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Every Top 8 this weekend felt like a dream come true. Thank you to each and every competitor at Don’t Park on the Grass 2024. RT & check the thread below for a recap of all our winners! 👇 #DPG24 🚫🚗🌿

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This is so impossible to respond to without naming names, so apologies, but I'll use an example from my own region. You may be selective about the panelists, but it's very unclear from the outside what the criteria are. "Zedreo" has been a panelist for multiple years and is apparently from Alberta. However, the only Melee tournament he's seemingly EVER entered on start gg was Self-Fights 1, a private Melee Stats online event. I've even asked multiple Alberta TOs and players about him and nobody has ever met the guy. This is not meant to be shade at him specifically- he may be a great balloter, I genuinely have no idea. And it's also not to say that you need to be an active player to be able to put together a good ranking. But when this is their sole connection to the scene it invites a lot of skepticism and doubt about their relationship to the Melee community and their understanding of the context of the data they're parsing, and I don't think it creates a lot of confidence in the final product when none of this is particularly transparent. It's already a bit of a conflict of interest that the balloters largely sit in the Melee Stats discord and casually come to rankings consensuses throughout the year prior to the balloting period, but it's especially concerning when people like Mario H or even Etossed, who have historically been clearly very passionate about results and rankings and who have submitted test ballots in the past, have been seemingly thrown out for not closely mirroring that consensus opinion. It makes people wonder whether the balloting system is promoting accuracy, or the echoing of those consensus MS opinions. I think that, at the very least, being more transparent about the ways that someone can become a balloter and what their responsibilities actually entail would be a great step in communicating that the rankings are a product of the efforts of people who are currently passionate and knowledgeable about the scene. Balloters who haven't been in or around the scene for several years but who still have a ballot, while actively passionate people who are not in the Melee Stats social circles are seemingly excluded, reinforce the outside impression that the rankings are a representation of the community through a Melee Stats community lens rather than a reflection of the Melee community as a whole. I know the original tweet is now deleted, and not to speak on their behalf, but I think this is to the point that they were trying to make. The point isn't that you let "anyone" be a balloter, it's that the criteria for having a ballot are unclear, and seems to value being a part of Melee Stats more than part of Melee.

We've got a fun summer lineup of tournaments coming up! Tune in June 20th for Run, Don't Walk 2026!

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There's lots to be excited about these days if you're a Rivals enjoyer, and you can add the Evo compendium shop to that list 👀 Featuring an exclusive Evo La Reina skin!

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@sSandyEggo We wanted to have the first iteration of this new event include titles we had existing connections with; our team has worked with many local anime TOs and has ties with the local Guilty Gear scene. If this event is a success, we'll definitely be running more games in the future!

@Level1_tv Damn no Tekken? Portland has a huge Tekken scene.

Join us in the PNW this Fall for a new FGC experience! Cabinet in the Woods September 25 - 27, 2026 Camp Collins, Oregon ft. GGST, GGXrd, GG+R, Tōkon, MBAACC, UNI2 Registration opens June 9th startgg and details below

@heyeunhae @JasonGKwon Not this year, but if you're not on the Heartlands waitlist (@jessdang3r), there's also Cabin Fever in Colorado in October! parry.gg/cabinfever

@Level1_tv @JasonGKwon no melee?

@TriBailey never heard of it

@Level1_tv U guys should add smash 🥹

@ainegaze we currently have no plans to include it in the main lineup, but we are working on providing a space for BYOC and side events. there's definitely a few titles we wish we could run but didn't think we'd have time for :/

@Level1_tv yall think avatar will be added? still gonna show out for uni2 and mbaacc but would be cool to see that there!

@TheXIF @TreyTheTrashman yes to both, with some new-to-camp FGC-focused friends helping us make it possible!

@Level1_tv @TreyTheTrashman Unironically my favorite (not smash) fighting game of all time, dating back to when I picked up Accent Core in 07 🙂 Is this being run by the Smash Camp staff, and is this at the same camp as the Oregon Smash Camp a couple years back?

@TreyTheTrashman @TheXIF you've never heard of hit video game guilty gear xx accent core plus r? it's basically airdasher melee

@Level1_tv @TheXIF learn what 🤔🤨

@TreyTheTrashman @TheXIF u got a whole summer to learn plussy... get crackin!!

@Level1_tv @TheXIF Im still gonna reg just to go fishing for the weekend

@atWisely u got a whole summer to learn!!!

Man. I'm not even active in any of the games on the lineup and I'm still considering it

FGC friends Smash Camp is hands down my favorite event ever, and I cannot wait for you to experience a fighting game version