He tore through the Chicago-area competition and earned himself a trip to San Francisco for the finals, along with representatives from Texas, California, Georgia, New York City, New York state, Arizona, Washington, Kentucky, Minnesota, New Jersey, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, and Ohio. 2 Weintraub wasn’t about to let this chance pass him by. (Bizarrely, the tournament organizers required all players to use a gamepad rather than a traditional joystick, which rubbed some competitors the wrong way.) But they were in a distinct minority: all told, over 100,000 players entered. Some FGCers stayed away from the event, and a few even tried to organize a boycott. GameStop would host events at more than twenty-four hundred stores, with the winners moving up through District and Regional levels to earn a spot in the Finals. Just before the 2009 home release of Street Fighter IV came an incredible announcement: the retail chain GameStop had partnered with Evo and Capcom to host a four-tiered, nation-wide Street Fighter IV championship. ” For all the promise of the FGC, the scene was still small, overlooked, and, as a result, cash-poor. ” He’d begun to feel “that I ‘picked the wrong game’ I would see StarCraft blow up in Korea or Halo with. The scene was “getting so stale I literally didn’t even go to Evo 2008 – one of the only two I’ve missed since B4. He’d taken third place in Soulcalibur II at Evo 2003 and had become a monster in his local Chicago scene. By 2008, Weintraub was firmly established as one of the top players in the FGC.
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