Then he should have brought it up before the tournament started.  No one went into this with any ambiguity about what was or was not allowed.  

Fuck your parents for fucking up so hard.

Because it’s within the rules and his opponent couldn’t punish it. One of the fundamentals of fighting games is that if there is a tactic that your opponent doesn’t have an answer for, use it.

Those trees you were taken by? Could they... like... take you a little further away? And maybe take away your HGH or anabolic steroids or whatever is making your balls speak for your brain?

Matches are on a timer. Winning by life lead is a valid strategy. Don’t want that as a win condition? Eliminate the clock.

That’s fine, he doesn’t need anyone’s respect, he needs to win.

The people who hold the tournament decide the rules on top of anything built into the game. He played by the rules of the tournament he was in. He did nothing wrong.

He’s wearing a shirt that has his own name on the front. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t care about the audience, just himself.

Please don’t generalize the whole community over this - plenty of us think he was being stupid as well, especially since he’s an Ice-Climbers player. There’s an argument to be made that there are plenty of rules new and old that discourage what’s called “degenerate play” and that it’s understandable why he was…

..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…

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

This is the best of takes.

How is anyone defending this keep-away bullshit?

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:

While that seems to be more than the normal number of years for manslaughter, I’m absolutely glad that the judge took into account this scumbag’s repeat behavior and made the sentence longer than normal.

And you guys seem to think that is on the same level as walking up to someone and outright murdering them.

Considering the guy wanted to “play” at being a terrorist, he’s lucky he wasn’t deemed an enemy of the state and taken out by a drone.