Clearly you didn’t watch the top 8. They were booing every single Bayonetta in the top 8, including when they weren’t facing other Bayonettas.

By all means, ban the toxic fans who come to tournaments with the express purpose of disrupting play. No, do not ban characters just because their mere existence precipitates toxic behaviour by manchildren. This is to give into blackmail. “Either you ban what I want or I will disrupt your tournaments”. The smartest…

Blah, blah, you’re one of them. Got it.

“The disrespect these two showed was disgraceful, and they frankly deserved the boos they got. “

Hundreds of people went into that top 8 with the express purpose of disrupting the top 8 by booing for hours. Consistent booing is not a natural part of sports if we don’t allow it to be.

@JasonFlook: I’m sorry, are you actually criticizing CaptainZack for tweeting “Stop booing me like I care”? He wasn’t saying he doesn’t care about the game, Evo or the game at Evo. He was saying he doesn’t care about the booing. Oh no. How unprofessional! What a terrible person he is! Also, that was not passive…

Doing nothing but booing for hours should get you booted. This is not like at a football stadium where it’d be particularly hard. These asshats just wanted to disrupt the finals. They should have been booted.

Read my reply to the other guy making the same argument.

I doubt many people who owned a Wii U already thought “Hmmm... I’m gonna buy MK8 on Wii U and then a Switch in a few months once I can afford it”. Most people who owned a Wii U at the Switch’s launch and some time after had probably already bought MK8 on the Wii U.

Ah, so it’s an even more stupid conspiracy theory than I thought. Thanks for clarifying.

It’s not like Mistake and CaptainZack weren’t placing high at majors before Bayonetta was released with characters that weren’t Bayonetta. It’s not like the vast majority of Bayonetta players currently placing high in tournaments weren’t doing so before Bayonetta was released using other characters.

You can get out of her combos easier now and the timing and spacing is much tighter for comboing her moves. Also, there’s a general reduction in knockback and a strange new way how knockback works. Pretty sure Witch Time has also been nerfed.

The standoff at the start of the 2nd set wasn’t a show a sportmanship, it was a show of defiance, a silent protest towards the crowd for having disrespected both players for hours at that point. Was it immature? Yes. But they’re also 16 and 17 and at least one of them has continually gotten death threats for his…

Sm4sh. The Melee portion was fine.

The newer Smash games skew young. No doubt the crowd watching SmashU Evo 2019 will skew towards the younger end of the Evo demographic. Now, Bayonetta might be getting the nerf hammer (not hard, but hard enough to matter), but there’s no way to predict whether any SmashU characters will emerge to become as strong in…

They were booed long before that. They did that because they were booed. It was their show of defiance to the crowd that had disrespected them for hours at that point. Stop acting like the boos only started after that stunt.

Watch the video before commenting. The booing started and persisted long before Grand Finals even started. They stopped taking it seriously because of the booing, not the other way ‘round.

It’s not Mistake’s or CaptainZack’s fault Bayonetta is so strong. They were basically Day 1 Bayonetta mains, not banwagonners. Dunno about Lima because he appears to be new. But to boo CaptainZack or Mistake simply because the main they picked turned out to be OP? That’s ridiculous.

Judging by the E3 SmashU demo build, they nerfed her successfully by making her combos easier to escape.

After countless death threats, booing and a mass walkout by the immature audience, I don’t begrudge CaptainZack and Lima’s show of defiance. They did not break any rules. “Not making for interesting play” or “Talking about the prize money” isn’t against the rules and it’s laughable you would have them forfeit their…

MVD actually didn’t lose due to poorly timed banana throw. He dropped the banana (not on purpose) after getting hit. Then, much latter, Mistake did a Witch Time counter into the banana on the ground. Because MVD was within range, despite just standing around shielding, he was actually “sucked” into the Witch Time.…