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[A Pretty Panda]

I'm going to do it to whatever game is last place

 

[zerokoolpsx]

4chan to donate and withdraw from every single game confirmed

lol. That's possible. There would be no 8th entrant for this EVO if that happens and all those games are permanently banned.

 

[SolarPowered]

Well, if anyone withdraws their money after the donations have ended. Mr. Wizard said that game would be blacklisted from EVO FOREVER.

Everyone will be banned. This is too much like that scene from TDK where the Joker gave the two boats explosives.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

I'm going to do it to whatever game is last place

so you're going to get third strike banned from evo

good plan

 

[entremet]

Mr. Wizard as a Wario avatar in his Twitter account. Closet Nintendo fan?

 

[tafer]

http://www.twitch.tv/eightysixed

Awesome, and is Mike seriously going to cut his hair?!

 

[scytheavatar]

so you're going to get third strike banned from evo

good plan

Didn't Mr Wizard already de facto banned 3S from EVO?

 

[Busaiku]

Mr. Wizard as a Wario avatar in his Twitter account. Closet Nintendo fan?

 

[Ravidrath]

Awesome, and is Mike seriously going to cut his hair?!

Yup.

 

[Rentahamster]

Awesome, and is Mike seriously going to cut his hair?!

Yep.

Bzzzzzt

 

["God's Beard!"]

Any link to the Mike Ross vs Champ thing?

 

[Lee Chaolan]

Holy moly, take the dat off and Melee is up Fifteen THOUSAND?

Yay for research

 

[djplaeskool]

Donated $10 to MBAACC so it's not last place

Spoiler

and as homage to my obsession with Kohaku <3

 

[zerokoolpsx]

EightySixed stream down for anyone else?

 

[Rentahamster]

The donations are being accepted until Feb 1st, 12 am PST, right?

If so here's a countdown.

EightySixed stream down for anyone else?

They are restarting the stream with a different internet device that hopefully isn't ass.

 

[Ravidrath]

EightySixed stream down for anyone else?

They're switching to someone else's T-Mobile hotspot, since Twitch.tv banned Mike's.

Just came back up.

 

[toddhunter]

The donations are being accepted until Feb 1st, 12 am PST, right?

If so here's a coutndown.

Yeah but then we get a two week recount and a supreme court challenge from smashboards.

This shit isn't going to be resolved any time soon.

 

[tiggerkiddo]

Still amazed they plan to do 8 games! That will be a crazy Evo!

 

[TheOGB]

Donated $10 to Skullgirls. I won't be too sad if it doesn't win because Melee is hilarious (and anything else would be more hilarious) but I gotta show my support anyhow.

 

[WesternHeretic]

Any link to the Mike Ross vs Champ thing?

The IPL show? Check the archives for IPL Fighters.

 

[ismk]

I wonder if the rest of the fighting community is going to stick around and watch while Melee is on stage (if it gets the most donations).

 

[enzo_gt]

I wonder if the rest of the fighting community is going to stick around and watch while Melee is on stage (if it gets the most donations).

I think APEX is an indication a good chunk will. The difference between APEX 2012 and 2013 in views is fairly attributable to FGC sticking around I think. And good times were had.

 

[toddhunter]

I wonder if the rest of the fighting community is going to stick around and watch while Melee is on stage (if it gets the most donations).

Because of timezones I doubt it. Will probably be asleep around 10am on the Friday when the finals are on.

 

[Roubjon]

Melee breaking $50,000 is insane.

 

[WesternHeretic]

Melee breaking $50,000 is insane.

How much does it take to run a tournament the size of Apex? Nowhere near $50,000 right? Could of just turned that into the next EVO.

 

[Busaiku]

So will the community have to bring in CRTs and Gamecubes?
Evo doesn't have sponsors for those, so I wonder.

 

[scytheavatar]

How much does it take to run a tournament the size of Apex? Nowhere near $50,000 right? Could of just turned that into the next EVO.

$50,000 might not even get you the venue.

 

[Professor Beef]

How much does it take to run a tournament the size of Apex? Nowhere near $50,000 right? Could of just turned that into the next EVO.

You could say the same thing about the other two games.

So will the community have to bring in CRTs and Gamecubes?
Evo doesn't have sponsors for those, so I wonder.

If there's one thing in the Smash community that there is no shortage of, it's CRTs. People have been lugging them around for years, so EVO isn't going to have to worry about having the proper equipment if they ask for help.

 

[tiggerkiddo]

I wonder if the rest of the fighting community is going to stick around and watch while Melee is on stage (if it gets the most donations).

They'll hate on it probably.

 

[WesternHeretic]

You could say the same thing about the other two games.

Those other two games (especially ST) has always been considered apart to the FGC though.
Same can't be said for Smash. Smash during MLG days was not apart of the FGC, and it only been a few years since (mainly SF4, and Marvel 3) where players started crossing over.

Guys like Bum, Alukard, and Noel Brown weren't playing Smash and like 3S at the same time.

 

[DEATH™]

 

[Rentahamster]

Erin and Laura are pretty cute.

 

[Codeblue]

How much does it take to run a tournament the size of Apex? Nowhere near $50,000 right? Could of just turned that into the next EVO.

Or they could donate 50K to charity and just go to Evo.

 

[Busaiku]

Or they could donate 50K to charity and just go to Evo.

Yes to this.

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

Shit, Jon Stewart is using an edit of the Street Fighter logo as part of his bit on the Obama skeet shooting controversy. That's going to bring the SF players to this in droves. Somehow.

 

[djplaeskool]

Dueling spirit bombs.
Here we go.

 

[Mlatador]

Tournament of Legends replays are on now on spookys stream. Super Turbo is really godlike at a high level!

 

[Rentahamster]

Dueling spirit bombs.
Here we go.

I like Melee too, but I already turned off their stream because it was boring as fuck. SG stream has more interesting things going on.

 

[foogles]

He was playing piano and that seems to be against the Twitch.tv TOS.

It can't just be that. Lethalfrag does two hours of cooking on Saturday nights and he often has Twitch admins in there watching. As he's explained it, Twitch does allow people to do some percentage of non-gaming content, but exactly what amount seems to be up in the air.

It could be that this was just the straw that broke the camel's back or something.

 

[WesternHeretic]

Or they could donate 50K to charity and just go to Evo.

Oh I have nothing against Smash community I'm glad they donated it for charity. I just find it funny how much resources they had. They should have done this way earlier. For those that don't know Third Strike at one point didn't make EVO. So they gather and showed their unity and the following year Third Strike was back into EVO.

If Smash would have shown this in like 2008, 2009 by 2010 or 2011 they would have already been in the EVO lineup.

Same thing happened to the Guilty Gear community, but they didn't ban together and GG hasn't been in the EVO line up since.

 

[entremet]

Oh I have nothing against Smash community I'm glad they donated it for charity. I just find it funny how much resources they had. They should have done this way earlier. For those that don't know Third Strike at one point didn't make EVO. So they gather and showed their unity and the following year Third Strike was back into EVO.

If Smash would have shown this in like 2008, 2009 by 2010 or 2011 they would have already been in the EVO lineup.

Same thing happened to the Guilty Gear community, but they didn't ban together and GG hasn't been in the EVO line up since.

I thought there was bad blood b/w the Smash community and EVO, so that would not be surprising given the lack of commitment in recent years.

It seems this charity thing has been an olive branch of sorts, mending the relationship.

 

[Anth0ny]

Wombo Combo backwards is fucking amazing

 

[WesternHeretic]

I thought there was bad blood b/w the Smash community and EVO, so that would not be surprising given the lack of commitment in recent years.

It seems this charity thing has been an olive branch of sorts, mending the relationship.

Wizard had problem with Sundance and MLG not the actual smash community. When MLG parted ways from Smash, they could of came to EVO. They just never did... but then certain players from smash community started playing SF4, and MVC3 and that help bridge the two communities. What I was surprise by was why didn't the entire community present Smash to EVO. One side tournament of 200+ would of probably got them a spot the following year.

 

[Busaiku]

GORDON FREEMAN

 

[Seasoned Badger]

Wombo Combo backwards is fucking amazing

I want that minute of my life back.....

 

[Busaiku]

Dang, I want that artbook.

 

[Snakeyes]

Wombo Combo backwards is fucking amazing

FALCON THRUST

I'm in tears

 

[Nyoro SF]

It looks like ST's sudden rise might have actually contributed to the downfall of both ST and SG's ability to defeat SSBM.

 

[Stylo]

Wizard had problem with Sundance and MLG not the actual smash community. When MLG parted ways from Smash, they could of came to EVO. They just never did... but then certain players from smash community started playing SF4, and MVC3 and that help bridge the two communities. What I was surprise by was why didn't the entire community present Smash to EVO. One side tournament of 200+ would of probably got them a spot the following year.

Smash was at EVO. EVO just didn't want to use the ruleset the community used and it soured things between them.

 

[Rentahamster]

SG stream should probably move the camera back a little so that more people can fit on screen at the same time.