EVO 2011 Tournament Season - Page 205

On August 02 2011 00:17 nRoot wrote:
When did they mention he was sick? I watched almost the entire top8

On August 01 2011 14:52 Scribble wrote:


<3

All weekend the scenes have been bleeding over. SC2 shoutouts at EVO, Gretorp with his NASL t-shirt at EVO, fighting game shoutouts from MLG, Artosis and Ski's exchanges on twitter, this thread right here at the heart of our Starcraft community, all the folks happily split-screening 4 streams on big screen TVs.

There's a lot of "let's grow e-sports," and "let's globalize e-sports," but this weekend we did something better. We went beyond bringing our passions to new audiences, we went beyond bringing nationalities together - though we did do all of that. This weekend, we tore barriers down and brought two very different communities together united under the banner of amazing pro gaming, and I'm damn proud to be apart of that.

Growing e-sports means more than bringing in new viewers, more than reaching a global audience, it's joining communities too. And we've done that. This weekend was not only amazing, exciting, dramatic, every positive adjective in the book, but it was a huge success.

Let's be civil and appreciate that.

On August 02 2011 00:17 nRoot wrote:
Daigo was dropping a lot of combos sadly
Missed c.mp after command grab... Dunno if he ever missed that in the last month :/

When did they mention he was sick? I watched almost the entire top8

On August 02 2011 00:56 Gretorp wrote:


lul that's my older brother... he is 3.5 years older than me. everyone says we're twins. I went to mlg for saturday and sunday so it couldn't have been me!@

On August 02 2011 02:12 Zeddicus wrote:
I came into the EVO stream from a retweet from SirScoots after MLG Finals had ended. I've played SF when I was much younger, on Sega. Never really placed it since though. I didn't recognize any character I saw on the stream. I hadn't looked at this community before though, aside from the "Amazing Comeback" youtube video where some guy blocks every hit of an e-honda 1000 hand slap with like a thread of life left and comes back to beat him. That was amazing.

Anyways, I don't know where I've been, this stuff is awesome. The crowd is right up there with MLG (perhaps even better). Lots of cheering. The frequency of game outcomes probably makes it easier to keep hype momentum. Awesome stuff though, to see fighting games played on this kind of level. I'm now a fan. I'm going to need to move just for ESPORTS because I can't get a good enough internet connection to watch more than 1 low quality stream at a time! lol. Red Stream Blue Stream, EVO stream, GSL stream.....

On August 02 2011 05:03 Orpheos wrote:
these commentators were really good. granted they did use alot of jargon, but Im not part of the community and I was pretty hyped just watching the end of the SF bracket.

On August 02 2011 04:00 udgnim wrote:
wonder if MLG will ever be able to pick up SF4/MvC3

I don't think the fighting game community necessarily needs it, but it would definitely help grow the community and introduce more money into the scene via prize pool and sponsors. after watching the Mike Ross documentary, this is very important to some people.

On August 02 2011 05:31 kainzero wrote:

when i think about fighting games in the US, i think about how the community is largely responsible for its own success.

i like seeing it that way. that's how evo got as big it did.

levelup was just a bunch of guys who loved street fighter and learned how to stream from scratch. evo was just an ever expanding tournament that started in a small arcade. seth killian was originally a community guy, now he brings us news for all of capcom. markman was just a tekken guy who just liked joysticks. filthyrich was a guy i used to play tekken with, now he's community leader for bandainamco.

i think that's the amazing part, it's not something that was commercialized, it was something that the community built from scratch and is now reaping the benefits. the people responsible for producing it are largely the people who play the game. sponsors chase the players, not the other way around.

so i don't think mlg really matters

On August 02 2011 04:00 udgnim wrote:
wonder if MLG will ever be able to pick up SF4/MvC3

I don't think the fighting game community necessarily needs it, but it would definitely help grow the community and introduce more money into the scene via prize pool and sponsors. after watching the Mike Ross documentary, this is very important to some people.

been reading about the controversy between MLG and Evo 2k5 and MLG being slow to give payouts to players. also read about 1 person basically trolling Capcom and ruining the relationship between MLG and Capcom.

guess old wounds don't heal very quickly and the general consensus seems to be that the fighting game community still has a poor impression of MLG. I'd hope with the addition of SC2 that these impressions will become more positive over time.

anyways, I think it's certain that League of Legends will eventually become a featured game at MLG. Riot will just embed the LoL MLG stream on their site and that will generate tons of views. so LoL will replace whatever is the current CoD iteration and MLG will be featuring Halo, LoL, and SC2. MLG might end up not having room for any type of fighting game unless it's off to the side and not streamed at all (MK9).

On August 02 2011 07:05 cordlc wrote:
Noob to the scene, I've got somewhat of a random question:

I was watching Evo a few nights ago and the commentators kept throwing around the term "secret technology." I assume it's something similar to WhiteRa's "special tactics," just curious if anyone knows the origin of the term?

On August 02 2011 00:56 Gretorp wrote:


lul that's my older brother... he is 3.5 years older than me. everyone says we're twins. I went to mlg for saturday and sunday so it couldn't have been me!@