Why I Don't Compete In Pump It Up Tournaments

00:53:35
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnaAzvRwaV0

Resumo

TLDRDans cette vidéo, l'auteur exprime les raisons pour lesquelles il choisit de ne pas participer aux tournois de jeux de danse, mettant en avant des expériences personnelles négatives et des observations concernant l'intégrité compétitive dans la scène. Il détaille des exemples spécifiques où il a constaté des règles modifiées et un favoritisme dans certains événements, tout en reconnaissant qu'il existe également des événements bien gérés. De plus, il évoque l'impact de la politique et de la dynamique sociale sur sa perception des compétitions. Actuellement, il se concentre sur sa santé mentale et physique, préférant soutenir les événements locaux sans s'engager dans des compétitions formelles.

Conclusões

  • 🎮 L'auteur ne participe pas aux tournois de danse.
  • 📉 Manque d'intégrité compétitive aux événements.
  • ❌ Règles modifiées sur un coup de tête.
  • 🤝 Favoritisme dans certaines compétitions.
  • 🧠 Priorité accordée à la santé mentale.
  • 🎉 Soutien aux événements locaux sans compétition.
  • 🧐 Expériences négatives influençant sa vision.
  • 💬 Importance d'écouter diverses expériences.
  • 🌐 Politique peut affecter la dynamique des événements.
  • ✅ Reconnaissance des bons événements bien gérés.

Linha do tempo

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Le vidéaste aborde le sujet des compétitions, expliquant qu'il ne participe pas aux tournois malgré les encouragements des fans. Il souhaite partager son expérience personnelle et ses raisons sans généraliser à tous les événements.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Il évoque des détails d'un événement passé où les règles ont changé à la dernière minute, ce qui remet en question l'intégrité des compétitions. Il souligne que ces changements de règles peuvent fausser les résultats et affecter les participants.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Il mentionne des exemples de favoritisme dans l'application des règles lors de compétitions, exposant des situations où des joueurs privilégiés ont reçu des traitements différents par rapport aux autres, suscitant un sentiment d'injustice.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Le vidéaste aborde des problèmes de politicité au sein de la communauté des jeux de danse. Il raconte une expérience où il a été victime de critiques acerbes pour avoir exprimé un désir de garder les discussions politiques hors de ses espaces en ligne.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Il affirme que l'environnement de certaines compétitions peut être peu accueillant, en raison de l'hostilité ressentie vis-à-vis de son statut de joueur connu et des attentes des autres joueurs.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Il critique le manque d'égalité dans le traitement des compétiteurs, notamment en ce qui concerne les échauffements, où certains joueurs sont désavantagés en raison des restrictions de temps imposées lors des événements.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    Il partage son point de vue sur les faibles récompenses financières dans de nombreux tournois, estimant qu'une compétition sans incitations significatives peut sembler peu attrayante pour les joueurs sérieux.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:00

    Il souligne que malgré ses critiques, il reconnaît le travail acharné des organisateurs d'événements et des joueurs passionnés, tout en partageant son expérience négative qui l'a éloigné des tournois.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:45:00

    Il explique que sa participation à un événement local récent a été positive, mais cela ne change pas son opinion générale sur les tournois de danse en raison de son expérience passée.

  • 00:45:00 - 00:53:35

    En conclusion, le vidéaste exprime son souhait de partager ses réflexions sur son désintérêt pour les compétitions de danse et d'encourager une discussion ouverte sur ces problèmes au sein de la communauté.

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Vídeo de perguntas e respostas

  • Pourquoi l’auteur ne participe-t-il pas aux tournois?

    Il souligne un manque d'intégrité compétitive et partage des expériences négatives.

  • Quelles sont les raisons évoquées autour du manque d'intégrité compétitive?

    Des changements soudains de règles et un favoritisme apparent dans certains événements.

  • L'auteur considère-t-il que tous les événements sont mal organisés?

    Non, il reconnaît qu'il existe de bons événements bien gérés.

  • L’auteur parle-t-il de ses expériences personnelles dans la communauté?

    Oui, il mentionne des interactions négatives et politiques qui ont influencé sa décision.

  • Quel est l'état mental de l'auteur vis-à-vis des compétitions aujourd'hui?

    Il privilégie sa santé mentale et physique plutôt que la compétition.

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  • 00:00:02
    all right welcome back guys uh this
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    video is actually one of the biggest
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    ones that I've wanted to do for quite
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    some time uh granted I did make a video
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    that talked about this uh in pretty
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    decent length uh I want to say 2018
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    maybe 2019 on my main channel um that
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    was a long time ago at this point number
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    one and the number two uh it wasn't as
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    detailed as I wanted it to be and I mean
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    fast forward to today um there's quite a
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    bit more things that I can bring up and
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    discuss in great detail in contrast to
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    how that video was um but this video uh
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    is going to be about why I don't compete
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    in tournaments uh this is a very very
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    hot topic i can't tell you how many
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    times people contact me all the time to
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    this very very day uh the big one just
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    passed uh what was that October of last
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    year somewhere around there um and I was
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    in the chat supporting the event talking
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    and cheering people on that were in the
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    event that I knew of or knew in person
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    and so many people were saying "Why
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    aren't you there why aren't you there
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    when are you going to go to the big one
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    when you go to the big one when are you
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    going to the big deal when you go here
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    when you go there when you go to a
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    bite?" Uh and all these different events
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    nonstop um and on one hand you know I
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    really do it means a lot because people
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    look up to me people want to see me
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    compete and I totally get it it makes
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    complete sense but on the other hand uh
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    there is quite a bit of history and
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    quite a bit of reasoning as to why I
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    have no interest in doing tournaments or
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    events and we're going to dive right
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    into it here in just a couple minutes
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    but first of course I got to make a
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    couple disclaimers here uh number one
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    this is just my opinion obviously right
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    number two it's my personal experience
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    so you can take what I say with a grain
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    of salt um in regards to don't don't
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    take my personal experience and assume
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    it's going to be the same for you or
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    everybody else right that's not the case
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    uh there's plenty of events that are out
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    there that are very uh well operated
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    that are uh uh done in good faith and
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    have great people behind it we literally
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    just had a local one out here um that
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    was hosted by a handful of people that I
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    knew IRL um or at the very least
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    acquaintances and it was really fun to
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    watch it it was I was there to support
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    it um I actually partake in the I
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    participated in the u co-op division of
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    that event uh just for fun and that was
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    my way of showing support um towards my
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    friends that put the event together and
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    there's a lot of passion put into it um
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    so everything I'm going to be going over
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    is not uh it can't be a blanket
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    statement you can't apply it to every
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    single event and again it's just coming
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    down to my personal experience with what
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    I've dealt with throughout the years of
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    being involved in uh granted very few
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    events i haven't been in too many events
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    um as a whole if you count you know
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    Dance Dance Revolution In the Groove and
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    Pump It Up just strictly dance games um
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    I can't I can't count how many that I
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    have entered but not not a whole lot in
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    comparison to other people um and then
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    was there any other things i'm looking I
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    got bullet points for this video this
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    time around um all right that one oh and
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    the last thing to make a disclaimer
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    about is there's a couple of sensitive
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    topics that I'm going to be going over
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    so just a fair warning just a heads up
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    to you guys um just be aware uh but I'm
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    trying to be fully transparent and give
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    you my full reasoning um which I feel
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    like I didn't do on my main channel with
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    that one video back in 2018 or so uh so
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    this one I want to just make it be a
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    oneanddone thing go over pretty much
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    every reason that I can think of that's
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    hold me back from entering events and
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    it's pretty much indefinite i really
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    don't see myself doing it especially at
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    this point in my life you know I'm 34
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    years old i have a beautiful daughter uh
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    and I got a bunch of other things that I
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    prioritize in my personal life and have
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    other hobbies and interests and I just
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    don't see myself entering events but
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    without further ado let's dive into this
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    um I may pause here and there just to
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    collect my thoughts um it's also a bit
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    of a sensitive topic for me because of
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    reasons that you'll you'll see why um
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    but also just yeah to collect my
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    thoughts and make sure I'm getting
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    everything
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    uh covered and get all my points across
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    as best as possible which is why I wrote
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    down a lot of bullet points all right so
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    reasons that I'm not interested in
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    events now I did two categories i did uh
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    one that's under the lack of competitive
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    integrity that's the first major reason
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    and there's a like subcategories in
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    there that I'll be going over first and
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    then after that there's additional
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    reasons which are just you know little
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    micro things that collectively add up to
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    be a huge turnoff for me uh so the first
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    one lack of competitive integrity so
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    what do I mean by that uh point number
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    one rules changing suddenly uh so in my
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    experience I've been to numerous events
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    where you can bring up one example uh
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    there's an event that was hosted and I
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    went to it i traveled to it and when I'm
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    there on the day of the event uh this is
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    for Pump It Up uh Pump It Up is a game
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    where singles and doubles are both
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    equally important and during this event
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    they actually on the day of cancelled
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    doubles completely removed it after a
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    certain point i don't remember entirely
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    like how deep it was in the event but I
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    know for a fact it wasn't super deep
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    like at the very very end but even that
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    is unacceptable um because again it
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    comes back to the point that I said that
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    this is under for the category this is
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    under the lack of competitive integrity
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    uh how is it fair for people that are
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    spending money to travel to these events
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    there's money on the line granted not a
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    whole lot but there's a prize pool
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    there's people spending their time
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    they're spending their hardearned money
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    to go to these events and there's rules
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    posted and during these events they can
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    change the rules on the fly now I know
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    the rebuttal is going to be well time is
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    an issue right to have time limitations
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    because of the um the facility that's
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    the the events being hosted at usually
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    round ones or it could be a number of
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    places and locations but round one's
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    been a more popular one and I totally
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    understand that and acknowledge that so
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    I I want to make that's another thing I
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    want to make a disclaimer about too is
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    like don't misunderstand this video as
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    me trying to point the finger and say
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    these people are bad to these people are
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    you know not fair they're purposely
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    doing this or that sometimes that's the
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    case uh but majority of the time no
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    these people are very passionate there's
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    hardworking to that put in a lot of work
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    in these events and they do a great job
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    uh so keep that in mind just want to
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    make that very very clear but
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    unfortunately I have come across quite a
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    bit of times where rules are changed
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    like that where doubles are completely
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    eliminated because of time constraint
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    and that does come down to it begs the
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    question of why is that the case and why
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    is the time an issue did you let too
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    many people enter your event did you
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    limit the brackets properly the
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    tournament bracket size properly uh
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    there's a handful of things that you
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    could be asking about that to figure out
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    like what caused that to happen you know
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    and I get it again sometimes hiccups can
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    happen it's not easy i've done a couple
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    of toing before nothing crazy major for
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    like really big events that have big
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    names behind them just little ones that
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    have been in my garage and even that
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    like I do acknowledge that it is an
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    issue and that is a fair point to bring
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    up but it's still comes down to the
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    point that I'm trying to make is that
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    there's a lack of competitive integrity
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    whether it's intentional or not that's a
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    different conversation but rules
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    changing suddenly like that said right
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    there getting rid of doubles completely
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    there's money on the line that's going
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    to change the outcome entirely whether
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    people want to accept that or not there
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    are people that are really really good
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    at singles but they lack skill in
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    doubles and there's vice versa but
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    there's people that are really good at
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    doubles and uh they struggle with
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    singles in in comparison and then
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    there's also people that are just
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    wellrounded at both granted um point
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    number two under the lack of competitive
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    integrity bias to bending rules to favor
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    others so we haven't had uh I don't know
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    if they call it out in other countries
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    but I think it always ends with um PF
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    for uh Pump Festival uh these are
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    official tournaments that are hosted by
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    Anamero or like on behalf of Animero
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    it's kind of weird if that makes sense
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    like Animero directly isn't flying out
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    to these countries or these locations
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    and like being there per se maybe they
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    are sometimes i don't know i've been out
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    of the loop admittedly but the last one
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    that was here in the United States was
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    USPF uh
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    2018 and I know for a fact andro wasn't
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    there but people that represented andro
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    uh non-employees were there um so the
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    the face of Andro was there running
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    these events uh but this is one example
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    at USPF 2018 i entered that event that
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    was my last uh official andro
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    uh hosted or whatever you want to call
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    it event so this is considered the
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    United States Championship uh and when I
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    went into that event um ended up winning
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    it uh so keep that in mind so I know
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    people are going to try to rebuttal and
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    be like "Oh he's just bitter that he
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    lost or whatever." No this is coming
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    from the person that won that event the
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    last host of United States Pump
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    Championship okay in 2018 uh with that
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    said um during that event I went up
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    against a player um who whose
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    significant other was the face of this
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    uh that was running this event alongside
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    with a couple other people and I had my
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    match against that person and we played
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    a chart and that he went up first and
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    ended up dropping holds at the beginning
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    of the song and after he finished
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    playing his significant other stood up
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    and said "That was not him that was pad
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    error that needs to now I don't remember
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    if they said it needed to be
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    recalculated
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    um you know that which means they undo
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    the drop hold misses that happened in
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    that section and fixed his score
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    accordingly or if they said let him redo
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    it like let him play it again that
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    wasn't him but either way that was the
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    argument that was being made on the spot
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    at the United States Championship and I
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    stood up and said I had to pull up the
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    rules that were posted on the Facebook
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    page at the time and show them like
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    actually said that that's not allowed
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    you play it and that's what you get if
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    there's pad issues too bad and I showed
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    them that and then just said you know
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    let me play it i ended up playing it and
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    this is on Prime 2 so I I my memor is a
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    little foggy on how the scoring system
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    was different but uh basically I play
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    the song on the same machine and I got a
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    score that was it didn't matter
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    basically thankfully um so even if those
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    misses were recalked um or like taken
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    out of the equation of the score uh I
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    still would have won so thankfully that
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    happened but imagine if it didn't happen
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    imagine if I didn't win that and they
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    let the person redo it because of pad
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    error or whatever have you right so this
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    goes back to again the point of the lack
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    of competitive integrity and fairness
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    and this also goes into the next point
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    that I want to bring up is biased to
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    bending rules to favor others um I think
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    I actually that's the one I touched on
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    and then went into this example i can
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    give one more example on this too uh
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    this is way back man this was uh I think
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    this was my first tournament ever for In
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    the Groove um was out in San Diego uh
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    it's actually where I met a bunch of uh
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    friends that I I ended up being friends
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    with befriended a bunch of people at
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    that event uh it was a fun event overall
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    um but I I don't know how deep in it was
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    it was near the end i don't think it was
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    the finals maybe semifinals somewhere
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    around there um I'm up against my
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    opponent uh we're playing a chart uh
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    it's ITG so it's we're both on the same
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    cabinet one pad each and they we're
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    playing the chart and I I'm trying to
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    remember correctly because this is like
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    2011 so I may be misremembering like
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    every little detail but I do know for a
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    fact that we played we tied uh an X
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    count for excellence but my opponent
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    triggered one of the mines uh if you're
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    not familiar with In the Groove if you
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    trigger a mine it reduces your score by
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    a little bit and you have to be on a
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    sensor to like trigger it when the mine
  • 00:11:52
    hits the receptors up top uh so we tied
  • 00:11:55
    but he hit a a mine or a bomb whatever
  • 00:11:57
    you want to call it um and he called out
  • 00:12:00
    pad error he said it wasn't him so the
  • 00:12:03
    to uh for this event said "Switch sides
  • 00:12:06
    play it again." We did that guess what
  • 00:12:08
    happened it's kind of crazy we tied X
  • 00:12:10
    again but he triggered the mine he said
  • 00:12:13
    it was Pat again and then this is where
  • 00:12:15
    it's a little bit of a foggy memory to
  • 00:12:17
    be fair um but I do know that we played
  • 00:12:20
    it again a third time and I don't
  • 00:12:22
    remember if we swapped sides or not but
  • 00:12:24
    we did play a third time and he ended up
  • 00:12:27
    beating me with my uh he he won that
  • 00:12:29
    round he didn't trigger mine and then he
  • 00:12:31
    beat the EX count that I had so his
  • 00:12:33
    score was higher and I got knocked out
  • 00:12:35
    of the tournament
  • 00:12:37
    um that's I I I don't know i'm kind of
  • 00:12:41
    just like as I'm telling these stories
  • 00:12:43
    and I'm like remembering all this it's
  • 00:12:44
    just like little things like that that
  • 00:12:47
    just people I don't know other people's
  • 00:12:49
    experience and events i mean I've heard
  • 00:12:51
    some people say good things i've heard a
  • 00:12:53
    a handful of other people say bad things
  • 00:12:55
    i actually had uh Windforce out here uh
  • 00:12:58
    several months ago and he speaks pretty
  • 00:13:01
    decent English uh enough to where we
  • 00:13:02
    could have a conversation and he
  • 00:13:04
    actually was talking to me about uh
  • 00:13:05
    tournaments and stuff because he asked
  • 00:13:06
    the same question you know he's like
  • 00:13:07
    "Hey I'm curious why don't you enter
  • 00:13:09
    events?" He says "You're really talented
  • 00:13:10
    player blah blah blah." And I went over
  • 00:13:13
    all these things with him had a really
  • 00:13:14
    deep conversation with him and funny
  • 00:13:16
    enough he actually brought up uh he
  • 00:13:18
    agreed with me and said "You know I too
  • 00:13:19
    have experienced uh a similar thing
  • 00:13:22
    happen to me in official events in Korea
  • 00:13:24
    official events in other countries where
  • 00:13:26
    I'm noticing that people that are
  • 00:13:28
    organizing these events they're bending
  • 00:13:30
    rules or people that are competing are
  • 00:13:32
    trying to bend rules where they can or
  • 00:13:34
    manipulate things to favor them as much
  • 00:13:36
    as possible and it just it solidifies my
  • 00:13:40
    point is that there's all this biased
  • 00:13:43
    stuff that goes on with people that are
  • 00:13:45
    funny enough self-appointed mind you
  • 00:13:48
    because a lot of these events are uh
  • 00:13:49
    communitydriven since there's a lack of
  • 00:13:51
    official events but then the other
  • 00:13:53
    problem too is official events aren't
  • 00:13:55
    even all that great i mean look at KC
  • 00:13:58
    for example people on how that
  • 00:14:00
    event is operated and how it's uh the
  • 00:14:02
    format that they use for it um and the
  • 00:14:05
    same thing with uh what's that called
  • 00:14:08
    wpf World Pump Festival so the World
  • 00:14:10
    Championship i think the last one was in
  • 00:14:12
    2016 um I don't remember all the details
  • 00:14:15
    of the rules for that but I know this
  • 00:14:18
    happened too with KC at one of the KC's
  • 00:14:20
    i know um they when they came out with
  • 00:14:23
    the gold cabinet they made everyone play
  • 00:14:25
    on those machines and I know there was
  • 00:14:27
    if not all the people that were entering
  • 00:14:28
    that event uh a handful of them were
  • 00:14:31
    complaining about that and saying it
  • 00:14:32
    wasn't fair um it just felt awful uh I
  • 00:14:37
    don't know if they modded the pad or not
  • 00:14:38
    so I can't speak on that i'm not going
  • 00:14:39
    to make assumptions with that but maybe
  • 00:14:41
    possibly that was another thing they
  • 00:14:42
    were complaining about i think it was
  • 00:14:43
    Barone that was the most vocal about it
  • 00:14:44
    a Japanese player um I don't know how
  • 00:14:47
    Chris Trike felt about it so again I'm
  • 00:14:49
    not going to speak on other people's
  • 00:14:50
    behalf especially when I don't know the
  • 00:14:52
    facts for it um for WPF
  • 00:14:56
    um I know in that format at some point
  • 00:14:58
    if I'm not mistaken you played one song
  • 00:15:00
    uh and that was it you were just done
  • 00:15:02
    and then they also introduced the LX
  • 00:15:03
    cabinet there at that event if I'm not
  • 00:15:05
    mistaken um and all these people are
  • 00:15:09
    traveling all over from the world right
  • 00:15:11
    to go to this event and then that's what
  • 00:15:14
    they're doing that's how they present a
  • 00:15:15
    world championship and then not to
  • 00:15:17
    mention the prize pool is honestly a
  • 00:15:19
    joke and all these events is even uh not
  • 00:15:22
    world uh official hosted ones now I know
  • 00:15:25
    the rebuttal is going to be you know
  • 00:15:28
    it's it's a small niche game it's uh
  • 00:15:32
    communitydriven most of the time it's
  • 00:15:34
    not the to's fault it's not anyone's
  • 00:15:36
    fault in particular when it comes to the
  • 00:15:38
    price pool especially there's really
  • 00:15:40
    nothing that the community can do to fix
  • 00:15:41
    that problem uh it just comes down to
  • 00:15:44
    the the the brutal reality that it's
  • 00:15:46
    just so niche and so small uh so there's
  • 00:15:49
    no fingerpointing there's no one to
  • 00:15:50
    blame for that that's just how it is uh
  • 00:15:52
    and I acknowledge that um but I'm
  • 00:15:55
    getting a little bit ahead of myself
  • 00:15:56
    here sorry so I did bias to bending
  • 00:15:58
    rules to favor others there's plenty of
  • 00:16:00
    other examples that I could give but I'm
  • 00:16:01
    not going to get too stuck on like one
  • 00:16:03
    individual point um and if you've ever
  • 00:16:06
    experienced anything like this yourself
  • 00:16:07
    please share in the comment section down
  • 00:16:09
    below like let me know um it could very
  • 00:16:11
    well just be like a minority issue i
  • 00:16:13
    really do think it is and that's why I
  • 00:16:15
    want to really uh uh focus hard on the
  • 00:16:19
    point of what I said in the beginning of
  • 00:16:21
    the video with my disclaimer is that
  • 00:16:22
    this is just my personal experience
  • 00:16:24
    right this again doesn't mean that it's
  • 00:16:27
    the case for every event or majority of
  • 00:16:29
    events because it very well likely isn't
  • 00:16:32
    the majority of events i could be uh
  • 00:16:34
    just an outlier who knows um but
  • 00:16:37
    regardless I'm telling you why and
  • 00:16:38
    giving you my story and my experience of
  • 00:16:40
    what I've dealt with from as early back
  • 00:16:42
    as like 2009 all the way to current time
  • 00:16:47
    um the next one this is actually kind of
  • 00:16:49
    crazy that I even have to bring this up
  • 00:16:51
    and it's really sad it's very upsetting
  • 00:16:53
    that it's even an issue but politics uh
  • 00:16:56
    now I guess politics could be there's
  • 00:16:58
    two types of politics you can say like
  • 00:16:59
    politics with like within the community
  • 00:17:01
    itself of like um you know clicks and
  • 00:17:04
    you know biases and things like that but
  • 00:17:06
    the politics I'm talking about is actual
  • 00:17:08
    like real world politics you know
  • 00:17:10
    politicians and political topics and
  • 00:17:12
    things like that um one of the biggest
  • 00:17:15
    examples that I can give you is that in
  • 00:17:17
    2020 um after George Floyd passed away I
  • 00:17:21
    actually made a tweet um as you guys
  • 00:17:23
    probably remember this blew up all over
  • 00:17:26
    social media people were putting um you
  • 00:17:28
    know black profile pictures where it's
  • 00:17:30
    just a a black image there's nothing on
  • 00:17:32
    it um or putting you know hashtag BLM in
  • 00:17:35
    their Twitter bios or tweeting about it
  • 00:17:38
    people are very very very vocal about
  • 00:17:40
    this uh event that happened in 2020 and
  • 00:17:42
    shortly after this uh occurred I
  • 00:17:45
    actually made a tweet which to this day
  • 00:17:46
    it's still on my Twitter account you can
  • 00:17:48
    go look at it uh if you don't want to
  • 00:17:50
    take my word for it from this video but
  • 00:17:52
    but I said something along the lines of
  • 00:17:54
    "Hey guys with everything that's going
  • 00:17:55
    on in the real world right now um I just
  • 00:17:58
    want to remind my community to not talk
  • 00:18:00
    about political or controversial things
  • 00:18:02
    uh in my Discord uh server and my Twitch
  • 00:18:06
    streams." That's all I said and the
  • 00:18:10
    dance game community from anywhere from
  • 00:18:12
    DDR players to in the groove players and
  • 00:18:15
    pump it up players just everybody not
  • 00:18:17
    well not everybody every uh every dance
  • 00:18:21
    game genre had a handful of people that
  • 00:18:23
    went on there and started uh dog piling
  • 00:18:26
    on me calling me you know racist
  • 00:18:29
    alt-right Trump supporting bigot uh
  • 00:18:33
    homophobic xenophobic I mean you just
  • 00:18:35
    name it dude any buzzword you can come
  • 00:18:37
    up with They threw that label onto me
  • 00:18:41
    and I stole my ground and I actually
  • 00:18:44
    went live the day I think the day of or
  • 00:18:48
    the day after I made that tweet and a
  • 00:18:50
    whole swarm of people came into my live
  • 00:18:52
    stream and started spamming Black Lives
  • 00:18:55
    Matter Black Lives Matter BLM say his
  • 00:18:57
    name hashtag this hashtag that and we
  • 00:19:00
    told I told them and uh my mods told
  • 00:19:03
    them "Hey stop spamming uh it's a rule
  • 00:19:08
    so we started deleting the comments
  • 00:19:09
    because they kept spamming it kept
  • 00:19:10
    spamming it kept spamming it and then
  • 00:19:12
    sure enough people screenshot that and
  • 00:19:14
    then put it on Twitter and say "Look
  • 00:19:16
    he's silencing us he's racist." Uh they
  • 00:19:19
    went further than that too with other
  • 00:19:20
    things but again I'm not going to go
  • 00:19:22
    deep down in this rabbit hole but a
  • 00:19:24
    bunch of crazy accusations came out with
  • 00:19:25
    that and it's just complete utter
  • 00:19:28
    nonsense chronically online mentality
  • 00:19:30
    and sadly there is quite a few people in
  • 00:19:32
    the dance game community in particular
  • 00:19:35
    that have this type of mentality that
  • 00:19:37
    have that chronic that chronically
  • 00:19:39
    online uh mentality and thought process
  • 00:19:41
    and it bleeds in to these games somehow
  • 00:19:45
    through events at times now again maybe
  • 00:19:47
    this has died down i don't know i've
  • 00:19:49
    been out of the loop completely but
  • 00:19:51
    again speaking from experience and
  • 00:19:53
    during the time where I was more active
  • 00:19:54
    on social media in comparison to where I
  • 00:19:56
    am nowadays um there was quite a bit of
  • 00:19:59
    this stuff being discussed and uh going
  • 00:20:03
    as far as even after that happened there
  • 00:20:05
    was a uh I don't remember the name of
  • 00:20:06
    the Facebook group but it was a Facebook
  • 00:20:08
    group of again self-appointed people
  • 00:20:10
    that all think very similarly and if
  • 00:20:13
    they don't then they will exile you from
  • 00:20:16
    the community they will uh try to cancel
  • 00:20:18
    you they will try to silence you if you
  • 00:20:20
    disagree with them on anything and even
  • 00:20:23
    as little as something as that where
  • 00:20:24
    it's just me saying "Hey let's keep
  • 00:20:26
    political and or controversial things
  • 00:20:29
    out of my community of my my my very own
  • 00:20:32
    community that I built my platform that
  • 00:20:34
    I earned and worked for not yours uh not
  • 00:20:37
    anyone else's." Um but what was I
  • 00:20:40
    getting at the the the Facebook group
  • 00:20:43
    that I was talking about there was a
  • 00:20:45
    thread that was made to discuss whether
  • 00:20:46
    or not I should be permanently banned
  • 00:20:48
    from certain events because I was a
  • 00:20:51
    threat to the community because of that
  • 00:20:54
    tweet and again that tweet is still
  • 00:20:55
    there to this day so if you want to
  • 00:20:57
    scroll way back I think it was around
  • 00:21:00
    like it was in 2020 i think it was like
  • 00:21:02
    April or so give or take right around
  • 00:21:05
    there by all means go check it out um
  • 00:21:08
    it's just complete
  • 00:21:10
    utter nonsense again it's just insanity
  • 00:21:12
    to me that this is even a thing and uh I
  • 00:21:14
    I again I don't know if this is still
  • 00:21:16
    going on to this day it wouldn't
  • 00:21:18
    surprise me because there's a lot of the
  • 00:21:19
    familiar old faces are still in these
  • 00:21:22
    scenes running a lot of these events so
  • 00:21:24
    it's a bigger reason that it's a huge
  • 00:21:25
    turnoff it's not welcoming uh it's very
  • 00:21:28
    very uh ironically uh close-minded which
  • 00:21:31
    is something they always preach to be
  • 00:21:32
    against and they always talk about
  • 00:21:34
    saying you know we're open arms this and
  • 00:21:36
    that but the moment you have any slight
  • 00:21:38
    misalignment with them and any political
  • 00:21:40
    view no matter how tame of a take you
  • 00:21:44
    have you will get exiled if they do not
  • 00:21:46
    like you or do not agree with what
  • 00:21:48
    you're saying they'll they'll chew alive
  • 00:21:50
    their own people it's it's crazy it's
  • 00:21:51
    like it's like they they do this like
  • 00:21:54
    this self-purity test or like a purity
  • 00:21:57
    test on other people and it's just
  • 00:22:00
    eventually uh it's very uh very
  • 00:22:02
    polarizing and very uh again
  • 00:22:04
    narrow-minded and it's damaging to the
  • 00:22:07
    community because it will eventually
  • 00:22:09
    they'll have nobody left to uh uh do
  • 00:22:11
    this purity test on because they're just
  • 00:22:13
    closing they're pushing people away from
  • 00:22:16
    this game and it's like of all of all
  • 00:22:19
    fans to get politics involved in it's
  • 00:22:21
    dance games like really that's just
  • 00:22:24
    insanity i I just don't understand it
  • 00:22:26
    and that's that's a really really big
  • 00:22:28
    one that I really needed to bring up and
  • 00:22:30
    emphasize because from my experience it
  • 00:22:33
    was very uh unwelcoming and very
  • 00:22:36
    narrow-minded and it was a huge turnoff
  • 00:22:37
    from uh attending major events
  • 00:22:40
    especially because again a lot of the
  • 00:22:41
    people that are running up these big
  • 00:22:43
    events at least during that time again
  • 00:22:44
    don't know how it is nowadays haven't
  • 00:22:46
    looked into it uh was these same people
  • 00:22:48
    that are very very uh politically
  • 00:22:51
    politically extreme uh is the best way
  • 00:22:53
    to say it or chronically online uh not
  • 00:22:56
    in uh not living in reality so to speak
  • 00:22:59
    uh so the next point I want to bring up
  • 00:23:01
    is uh it's not an even playing field
  • 00:23:03
    this is something that uh it's crazy
  • 00:23:05
    again to me for this one too uh I always
  • 00:23:08
    hear people say that of like you know
  • 00:23:10
    whenever I try to criticize uh certain
  • 00:23:13
    tournaments or events or like the
  • 00:23:14
    structure of um dance game tournaments
  • 00:23:17
    and whatnot point out flaws of of
  • 00:23:19
    different things right it could be a
  • 00:23:21
    number of different things the answer I
  • 00:23:22
    always get back is well it's an even
  • 00:23:23
    playing field for everybody no it's not
  • 00:23:26
    how is it an even playing field when uh
  • 00:23:29
    let me think of an example
  • 00:23:31
    here i would say one that comes to my
  • 00:23:34
    mind like right away is warm-ups
  • 00:23:36
    warm-ups is a really big issue some
  • 00:23:38
    tournaments let you warm up number one
  • 00:23:39
    some don't um hear me out on this too
  • 00:23:42
    because I'm going somewhere with this
  • 00:23:43
    because I know people are going to say
  • 00:23:45
    right away well the ones that let you
  • 00:23:48
    warm up it's still an even playing field
  • 00:23:49
    right because you can warm up or the
  • 00:23:50
    ones where it's like well you no one can
  • 00:23:52
    warm up so it's an even playing field
  • 00:23:53
    right it's like no it's still unfair
  • 00:23:56
    because I think this happened at one of
  • 00:23:58
    the I don't remember the name of the
  • 00:24:00
    event it was a big event and now it's
  • 00:24:02
    the name of it has escaped to me but at
  • 00:24:03
    least I heard from someone who attended
  • 00:24:05
    it that said that there wasn't warm-ups
  • 00:24:08
    um and it's rough that way which is for
  • 00:24:10
    the ones that don't allow warm-ups I
  • 00:24:12
    think that's really really lame i don't
  • 00:24:14
    know how you can take it seriously in my
  • 00:24:16
    opinion if you don't allow warm-ups but
  • 00:24:18
    I'm getting distracted uh sorry um what
  • 00:24:21
    happened at this event was that uh at
  • 00:24:23
    some point you know once you get further
  • 00:24:25
    into an event it's obviously the
  • 00:24:26
    tournament bracket is uh getting is
  • 00:24:28
    shrinking and getting more narrow so
  • 00:24:30
    you're going to see the same people come
  • 00:24:31
    going coming and going more often right
  • 00:24:34
    so how is it an even playing field if
  • 00:24:36
    player A gets to play two sets back to
  • 00:24:38
    back because the tournament bracket is
  • 00:24:40
    you know getting smaller and smaller
  • 00:24:42
    right again it's not the to's fault per
  • 00:24:43
    se uh for this particular issue but they
  • 00:24:46
    get to play two sets or three sets in a
  • 00:24:48
    row and now they're like fully warmed up
  • 00:24:50
    compared to player B who's been sitting
  • 00:24:53
    waiting for their set and hasn't been
  • 00:24:55
    given the chance to warm up or they're
  • 00:24:56
    just not allowed to warm up there are
  • 00:24:57
    some events that don't allow warm-up and
  • 00:24:59
    some that do um but for the ones that
  • 00:25:02
    don't player B is sitting there waiting
  • 00:25:04
    while player A just played two or three
  • 00:25:05
    full sets against an opponent and now
  • 00:25:07
    they have the advantage because they've
  • 00:25:09
    played more songs and are more warmed up
  • 00:25:12
    um doesn't make any sense to me uh I
  • 00:25:14
    don't like that not a fan of it uh I I
  • 00:25:17
    personally think the best way to make it
  • 00:25:19
    the most fair there's other issues
  • 00:25:21
    though granted but in the in the context
  • 00:25:23
    of warm-ups and I in a perfect world
  • 00:25:25
    again uh I think let people warm up uh
  • 00:25:30
    side by side uh and then that gives them
  • 00:25:33
    the opportunity to play at their best on
  • 00:25:35
    that particular day now logistics is
  • 00:25:38
    where the issue comes into this i know
  • 00:25:40
    that's going to be the rebuttal you know
  • 00:25:41
    time time restrictions um cab
  • 00:25:44
    restrictions some events only have one
  • 00:25:47
    cabinet or they have two but they have a
  • 00:25:49
    big tournament bracket with a lot of
  • 00:25:51
    entries in it and time it comes back to
  • 00:25:53
    time fully acknowledge that again this
  • 00:25:55
    is no one's fault in particular at all
  • 00:25:57
    it's just it's the nature of the beast
  • 00:25:59
    um it's just the way it is um when
  • 00:26:02
    you're hosting these events at you know
  • 00:26:04
    facilities like round one yeah you have
  • 00:26:07
    time uh restrictions and I fully
  • 00:26:08
    acknowledge that and it that's a fact um
  • 00:26:12
    but with that said that's still uh a
  • 00:26:14
    gripe that I have with tournaments uh I
  • 00:26:17
    do not like when it's either no warm-ups
  • 00:26:20
    at at all or if you can warm up it's
  • 00:26:22
    like a single song it's like I if you
  • 00:26:25
    want to compare it to like sporting
  • 00:26:26
    events which you could argue again
  • 00:26:28
    apples and oranges which yeah it is but
  • 00:26:30
    just to look at it as a reference right
  • 00:26:32
    you have athletes at NFL games that are
  • 00:26:34
    given like two hours to warm up if you
  • 00:26:37
    ever gone to like a sporting event of
  • 00:26:38
    any kind you get there early all the
  • 00:26:40
    players on both teams are on the field
  • 00:26:42
    warming up for like I said an hour or
  • 00:26:43
    two it's crazy contrast when you go to a
  • 00:26:46
    dance game tournament you go up it's
  • 00:26:48
    like the further in you get to a
  • 00:26:50
    tournament think about it if you're like
  • 00:26:51
    climbing up it's like "All right you got
  • 00:26:53
    to play you know chaos again D26 all
  • 00:26:56
    right get up and play it." It's like
  • 00:26:59
    it's kind of a joke uh with all due
  • 00:27:01
    respect I again no disrespect towards to
  • 00:27:04
    not their fault but just when you look
  • 00:27:06
    at it from the competitive the like from
  • 00:27:08
    a competitive
  • 00:27:09
    mentality how could I take something
  • 00:27:12
    like that seriously where you can't play
  • 00:27:15
    warmed up uh even when the ones that do
  • 00:27:18
    let you warm up again they're limited on
  • 00:27:19
    time so you're not truly getting warmed
  • 00:27:21
    up for these events um I've been on that
  • 00:27:24
    topic long enough i feel like that was
  • 00:27:26
    under not an even playing field oh well
  • 00:27:30
    then the other point was not a welcoming
  • 00:27:31
    environment i can kind of gloss over
  • 00:27:33
    this one um a little bit because that
  • 00:27:35
    kind of ties in back to the politics
  • 00:27:36
    thing that I brought up where it's it's
  • 00:27:38
    that was one reason out of many of why
  • 00:27:39
    it's not a welcoming environment i know
  • 00:27:42
    there's going to be a handful of people
  • 00:27:43
    that will say um you know while I've had
  • 00:27:45
    a polar opposite of experience it's a
  • 00:27:48
    it's been a very welcoming environ for
  • 00:27:50
    me and that's great honestly like more
  • 00:27:52
    power to you if you want to go to these
  • 00:27:53
    events by all means continue going to
  • 00:27:55
    these events again don't mistake this
  • 00:27:57
    video as like hey guys let's come
  • 00:27:58
    together and boycott events it's like no
  • 00:28:00
    there's great to and there's great
  • 00:28:01
    events out there that are hosted by
  • 00:28:03
    great people uh like I literally just
  • 00:28:05
    attended a local event with what I just
  • 00:28:07
    explained it was a great event it was a
  • 00:28:09
    bunch of fun i love socializing with
  • 00:28:11
    everybody that was there it was a great
  • 00:28:12
    experience um but with that said um
  • 00:28:16
    majority of my experience in the past
  • 00:28:18
    has not been uh the case for that it's
  • 00:28:21
    been a very unwelcoming environment i've
  • 00:28:23
    had a lot of bad experiences with
  • 00:28:24
    different people um it could be uh part
  • 00:28:28
    of that is because I'm under a spotlight
  • 00:28:30
    so to speak because I have platform uh
  • 00:28:33
    I'm considered a top ranked player as of
  • 00:28:34
    now and pump it up and so people are
  • 00:28:37
    watching me under a micros microscope so
  • 00:28:40
    to speak so
  • 00:28:43
    um maybe that's a big reason why I'm
  • 00:28:46
    noticing it more um and there's also you
  • 00:28:49
    know people making threads about me
  • 00:28:51
    making tweets about me with hundreds of
  • 00:28:53
    comments at times or several comments um
  • 00:28:55
    and that's something that the average
  • 00:28:56
    player is not going to have happen to
  • 00:28:58
    them right uh so I think that's
  • 00:29:00
    something you have to really uh keep in
  • 00:29:01
    mind when listening to what I'm saying
  • 00:29:03
    and uh think about that if you're one of
  • 00:29:06
    those people that's like well I've not
  • 00:29:07
    had that experience it's like well yeah
  • 00:29:08
    you you haven't had that experience
  • 00:29:10
    before because you're not under a
  • 00:29:11
    spotlight i really think that's a big
  • 00:29:12
    reason towards it um outside of that
  • 00:29:15
    though for like the not a welcoming
  • 00:29:17
    environment I mean there's small things
  • 00:29:18
    that I guess you could say collectively
  • 00:29:20
    add up to be like a like a nail in the
  • 00:29:22
    coffin kind of thing like collectively
  • 00:29:24
    rather than like um you know like like
  • 00:29:27
    it being a big thing for me um I mean
  • 00:29:30
    just as early back when I first
  • 00:29:31
    discovered there was even dance game
  • 00:29:33
    communities uh I went on a forum posted
  • 00:29:36
    a score because I didn't know if it was
  • 00:29:37
    good or not i was curious like hey how
  • 00:29:39
    do other people how are other people's
  • 00:29:40
    scores on this kind of chart and I
  • 00:29:42
    didn't I legitimately didn't know turned
  • 00:29:44
    out to be a world record actually at the
  • 00:29:46
    time it was really really funny and
  • 00:29:47
    people were like who the is this
  • 00:29:49
    guy um but then they word got around
  • 00:29:52
    eventually because I let them know that
  • 00:29:53
    my mom and dad purchased a machine for
  • 00:29:55
    me for one of my birthdays and that was
  • 00:29:58
    keep in mind this is my first exposure
  • 00:29:59
    to uh any sort of community online and a
  • 00:30:03
    bunch of people dogpiled on me and
  • 00:30:05
    belittled me made fun of me taunted me
  • 00:30:08
    for my being rich and my mom and dad uh
  • 00:30:12
    you know mommy and daddy buying uh
  • 00:30:14
    buying me a cabinet and it's just like
  • 00:30:17
    that was my first exposure it's like wow
  • 00:30:19
    like judging somebody because they have
  • 00:30:22
    parents that care about them enough and
  • 00:30:25
    are uh lucky enough to have the funds
  • 00:30:27
    that they worked very hard for to buy
  • 00:30:29
    their their son that they love a cabinet
  • 00:30:32
    and again it just stems out of uh
  • 00:30:34
    jealousy jealousy and bitterness and
  • 00:30:37
    resentment that's the the biggest thing
  • 00:30:39
    that you could really take out of this
  • 00:30:40
    video is like when it comes to all the
  • 00:30:41
    bias stuff and all these things like
  • 00:30:43
    these people that we're talking about
  • 00:30:45
    even if they're in the minority um it
  • 00:30:47
    doesn't matter they exist and they're
  • 00:30:48
    they are there and you you hear more
  • 00:30:51
    from them uh the more popular you are
  • 00:30:53
    and also if you don't align with uh
  • 00:30:56
    different political topics or different
  • 00:30:58
    uh different uh ideologies or whatever
  • 00:31:01
    have you um and it all just stems out of
  • 00:31:04
    bitterness they're unhappy they're
  • 00:31:06
    jealous they're miserable people so they
  • 00:31:08
    go online and they attack people and
  • 00:31:10
    will bring them down or try to bring
  • 00:31:12
    them down to their level of misery
  • 00:31:14
    because they're not satisfied with their
  • 00:31:16
    own life
  • 00:31:17
    um that
  • 00:31:19
    covers the lack of competitive integrity
  • 00:31:21
    reasons uh the next category this is
  • 00:31:24
    going to be a lot shorter I feel like um
  • 00:31:26
    unless I end up ranting like an old man
  • 00:31:27
    yelling at a cloud on this but uh these
  • 00:31:29
    are just additional reasons um that are
  • 00:31:31
    outside of lack of competitive integrity
  • 00:31:34
    um so number one socks and skinners are
  • 00:31:36
    banned at a lot of events um I say a lot
  • 00:31:39
    but again I could be wrong uh I've heard
  • 00:31:41
    through word of mouth of different
  • 00:31:42
    people that are currently going to
  • 00:31:43
    events where u they either were banned
  • 00:31:46
    or they're being discussed about
  • 00:31:47
    possibly being banned um I separated
  • 00:31:50
    these from the lack of compet
  • 00:31:51
    competitive integrity because again um
  • 00:31:54
    even though that was the case for some
  • 00:31:55
    things in the in that category uh this
  • 00:31:58
    is another example of it's not the to's
  • 00:31:59
    fault all the time some to sure might
  • 00:32:02
    choose to do that um but majority of the
  • 00:32:05
    time from what I'm hearing it's round
  • 00:32:07
    one round one is they round one has been
  • 00:32:10
    very vocal about trying to get rid of
  • 00:32:12
    socks and skinners socks especially but
  • 00:32:14
    Skinners I remember when I popularized
  • 00:32:17
    Skinners excuse me um I went to round
  • 00:32:20
    one and so many times the employees
  • 00:32:23
    would just be on my ass of like "Hey no
  • 00:32:25
    socks." And I had to show them the
  • 00:32:26
    bottom like it's a shoe like it's it's a
  • 00:32:29
    shoe man had to pull I had to
  • 00:32:30
    bring at one point I had to bring in uh
  • 00:32:33
    the physical uh box for the Skinners and
  • 00:32:36
    show them like this is what it is and
  • 00:32:38
    eventually they got off my ass but that
  • 00:32:40
    was way back before co man uh and to
  • 00:32:43
    this day apparently they're still
  • 00:32:44
    getting on to telling to like hey socks
  • 00:32:48
    and skinners are not allowed so again
  • 00:32:49
    it's not the to's fault uh it's just
  • 00:32:53
    it's one of those things again where
  • 00:32:55
    it's like it's just the way it is not
  • 00:32:57
    always but most of the time um next
  • 00:33:00
    point small cash prize this one honestly
  • 00:33:02
    it's not a big thing for me personally
  • 00:33:05
    it's not like the end- all beall um so
  • 00:33:08
    to speak but it's just I'm adding like
  • 00:33:10
    whether it's a small reason or a big
  • 00:33:12
    reason at the end of the day it's still
  • 00:33:13
    a reason right uh small cash prize so it
  • 00:33:16
    my argument for this is why why compete
  • 00:33:19
    if there's no major cash prize i mean
  • 00:33:21
    what's the reasoning behind it i mean
  • 00:33:24
    for fun okay that makes sense there's
  • 00:33:25
    plenty of people that enter events and
  • 00:33:27
    just want to have fun and again more
  • 00:33:28
    power to you i get it but if you're
  • 00:33:30
    talking about like the competitive side
  • 00:33:32
    of it right if you're like tryh harding
  • 00:33:34
    and trying to actually you know win the
  • 00:33:36
    event it's like what are you getting out
  • 00:33:38
    of it like think about it that's the
  • 00:33:40
    question I want to ask uh to you guys
  • 00:33:42
    like think about it from a not not a
  • 00:33:44
    casual perspective but a competitive
  • 00:33:47
    perspective what do you get out of
  • 00:33:49
    winning these events at most a couple
  • 00:33:51
    hundred bucks if that it's like that
  • 00:33:53
    doesn't even pay for your flight if it's
  • 00:33:55
    local okay cool i mean a couple hundred
  • 00:33:57
    bucks but what else are you getting out
  • 00:33:59
    of that let's let's put the the prize
  • 00:34:00
    money aside right let's just say there's
  • 00:34:02
    no prize pool because some events don't
  • 00:34:04
    have prize pools because they can't fund
  • 00:34:05
    it or they don't want to charge people
  • 00:34:06
    for entering or whatever the reason
  • 00:34:08
    right um then what is it for it kind of
  • 00:34:11
    ties back into uh my previous video uh
  • 00:34:14
    where I was talking about like
  • 00:34:15
    validation and uh just wanting to be
  • 00:34:17
    accepted and uh chasing for that high
  • 00:34:19
    online uh it can it can be the case and
  • 00:34:22
    I feel like it is for most people um
  • 00:34:25
    again you guys can correct me if I'm
  • 00:34:26
    wrong or if you feel like you're one of
  • 00:34:28
    those people um there was a lot of
  • 00:34:29
    people in the previous video that were
  • 00:34:31
    actually in agreement and saying you
  • 00:34:32
    know you're right you know I feel so
  • 00:34:34
    called out but that's me i'm that guy
  • 00:34:36
    chasing after that high online and I
  • 00:34:38
    really need to check myself maybe it's
  • 00:34:40
    the same case for maybe it could be
  • 00:34:42
    small pool of people average amount of
  • 00:34:45
    people or maybe majority of people feel
  • 00:34:46
    that way let me know seriously um but
  • 00:34:49
    like what's the reason that you'd want
  • 00:34:50
    to compete on a serious competitive
  • 00:34:53
    level in these events what do you get
  • 00:34:55
    out of it is is it that validation of
  • 00:34:58
    wanting to feel accepted and like fit in
  • 00:35:01
    with different clicks that are in this
  • 00:35:02
    community uh inevitably I mean it's in
  • 00:35:05
    every community there's always a click
  • 00:35:06
    there's always the cool kids and always
  • 00:35:08
    the outcasts and this and that is that
  • 00:35:10
    the reason you're trying to climb the
  • 00:35:11
    ranks of like the social ranks of being
  • 00:35:13
    accepted and being acknowledged that you
  • 00:35:15
    exist because again I can tell you again
  • 00:35:17
    from firsthand experience you're never
  • 00:35:20
    going to get it you'll never get it i
  • 00:35:23
    can't tell you how many people like try
  • 00:35:25
    to uh it's a minority group of people
  • 00:35:27
    granted but there are they're very vocal
  • 00:35:30
    to try to diminish my achievements in
  • 00:35:32
    the past on past games and on this game
  • 00:35:35
    try to ignore my existence and act like
  • 00:35:38
    I'm just not there because they don't
  • 00:35:40
    like me that much they do not want to
  • 00:35:42
    talk about me they don't want to
  • 00:35:44
    acknowledge scores that I've gotten if
  • 00:35:46
    my name comes up they cringe at the very
  • 00:35:49
    thought of it it's like it's just again
  • 00:35:52
    really really sad i've had it I've had
  • 00:35:53
    it go as far as people have banned my
  • 00:35:55
    name in their Twitch chats not going to
  • 00:35:57
    name drop people for any of these these
  • 00:35:59
    examples that I've brought up before
  • 00:36:00
    like events and things that have
  • 00:36:02
    happened with interactions with that
  • 00:36:03
    that's not what this is about this isn't
  • 00:36:04
    going to The whole point of this video
  • 00:36:06
    is to give you my reasons not to start
  • 00:36:07
    drama not to cause conflicts um not to
  • 00:36:10
    get pitchforks out and do all this you
  • 00:36:11
    know defending and white knighting for
  • 00:36:13
    me i I don't want any of that i'm simply
  • 00:36:15
    just telling you my story and my
  • 00:36:17
    experience and that's that uh where was
  • 00:36:20
    I small cash prize i I went into depth
  • 00:36:23
    about that but yeah my point was like
  • 00:36:24
    what is the point like what are you
  • 00:36:26
    really getting out of it you get a cool
  • 00:36:27
    little trophy and then you put in your
  • 00:36:28
    garage and then people it kind of goes
  • 00:36:30
    back to the title grind people like how
  • 00:36:33
    long is that going to hold up for let's
  • 00:36:35
    just say you win an event like the big
  • 00:36:37
    one i we'll use arguably the most
  • 00:36:39
    popular and most um uh uh what's the
  • 00:36:43
    word uh taken serious event out there
  • 00:36:46
    right now in this day and age for Pump
  • 00:36:47
    It Up is the big one and again no
  • 00:36:49
    disrespect to this event but let's just
  • 00:36:52
    say you win what do you get out of it i
  • 00:36:54
    think the prize is a ticket to the next
  • 00:36:56
    like a a plane ticket to the next event
  • 00:36:58
    i could be wrong uh correct me if I'm
  • 00:37:00
    wrong that's what I've heard um but if
  • 00:37:03
    you win right for the social aspect how
  • 00:37:06
    long does that last of you getting
  • 00:37:08
    glazed by everybody online like "Oh my
  • 00:37:10
    god this and that." It's not that long
  • 00:37:12
    and then it's going to be forgotten so
  • 00:37:14
    quick it'll be so quickly forgotten that
  • 00:37:16
    it literally happened this way where
  • 00:37:18
    Zafra won I think it was 23 2023 big one
  • 00:37:21
    zafra won and everybody went crazy
  • 00:37:24
    because it was it was such a crazy event
  • 00:37:26
    because um for the average person you
  • 00:37:27
    know they're all expecting FMS to win
  • 00:37:29
    and he ended up losing um that's a whole
  • 00:37:31
    other topic that I'm going to get into
  • 00:37:32
    shortly after this point because that
  • 00:37:35
    has a lot of issues too um but anywh who
  • 00:37:38
    Zafrada wins 2023 big one right what
  • 00:37:41
    happens uh on the last one that happened
  • 00:37:42
    2024 uh there was a huge tournament
  • 00:37:44
    upset he dropped the hold on uh uh I
  • 00:37:47
    don't know the name of it it's one of
  • 00:37:48
    the D24s at the very end and he dropped
  • 00:37:50
    it and then it knocked him out of the
  • 00:37:52
    tournament and what happened he got me'd
  • 00:37:56
    on shhat on online i I saw it firsthand
  • 00:37:59
    during the live stream in the live chat
  • 00:38:00
    and on social media people were just
  • 00:38:03
    taunting him belittling him memeing on
  • 00:38:06
    him really hard not even like in a
  • 00:38:07
    friendly way like very very like rude
  • 00:38:10
    brutal comments and I I I don't have
  • 00:38:12
    direct contact with Zafrada but I have
  • 00:38:14
    um the person who owns the PIU House
  • 00:38:16
    Chile channel uh I I don't remember his
  • 00:38:19
    name but he owns the the cabinet that's
  • 00:38:21
    at that house that they live stream at
  • 00:38:23
    um he was like my middleman so to speak
  • 00:38:25
    where I would reach out to him to kind
  • 00:38:27
    of get in touch with Zafrada um never
  • 00:38:29
    met the guy but he seems really really
  • 00:38:31
    humble and really like a really genuine
  • 00:38:32
    guy so after that happened I actually
  • 00:38:34
    messaged this person and said "Hey like
  • 00:38:36
    I'm just checking up on Zafra i want to
  • 00:38:38
    make sure he's feeling okay mentally
  • 00:38:39
    because like he's got to feel awful
  • 00:38:41
    man." Like I I mean that's this is again
  • 00:38:44
    something that people don't talk about
  • 00:38:45
    is the mental um the psychological stuff
  • 00:38:48
    that can happen for um especially top
  • 00:38:50
    ranked players that have they're again
  • 00:38:51
    under a spotlight um they people are
  • 00:38:54
    very harsh to critique um it's not even
  • 00:38:57
    critiquing it's just on you um
  • 00:39:00
    people will jump and dog pile on you
  • 00:39:02
    when you fail uh or you make one mistake
  • 00:39:06
    uh and especially under tournament uh uh
  • 00:39:09
    format this happened with uh Franco at
  • 00:39:12
    Bite apparently there was a couple
  • 00:39:14
    people that actually came to Avalanche
  • 00:39:15
    and we eventually got on this topic
  • 00:39:17
    funny enough with tournaments and they
  • 00:39:19
    actually told me their story about oh
  • 00:39:20
    yeah I was there watching Franco play at
  • 00:39:22
    bite and he lost to another and people
  • 00:39:24
    in the uh in the crowd were like talking
  • 00:39:27
    to each other about how Franco's washed
  • 00:39:29
    and he's bad and this and that and it's
  • 00:39:33
    just again like like what the is
  • 00:39:36
    wrong with you man like what the the the
  • 00:39:39
    thought process of that like what what
  • 00:39:42
    what's what's what goes on in your head
  • 00:39:44
    to feel the need to to belittle somebody
  • 00:39:47
    that's a human being and you're treating
  • 00:39:50
    them like like some AI robot that's just
  • 00:39:53
    a walking YouTube video of PGing
  • 00:39:55
    everything that's that's what it feels
  • 00:39:57
    like again speaking from a top player
  • 00:39:59
    perspective I've come across a lot of
  • 00:40:01
    people that that treat me like that like
  • 00:40:03
    they treat me like um like Happy Feets
  • 00:40:06
    and not Seth if that makes sense um and
  • 00:40:09
    they they treat me like I'm just like
  • 00:40:12
    this uh this person that my my entire
  • 00:40:16
    identity is just pump it up and I have
  • 00:40:18
    no other hobbies no other interests and
  • 00:40:21
    that's it and it's very uh uh it's very
  • 00:40:24
    unfortunate i mean I just I I wish
  • 00:40:27
    people would you know uh when they have
  • 00:40:29
    the opportunity to talk to me one-on-one
  • 00:40:30
    in person like just talk about different
  • 00:40:32
    things and like have like a normal type
  • 00:40:34
    of conversation instead of just pump it
  • 00:40:36
    up uh slightly off topic apologize but
  • 00:40:39
    yeah going back to what I was saying
  • 00:40:40
    Franco at Bite when he lost huge huge
  • 00:40:42
    tournament upset everyone was uh not
  • 00:40:44
    everyone but a handful of people in the
  • 00:40:46
    crowd were taunting him belittling him
  • 00:40:48
    uh according to the person that was
  • 00:40:50
    there physically at the event in the
  • 00:40:51
    crowd uh when Fam's lost to Safrada same
  • 00:40:54
    thing happened when Fam's lost at uh WPF
  • 00:40:57
    in 2016 same thing happened to him uh I
  • 00:41:00
    saw it firsthand uh when uh Oin
  • 00:41:05
    uh or Osen I don't or Oriu Iver passed
  • 00:41:08
    1949 28 first um he was the first person
  • 00:41:13
    to pass it bunch of fem fanboys went on
  • 00:41:16
    that YouTube video that originally was
  • 00:41:17
    uploaded it got deleted or taken down um
  • 00:41:20
    but eventually I he re-uploaded it way
  • 00:41:22
    later but at the time he got literally
  • 00:41:25
    bullied into taking down the video
  • 00:41:27
    because people were saying things like
  • 00:41:29
    "Oh this isn't legit fem is better than
  • 00:41:31
    you this and that fem did it more
  • 00:41:33
    legit." Blah blah blah just stupidity
  • 00:41:36
    stupid comments complete nonsense purely
  • 00:41:38
    out of ignorance and uh bitterness uh
  • 00:41:43
    jealousy whatever you want to call it
  • 00:41:44
    it's all the same reasoning behind it uh
  • 00:41:47
    and it's just really sad to see it's
  • 00:41:49
    It's really upsetting that people are
  • 00:41:51
    are this uh harsh towards uh one another
  • 00:41:55
    regardless of their skill and I mean I
  • 00:41:57
    find it more amusing when it's people
  • 00:41:59
    that are criticizing top ranked players
  • 00:42:01
    like Franco uh FMS Aphrada uh myself and
  • 00:42:06
    plenty of other people they're
  • 00:42:07
    criticizing those people when they're
  • 00:42:09
    nowhere near the level that they're
  • 00:42:11
    performing at even when they're having a
  • 00:42:13
    bad day and it's just like who are you
  • 00:42:15
    to say these kind of things i'm going to
  • 00:42:18
    say too like the rebuttal for what I'm
  • 00:42:19
    talking about right now is going to be
  • 00:42:21
    just ignore it they're
  • 00:42:22
    haters it's I I got to say I I do agree
  • 00:42:28
    with you that at the end of the day like
  • 00:42:30
    you do have to just get the thick skin
  • 00:42:32
    and just deal with it because it just
  • 00:42:34
    comes with that ter it's just part of
  • 00:42:35
    the territory uh you are right on that
  • 00:42:38
    but at the end of the day we're all
  • 00:42:40
    human beings right think about hearing
  • 00:42:43
    that for over a decade like at this
  • 00:42:47
    point in my life like 15 years uh over
  • 00:42:50
    and over and over and over i don't care
  • 00:42:52
    who you are eventually it will get to
  • 00:42:55
    you and you will break down sooner or
  • 00:42:56
    later um and it's it 100% it has
  • 00:43:00
    happened to me uh quite often in the
  • 00:43:01
    past thankfully uh nowadays I've gotten
  • 00:43:04
    a lot more uh confident and feel a lot
  • 00:43:06
    more better uh but still human being
  • 00:43:09
    right it plenty of days where it will
  • 00:43:11
    get to me but the difference is I'll get
  • 00:43:13
    back on my feet and move forward but uh
  • 00:43:16
    when it comes to I think I covered all
  • 00:43:18
    that stuff right uh arch critic uh yeah
  • 00:43:22
    Franco by FMS Aphrada big one losses
  • 00:43:26
    yeah those are the exam and then WPF for
  • 00:43:28
    FMS um so that that that all came in
  • 00:43:31
    from the point of everyone's a harsh
  • 00:43:32
    critic and this ties into my other video
  • 00:43:35
    I just uploaded about mental health um
  • 00:43:37
    this is something that I really feel I
  • 00:43:38
    need to make it very very clear to
  • 00:43:40
    people because they they misunderstand
  • 00:43:42
    and it's not their fault um because it's
  • 00:43:45
    just they don't know any better so let
  • 00:43:46
    me just uh make this very clear to you
  • 00:43:51
    when when double XX uh had the uh the
  • 00:43:54
    content drought during COVID and also
  • 00:43:57
    the data wipe uh that was pretty much
  • 00:43:59
    the nail in the coffin for me like that
  • 00:44:00
    was like the finale that I felt like
  • 00:44:02
    where I was like I I lost a lot of
  • 00:44:04
    motivation and a lot of drive to want to
  • 00:44:07
    you know keep playing so I took a
  • 00:44:08
    two-year break um I thought I was done i
  • 00:44:11
    really did uh during that two years like
  • 00:44:13
    I I didn't have any intention of playing
  • 00:44:15
    again i couldn't believe it because I've
  • 00:44:17
    played dance games since I was 8 years
  • 00:44:18
    old i'm 34 years old now um but Phoenix
  • 00:44:22
    came out um and I saw the scoring system
  • 00:44:25
    and it really intrigued me and it caught
  • 00:44:27
    my uh attention and I I decided to get
  • 00:44:33
    back into it and you know I had to uh
  • 00:44:36
    dust and brush off the cobwebs so to
  • 00:44:38
    speak and uh surprise to to color me
  • 00:44:42
    shocked i actually had a lot of fun when
  • 00:44:45
    I was first getting back into it i
  • 00:44:46
    bought the obviously I bought the uh
  • 00:44:47
    hard drive for Phoenix and but the the
  • 00:44:51
    thing was that I really want to hone in
  • 00:44:53
    on was when I got back into it I went in
  • 00:44:56
    with a new perspective a new
  • 00:44:58
    mentality um and that mentality was I'm
  • 00:45:01
    going to play this game for my mental
  • 00:45:03
    health and my physical health um you
  • 00:45:06
    know I've been through every well I want
  • 00:45:09
    to say been through it's still going on
  • 00:45:11
    right now it's not finalized but I'm
  • 00:45:12
    I've been divorced uh as of 2022 and
  • 00:45:16
    there's a lot of mental uh stress that
  • 00:45:19
    comes with a divorce i'm If you haven't
  • 00:45:21
    been through one I'm sure you could just
  • 00:45:23
    use your imagination uh been through a
  • 00:45:25
    lot of stress with the divorce situation
  • 00:45:27
    um a lot of online drama in my lifetime
  • 00:45:30
    especially during my divorce and just a
  • 00:45:33
    lot of toxicity uh again a very
  • 00:45:36
    unwelcoming environment and so when I
  • 00:45:38
    got back into pump I used it as a uh uh
  • 00:45:42
    what's the word uh a resource I guess or
  • 00:45:44
    like a hobby uh to prioritize my mental
  • 00:45:47
    and physical health um those are the two
  • 00:45:50
    um main reasons that I'm playing Pump It
  • 00:45:54
    Up now it just so happens that I still
  • 00:45:58
    have my talent alongside with that and
  • 00:46:01
    so I feel like a lot of people are
  • 00:46:03
    misunderstanding my intention for
  • 00:46:05
    playing which is partially why they're
  • 00:46:08
    asking me constantly online whether it's
  • 00:46:10
    directly or just in general of hey why
  • 00:46:12
    don't you compete in tournaments why
  • 00:46:13
    don't you compete in tournaments when
  • 00:46:14
    are you going to go to the big one when
  • 00:46:16
    are you going to go here when you go
  • 00:46:17
    there um again it's flattering um and I
  • 00:46:20
    I get uh it's it's out of good faith too
  • 00:46:23
    you know I don't I'm not trying to shun
  • 00:46:25
    shun people that are that ask these
  • 00:46:26
    questions or bring me up in these these
  • 00:46:28
    topics or conversations or whatever have
  • 00:46:30
    you i totally understand it i don't have
  • 00:46:32
    a problem with it um because again they
  • 00:46:34
    don't know any better um but I'm trying
  • 00:46:36
    to that that's why I want to make this
  • 00:46:38
    video and bring it out is shed some
  • 00:46:39
    light
  • 00:46:41
    on pretty much all the reasons I have
  • 00:46:43
    there could be like one or two small
  • 00:46:44
    thing I'm forgetting about but all the
  • 00:46:46
    core reasons as to why I personally
  • 00:46:48
    don't take competitions for Pump It Up
  • 00:46:50
    in particular or just dance games as a
  • 00:46:53
    whole seriously for all the reasons that
  • 00:46:55
    I've given you um and I prioritize my
  • 00:46:58
    mental and physical health um because of
  • 00:47:00
    all the things that I've gone through in
  • 00:47:01
    the last couple years uh especially but
  • 00:47:04
    uh as a whole since 2009 give or take
  • 00:47:07
    since I first got introduced to the
  • 00:47:08
    community um I had a very uh a very bad
  • 00:47:11
    first impression
  • 00:47:13
    uh and had a lot of bad uh uh things
  • 00:47:16
    that happened after that multiple times
  • 00:47:18
    and uh it just wasn't welcoming it
  • 00:47:21
    wasn't welcoming and it was a huge
  • 00:47:22
    turnoff and it has led me to stay away
  • 00:47:25
    from a bunch of major events for all the
  • 00:47:27
    reasons I've listed and I mean even if
  • 00:47:30
    those things were an issue granted those
  • 00:47:32
    are the main issue of those those
  • 00:47:34
    experiences that I've lived and dealt
  • 00:47:36
    with um but the additional reasons too
  • 00:47:38
    are also valid um but those are like
  • 00:47:41
    more of the the smaller reasons so to
  • 00:47:43
    speak
  • 00:47:44
    um I think I've covered everything that
  • 00:47:47
    I've wanted to that I feel like I needed
  • 00:47:49
    to get off my chest for it um looking at
  • 00:47:52
    my notes here I've covered all my bullet
  • 00:47:54
    points i mean all I have left is the
  • 00:47:55
    conclusion section and I mean I again I
  • 00:47:58
    think I sound like a broken record but I
  • 00:48:00
    I just for people that are skipping
  • 00:48:02
    through it I do want to uh acknowledge
  • 00:48:05
    again that there are so many people in
  • 00:48:09
    this community that are great majority
  • 00:48:11
    of people in this community are very uh
  • 00:48:15
    supportive positive people uh there's
  • 00:48:18
    plenty of tournament organizers that put
  • 00:48:19
    their blood sweat and tears into their
  • 00:48:21
    events that they host and they do a
  • 00:48:23
    phenomenal job uh again there's only so
  • 00:48:26
    much as a community there's only so much
  • 00:48:28
    that to people that are trying to you
  • 00:48:31
    know help better the scene um can do
  • 00:48:35
    there there really is just it's it's a
  • 00:48:37
    shitty reality because of the nature of
  • 00:48:40
    the games um so again I I want people to
  • 00:48:43
    hear me say that I do acknowledge that
  • 00:48:46
    it is not entirely the TE's fault the
  • 00:48:48
    bias people are outliers um but
  • 00:48:51
    unfortunately I've come across a lot of
  • 00:48:53
    that through my lifetime of playing
  • 00:48:55
    these games and attending certain events
  • 00:48:57
    um and it's just unfortunate it's it's
  • 00:49:00
    unfortunate uh that it's happened but it
  • 00:49:02
    has happened but yeah I want to
  • 00:49:04
    acknowledge that and give a shout out to
  • 00:49:05
    the all the to and all the people that
  • 00:49:07
    are that are great and that have put in
  • 00:49:09
    a lot of uh a lot of work into these
  • 00:49:11
    events um second point already got
  • 00:49:14
    across
  • 00:49:15
    that uh oh the last thing was like the
  • 00:49:18
    hands being tied with like time because
  • 00:49:20
    of the facilities but also the um the
  • 00:49:22
    access to cabs not everyone can go get
  • 00:49:24
    you know in a perfect world let's get
  • 00:49:26
    you know six cabinets LX cabinets all
  • 00:49:28
    lined up and have you know a big
  • 00:49:30
    tournament bracket you know $10,000
  • 00:49:33
    prize pool pay for people's flights that
  • 00:49:36
    can't afford it you know all this crazy
  • 00:49:38
    stuff get crazy big sponsorships uh get
  • 00:49:41
    thousands of viewers on Twitch for these
  • 00:49:43
    live streams or on YouTube uh you know h
  • 00:49:46
    have like half of the cabinets for
  • 00:49:48
    running the event like like let's just
  • 00:49:51
    say let's say I'm trying to think here
  • 00:49:52
    like eight LX cabinets right uh let's
  • 00:49:56
    see here two for all right so like two
  • 00:50:00
    are for the singles two are for the
  • 00:50:01
    double so that's four cabinets and then
  • 00:50:02
    the other four can be for warm-up like
  • 00:50:04
    two for like single warm-ups two for
  • 00:50:06
    doubles or you know whatever have you
  • 00:50:08
    like that's in a completely
  • 00:50:10
    like like la land like good luck ever
  • 00:50:13
    getting there right it's just it's it's
  • 00:50:15
    probably never going to happen but that
  • 00:50:17
    would be really cool wouldn't it that'd
  • 00:50:18
    be really cool if that actually did uh
  • 00:50:20
    exist in in a perfect world but alas we
  • 00:50:22
    do not live in a perfect uh utopia uh so
  • 00:50:28
    I think that's uh that's about it how
  • 00:50:30
    long is this video oh my god it's almost
  • 00:50:32
    an hour long it's funny i was like
  • 00:50:34
    thinking to myself all right it's going
  • 00:50:35
    to be like 20 minutes but nope way
  • 00:50:38
    longer but I think it's it's it's for
  • 00:50:40
    the better um because I I I feel better
  • 00:50:43
    now like getting off my chest and
  • 00:50:45
    talking about all these things and
  • 00:50:47
    having it uh you know with my face just
  • 00:50:50
    on camera full screen getting all my
  • 00:50:52
    thoughts out and just venting uh to you
  • 00:50:55
    guys that are watching and just hearing
  • 00:50:58
    out what I have to say with what my
  • 00:51:00
    experiences and what I've gone through
  • 00:51:02
    with all this stuff it is unfortunate
  • 00:51:04
    but um again I don't want pity i don't
  • 00:51:06
    want uh white knighting i don't want or
  • 00:51:09
    whatever you want to call it i don't
  • 00:51:10
    want uh you know empathy or any of that
  • 00:51:13
    stuff i'm I'm not here for you know wo
  • 00:51:14
    is me playing like Eeyore you know I'm
  • 00:51:17
    not that's not it's not my character
  • 00:51:19
    it's not what I want to do uh just want
  • 00:51:21
    to clear the air and give you like
  • 00:51:24
    upfront reasoning why I personally don't
  • 00:51:26
    take them seriously um and I see them
  • 00:51:28
    more as a joke in my opinion and I uh I
  • 00:51:32
    have a lot of problems with them and
  • 00:51:33
    give you all the reasons as to why I
  • 00:51:35
    feel that way and you could completely
  • 00:51:36
    disagree with me you can I'm sure it's
  • 00:51:38
    going to happen there's going to be
  • 00:51:39
    plenty of haters that are going to
  • 00:51:40
    cherrypick and try to criticize but it
  • 00:51:43
    just solidifies my point of you know
  • 00:51:45
    harsh critics that are uh not coming out
  • 00:51:47
    of good faith they're not doing it out
  • 00:51:49
    of good faith they're doing it out of
  • 00:51:50
    hate of I don't like happy feeds for XYZ
  • 00:51:53
    and whatever have you i mean that's just
  • 00:51:56
    how it goes but anyway uh thank you for
  • 00:51:58
    watching and listening if you made it
  • 00:52:00
    all the way through the video without
  • 00:52:01
    skipping I I salute you i honestly that
  • 00:52:04
    that is impressive um share your
  • 00:52:07
    thoughts please share your thoughts in
  • 00:52:08
    the comments if you've experienced any
  • 00:52:10
    anything with uh like this please let me
  • 00:52:14
    know i'm genuinely curious i do think I
  • 00:52:16
    I I feel like uh I know that it's a
  • 00:52:19
    minority thing for sure and that's a
  • 00:52:21
    good thing that is a very good thing um
  • 00:52:23
    and it is inevitable uh no matter what
  • 00:52:26
    scene you're talking about um I feel
  • 00:52:28
    like it's just I feel like it's more
  • 00:52:30
    apparent in this scene because of how
  • 00:52:33
    niche and small it is does that make
  • 00:52:35
    sense so there's not there's not as many
  • 00:52:37
    people in in this genre so it's more
  • 00:52:40
    apparent uh because it's it's smaller
  • 00:52:43
    versus something like you know let's
  • 00:52:45
    just Overwatch or League of Legends or
  • 00:52:47
    something that's huge right um maybe
  • 00:52:51
    it's not as noticeable or maybe it's the
  • 00:52:52
    opposite because there's more people
  • 00:52:54
    with more therefore more toxicity i
  • 00:52:56
    don't know i don't know what I'm getting
  • 00:52:57
    at but you you probably get what I'm
  • 00:52:58
    trying to say i digress uh thanks for
  • 00:53:00
    watching uh I'll catch you guys in the
  • 00:53:02
    next video uh and thanks for all the
  • 00:53:03
    support on uh all these uh like talking
  • 00:53:06
    videos it really honestly motivated me
  • 00:53:09
    and like I've been wanting to make this
  • 00:53:10
    video for so long but I just never got
  • 00:53:12
    around to it didn't feel all that
  • 00:53:14
    confident in the past like I mentioned
  • 00:53:15
    but I just feel a lot more confident uh
  • 00:53:17
    I feel a lot more better mentally um I'm
  • 00:53:20
    in a much better place mentally now than
  • 00:53:23
    where I was uh even just like three or
  • 00:53:25
    four years ago uh it's crazy to think
  • 00:53:27
    about but anywh who uh thanks for
  • 00:53:29
    watching i'll catch you guys in the next
  • 00:53:30
    video and y'all have a great day and God
  • 00:53:32
    bless bye guys
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