>>31484542People seemingly liked it a lot so they will probably make more and more. This was the first one so the novelty factor is part of it being such a big success so who knows how successful all future ones will be after that runs out.
That Cybertron won was kinda shitty though, not because I dislike the guy, but because it gives a "You won't win if you are a super duper established playing for 10 years toppity top player". Had some less recognizable won it, specially had it been someone from a country without events, it would have given a "anyone can win these" impression" and as such more people would feel willing to join them in the future because money is money after all, and no one wants to dump into something they feel will have zero chance at.
That's just my two cents though.
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That said, I had a good experience participating on that tourney. My country has no official play and while there's a small local community they "know" how to play competitive, but don't play competitively seriously. They are more focused on making "fun" tournaments and on muh variety and stuff like that. And anyone who does or thinks otherwise is a no life tryhard in their eyes.
As such, this ended up being my "serious" VGC tourney ever and while I went 3-3 and wanted to keep playing just for practice, but I got a headache so I ended up dropping to rest instead considering I was not gonna top cut anymore, I feel rather satisfied with my results nonetheless, I didn't play any randoms, only top players and literally all them had managed to make it to Worlds, I even fought the Seniors World Champion. All all my matches were close ones and I didn't get super btfo by no one I played it and lastly I feel like all the matches I lost were by mistakes in my plays, not because I got outplayed by my opponents.
I'm very happy to know that I'm not just a big fish on a small pond but that I'm actually able to compete with, and beat, top players. It's a really good feeling.
