Czar

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[이선우 INFILTRATION @INFILTRATION85]

Hello, this is INFILTRATION.
Thank you all for the support at EVO Japan 2024.
Many people told me that they want to see me back in the tournament scene.
It meant a lot to me, and I am truly grateful.
So today, I need to tell you all about something.
Since May 2022, I have been banned from participating in fighting game tournaments.
I hope you will be interested in what I am about to tell you.

Two years ago, I received an email from EVO and Combo Breaker, on May 20, 2022.
As you all know, EVO and Combo Breaker are two of the largest US fighting game tournaments.
The gist of the email I received was as follows;

“We cannot allow you to participate in this year's EVO tournament because you do not meet our code of conduct.”
They also said that this decision was supported by the CEO, the ECT and the ICFC.

I was greatly shocked.
In my 12 years of tournament activity from 2010, my first overseas tournament, to 2022, I did not cause any accidents/problems of any kind.
If they are talking about the personal incident that happened to me in 2018,
4 years prior to their decision, I had already reached an agreement with the Capcom eSports team that
I would not participate in the Capcom Pro Tour 2018 and 2019, and that I would be able to come back after that.
Therefore, I must say that the decision they made in 2022 is difficult to understand.

They did not give me any details as to exactly what were the checklists they have gone through to make their decision.
The email was more of a notice, without any explanation, so I sent emails and messages to ask them what was going on.
They ignored me and did not answer any of my questions via email or Twitter.

Shortly after that, on June 4, 2022, a single statement was posted to the Capcom Fighters Twitter account.

"INFILTRATION will be banned from all Capcom-owned, operated and/or licensed events globally, including CPT and SFL, due to CoC violations, until further notice."

This meant that I am effectively banned from competing in any events for the rest of my life.
This statement did not detail what terms I had violated either.

For these reasons, I have been unable to participate in Street Fighter and Capcom fighting game tournaments.
I have played and loved fighting games for over 30 years, and consider the FGC as my good friends.

I want to get back into the scene.

Fortunately, my love for fighting games has not changed at all over the past two years.
I am still thrilled to watch professional players play great matches, I still rejoice in reconnecting with my fighting game friends, and I still love playing the game myself.

Dear Capcom and the organizers of EVO and all the tournaments that have banned me,
as I mentioned, I have never caused a problem in any tournaments.
It has been two years since 2022, the year I was banned.
I have not broken any code of conduct to this day, including in the recent EVO Japan 2024.
I would like you to revoke my ban from participating in FG tournaments.

Finally, to the loving fighting game community, please spread the word.
I ask for your support so that I can return.
I will never be able to accomplish this on my own, and I need your help.
I hope to return to the competitive scene, so that I can have a chance to show you countless exciting matches with everything I got.
Thank you all for always supporting me. Please work with me once again.
Thank you very much for reading.

@CapcomFighters
@Evo
@COMBOBREAKER
@CEOGaming
@ecthrowdown
@tenomedia

[Czar @CzarWiley]

For kayfabe purposes, I think landing zangief's lvl 2 super unmashed should automatically win him the round

[OgGeek @OgGeek2016]

@jiyunaJP Mike Ross said Gief's theme sounds MTV Cribs music and BRUH 😂🤣

[Frankentank @Frankentank9]

Neutral vs Zangief
#StreetFighter6
#SF6_Zangief

[Czar @CzarWiley]

Y'all want 3/5? You can take that set and play on CFN.

Problem solved

[Broskі @broskiFGC]

apart from the extremely minor and barely worth mentioning issue of brackets taking 50% longer to compete, TOs being expected to do more work for the same insultingly low reward, and even more matches being offstreamed, is there a single valid argument against switching to 3/5?

[Street Fighter 6 @StreetFighter]

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[Czar @CzarWiley]

@indiecollin Thanks for the love. Wish I could tolerant SFV more but it's just too stale for me at the moment. Can only play for small doses. I'm looking forward towards SF6 though. I'll be back for that! Might stream Rumbleverse one of these days since it's pretty fun.

[Czar @CzarWiley]

People lose their brains over throw loops. If you get put in the corner, you deserve to get thrown looped. Take a risk to get out of it.

[Czar @CzarWiley]

@RushdownV3 Funny how these guys never give names. These guys are definitely going to complain again when drive rush + CA starts stealing rounds like VT does.

[Czar @CzarWiley]

@RushdownV3 Gonna need a 720hz monitor to not get grabbed by Gief

[Czar @CzarWiley]

@Le_Brutus Dumb.

[Czar @CzarWiley]

I don't care how hard it takes to "master" hitbox. It's still a controller that ignores part of game balance that other controllers are forced to deal with.

[Czar @CzarWiley]

Hitbox is only "cheating" when it comes to motion inputs. For a game like SFV, that gap in terms of reaction time and execution is very noticeable. Games without motion inputs, it's less of a problem.

[Czar @CzarWiley]

Fighting games, since its inception, have always considered motion inputs as part of game balance. It's something the developers should look at again because hitbox controllers basically ignore that.

[Czar @CzarWiley]

Nope, just take the throw as Poison and you are rewarded with the best position to be in the game. This is what happens when you remove Oki from throws.

[Emezie Okorafor @emezie]

@PhenomSF Poison at least has no DP, armor, or teleport. Even her super has slow startup, so it's not really a good reversal.

If you get in on her, you get to do whatever you want with no worries, at least...

[Czar @CzarWiley]

All anime fighting games are hot garbage, miss me with that shit.

[Czar @CzarWiley]

@Imyourspaceboy Yeah definitely but if you ask other urien players about that, you'll come away thinking Urien is worst character in the game. LOL

[Czar @CzarWiley]

@Imyourspaceboy I don't follow fgc events nowadays but I think so on paper. Urien VT is still great and a sizeable part of the game is V-triggers.

[Czar @CzarWiley]

@jav1ts Yes.