Team Spooky · @teamspooky
7th Apr 2022 from TwitLonger
Statement Re: NLBC Online
Hello All! Thank you for supporting 108 Weeks of Next Level Battle Circuit Online Edition.
As of today, I will be discontinuing my series of weekly online events. Of course @goldencen / @nycfurby will be trying their best to return players to offline events, so please support Next Level, which was my original intent with this series.
Now, I will make some statements of fact before I continue.
NLBC Online is not a part of any official league or tour.
We have/had the final say on who is allowed in the tournament, regardless of region! We can choose to not let you in for any variety of reasons, including making our life harder / more annoying / pissing us off. (In the same way, you don't have to like it.)
We chose to include players if we think they could add to the hype. (You don't have to like it but it's our choice)
Generally the idea was to default to the best possible connection experience, so poor experiences from far away regions had to be mitigated.
I will respond to some people directly, since we have met or may have met irl before.
@8wayf apologies for your poor experience with the double DQ
@bluehek don't know you but I will default to "We can choose to not let you in for any variety of reasons, including making our life harder / more annoying / pissing us off." Having your friends brigade us was not cool and def made things more annoying for me.
@Wolfgang I feel like your expectations for a DQ were pretty unrealistic. Wouldn't you love a grace period if you had to use the bathroom or something? I know homie was on ranked warming up but come on.
Texas Region: Apologies for your experience. No one likes a laggy tournament.
Apologies to anyone that had an abrasive experience from me or the staff.
As for me, I am pretty tired. I stretched myself quite thin for these events, including doing things I had no common sense doing ($1 crowdfund per sub? What was I an idiot?) and I am put into a spot where the best thing to do is move on.
I will be doing much more of my casual streams as well as working closer with Tenomedia on some future events and doing more of the things I want to do. I see a general pessimism to the idea that I can just have fun and do casual streams ala Max/Aris, but I'm going to do what I like to do now.