We reported earlier last week that Nintendo of America’s Bill Trinen would be making his way to EVO 2015 to participate in their Super Smash Bros. for Wii U tournament. However, it looks like Trinen’s plans have changed (possibly after reconsidering the pounding Reggie recieved at the Nintendo World Championships 2015). According to his Twitter account, Trinen had a change of plans and had to cancel his trip — likely due to the recent and unexpected death of Nintendo CEO and Worldwide President, Satoru Iwata, as noted in the tweet:
@GameplayDev @evo2k Unfortunately I have had a change of plans after the news this week, but I will be watching and cheering from afar.
— Bill Trinen (@trintran) July 15, 2015
“The news this week” obviously implies the death of Satoru Iwata, article writer.
Also it’s not 2015. Please check your stuff before posting.
I mean it’s not 2915.
Mayyyybe he knows something we don’t??? Hmmmm….
I can see into the future — Reggie has been frozen for 900 years to preserve Nintendo’s legacy, only to have his butt handed to him once again.
In all seriousness, thanks for the edit — it is hard to catch everything on your first or second readthrough, and we aim to get news out as fast as possible. It is always deeply appreciated.
I firever have the 2914 typo in my email.
2915 yet reggie still phucks up lmao
I kinda expected this to happen, to be honest. It’s still a gut punch to EVO players who were excited to see Bill… but things happen and there’s nothing you can do about it.
dang
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can you feel timeee? slipping down your spine? oehhhhh they steady try to ignore yeaaaa
but you can hardly swallow, your fears and painnnn.
when you can’t help but follow, it put you right back were you cameeee
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Yeah, the comment about Reggie getting trashed was completely unnecessary and Bill is just not attending out of respect for Iwata.
Oh come on now, yes Iwata died. No need to be cancelling things now. I’d understand maybe if he died the day before or the day of EVO but come on, it was a few days ago and its not untill Friday.
It’s likely he cancelled to attend Iwata’s funeral in Japan and that’s on the 17th.
Iwata’s funeral is on friday
I believe evol starts the same day of iwata funeral, so he’s obviously going to it
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Friday will be the day of the funeral of Iwata-san. It would be of bad taste going to the tournament, and maybe he will be in Japan to attend the funeral.
:'(
Something like this can only come from Japan
Meant to post this in the Ojimon thread, sorry
Feel kind of bad, but I understand why he won’t be at EVO.
It’s a hard time for everyone at Nintendo.
They’re still in mourning u.u and need to focus for the hard work that’s coming in next months.
He would have gotten reckt anyways
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Damn.
Evo is a joke 1v1 stock with items off isn’t fun
Just because he was the one who was going to beat ZeRo :(
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