NEW YORK CITY -- Sanford Kelly, expert Marvel vs Capcom 2 player and famed excuse-for-losing generator, has announced that he will be creating a nonprofit called "Sticks Without Borders", a program designed to provide secondhand fight sticks to low income and otherwise impoverished fighting game fans, both in the United States and abroad.
"After I trashed my stick at Next Level because it made me lose against Rico [Jonathan DeLeon], I thought about all of the people that can't afford a stick, either because they are too poor or sticks cost way too much in ther native country", said a deeply introspective Mr. Kelly. "I thought about how selfish and immature destroying my stick was, even though it made me lose, and I think that I should do more to help players who are less fortunate than I am and aren't as good as me [in Street Fighter]." Mr. Kelly leaned into the FGCNN correspondent's voice recorder and added, "Rico only won because my stick screwed up my inputs; I'm better than he is. I'm the best. He can't beat me in a long set. I just had a lot on my mind."
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LOS ANGELES -- It has been over a week since the conclusion of "Socal Regionals 2014", a premiere Fighting Game Community tournament based in Los Angeles, and Vineeth "Apology Man" Meka has yet to apologize for defeating Ryan "Filipino Champ" Ramirez in Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 by abusing an unblockable loop setup.
During the match, a distraught Mr. Ramirez made sure to look directly at Mr. Meka while Mr. Meka used unblockable loops with Firebrand to defeat him in what quickly became a single-player game. "It's in the game, so I don't see what the problem is", said a triumphant Mr. Meka. Earlier in the day, Mr. Meka made a series of angry tweets after losing to an unblockable used by Kokonoe players in Blazblue: Chrono Trigger, implying that it did not give him a chance to play and that the unblockable should be removed from the game.
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Los Angeles, CA (USA) -- Socal Regionals (SCR), a major fighting game tournament which transpired this past weekend, is rife with controversy concerning the reported "special treatment" given to Christopher "Chris G" Gonzales by LevelUp Series owner and SCR tournament organizer Alex "Calipower" Valle. Christopher Gonzales was first disqualified after showing up late to the tournament pools of his preferred game Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3, sending him to the losers bracket, and was subsequently disqualified a second time after arriving late to tournament match. However, Alex Valle acquiesced to Christopher Gonzales's pleas for a re-entry into the tournament to the distraught of many critics who believed that Christopher Gonzales was receiving preferential treatment due to his gaming skill.
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