LAST EDITED ON Jan-05-11 AT 02:58 PM (EST)
 
>Mind you, most members of the General Public have no idea this kind of
>thing is even going on, and if you told them about it, they'd probably
>assume it was a media entertainment organization, like those guys who
>do cage fights on pay-per-view, or some kind of outlaw gang. Only in
>places where there's a reasonably prominent member of the tour with
>some strong local roots - Worcester, Dnepropovinsk, or Dhalsim's
>village in India, for instance - does the man or woman on the street
>have any notion that such a thing exists.

Sometime in the distant future, I hope that Sakura turns her old home in Japan into one of these areas. Would serve her father right.

And on a random unrelated note, the recent spate of activity in WL has been the inspiration I needed to actually go and get Street Fighter IV. It is much fun, so thanks for both the reading and (in a roundabout way) the video game enjoyment.