Hello NeoGAF & FG Fans!



I wanted to make a post that covers a lot of things. I just got home from EVO. It was a long and stressful weekend. I hope everyone enjoyed the event and stream.



I wanted to cover the Skullgirls incident on the Mad Catz stage/stream. First and foremost I want to apologize to the Skullgirls community and Lab Zero Games for not being able to stream the top 8 of the tournament as originally planned. This is what happened.



TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2 exhibition started an hour late (players didn't show up on time). It was never meant to be a round-robin like they did; it was supposed to be team battle/waseda style. I was NOT there when it started. I had to take care of business at the event. Unfortunately EVO is not just a fun event; it is also work where business meetings and important discussions happen. I was off-site and not at our stage area for a few hours.



This should not be blamed on anyone else (Mad Catz staff, Bifuteki, etc.) I take pride in my staff and team that worked on the stage events. It wasn't easy and I will back them up with everything. However I DO blame the TEKKEN community for not showing up on time. That's not cool. I told them that as well prior to me leaving. We still let them use the stage for some exhibitions.



If I knew they were running in to extended time I would have kicked them off so we could do the top 8 (which was going to be top 16, based on Render's estimation/timing) - and I was cool with that. Again since I was away and not having visibility, I didn't know what was going on. Aside from that. We had another obligation at 3PM that we could not move (we agreed to do this way before we made any obligations to work with any community).



I checked my phone while I was away to see all the anger/hate on the Mad Catz twitter feed. When I got back to EVO I wanted to make it clear that this was not our intention to snub Skullgirls. In fact, I really wanted to help the community showcase their title. So I feel so bad about all this but since the damage was already done, there is really nothing we can do other than just get shit done and learn from it. We'll do a better job in the future - and we'll be there for the SG community to support.



Sorry again guys.