RIGHT NOW, I'm refusing to go to tournaments because people like me get thrown under the bus from TOs with comments like this. Maybe you don't even realize it, which is why I'm telling you now. I'm a tournament player, AND I also like stage hazards and customs. It's not mutually exclusive, and I'm living proof of that. In fact, the sole reason I made an account on SmashBoards is to share my research and help educate players on how stages with hazards are competitive. So you're completely and directly getting in the way of my positive efforts right now. Why should I give any more of my money and support to people who pretend like my efforts don't matter?



Regardless of how *you* think I should be playing this game, I have my own informed opinion because I actually play it. I have a bottom line expectation for how I want to both PLAY, EXPERIENCE, and WATCH Smash 4 and that's: I need to see customs at Smash tournaments.



As a player, I trust the custom move project, and even though it's not PERFECT, it's a SOLUTION that makes sense to me. Something I can get behind. It only takes 2 weeks of on/off play to get all the customs, but I'M OK WITH PRESETS. *only if TOs are currently working to unlock all the customs on every Wii U they use NOW* I can make my player's guarantee that I will be very happy with any TO who can make this guarantee for me. And not happy with TOs who want to make excuses about it.



The Smash community has done an amazing job of compiling all these different preset options together, so I think it needs to be tried. If you don't have any better ideas about logistics, and all you have is "no, no, no", then I will continue to not support Smash 4 at CEO, like I don't support Smash 4 at locals currently, and I encourage others to do the same.



It should be a community-wide effort to make sure everyone has custom moves, so I'll propose a solution myself for TOs. Local scenes could take one week out of their tournament schedules to host sessions where the community unlocks the moves together. With that many people playing co-op in every mode, every donated setup will make HUGE progress in getting them all. Then there'll never be a problem again. As a player, I'll do my best to come to these events and help my local scene out! :-)



So if I can come up with solutions in this post, why can't you?



EDIT: I'm saying all this as someone who LIKES watching CEO for other fighting games and has supported CEO in the past!