaq's esports team as their first fgc based player and I think that was largely due to how big his twitch following is.
It can go a lot of ways, really.
From a FB Smash group, here's what I put down:
Also y'all need to tell me when you play netplay usually. I wanna see how good GAF is.
That's all reasonable. There's never going to be a set standard for VIP because every event has different circumstances. But the concept itself isn't terrible.
Paying to see the players seems like a bit much but it's not any different than Capcom Cup. They offered special marked up tickets to the afterparty featuring the top players who participated.