How I feel, the NYC FCG.

The NY fighting game community is home to some very talented players. But unfortunately with this "talent", it brought forth many egos in the process. This has been this way for as long as I can remember.



Ive been here for 7 years. There are a lot of players in NY. Some active in tournament. Some not, their reasoning is completely irrelevant to me and is on them. But I do want to say one thing in regards to the Next Level community (yes, I'm going to separate it and put it like this) in NYC: I don't feel like NL is the most welcoming place in NYC. When I was really active for a while in the later SF4 days, I would come. But people would not play me very often Although I asked quite frequently. I never really understood why. But it got to the point where I was pretty much only going there for the tournament after feeling this way. And eventually I stopped coming when I had the time, because I came out to have fun, play, practice and get better. Priority #1 was almost never fulfilled. I hardly ever have fun going. I've been to many other events in NYC and would always keep going because I have fun. There are select few at NL that are a blast to be around and that I can chill with, but overall nah.



There are so many more venues and tournaments around in NYC. PAG hosts a weekly every Tuesday at a nice venue in Manhattan. Bum hosts tournaments in the bronx every week and has been hosting tournaments since the day I met him 7 years ago. I have fun at those places. But I see a lot of people don't go. Some of the same people that say that the bronx is too far also live really far from next level so you can miss me with that. If you just don't wanna go, I'd rather you say that. As far as Tuesday PAG events, Jihan I think you just gotta push them more, let people know all the time that they're going down. The venues nice, 5 entry 5 venue. And it's in the city. It's an awesome place. New York doesn't have many Saturday tournaments, so I'm always in philly competing, or maryland occasionally. I have fun at those places and the hosts and communities are much more welcoming to me, I'd always choose going there if I had a choice because of that. When I leave the city for a tournament, and don't come to my own, people think it's for a quick buck. You couldn't be any more wrong. I actually just don't like most of new York city and the mentality and don't care to compete here like that



At the end of the day, i just want to have fun and play games. I'm going to NLBC this week. I'm not going for the money, and I don't think I'm going to win or even place right now. I'm going because I haven't had enough tournament experience due to school. But to be honest, after this week even though I can't attend, I'm content with that. I learned a lot about the game just playing with my homies. Y'all know who you are.



I talked enough. I'll leave y'all alone. Have a good night!

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