Competitive Gaming: A debate

[RobinStarwing]

Recently, Nintendo announced the VGCS 2012 Winter Battle for the 5th Gen games at the Pokemon Global Website and Pokemon Website (link) and I've been asking around the places I frequent on line to see who else is taking part and what they are using so I got an idea for my team.

It turns out apparently that people who play games like this competitively either suck or are untolerable for a variety of reasons. I will go over some of the more common complaints I've heard and than we can all discuss it.

First complaint I've heard is leveled at the banning of certain aspects of the game or tier systems like what Smogon has for Pokemon. I find this complaint valid in my view as anyone who truly plays a game should either find what they are good at in the game and master it or be the Jack of All Trades in a game. I've had this complaint leveled against me when I played C&C Generals ZH online and people would ragequit and bitch at me for turtling. I find this just means I did my job well and they are sore they couldn't kill me in under 2 minutes. Even things that are game breaking (like Wobbufett with Shadow Tag) can be defeated if you know what makes them game breaking and how to counter it.

The second complaint I've heard is about the general impression of personalities. It seems Competitive Gamers are thought of as Elitists and look down on other gamers or newbies to their club. I find this is too much of a generalization and that while you will find elitists, how much of an influence and how many there are varies from community to community. I've run into fewer elitists in the Pokemon community for example while the Elitist attitudes in the C&C games drove me from ever playing them online.

These are the two complaints I've heard more about than any others. I'm hoping maybe we can figure out what is true and what is not or maybe find out how we all think and feel on this matter. Thank you and good day.