Amazing work franchise! I can’t wait to steal it

It's like what Emp Lemon said, the problems within the smash community are in the hands of people least likely to do anything about it.

I remember when all the internet was just destroying Panda, the TOs of l'Odyssée (french smash major) were saying that SWT being unlicensed by Nintendo was the main issue "How can you make a smash world tour with hundreds of tournaments and just not wait for the company to grant a license ? "
They were really shocked about that !
Thank you for bringing up all these informations this clearly. Because when you are not actually travelling to these tournaments you cannot see the security issues that were on VGBC's events and can be misinformed. I hope you won't get any hate for this video and you will continue to make the smash scene a better place

its crazy to see this discourse coming up again and see people still spew the same uninformed perspectives and not acknowledge how VGBC is clearly at fault here. If for any other reason than how irresponsible it was to allow all their attendees to sign up, book flights and accomodations for an event that they weren't sure would be able to happen.

Something to add to Double Down: Hungrybox was coughing up blood on the morning of the event and had to go to the hospital for care. He still decided to attend the tournament with no mask on and the TOs did absolutely nothing in this situation to stop him. It was only after community backlash that Hungrybox dropped out of the tournament and issued an apology. I don't think VGBC made any statement on this incident.

Imagine giving Nintendo the shortest month of the year to accept your application for partnership

"10 dollars can't be compared to 10 lives" God damn

they cancelled the Panda tour  because they didn't want them to succeed where they failed, it's a really tragic story

Saying Dc. Alan “lacks rizz” is easily the best way to describe this entire situation

I find it amusing that after all that's transpired, vgbc basically gets away with everything scot free with no accountability whatsoever.

After all of vgbc's shortfalls, im a bit surprised and disappointed that their players continue to associate with them - guys such as amsa, tkbreezy, darkhorse, pink fresh to name a few. All while Panda's ENTIRE team was dissolved and disbanded.

Personally, i wont feel satisfied until vgbc dissolves as an orgqnization and its members, especially gimr, are blacklisted from running future events.

I FUCKING KNEW IT WAS ESAM IM BOUTTA TAKE THAT BOY TO BOXING RING

Not enough people know about this videos existence and that's sad

This honestly takes a lot of guts to research and produce. I remember when the news was first being dropped, if you even tried to push 10% of the blame away from Panda, you'd be criticized.

It does stem from the fact that Nintendo has shut down a lot of events in the past so it wasn't hard to believe they were the villains and anyone working with them was bad by association. But sometimes there is more to the truth.

Honestly feels like GimR is hiding behind the shield that he's done a lot of good for the community to cloak and dagger his way out of hold any accountability whatsoever.

Worst part is, is that it worked.

the smash community being willing to take btssmash and vgbc’s words at face value given their history is astounding. this community deserves everything they have coming to them.

really well put together, makes sense that there's way more to the story than what everybody first hears. a common theme in the smash "community" when bombs start dropping.

Yep Esam is definitely to blame for this freaking Dr. Eggman in disguise

You also could have mentioned the sad reality that not only did VGBC kill Panda by using the community backlash as a vector, but they literally got rewarded for it too by Ludwig for helping them by fundraising all of that money for them with scuffed world tour event after the SWT cancellation SMHHH...

"And we all know who to blame: ESAM." I fucking knew it 🤣

The craziest part is that most people like Ludwig, Critical etc just took everything at face value. Nintendo has a history of being litigious so we just believed that this grass roots org could afford to host a quarter mil tourney with a grand total of one sponsor locked in.

Hell I’d bet some of the Metafy money was contingent upon Nintendo licensing the event