If HAX actually had any good will with anyone he likely burned it with the fake tournament. Imagine if you blew off Leffen's to enter the hax one?
That's the thing - people respect(ed) Hax. He's someone who's been a trailblazer in Melee, and a player with many important upsets under his belt. People would have wanted to enter his tournament. Leffen is living his best life with LEVO right now, not only with Melee but also the new Guilty Gear Strive. Hax painting it as "wah wah Leffen made a tournament on the same day as me and made it SUBSCRIPTION ONLY what a fucking CAPITALIST I was gonna let people enter for free
by the way I engineered the situation to make sure it looked like Leffen saw I was going to have a tournament and I wanted him to look like the bad guy in my upcoming 2 hour hitpiece by playing 4D chess and making it look like he copied me". His claims have no merit because he's engaging in the things he's accusing Leffen of, only he's doing it with a psychology degree earned from two hours studying at the University of Wikipedia. AT LEAST don't admit you were trying to mastermind the situation. Why would you out yourself like that? Would have been easier to say "sorry y'all. cough cough got a cold can't run the tournament".
That situation in particular has no more substance than some girl checking her friend's selfies and noticing her friend is wearing a white shirt on insta only to rush to the store to get the same shirt, while blaming her friend for copying her later on. It's all childish bullshit. The biggest own Hax could have ever served Leffen is moving on and doing his own thing. Too bad he's been unable to, because Leffen's lol'ing to the bank coming out of this the winner. If his stream data is anything to go by, this "scandal" didn't do anything to hurt Leffen.
To make it clear, I'm not even a Leffen superfan; just someone with enough insight into the Melee community to narrate the situation. I would have been happy to see Leffen served a lifetime ban instead of a one-year back in 2013. Trying it like THIS, though? Can't help but sit back and lol.
Not to mention, in North America we don't take Hitler comparisons all that seriously unless you're from a family impacted directly by WWII. If Hax was European instead of American, this would have absolutely gone worse on Hax than what the reception on the initial video did, at least that's the talk of the town from European players.