i'll come up with some input here since shinjin asked for it.
bear with me here as im semi-drunk and super-tired right now, this might get a wee-bit confusing.
to be honest, i dont really care where the qualifiers are held at this point, as i've stopped caring/hoping that finland will get a team together for the qualifier due to all these uncertainties surrounding this years qualifiers, so bleh.
still i think the better european qualifier would be held at showdown, where all(?) still active top players from europe will most likely be, and as stated, it's a guilty gear tournament, not some multimegaeverygame_event which will have a questionable amount of casual play for everyone's favorite game that isnt sf4.
sweden would have a true european qualifier with european player pool, instead of having a french qualifier with those aforementioned 3 or 4 french teams.
with unlimited money & time it'd be all the same where the qualifiers were held but since most of us dont have those luxuries why not kill all the birds with one stone, holding the ggxx qualifier at the event which appeals to the majority of the ggxx players. only ones left out would be the possible french teams that arent going to showdown but still wish to take part in the qualifier.
turning to the "who should travel to where" -thing, well, ggxx players playing in a ggxx qualifier, travelling to a huge ggxx tournament for the qualifier is in my opinion the more expected option than travelling to a huge multifighter tournament. it's not as much geography as it is what the different events offer.
anyway i have no idea what i've written so far but if you want to just ignore everything else and get the qualifier to france because they have the arcade version, then whatever. it's not like the japanese are going to give a shit either way.
all this with lots of IMOs and candies and hugs and pink teddy bears
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