Insults? You followed the game a few months at best if you don't know LP played Viola.
Yeah, insults. Saying I ran off to DOA when I don't even consider myself a DOA player and DOA has absolutely nothing to do with this conversation.
As for LP, I don't really keep a close eye on what other players are doing unless they play characters that I main. I remembered LP playing aPat. Now that you mention it, I do recall him playing Viola at MLG (I was at MLG Anaheim and played SC5 there), but I didn't remember it when I watched that video you linked. Sorry I don't have a great memory when it comes to who competitive SC players used 2 years ago.
Honestly it does about as well as any 3d fighter these days. Much stronger on the EC than anywhere else though.
Also, NEC has a rather large pot bonus for SCV this year.
http://8wayrun.com/threads/necxvi-and-its-pot-bonus.18864/
So dead games apparently unaccountably get money thrown at them.
Yeah they do. DOA has a $3k pot bonus and Tekken has had several pot bonuses lately. It doesn't take much to throw money at a game, especially if you're trying to revive a scene. Compare the $2250 pot bonus on SC5 (with a 128 entry requirement) to the $50k going to KI at Evo or even the $15k bonus to MKX and SF4, and $10k for KI at CEO.
BigE has always been a great supporter of Namco fighters which is why I try to attend his tournaments even though I'm west coast. Wasn't the SC5 tournament at WB9 free to enter with a pot bonus and still only got 60-some players?
It's not like you havne't been rather dismissive of SC for years though. I still remember your "DOA4 looks great, SCIV is impossible to watch" article.
Really? You seem to have quite the vested interest in me. First saying I ran off to DOA and now bringing up an article that must've been written back in 2009 or something. I don't even remember this article. Would you happen to have a link? I have a hard time believing I would think DOA4 is more entertaining to watch than SC4. I must've had some other angle if I made that kind of statement.
Yeah I was at WB9 too. I chiefly remember you popping up in SCV threads to complain about movement etc than vanishing though.
As I recall, a lot of people complained about movement and dropped the game. I continued to play until my local scene died. I posted a lot on 8WR, in fact I just searched through my posts on 8WR.
The patch hit in March and I was actively posting through late July. I made a few posts in the patch threads, none of which mention any complaints about the backdash nerf. In fact, all I see are complaints about Yoshi not getting buffs and ZWEI getting buffs that didn't matter. Nothing about backdashing...
Maybe you have me confused with someone else here...?