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There are people who are out there, who will do stuff to you in alleys for $25: whether they negotiate a quid pro quo type deal, or just request the cash in exchange for not harming you, for the cost of nice dinner. Many people consider these people "gutter trash" because of the desperation and somewhat soullessness of what you would stoop to for a small amount of cash.

Yesterday, I was to oversee a vid'ya game tournament featuring Madden '09. For about a month, a couple of individuals had promised to set it up. They had claimed to have signed up 30 or more people, and wanted to be involved in all the functional aspects. I went in at 11:00am to set up for the tourney to start at 1pm. While waiting, two or three pre-teens wandered in and out asking if there was going to be a tournament. I was somewhat in the dark, other than who had originally been in charge. I had been informed by one of the teens that someone else had taken over the program, and the teen called that individual. The teen seemed annoyed and walked out, but what I could gather, the person he was calling was not answering.

At about noon, we were stuggling to try and get 8 people to appear, and settled for 6. I had set up the tourney in the meeting room with a PS2 and a video projector. I had collected the money as advertised to make up the prize money. And spent a lot of time trying to set up a tourney bracket that would accomodate sets of 3 instead of 2 or 4. (very hard) One older guy and his kids were there for the tourney, and the older guy entered, too. Not thinking, I thought it would be ok, because grown ups typically know that kids are usually better than them in video games. (if you do not know that, then you may have developemental issues.)

So against my better judgement, I let the tourney go foward. There was an arguement about whether or not someone could use the 07 packers, people were talking smack while playing, and then to top the whole experience off, after losing the tourney, the old guy caps off about how he wishes he was the age of the kid that beat him in football, so he could "kick your fucking ass". When I told the guy he was out of line, he told me it's "cuz their color" and "that's how they are". He immediately left, making it an easy day for me not having to fill out an incident report. (although maybe I should, today at work)

For $25 prize money, he is going to threaten someone half his age, and finish it off by adding a racist comment.
...and in front of his kids, too. I'd give him the money if I thought it would make him a better person, but I think he would have done that anyway, even if the prize was who gets to get hung from a wall and punch in the groin.

What kind of disappointed me was that a staff member from the Children's department justified the old guy's behavior by saying, "well that's Madden. If you play someone and beat them, it's like they stole something from you". The staff member was a young black man in his early 20's.