I'm seeing a some people are upset at the placement for Rivals of Aether 2 at EVO For anyone unaware, I am the publisher for that game I also remember being in the crowd at EVO 2016 and watching hungrybox beat armada through losers It was a seminal weekend for me. I returned from Vegas and started grinding smash, got my ass beat. Then I started grinding commentary, and later on that turned into streaming To have another platform fighter, and it be the one I publish, means something to me (regardless of how you feel about us...) To clarify I did buy a bunch of EVO passes to help make this the biggest Rivals 2 tournament we've ever had We handed passes to the top 128 players, ran online qualifiers, ran locals, and gave passes to TO's to give out to their community I'm sure I got taken advantage of. People sold codes, shared them without permission, and signed up with no intention of playing. But that's the price I'm willing to pay to make this the biggest Rivals 2 event we've ever had. The community has rallied around this, and I'm pumped to go to EVO this year See yall there (Saturday night)

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this is just ridiculous