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Now I don't follow Fighting games at all but the limited knowledge I do have always talks about a tournament called EVO. I just found out it will be taking place in Las Vegas the same time as I will be there. I researched a bit and found it will be at Ceasars Palace which is right across the street from where I'll be staying. I've never been to an epsorts event and even though I don't follow the fighting game scene at all I definetly want to check it out. I have a few questions though about the event that I'm hoping some of you guys can answer.
1. How much will it cost to get in the venue?
2. My favorite team is EG and I know of a few of there fighting game players (Ricky Ortiz, and Justin Wong) will they be in attendance?
3. What can I expect in terms of crowds?
4. Is there a site for fighting games similar to Team Liquid that I can check out before the event?
Thanks if you can answer one or all of theese questions! Cheers!
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On June 18 2012 10:37 Castrophy wrote: Now I don't follow Fighting games at all but the limited knowledge I do have always talks about a tournament called EVO. I just found out it will be taking place in Las Vegas the same time as I will be there. I researched a bit and found it will be at Ceasars Palace which is right across the street from where I'll be staying. I've never been to an epsorts event and even though I don't follow the fighting game scene at all I definetly want to check it out. I have a few questions though about the event that I'm hoping some of you guys can answer.
1. How much will it cost to get in the venue?
2. My favorite team is EG and I know of a few of there fighting game players (Ricky Ortiz, and Justin Wong) will they be in attendance?
3. What can I expect in terms of crowds?
4. Is there a site for fighting games similar to Team Liquid that I can check out before the event?
Thanks if you can answer one or all of theese questions! Cheers! 1. It is completely free unless you want to watch the finals in person or attend every panel. Unfortunately, all Sunday finals passes are sold out. You can still watch the finals matches, just in an overflow room on a monitor. You will be able to watch all the non-finals matches in person. If you want, you can even play casuals and sit in at panels.
2. Hell yes. Everyone who is anybody and plenty more people will definitely be in attendance. This is THE tournament for the NA scene, and definitely on the radar for players in Japan.
3. According to UltraDavid, Evo last year was slightly bigger than the crowd at MLG Anaheim this year. Anaheim broke records (if you didn't know), and you can bet Evo will break them too. The crowd is going to be so hype.
4. Shoryuken.com for all your fighting game news. evo.shoryuken.com for the Evo page
Go. Many many people would kill to have the opportunity you have. Use your vacation days, clear your schedule, and get hyped.
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Thanks for the Info. I caught a little bit of the CEO stream today and it was pretty interesting.
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On June 18 2012 04:50 sung_moon wrote: I hope by EVO at least somebody can step it up enough to not be free to Bala. What an animal. Also Mago's KOF play was pretty good to watch.
At this point I think imma swap out my Goro for Beni or Yuri lol.
Dakou and Xiaohai(arguably the best KoF player of all time) will be at EVO this year. And was it just me, or did Daigo's play look....off? He seemed to drop a lot of solar plexus links. Maybe all that book writing cut into his practice time. Hope for a better showing at EVO...
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On June 18 2012 12:48 vindKtiv wrote: 2. Hell yes. Everyone who is anybody and plenty more people will definitely be in attendance. This is THE tournament for the NA scene, and definitely on the radar for players in Japan.
I think that even Japan considers EVO as the biggest in the world...
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Pretty sure that SBO is the biggest in the world to them.
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On June 19 2012 02:48 Censor wrote: Pretty sure that SBO is the biggest in the world to them. SBO is tiny. EVO is a giant 1000+ player open bracket over 3 days, SBO Finals is max 32 3 person teams single elimination per game.
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Maybe be means prestige-wise (even though I would fine winning an EVO sitll more prestigous but meh.)
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Hey guys, can you please do a favor for the anime fighting game community? Right now, games like BlazBlue, Guilty Gear, and Melty Blood are dying out and I am hoping that Persona 4 Arena will revive and unite the community which it probably will, however, as LordKnight put it, there is no real flagship for airdash fighting games in America and Persona 4 has the potential to do so.
So please, if you love e-sports, sign the petition to allow Persona 4 Arena to be at MLG Original Post http://www.dustloop.com/forums/content.php?386-P4U-at-MLG
Petition http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/persona-4-arena-for-mlg-2/
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On June 18 2012 12:48 vindKtiv wrote:Show nested quote +On June 18 2012 10:37 Castrophy wrote: Now I don't follow Fighting games at all but the limited knowledge I do have always talks about a tournament called EVO. I just found out it will be taking place in Las Vegas the same time as I will be there. I researched a bit and found it will be at Ceasars Palace which is right across the street from where I'll be staying. I've never been to an epsorts event and even though I don't follow the fighting game scene at all I definetly want to check it out. I have a few questions though about the event that I'm hoping some of you guys can answer.
1. How much will it cost to get in the venue?
2. My favorite team is EG and I know of a few of there fighting game players (Ricky Ortiz, and Justin Wong) will they be in attendance?
3. What can I expect in terms of crowds?
4. Is there a site for fighting games similar to Team Liquid that I can check out before the event?
Thanks if you can answer one or all of theese questions! Cheers! 1. It is completely free unless you want to watch the finals in person or attend every panel. Unfortunately, all Sunday finals passes are sold out. You can still watch the finals matches, just in an overflow room on a monitor. You will be able to watch all the non-finals matches in person. If you want, you can even play casuals and sit in at panels. 2. Hell yes. Everyone who is anybody and plenty more people will definitely be in attendance. This is THE tournament for the NA scene, and definitely on the radar for players in Japan. 3. According to UltraDavid, Evo last year was slightly bigger than the crowd at MLG Anaheim this year. Anaheim broke records (if you didn't know), and you can bet Evo will break them too. The crowd is going to be so hype. 4. Shoryuken.com for all your fighting game news. evo.shoryuken.com for the Evo page Go. Many many people would kill to have the opportunity you have. Use your vacation days, clear your schedule, and get hyped.
What the fuck it isn't free this year to be at the finals? Noooooooooooooooooooo I didn't knowwwwwwww. T_T
Last year was so amazing I was so fuckin' hyped for this year ahjbwehgbgjwbghbg
Edit: I guess it's my own fault but I'm still extremely upset right now :/
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On June 23 2012 00:33 Shiragaku wrote:Hey guys, can you please do a favor for the anime fighting game community? Right now, games like BlazBlue, Guilty Gear, and Melty Blood are dying out and I am hoping that Persona 4 Arena will revive and unite the community which it probably will, however, as LordKnight put it, there is no real flagship for airdash fighting games in America and Persona 4 has the potential to do so. So please, if you love e-sports, sign the petition to allow Persona 4 Arena to be at MLG Original Post http://www.dustloop.com/forums/content.php?386-P4U-at-MLGPetition http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/persona-4-arena-for-mlg-2/
Lol I'm maining Rise if she's in that game. If not I guess Mitsuru hehe.
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Rise is not in the game D: Maybe she will be playable in the next edition.
I have not played Persona 4, but the setting gives me that Haruhi Suzumiya vibe, a world that is really weird, but something you really wish you could experience.
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Evo is definitely the biggest fighting game tournament in the world to everyone. Entrants from 40 countries, over 5000 total entrants across 6 fighting games (obviously some of those are the same people entering multiple games but still pretty crazy), local tournaments to send players to Evo from lots of different places (the ones I know of are several across North America, a couple in Japan, Australia, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, a few in Europe, but there were probably more). There was a time when SBO was considered more prestigious, but that's already a couple years gone now, cemented even further each additional year as SBO keeps screwing up. Hopefully this year SBO will be better, but... feels like I've been saying that for a while now.
Anyway, tonight James and I will focus First Attack and Lv3 Focus on Evo and the Evo experience. As always, we'll start at 8pm Pacific time and go until we feel done. You can watch it on our Twitch channel, which is http://twitch.tv/ultrachentv. We'll also upload the replays later to our YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/ultrachentv.
On First Attack, which we try to keep to beginner and intermediate stuff in general, we'll be talking about attending and watching Evo for the first time, including playing tournament matches, playing casual matches, meeting people, what to do in Vegas when you don't have to play, what's gonna be on stream, how to watch certain things on stream or in person on finals day, etc.
On Lv3 Focus, which tends to cater to intermediate to advanced level players, we'll be talking about the gameplay side of things, including what and who to watch for in the 6 Evo games, which are Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition v 2012, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, King of Fighters 13, Mortal Kombat 9, Soul Calibur 5, and Street Fighter x Tekken. We'll go over players to watch, trends to watch in games, rivalries, expected matchups, and so on.
Hope you can all make it! Thanks!
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Thanks for the information as always Ultradavid ^__^ I will definitely watch.
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And the Evolution 2012 thread is up! Just over a week left before the big event. Get hype!
Also shindigs made a blog about WNF
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Yo Ultradavid! Thanks for posting stuff up here, and major thanks for giving the KoF scene so much exposure. Hope to run into you at evo :>
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Going to TNF tomorrow. I'm going to sign up and get bodied round 1 probably but I just want to go play people better than my friends lol :D
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Curleh Mustache 4: West Coast Edition is today, should be starting in a few hours (Yipes tweeted 3pm, assuming that's PST even though he's from the east coast lol).
Broadcasted by Team Spooky! http://www.twitch.tv/teamsp00ky
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I just done watching the Curleh Mustache VODs. Excellent tournament, fucking horrible finals.
I don't want in any way to belittle FChamp's achievement, I just want to say that Phoenix should absolutely be banned in tournaments. All these guys are very good players, that's undeniable. And at their level of play, Phoenix is just too damn imbalanced.
Despite the commentators's effort to make it look like a fair match ("Oh now Dios X only has Sentinel against Dark Phoenix, but he can do it, Sentinel has the tools!"). What the fuck guys, why so hypocrites??? Do I need to remind you that Dios was playing Filipino Champ, you know, one of the best players in the scene. Do you really think one can do anything against FChamp's Dark Phoenix???????????????
Anyway, The Weskers, Vergils, and Zeros are nothing compared to the game-breaking ability of Jean Grey. I say ban Phoenix, the competition will get 10 times more interesting.
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On July 03 2012 22:27 Al Bundy wrote: I just done watching the Curleh Mustache VODs. Excellent tournament, fucking horrible finals.
I don't want in any way to belittle FChamp's achievement, I just want to say that Phoenix should absolutely be banned in tournaments. All these guys are very good players, that's undeniable. And at their level of play, Phoenix is just too damn imbalanced.
Despite the commentators's effort to make it look like a fair match ("Oh now Dios X only has Sentinel against Dark Phoenix, but he can do it, Sentinel has the tools!"). What the fuck guys, why so hypocrites??? Do I need to remind you that Dios was playing Filipino Champ, you know, one of the best players in the scene. Do you really think one can do anything against FChamp's Dark Phoenix???????????????
Anyway, The Weskers, Vergils, and Zeros are nothing compared to the game-breaking ability of Jean Grey. I say ban Phoenix, the competition will get 10 times more interesting.
There are very few things in fighting games that are ever broken enough to be banned. MetaKnight Smash was one of them (notice how all the top players used him?). If Phoenix was as broken, why aren't all the top players using her? If you've seen any of the top player's recent tier lists in UMvC3, you'd see Zero/Vergil as SSS+ rank and Phoenix below them. Why? She's an investment that happens to be a huge liability. She seems broken to less experienced players because they don't realize that you need certain setups and strategies to kill her once you snap her in. Conversely, you can just kill the rest of her team fast enough so that when the other 2 characters die, the Phoenix player only has around 3 meters (they nerfed meter gain in Ultimate remember?). Ultimately, she's an extremely high risk character with high reward, considering all the setups there are to kill her even when she turns dark.
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