Because it isn’t against the rules you stupid fucking waste of a life.

..fight you pussy.

lol what? Look at martial arts - some of the most competitive athletes take a passive/reactionary approach. They land a few blows, score points, then avoid taking damage or yielding points. If their opponent screws up then they’ll punish them for it, but there’s no point in taking risk to be aggressive if the rules…

The competitors in a tournament aren’t employed by the event organizers. They’re there for the express purpose of winning the tournament and bringing home the prize money. If the tournament organizers want participants to be invested in the success of the tournament as a spectator sport then they should incentivize…

Right, but the winning is still the primary motivation, as it’s what keeps competitors in the rotation and allows them to advance in their chosen career track.

When a basketball team deliberately runs out the clock during a close game on a final possession, it’s obnoxious as hell—but it’s also within the bounds of the…

lol if melee is a fighting game like you say it is then you should stay away from some of the anime fighting games or else you might really lose it

If the rules aren’t written, they aren’t rules.

^This.

How is anyone defending this keep-away bullshit?

I miss the days when people honored the unwritten rules

Literally every other competitive esport in existence manages fine with regular monitors.

You’re at a tournament, losing your mind because your opponent dared to... play to win?

This is fucking hilarious, Smash is full of petulant manbabies. Perfect example of why nobody takes that community seriously.

It’s stuff like this that prevents me from entering a competitive environment in any game.

I have, for many years, maintained the truism that fighting with honor creates only a moral obligation to lose. If you cannot sort a route around your opponent’s tactics, that’s on you.  So long as the play was within established…

So his two complaints are:

This is the game whose competitive scene consists entirely of players insisting on only using extremely-specific 15-year-old controllers and CRT tvs, right? Yeah, I’m sure they’ve got quite a few strongly-held thoughts on what are and are not “acceptable” ways to play. Meanwhile it seems like the rest of the fighting…

This post is non-sense.  IPO investors are locked up; they can’t bail now.  

Most IPO investors are locked for 180 days. 

“the potential of even bigger revenues in the future, which will not cover rapidly increasing expenses...”

Why even enter the conversation without knowing the specifics of the situation the article references?