 Well, hey folks, I hate making videos like this. Some of you guys might remember our video on Super Smash Bros. and the free Melee movement slash, it's a really free Smash movement, because it's not just about Melee, it's Nintendo's really, we did a whole video, a long video, a 25 minute video dedicated to Nintendo's wrongdoings of the Super Smash Bros. community, both in Melee, Brawl, Ultimate, etc., etc., Nintendo kind of lets the Smash community exist while also not letting the Smash community exist. Now, for those who don't know, Nintendo has had another game that they do support. They have actively supported Splatoon and ARMS at tournament levels, including hosting their own tournaments. And there's been an ongoing tournament for Splatoon 2 in North America for a little bit now. Some of this tournament in fact has been livestreamed, but here we are today, and Nintendo has cancelled the livestream of the finals of this event, and what they claim is logistical reasons. But let's go over something that happened heading into this finals that's different than the rest of the tournament. So on Twitter, this guy at Slimy Quagsire says, So the Splatoon community in support of the Smash community has 30% of the top teams in this weekend's Splatoon 2 North America Open with team names in support of Melee and Smash, so what does it do in response? It cancelled their livestream for tomorrow's finals, but they'll sever their own support that they love to parade around is something so fantastic just because the Splatoon community wanted to stand in solidarity with the other scenes that Nintendo right harms. So here it is. Due to unexpected execution of challenges, we had to forego a livestream for this tournament's finals. This is actually public on the Internet versus Twitter. Here's some of the top teams in the tournament. Melee Nation, a direct link to a Twitter account, Golf Club, FreeMelee2111, DUI Noggles, FreeMelee227, 5AM Squad, HealthyDia Food Groups, Element, FreeMelee, friends. As you're seeing here, a bunch of the top teams that were going to be participating in the finals had decided they wanted to support the Super Smash Bros. movement. This is just the most frustrating thing ever. There are still those out there when I made that Smash video that wanted to give Nintendo a pass. Nintendo never wanted Smash to be competitive. Nintendo never cared about the competitive community. People are just whining to whine because Nintendo won't support something that Nintendo never said they would support even though they have said they would support and then they pulled support and even signed a contract with Twitch and then they pulled out. Well, they didn't really pull out. They told Twitch, hey, don't bother to honor our contract because, hey, we have a new game coming out. We might want to update the contract to include that new game, but the contract was never updated. And to this date, there are still no officially sanctioned Nintendo-supported Smash tournaments happening with cash prizes. Well, here's the thing. This tournament being ran by Nintendo. This is a Nintendo-run tournament. Whiskbluetune too is saying they cannot livestream due to logistical reasons, which, again, many of these teams are playing online in the first place. So what the hell is the logistical reason because Nintendo has already livestreamed this tournament that was online only on their channels before? This isn't new for Nintendo. This isn't new. Nintendo knows how to get the streams of the Splatoon 2 matches to their headquarters to livestream back out to people. They've already done it. You can understand on a surface level if this was something that was just too difficult to pull off. Imagine if I was running a Splatoon 2 tournament with full teams that maybe it wouldn't be possible for this to happen. But you know what Nintendo has done for these tournaments? They have allowed themselves to be an extra player in the game as a spectator. And you guys know in spectator mode in Splatoon 2, you can do some cool stuff. Well, here's the thing. They have allowed that to happen where people can kind of connect with Nintendo and Nintendo can livestream out their spectator modes to people. And then they can commentate on the tournament. Basically, Splatoon 2 is perfectly set up to be an eSport is what I'm trying to tell you. It's perfectly set up to be an eSport due to the spectator mode. There's no purpose for the spectator mode to exist except for eSports. So Nintendo has the ability to make this work. We've seen them livestream tournaments that were online like this in the past. There has never been a problem for Nintendo. But now when teams are popping up supporting the Smash community at a time that Nintendo of America and the rest of Nintendo is being essentially called out for the damage they are causing to the competitive scene that mostly just wants to be left the hell alone and allowed to run tournaments on their own without Nintendo's interference at this point. They're not even asking Nintendo to put money towards it. They just want Nintendo to say, it's cool. You can use Smash. That's all they want. They just want Nintendo to say, it's okay. You can run Cash Prize, you know, big, giant Smash tournaments. We're good with that. You know, we'll take the free advertising. We're good with that. We don't even need to be involved. And I understand there's people that said, oh, you know, Nintendo shouldn't do this because oh, you know, what happened with a very small part of the Smash community, by the way, that abused their positions, you know, in going after minors, right? It's a very tiny part of the actual Smash community. The actual Smash community is massive. The fact that there's only a handful of these stories, that's not that big of a deal. I mean, it sucks. It happened. It's just, you know, the bad stuff, it's just, there's bad actors everywhere. If we're going to worry about bad actors, then you might as well not ever have any sort of public anything because there's bad actors everywhere. There's bad actors here on YouTube. There was a Russian YouTuber who recently, for $1,000 USD, locked his pregnant wife outside in the cold and she died of hypothermia. Her and the baby, of course. Think about it. There are bad actors. There are bad actors everywhere. Does that mean YouTube should be canceled because some idiot in Russia decided to do something so asinine for money during a live stream? This is dumb, okay? Now Nintendo is not only affecting the Smash community, they're affecting the Splatoon community. Oh, the finals will be hosted. They will host the finals. They didn't cancel the finals. The finals will happen and not only will the finals happen, there will be a winner declared and they'll probably even announce that winner on Twitter. Heck, maybe they'll even show highlights of the winning match on Twitter. Maybe. Unless it's one of these Melee teams that win. If one of these Smash community name change teams wins. Because these teams change their name to be here. If one of them wins. What then? What's next? What now? What are you supposed to do? Nintendo will bury it like this tournament never happened. Because Nintendo doesn't want attention brought to something that they have actively worked against. Nintendo couldn't even leave Splatoon 2 alone because the people in Splatoon 2 were trying to support the Smash community. That's what this comes across as. Logistical reasons. What logistical reason? You have proven you can do streams like this in the past without people being in-house. So what logistical reasons? Even if there was like one team that was going to have a hard time being streamed. What about the rest? And why are you canceling now? You would have known about these logistical reasons weeks ago. Not the day before the event. The day before the event they did this. The day before it was supposed to be live streamed they canceled. You would have known about this a long time ago. Nintendo has already streamed parts of this tournament already? With no issue. With there being way more teams involved. They've already streamed it. So what changed? Oh right. Some teams decided to officially change their names to something that supports the Smash Bros community. Nintendo, shame on you. I love your games. Heck, I love the Switch as a platform. I think in general, you're a smart company. This is not smart. Whoever made this decision, it's not smart. It's not smart at all. What you've been doing in the Smash community hasn't been smart. You have a lot of bad PR going on right now. Why don't you just add to it? You might as well at this point just tell everyone you don't want competitive games to exist. Even though Splatoon 2 is clearly designed to be a competitive game. You don't want competitive games to exist. Because if you're not going to treat all your communities equally, then what the hell is the point? These Splatoon 2 teams didn't do anything wrong. Nintendo doesn't want to support the Smash community. Now they're canceling the Splatoon community. I'm just frustrated. I don't know what more we can do. We need somebody who's going to be interviewing someone like Doug Bowser to ask him directly about this. And here's the thing. The most people that get the access like that are going to be media members like Akataku at IGN. You really think they're going to ask Nintendo the hard question? Are they actually going to push Nintendo on this? The Smash community has been trying to get them to push these media outlets to ask Nintendo on the Smash stuff for years. And they've mostly avoided asking the questions. So I'm putting this out there and I'm begging you. There's any media members out there that watch my channel that have an opportunity to interview Top Brass at Nintendo. Not Sakurai because I don't think Sakurai is making these decisions. I mean someone like Doug Bowser, Shintura Furukawa. If there's any of you out there that watch my channel because I know some exist. Heck, I know there's Nintendo employees that watch sometimes. Get someone in an interview setting to ask them why they are not showing support and actively working against a community that can largely exist on its own in Smash and why they're now deciding, oh conveniently when teams change their name to support Smash now we're canceling live streams. It's just extremely petty of you Nintendo. So for shame. I'm Nathan Robledance from Nintendo Prime. 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