7/25/2023 0 Comments Mike z skullgirls![]() ![]() ![]() Immediately following the announcement of the Evo 2017 vote, individuals from various communities campaigned or griped on social media about the inclusion of specific games. That’s not how you find out the opinion of the community,” Mike Z said. “One person with $1,000 is a thousand times more important than one person with $1 or is as important as 1,000 people with $1. Because of the size of these communities, they have much bigger personalities and voices, and those personalities will naturally campaign to ensure their game makes it into the event. Skullgirls’ biggest competition in this new vote are games that have been included in past Evos and that have larger communities, like Killer Instinct, Pokken Tournament, and Ultimate Marvel Vs. Considering how important making Evo can mean for a game and its community, throwing in a random, unreleased game that has yet to demonstrate a following is a slap in the face to games like Skullgirls. ARMS (and the Switch itself) isn’t yet available, but here it is vying for a coveted spot at Evo. For some reason, non-fighting games like Windjammers and ARMS for the Nintendo Switch were included in the list. The community was just visible enough for Skullgirls to be given another shot at Evo, with a new player vote for the last game to be featured on finals day. However, Mike Z said the Skullgirls community remains passionate and strong, despite its smaller size compared to other more popular games. We’ll never know what might have happened if Skullgirls made it into Evo as a main title. We don’t need Evo to be a fighting game community.” “It’s been a very strong community since then. There’s no point on dwelling on any of that,” Mike Z said. “Things would have been different if the vote turned out differently. Skullgirls took a very different path as a niche anime fighter. Since then, Melee has gone on to become one of the biggest esports in the FGC. Injustice wasn’t included in the vote because it wasn’t released at the time. This decision effectively negated the idea of voting for a game to be included because the perception was that players were voting for the final addition to the lineup. Some within the Skullgirls community were angry about the slight, and to add insult to injury, Evo added Injustice: Gods Among Us a couple of months after the conclusion of the 2013 player vote. Skullgirls appeared as a side tournament at Evo 2013, but was not included in the main game lineup the following years. Steven “AceKingOffSuit” Jurek summarized how things went down in 2013 on Twitter. The two games raised over $170,000 alone, with Melee winning the vote by less than $20,000. While Evo may have had good intentions, it pitted communities against each other, which was highlighted by Smash versus Skullgirls. Melee and Super Street Fighter II Turbo, Skullgirls was vying for a spot in Evo’s main game lineup. Back in 2013, Skullgirls wound up caught in the middle of a player vote dogfight.
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