Hi there. I'm Wumbo. I'm a solo Falco main from Chino Valley, and you may just reconize me from last night (or early today) asking if I could message you about something that bothered me. I chose to message you in particluar because, well it would make more sense. Befor I tell you what I wanted to talk about, let me just tell the story.
Luhtie - Today at 3:06 PM
Okay!
HashSlasher0311 - Today at 3:12 PM
So, It's day 2 of Civil War. Im preparing to go to my aunts for some barbequre or something. Then, I check the brackets and stuff, just to keep me up to date on what happened. I the find out Xzax beat ZeRo in pools. I feel a bit off at the news, but I'm still optimistic about the rest of the tourney. On the ride there, I don't really check anything. When I get there, I sit down somewhere to check what's going on in this tourney. I check twitter, and people are saying that you beat AeRo, he got 49th, and stuff. I check the brackets and sure enough, you toom the set 3-2 against him. I felt pretty weird, and felt a little emotional. I'm a very big ZeRo fan, as you might tell, so i can't really explain what i'm feeling at this moment
I know this is a bit late, but still, hear me out.
I check twitter again to see what play happend that sealed the set. soemthing about that clip just made me feel worse.
The inflections in the commentators voices, how loud it is, all kind of stuff. I try to exit out of the page, but my phone froze. The play played on repeat for several times before I just got so turned off that I restarted my phone, and stormed off into the bathroom.
I kind of went off on a bit of a rant then, and emotions were high at that time. The idea of ZeRo, arguanly the best player in the world, getting 49th, and me being a huge fan of him caused my perception of the situation to be altered
Now I have nothing against you as a player, as a ZSS main, or a a human in general. However, at the time you were almost unknown to me, and that came as a real curve ball.
From an objective point of view, yeah, it's pretty cool that you won that set, that we really on the map. However, I'm more so a fan of ZeRo than you, not to be rude or anything. Honestly, if you would have been fighting almost anybody else I would have rooted for you. It's a weird situation, that comes up later
The rest of the day goes by, and I'm feeling WAY better. I get hime and check the AZ fb group to see how hype it was at about the time
After that, I posted on there "Now that I've seen this group, I'm fairly confident that I was the only one who was pissed that Luhtie won."
I admit it, that could have been worded WAY better tht it was, but theres more
Almost instantaneously I get comments that start questioning me. The 1st 2-3 were lighthearted and funny, at least for me. However, as they got more and more, I started to feel worse and worse about my desision to post on there.
Here's a few that I got:
Really? I'm a ZeRo fan, but you can't root against your boys like that!
[From the same guy] Fuck you favorite player, he wants to quit after am L
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Is this guy even form AZ? I feel he just wants to cause some trouble, maybe we should ban him
There were several others, but you get the gist of it.
People were bugging me about not rooting for you in that set.
And soem people said you always root for people in your state over anyone lese, or something like that
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I was in fact, rooting for ZeRo in that set, so I edited the post to include an edit section that basically stated some of the things I said here.
And yeah, I think part of the reason why I got so upset was the situation. It was for 49th place,  you were unknown to me, and that just made it.
I've accepted the fact that he got that placing, and that you toom that set off of him. It's not that that makes me feel weird.
It was the treatment that I got from the community for sharing what I thought.
Now I was never banned from the group, and I'm still in today.
Albeit a month late, I want to say congratulations on that win.
While I wasn't rooting for you during that time, I'm speaking in hindsight.
The group I feel was expecting me to root for you just because you're in my state, which thats not really the case here.
I root for people based on how much I like them, their playstyle, and other factors, not where they live, or if they're in the same area as I
In general, I don;t want this to deter you from becoming better at this game.
You're a great player, with great potential, and you can be able to reach it if you try hard enough.
Honestly, I had no idea you existed prior to Rise 2017, (no offense) and to go from not being notices to making headlines, that's an amazing accomplishment.
I wanted to talk to you about this, or hell just tell you what happened becuse that would provide  a sense of closure.
At least for me.