That, which panel.
Every year there seems to be fewer and fewer of
you attending so the few that remain.
We are incredibly supportive. Please come talk to me later
for some partnerships or some swag.
I'm just joking I do not have the authority to
do that.
But we do appreciate your presents the reason why we're
here is just because as you can see from the
number of People here.
I just felt like we're losing touch with the FTC
and sort of have fallen out of love with the
community and wanted to rekindle that flame with some overtures.
But hopefully there's more People watching online since we are
in an online platform.
Then there are here, physically,
but we owe as a company we owe a lot
too.
The fighting game community.
And a lot of things would not be where we
are today if it weren't for some innovators in the
space such as.
Does anyone remember when Subs were 299?
Yeah. When was good Sir?
Did you were you a sub during those days?
No so the FTC is so poverty that even when
Subs were 299 we couldn't afford them.
Of course, with the current rise of inflation.
They are now 499, and perhaps even more out of
reach for our.
Community mired in poverty forever,
but that's OK what we learned from this is you
know Subs and even emotes where a big foundation of
our 1st.
Paid product and back in the day,
both Team Spooky an Level Up Live and I've managed
to find this in like the Google Cache,
A from like 2009 were pioneers in creating this in
fact.
Team spooky he was one of the first hundred partnered
channels on twitch.tv and he was even streaming before that,
on JustinTV, so you know there's even.
Email thread with our CEO and our CEO of that.
I'm absolutely mind. Boggled that so many viewers were coming
through doing like final round in like 2010 or something
so a lot of the dialogue that happened early on
Between. Those creators and there's still creating with Alex and
level up live and of course,
Vick team spooky helped to spark our innovation and what
we do here at which.
Uh we are also part of the culture,
so any Canadians in here.
Oh my whoa even in the back there,
good Sir. Did you wake up just are you.
Canadian 2 in the hat lying down there?
Yeah, so if you're from Canada.
You will probably have heard of something called the Canada
Cup,
it was run by Lap Chi,
one of the pre-eminent tournament organizers in the scene,
Oh is holding it down for Canada and.
Very early on, he wanted to do something that was
groundbreaking at that time,
he wanted to Lowe's essentially paper.
View and we didn't have the engineering product and so
we had to customize.
The site for him. And if you remember it was
a huge to buckle because of many things I think
like the bit rate wasn't too good.
You could watch it for free on mobile so there
was a back end,
a back door, that you could watch it for free
and it was entire cluster.
This is being recorded right,
it was, it was a it wasn't a good thing
but.
It was recorded in the annals of not only the
fighting game community,
but also add Twitch. At that time that was the
last time that we ever did pay-per-view and if you
look up in urban dictionary,
which I like to go to it is actually a
definition,
but the point of showing this is that what Capcom
Canada cut did and what lap she was trying to
do at that time was perhaps a bit too early
for its age, but years later we would launch something
very similar to it,
which is subscriber streams. And we wanted to,
you know when we were doing research studies about whether
this product would be a good fit.
You know a lot of the product manager is a
lot of people in the community that remembered Kavanagh Cup
really went back into time to see where we went
wrong and how we could create a better product from
that,
Yeah, but without Lap Chi and his.
Desire to push the boundaries,
we might not have you know the current product that
we have today?
So I wanted to go through some Top clips of
your favorite games and I want to do a little
game and if you're able to guess the Top clip
for Capcom Fighters. I will give you a sub you.
Give me your ID and I will give you a
sub,
Jenny channel that you want so.
I don't want to see anyone Googling this are checking
out,
so we're going to try.
So who can anyone guess?
What is the Top viewed clip for the channel slash
cop on fighters?
Perfect legend that's Mortal Kombat bro.
No good gas, but that's a good one any other
guesses.
Fighting games are so great that's a very good one
that was a very memorable and I cried when I
heard that good guess but no it's not that yes,
you Canadian in the back there.
Interview done what?
Download is complete that's also a very memorable line close,
but no very, very, very close very close.
Anyone else want to take a stab at it before
we reveal.
Alright, it's closing so bash you are correct in saying
that those input rayshon,
but it's actually this Oh my God.
It's actually this clip right here of infiltration here at
CEO.
Hi.
Oh my God.
Yes, no, but yes.
OK, No.
There's a very long clip.
And I don't know if he's wearing anything underneath that
towel either.
I always forget, he would not answer that.
See this is a very dangerous Camera angle now this
is the one.
OK, Oh my goodness.
And the toss very Venus.
I know that now. Hey gamer,
bathwater is going for a very high price on the
market.
I'm sure gamer towels is also very valuable.
Oh shoot How do I go back up?
So that clip actually has over 300 or 280 ish
1000 views and it came to be,
because it went on live stream fails,
but also the inventor of that dance is it Venus.
Well, that penis Val Venus.
Thank you very much. Yeah,
he actually re saw that clip and retweeted it on
his socials and so it sort of snowballed Internet an
it will shut up to the tops of Eclipse.
So it wasn't a lot of other member level things,
but those were really good guesses.
Tekken actually I don't know the answer to this,
but it's probably linked there does anyone.
What? The prototype.
Here's another one is not the Top clip,
but this is also. A very famous.
Clip from final round.
Shut out stick a bread and this,
if you haven't seen this infamous one.
He just bodied. The person is now right up in
his face and everyone else is also joining in.
On the festivities and a lot of trash talking had
been happening between these 2 players and before it finally
erupted into an offline match with K Brad as the
Victor. This clip actually found its way to Worldstarhiphop.
When I was looking for other videos and it actually
showed up so I'm very happy about that.
Next One I'm not actually sure what the answer is
for this one is anyone have a guess again.
If you get the correct answer I will give you
a sub do any channel of your choosing.
What's up?
Doing like there were specific please.
Hurrah to be getting beat employees that's a good guess.
He is here, this year.
Also playing in slash Tech and so it's always nice
and thank you very much for being a Prada because
he is actually a game producer that regularly retweets streams
and I think that's a very healthy part of the
ecosystem as game publishers who own the IPS throw it
back to the content creators that are also helping them
market, so out of all the video game publishers.
At least in this space.
I think that he is the most prolific in the
most supportive of online content creators so.
That's a good guess I don't think that is,
it though.
Any other gas tank in the highest viewed Clipper Tekken.
OK let's find out.
I'll just click on it.
Let's see what it is I don't know this answer
Oh this one is funny.
So it's kind of hard to see but this gentleman
on the left is realizes that he is on Camera
and he shows a clip of the player on the
right. Cross dressing.
So as to embarrass him and so this all very
part of the meta.
He's going to throw his opponent mental state off and
finally very embarrassing clip of his opponent and I believe
the player on the right.
Still, one, but it's sort of like if I make
an analogy if you're about to.
Play CS go against like C9 sneaky and you show
you a picture of the cost play but that's actually
the Top one?
Oh my God, Oh this is actually really funny.
I like this one.
This is hilarious, so this guy is the presentator for
the prize for Tekken King of the Iron Fist Grand
Final and a zoomed in on his.
Like this is just great Camera work.
And you can see on the bottom left their lighthearted.
E sports and I love.
The Tech and team because they're very they don't take
the E sports,
too, serious, and I think that's across the board.
Yeah, that was really funny.
But it's sort of a lens to the point like
if you don't take yourself 2 series seriously as in
the case of infiltration when he was dancing in the
case of this gentleman who was really playing up the
Camera and that double chin angle is that you can
actually generate more online.
Marketing in traction rather than going to the traditional route
of being 2 series of being a bit to Eastport
see so there's there's great value in having Liberty in
the content.
Next up? We have
Ooh this is a good run any Smashers in the
building.
Smashers.
Go back to we got some back here and you
guys are eligible to play along as well.
I don't think you should know the answer So what
is the hyest?
Is this smash ultimate? Anyway I will try it?
What is the highest viewed for smash ultimate highest viewed
clip.
Yeah, the crash, so basically I'm asking you what is
the most memorable moment the Internet decided with their eyeballs
that this was like the most typing?
Any any stabs at the answer before I reveal the.
We got one right here,
yes Sir.
So.
Yes.
That is a very good answer,
however. This question is where smash ultimate and not melee.
That's mainly.
Almost almost that was a very funny moment yes.
We'll see that.
Alright, it seems like the production to Mac doesn't have
I don't even know the answer to this is,
but let's let's find out.
This one is of some tournament I think he like
down smashes 3 or 4 times in a row.
Is that I don't know what?
That is is that funny or is it just skill?
I probably a combination of both.
Sorry.
I'm going next one? Yeah.
So melee clips YouTube gentleman in the front were actually
correct.
Come simulator, but yeah, the actual this one is just.
Has anyone seen this?
This will this will blow your OK,
you have not seen this.
I want to see your reaction for everyone that has
not seen this.
This is smash melee, so this game is as old
as time I believe like a 15 year 10 year.
Unfortunately is not here in the Top 8.
Even though it generally produces the best viewership and as
the most passionate community,
but of all the great things in the entire history
of smash melee.
This was actually the most viewed clip of all time.
This is during a tournament right.
It's sort of these other commentators.
And they're going to pan over to the players.
Oh wait this is Gosh isn't the one I'm sorry,
but no audio there's no good context here.
Sorry. This is this is the Golden one.
This right Oh my God,
OK here, we go. This is a two players,
they give the handshake. The match is over.
Oh my God, and player seems to.
Have really good reactions, Anas,
pointing to something on the ground and he picks it
up.
Not in his hand if you can't see is a
live Dungeness crab.
Like Seafood Crab is not a prop it's not a
dull.
It is a crab as if it was coming from
the market any yelled to the crowd who through this
crab.
And he still holding the crab has it stains his
hand with the seafood smell.
I need to see that so I need to see
that again.
That's just so it's so ridiculous that someone would have
a like?
Why did the guy have a crab first of all?
How did the guy have a crab on him?
How did he smuggle it in why a crab?
Why not if you really hated someone why not?
Throw human feces like? Why was he a fisherman was
he?
Like what it wasn't like it was at Pikes market.
So he handshake again. And why did he throw it
at the winner?
The guy that won a hungry,
but he won that match so instead of celebrating his
victory.
He was instead met with derision.
In this form of a crab project tile does it
mean something does anyone know like I heard when you
throw a slipper at someone,
it could be like a huge insult.
Yes, they are using?
That's a good theory that's a good theory sorry what
would you say?
Right OK.
The story behind it.
That's thank you very much for and I think you're
going to say that to bash your theory,
you come here come on here.
So the story behind the crab was Do you know
that mean which I thought that grabs dancing is like
blank is gone.
They were doing that because Maine to get out of
the tournament,
so they threw the crab delayed.
Reference the meme. But then,
everyone soon. They just did hundreds they don't like $100
that's all.
OK, so apparently memes can be very,
very dangerous. You don't want to play around with that,
but
Now that actually happened like the crowd was live.
The crowd was live.
Nope.
Here's another one, I think is the highest viewed clip,
but I just wanted to put some together.
Hear from Daygo as you can see from the picture
of their use our brand ambassador.
Here is some of his Top clips.
Oh God this is him playing Jenga Right This is
a Street Fighter.
God playing Jenga on the first tile pool agail throwing
Sonic booms at Digo.
Do you have a life vest on him?
What is that on him?
He lost on the first bro my God.
And for People that are known,
Daigle actually plays guile this season.
He's playing him upstairs as we speak and so it
was very ironic to be mocked by his own character
and you know jinx to have failed in the very
first. Django pool, so very good at video games are
very good fighter,
but Unfortunately, not at Jenga.
Here's another one also from the same channel you might
know him this is food Oh.
So this is called don't worry.
This hopefully will get a band on the T OS
here.
This is called Otaki shoe goal thing in I believe
Buddhist culture,
where you stand underneath a waterfall and the water is
freezing code right no matter if it's summer or it's
winter.
This is fresh water and your sources of purify the
soul.
And so this is what food Oh did right before
Eve Oh,
he went under the waterfall.
And you're supposed to your supposed to make a wish
right and the water.
So cold that you're thinking about only one singular thing
or the clear out all the thoughts so that's a
really cool and hopefully it works out for him and
he does well at email This year.
I don't know I talk about this,
you know, we do a lot of Localize dreams.
I thought this would be a more international crowd.
I guess we got Canada here that counts but yeah,
we like to uh. I think they actually see one
of the most diverse communities and we also like to
match that with our partner offerings in different regions,
so that we could broadcast the action in local languages.
Without an just a transition.
We have Ray all the way to my left here
and he's going to be talking about mobile broadcasting AKA
IRL?
What's up? Everybody this Ray from partnerships talking about mobile
broadcasting AKA RL.
So basically talking about how covering content does not always
have to be in front of a computer as you
see we have a lot of People or a lot
of things to do at TI.
Vo like interviews pools coverage and also booth content.
So, just kind of rethinking how you think about covering
your content.
And how it doesn't necessarily always need to be behind
a desk.
In some of our partners that we do have streaming
attivo would be digo Maximilian and cross counter TV so
if you have any questions.
Please take down my Twitter.
Feel free to hit me up.
If you have any questions or ideas on how to
make that happen.
Well, we could do some Q&A After 2.
My name is Daniel from partnerships also and this is
an attention to all FGC partners were looking to promote
more FC content on the site.
I mainly handled the FTC accounts on Twitch.
If you're planning on streaming any of the new content.
That's coming out this month.
And this month is a big month for that with
all the new Street Fighter releases.
Grand Blue Random Fantasy.
There's tons of updates to smash and their new character
and of course,
the new Mortal Kombat Character Nightwolf.
Anyone planning on streaming new content like that,
or new characters, please get in touch with me.
An we'd like to promote this type of content on
Twitch more and show more love to the FGC community.
My Twitter is below. and I also have D1 included
there also for the smash community,
you guys might know him already.
And that's it.
Uh well that goes to the end of our presentation
if any,
567 if you have any questions would gladly take them.
I believe that Mike is live if you want to
use it or you could just project your voice and
I can pick it up here.
Yes, so you want to try that thing if you
don't mind the Mike right in the middle.
Thank you.
And could you give us your name as well.
My name is Roger Hi Roger incident,
with the IRL streaming. And what type of changes can,
we expect coming from switch because of that incident at
E3.
Could you be more specific several things happen specifically the
doctor disrespect answered with the area.
Other changes coming to the OR content in terms of
service,
which which or is current terms of service,
you think covered that in terms of service,
definitely covers that don't stream inside a bathroom.
I mean, it definitely there's no changes.
I don't think that has to be,
said I would say I would be more aware in
terms of what your streaming I mean that's a production
thing.
We should never be shooting inside a bathroom.
An there there was also suspension so.
There was a suspension so.
Yeah, without dissuade People from that,
for sure don't stream in the bathroom please.
But please do go to the bathroom to wash your
hands.
I know that hygiene isn't the best in the fighting
game community,
so go there, but don't stream it.
Who's that?
I know I know.
Yeah, that's true. Yes, you,
Sir, please state your name on your question.
Yes, my name is Curtis higher.
NIST wait did you say Ernest?
Did you didn't you say Ernest Curtis,
Curtis, Hello, Curtis, it's OK?
It's alright you still owe me a soap so.
From what it for that.
Oh, OK, I'll tell you a bit in your channel.
Actually, speaking on channels in general.
I'm more of a newer streamer kind of just getting
into the platform in general.
I love the FGC. In fact,
I love all all you guys up here for what
you do and some of you,
including yourself. Sir have kind of helped me grow up
to be who I am so it takes a lot
of.
A lot of courage for me to come up here
and say thanks to all three of you guys or
what you've done.
And I would just like to ask in terms with
being a new FTC streamer.
I know you talked about being funnier conscious being your
own personality.
So on, and so forth.
What other tips would you give for someone that is
coming in as a new streamer with the FGC things
like you already said about promotion with the newer content.
That's coming out this month.
Is there anything else that I could do to help
you guys as well as far as pulling in more
People to come in watch the streams and helping out
support the FTC in what we do.
That is a terrific question Curtis and one that we
receive a lot.
If you were here yesterday.
There was actually a panel with spooky utex,
an Maximilian and I'd like to bring them up because
there are some of the most prolific content creators in
this space with the addition of Aris,
avoiding the puddle and I showed these clips today and
it's not these aren't like the funniest.
These aren't the most viewed non gaming.
Clips other channel. These are just the Top clips.
Other channel period and if you think about the Top
2.
Creators in our vertical, which is Maximilian and Aris,
avoiding the puddle like all these things have in common
do you think?
Personally, I'm directly sub with Max and what I get
from Max is literal like his enjoyment of fighting games
period.
He also has kind of a different analytical point of
looking at things that he kinda is more of a
realist.
'cause I was there for that panel and that's in
particular,
some of the things that they spoke of Eris is
just.
Funny as hell you know,
he's he's a great guy,
and like I said he's another one of those guys.
It's been around a long time and I've seen him
over constant streams and it's just it's just him.
It's just his personality, basically exactly all these guys have
very strong personalities or in the case of the eclipse
like they didn't.
It wasn't taken too lightly.
The person that was checking the crab.
Well, those pretty malicious but.
I don't know like he woke up think he or
she woke up thinking.
I'm going to toss a crap at someone infiltration put
Great thought and effort into his entrance into CEO right.
Obviously he performs very well as a player,
but the point is. Enjoying yourself,
I think really transmits itself across the screen,
and the numbers don't lie right like the Internet.
The People they love that type of stuff,
so my advice to you is to do what you
enjoy to do in the same way that you see
joy really emanating from the channels like Maximilian also Aris
in his own way.
Anything you guys want to add to them,
yeah, I mean, one thing that I always tell.
Everyone is just as a new streamer in general is
to just be consistent like the only extreme every day
of the week,
but the 2:00 or 3 days that you do streaming.
We just make sure you're doing it.
The same day in the same time every week,
so that People know when to expect you to be
on.
And you said you loved FGC if you want to
grow in the committee.
I think one thing that will help you a lot
is just going to whatever locals around you're going to
more events and building your network on Top of just
jumping into other channels under FTC streamer streams.
But those things that I'd say the most important.
I think also to piggyback off of what she had
said terms of the consistency.
I think that sure unable to stream like 5 times
a week.
We get that. Everybody has real jobs realize also so
I'm being able to balance that so if you're streaming
like one time a week.
You're streaming for 3 hours trying to break that up
into some.
Actual structure, so that way that 3 hours at your
up you have goals that you want to hit.
So that way if you are streaming for very little
amount of time,
then also you're building up that structure so that way.
When People TuneIn. They know that they can.
Maybe tune in at the end.
There's Q&A and also just like mixing it up so
that way.
You have goals so that way.
When you're done after those 3 hours.
It feels like you accomplished something.
Thank you guys thank you very good question.
Any other questions, I see some newcomers through the panel
welcome in the back were just taking kewene right now,
so feel free to go to that Mike in the
middle and shoot your shot.
I have a question since no one wants to help
us out here?
What is something that we can do as a company
as a platform?
To help out. The scene.
Is there anything that we're not doing today?
That we could be doing better?
Ah my certain.
Yeah, I think that's pretty pretty loud and clear.
I think also I'm in agreement that I don't believe
that we've created anything to even help like podcasts.
For example, I mean, we have a lot of talk
shows that are going on in a lot of content
that even doing up here that can be leveraged in
terms of extensions. So yes,
that's loud and clear depending on how fast that happens,
I can't promise anything but we feel very much the
same way.
Yeah, extensions are currently being developed.
I wouldn't say specifically for the fighting game community.
But those I think kind of a great applications to
what we do polls right.
I think everyone wants to have a more interactive viewing
experience so it's not just when you see some of
our current properties such as the CBTRTWT.
It's very much a lean back experience you're sort of
just.
In your chair and your keyboard listening to what's happening.
But I have no as a viewer.
I have no input so anything that can enhance the
interaction between the viewer and the broadcaster.
I think will really play into our seamlessly get hype
right so how can we capture that type of hype
not only through chat of course,
but also through extensions that inform and direct what the
running show is and hopefully we can show off some
of those stuff down the line.
But it also requires that the game publishers who control
the channels adopt set extensions,
so there's tools out there.
We just need to, you know like run that up
the pole to like hurrah d'amelio.
We need this. This would be really cool for our
channel.
And I don't think extensions are primarily dominated by also
like us,
creating it also believe that extensions is the future,
and I think that no one's really created or invested
the time into creating an extension that changes the way
that we used to it,
so right now. People are like OK,
cool, you Spotify. I need to Spotify Extension,
but no one's really created an extension where like any
broadcaster that goes live would be stupid,
not to have this extension and this isn't something that
is created by us.
It can be created by maybe a stream labs,
it can create be created by an individual.
So I think in terms of extensions.
If you know, someone that knows how to develop that's
also something that's wide open for anybody to create.
And. Like I said in the previous slide.
My hope is to promote more FTC content an through
the 1st initiative.
Of doing it through new character releases?
Who knows like maybe an extension can come out of
that.
So highlight clips or vods of new characters that.
People streamed in the past.
Oh, Gosh.
Shoot.
Sorry.
Yes, Sir or you go scratching your ear.
So very good question I think that's
2 things one is that?
The very nature and outdated business model of a lot
of the publishers in our space that refused to embrace
the new wave,
which is as you mentioned whether it be team based
or free to play right into monetizing off of service,
so the game model has yet to come to a
Tier 1 fighting game and that is a big roadblock
to becoming mainstream the fact that we are.
You know bound and loyal to a specific console weather
PS4 or like Xbox,
a generation before, is in itself caps us to being
a very nice market.
If I could play with you Street Fighter on your
mobile device whether it be iOS or Android.
I could cross play on my switch PC Genesis Xbox
Nintendo Biggie Line and all those consoles.
I don't think we would have a problem of under
development that we have today.
Because the fighting games and I think we all know
this in this room does have universal appeal if I
see.
2 People fighting in like the front right here.
I'm going to watch it.
It is human nature to want to Spectate 2 People,
beating each other up even if you are nerd.
A nonviolent person and you support pacifism,
I'm going to watch. If I'm modern enough,
I'm going to whip up my phone and put that
on worldstarhiphop and that to me is what fighting games
is it is one person and another person,
beating the crap out of each other until one's life
bar is depleted and so it's a universal appeal and
we are hindered by again.
The slow embrace of a lot of publishers to the
new model until that future comes what can we do
is content.
Creators I again. I really look to our Top two
guys Aris and Maximilian.
In that they have a constant cycle of content there,
not just grinding Street Fighter 5:00 or Tekken or the
newest game Mortal Kombat,
like online because it is a very frustrating experience.
We Unfortunately are very sensitive to lag A-frame to one
frame of lag to a fighting game player is perhaps
negligible to someone else playing another genre,
so the online experience is very poor and when you
stream that.
All it is, is frustration,
I'm going to get mad.
'cause my opponent disconnected or send me some stupid message
or I'm going to go on like on a win
streak and my character will start teleporting and so a
lot of that negative energy and frustration from online play
is transmitted and that goes to the point of having
fun.
You're not going to have fun if you're just grinding
it out and I really appreciate what Maximilian analysis done
in sort of solving for that problem,
by finding avenues or different games,
even to just have fun and that goes across.
And carries on very well,
I'm not going to sit in a channel full of
negativity.
I could watch the Fox News for that.
I want to come and watch a stream.
I want to bask in like good vibes.
So it's very difficult to do that in our current
state,
but until that future comes I would like to see
more People having fun,
it does take a bit of creativity to find that.
And just like was eagle,
saying watching typical flight. We have a lot of streamers
that will host tournaments for the community and they're not
even playing themselves are just watching with their communities.
Some more ideas that we can do like that outside
of the normal streaming rank.
Those are the types of things were looking to do
more of an promote.
That will help the community grow.
Not necessarily for creators, but I think we as viewers
and fans can also help push that content someone for
whatever reason decided to upload.
The K Brad clip to worldstarhiphop and I saw it,
there and I was like Oh.
This is really funny. And so imagine that crowd for
worldstar.
They're probably not watching a lot of video games.
But the Good Samaritan. That did upload it to that
site and then spread our community our content our players
are very exciting.
Things that are happening to like a new broader audience.
So you could also be an adverb kitten and ally.
Not even being a Top player.
In fact, if we were all Top players,
we wouldn't. Be down here would we would be upstairs
in like Top 8 and So what can we do
as fans of the game of spectators.
It is to get that content get that clip download
extract video put it on Instagram put it on world
star put it on the most ratchet sites and the
far places the Internet and we can get more eyeballs
to it,
and that's how we can sort of grow as a
scene.
I don't take it lightly.
When I'm saying like all we need is that one
moment.
Maybe it was that crab thing.
I feel like that should have taken us to the
next level where the world is like?
What is going on here?
I'm interested in why this gentleman that has crabs being
thrown his direction and that will Pique some interest from
People that don't know what we do.
Any other questions cameraman anything.
Any questions help me fill the time I guess to
add to the other thing I think it's like you
all are the most knowledgeable of the community like I
can sit here and say that I know the FGC
like some of these to do,
but I don't. But it's just from an outsider perspective.
If you're able to see a lot of these flaws
with your community.
You know seeing that. It's not getting good viewership.
I think it definitely is your hands to change that
whether it's making content whether it's being inactive person in
the community like see was saying use can service a
lot of these things. And that is the same thing
for other communities like sneakers in lifestyle.
If those People are not.
Active then how will the big companies like Nike,
or Adidas see that and that's the same goes for
an ESPN wanting to honor you know fighting games further
or other games and developers wanting to step into this
space. If the people in the community are complaining about
how it sucks and it doesn't grow then they're going
to see that too.
So I think it's just like a joint collective effort.
You know as much as we want.
The big dogs to be here we also need some
People that aspired to want to become you know fighting
game.
Streamers and content. Creators and also the People that are
reinforcing that like the Maximilians.
Yeah, we can lead you can follow their lead,
but they're also unique in their own.
I don't think we're all trapped on making the same
content is am I think we all can share that
I mean,
the content that you're going to create are going to
be completely different but it's more of like whether or
not you're going to do it.
This is really where it lies.
Yes, you, Sir in the hat and I'll go right
to you after that.
Uh as a viewer as a player.
The best thing, that you could do is play fighting
games with someone.
Period. It is we need to be streamed just having.
Playing is the one thing that is going to ensure
our survival.
There is going to be a future where run amok
by 13 year old fortnight People.
Dancing over our Corps, flossing over our corpses because we
are faced with.
OB solution right like we as a John rhe where
niche and we're not growing as fast as we are
with other Tier 1.
E boards were becoming I mean,
Evil is really good because it's growing year on year.
But there is a fear given how difficult it is
to get offline and play with someone that we will
become irrelevant in A.
In the tik T.O.K like generation is the attention spans
are getting shorter shorter so I would say just play
play and have fun and through that you will connect
through other People, you will get intertwined into the community
and then from that,
you will naturally be more curious seek out more content
online and then hopefully one day even take a stab
at creating your own content.
But even having like a friend and jumping in a
discord and talking about Stratton.
Combos is very important, it is actually the People that
don't play that.
He's like 2 small that is causing the Shrinkage 'cause.
They're not providing anything to the actual offline experience,
which is what the heart of it is this is
the Magic when you come down the bow.
There was a quote I said earlier go to your
locals and I was actually say like go to your
locals 'cause.
There's so much opportunity there.
That's where you'll find your friend.
That's where you will find your partner.
That's we go. Find someone that's the same level as
you and that's how you get started off playing more
like.
I remember when I first saw your going to play
100 matches with that person and going to go by
just like that,
and then.
You have him, You'll be that much better right after
but even outside of playing like.
Local scene has become such a big thing you might
even get a chance to do commentating and you might
not even know that that's something you wanted to do
in the 1st place. But so many different opportunities that
whether it's those 2 things or even tournament organizing for
them.
They always need a lot of help so tons of
ways to get involved.
In terms of like, FG,
see this is like the only community and all the
genres that I get to work in that actually collaborates
and gets together like this like evos huge as much
as People want to compare that to like Fortnight World
Cup 4 nights going for now World Cup.
You go there to watch a game and you watch
people with money very similar to this,
but there's no camaraderie to it.
People go to watch fortnight.
They don't go there to meet up with their friends.
They don't go there decision panels.
This is like a huge difference.
Evil is so big in that regard where there's People
that.
Get together over matches and laugh and cry and make
fun of each other and do things like that.
You don't see that other conventions.
You don't see that at E3.
You don't see that in a packs so it's something
that's really special,
and it's interesting to me why you know they say
that is slowing down or it's like the poverty or
whatever that 0 is jokes about but I mean,
the People are definitely here there more passionate than most
of the other conventions that I go to so I
just like she said,
I. Encourage you all to go to locals.
I think you all are already very good friends with
each other.
More than other communities. So you know,
I really push you all to go out and just
make friends in your local places 'cause you guys will
be doing shows together doing podcasts together,
making constant together. I assure you that.
Yeah, it's really important for cross pollination.
Dyrus is a really good example.
You know the sneaker guys from Nike were down here.
There's a lot of People lurking around 'cause.
I think they see the potential in our community.
If you recall last year.
Ninja actually hosted Street Fighter on his channel and that
boosted it up.
You know like X percent so the interests.
Is there? How do we convert those People from online
observers and maybe lurkers in the chat to actually coming
down here is the next question.
But I think if you were to take a pulse
around Eve.
Oh, there's a lot of Illuminati,
like lurking around here is a lot of Tier 1
Tier 2 E Port Orange that are looking for talent.
There dressing like planes close whatever but they reek of
E sports.
I see him that and a lot of great businesses
to that see this as a much better cost performance.
Then, if you were to invest like 3040 mill in
Overwatch League like why don't I just plowed into here
and get 10X the return if what I'm trying to
do is buy an audience.
I think we have one of the best cost performance
in any genre really across the competitive title,
so they're here and I think to the panel yesterday.
I think was women actually see we did make it
more welcoming.
We need to make it more inclusive so that People
don't come here and feel ostracized or they feel like
it's a Old Boys Club and it's very easy to
fall into that trap. Because historically fighting games has been
very.
Click Ish, Is by design to write the execution is
always been glorified so you do that sick ass infinite
combo like your God now.
But how many People can really do that,
so you really only speaking about the 1%
but what about the 99%
of us that can never be on a Top 8
stage.
Where are can contributions and I think some of the
better?
Events in the year, whether you CEO or comma breaker
or seem in Singapore.
You had to start thinking about what can I do
to serve the bottom base of the pyramid that is
not a Top player.
Tokido punk there was going to get there?
Is there gods die going to get his like he's
a legend.
How can I make it fun for yourself for your
friends to come down here to have their friends come
down right?
We don't have that multiplier effect until we can get
evangelists an that starts with having a great tournament experience
and not many People think of that 'cause We are.
So slavish to appease like you know the gods of
the fighting games.
They're good right. I'm worried about the person that goes
02 and there's nothing else to do in the next
2 days.
I also went kinda piggyback off with Z,
saying I wouldn't. I guess necessarily bottleneck yourself as like.
FGC creator I would as you as a content creator
you should be letting that speak for itself.
You want to cover mobile game just a couple of
mobile games do you happen to be from the fighting
game community and we're all gamers and we come from
different backgrounds and it's great that you come from the
FTC background,
but I also went. Let that limit you for having
to explain yourself about why you act a certain way
you shouldn't have too.
And that shouldn't matter shouldn't have to say.
Hey, I'm from the FGC and we come from weird
world that you don't understand.
That doesn't matter. It's more of like what content that
you provide and if it is mobile games and you
want to play that on your break then do it.
This is going to make you happy and that's still
making content.
Then, if it happens to be 90%
FGC stuff, then great but you shouldn't have to worry
about explaining yourself why you're making if you see content
or why you're not.
Yes.
So we haven't. I don't really work with locals,
too much. But let's get.
Let's connect an let's make something happen if they have
a channel and my partner.
And you guys have the numbers let's definitely do it.
Yeah, I don't see how that would be any different
than supporting like a Twitch Chicago.
I mean, not not the one that.
Obviously, like makes those decisions.
But I mean, if it's big enough where there's a
community that's active then I don't see a reason why
we can help you somehow and if they're not partnered
yet like still let's work together.
So the 3rd. Biggest channel aside from Maximilian and.
Avoiding the puddle was actually a local team spooky,
which is basically NLBC so.
What does that local that New York local for me
have that nothing else has it really has a very
strong?
Vibe has very strong personalities.
They're very loud right there very sassy of course,
a lot of Top players go there,
but sometimes they don't like the strongest players may not
necessarily congregate in LPC as they once did,
in like the crazy heyday,
but they're still able to retain a good portion of
the viewership wonder consistent.
I always know when they're on and too.
I just like I can't.
I don't want to miss another like.
Stick throw or you know like there's something magical about
that.
Of course I'm very biased right.
I have a sore spot for New York,
but my question to throw it back to you is
why should I give a damn about your logo in
the same way that why should I give a damn
about spooky. I can give you a litany of reasons
why it is like must see TV every Wednesday.
You know when it goes on.
That is my decompression from work right.
I like to see like People mess around but I
also like to see high level and I know once
it gets the Top 3 there's going to be some
really dope play. Until then I can be guaranteed like
a lot of laughter.
A lot of jokes on the microphone.
So that's sort of my go to.
But I challenge the notion that locals cannot succeed in
the current paradigm because our #3 channel is very much
many ways.
A local of course, spooky does do some sport events,
but I go to channel for that.
Yep.
That was a stick throw,
yeah, a mentos here.
That's an excellent point I think if you set out
trying to monetize too quickly or if that is your
end goal,
you will. Fall short of your goal,
which is just to get an audience to get a
community to even show your local strong player right and
give them more exposure and I don't want to speak
for anyone, but I bet for a lot of the
Top creators.
They didn't set out. Trying to become.
The Top streamer in getting like I don't know.
Subs like back, I saw was talking his book yesterday.
He started out when there was.
You stream. And Justin TV there is no monetization features.
There's no ads. There's no Subs again.
He was one of the first hundred partners.
So. You know when I look at the People are
successful.
Now, they did not have this in mind.
But their adherence to providing good entertainment is what brought
him to the Top so.
Yeah.
Anything else.
And like Locals don't have to be successful based on
the numbers themselves like if you look at level up
live.
They have different partners running all the different games at
least stream like it's not just level up live,
you got all these different communities that are involved there.
If they know that all these communities are involved,
along with level up live himself at this one event
that just speaks for itself,
and new locals that don't have that,
yet you guys could be those guys that help be
those streamers for those games and it just becomes an
even bigger thing at that point and will keep growing
from there. You brought up a really good point about.
Competition and I think we're reaching a point where.
Companies are coming in and their rival companies will then
start to think about how to get into the space
and So what I'm really excited about from yesterday's announcement.
The confirmation of the riot game is that this is
surely going to ripple across the pond and get the
attention of a Blizzard right there like Oh my God.
Where is our there's probably some marketing manager there or
product manager like wait Hey Bob?
Where is our fighting game George?
By Golly Let's. Start now or they already planning it
right Can you imagine just imagine a world where there's
someone in epic?
I think there in like North Carolina somewhere in some
meeting room,
there like? Billy. Did you hear that news that evil?
Riot.
Is making a gosh darn fighting game well?
What if we were to put our creative geniuses and
put some be bucks free to play.
Those viral dances. I don't think they speak like that.
But you know what I'm saying it's only because we
have been so confined in this small space of Capcom
Bandai Namco.
NRS and there's sort of like this NK arc system.
They're pretty smaller players relative to the Giants out there.
But once a giant right the Big Three of the
Big 4 riot Blizzard epic.
Start to turn their attention to our genre.
I think that's when you get a lot of good
benefits as consumers from the competition in the same way
that we benefit with Apple versus Google fighting over the
space in mobile right between iOS and Android.
We reap those benefits. There's like a war to get
better cameras.
Those selfie cameras. Oh my God,
like I look beautiful right and that's because there's a
war between Samsung as well to provide better technology and
I think once we start getting sponsors and tip the
playstations versus the Xbox is now the state is right,
Google is making the stadia.
Against one another we stand to as consumers reap the
benefits of that competition.
So I'm really excited for the space and it is
important to get the Nike and Adidas like sort of
bickering over one of us,
but to get that attention.
We need to look like a favorable and very fruitful
market for them to invest in.
And he wanted the back that's not sleeping.
You too. I need anything anything you could be a
comment to you get throat tomato from there.
What? Yeah.
Best believe I would've cooked that crap,
he looks so angry if you threw a crap at
me right now and I caught that I would go
straight to the kitchen and boil it up put a
little ginger on that get some chili crab.
I borrow some packets room.
Young Doug at that Chili Crab from Singapore that is
a present from the God does a gift from the
gods?
What are you doing? Why you so angry is 11
and a pound at least?
I get that crap me so just cracked the baby
right open.
I get a spoon and get that wrong is that
crap butter.
OK, well, it seems like we're about done here again.
Thank you very much again is a shrinking crowd.
But I think that's an analogy to the fighting game
community.
Let us fight the irrelevance that we're fighting against some
of the bigger Giants with I don't know every year
it gets more depressing fewer People but.
We are the bearers of the flame.
Let's carry that torch and the best way to light
that is to fight with someone in the game and.
If you remember when you guys got started.
I bet someone beat you up in a fighting game
and that lit a fire in you and you're like?
Yeah, yes, yeah remember. That man I was so salty
when I was a kid,
my brother like beat me at a game so the
best thing you can do to go.
One further from playing a fighting game is the beat
someone's ass.
And not to the point where they give up like
completely Roman report for tonight,
but to give them to come and want to get
better and beat you.
That is like the perfect level of ass beating that
you want to be handing out so go play video
games.
Go play fighting games and I welcome the future of
the fortnight fighting game that hopefully is being in development
after yesterday's announcement from riot.
There's a good future just hold on until that day
comes don't Stampede each other on the way out,
either.
Thank you.
