So looking forward to the semis for both Marvel and SFIV.
I don't have time to look through the SFIV pools, is there a list of notable international players? Any of Alioune, Sako, Xiahou etc?
I'm kind of surprised to see that UMVC3's prize is so much lower than SFIV's. I thought Marvel had caught up or even surpassed SFIV in popularity by now. It sure seems like people get more excited for Marvel at tournaments.
Only in America... Marvel is a distinct 2nd at best in other countries and at a lot of places non factors. Also there was more AE entrants at Final Round than Marvel... and when you start to add 20 (guessing) from Japan, 10 from singapore, 10 from australia, 10 from hong kong and so on for the other 35 countries attending..
Precisely, for all the hate that SFxT gets. It would have been the 3rd biggest game at EVO if not for T-shirts. A lot of Marvel and SF4 heads will play it just because it's familiar enough to them.
But SCV is also a 3D game, and these FGC tourney's are dominated by players who prefer 2D fighters. 3D fighters will probably never get close to the likes of Capcom fighters in America. TTT2 will probably do better than T6 and SCV, but not much better.
SFxTk probably would've cracked 1100 if it was going to be run as a 1v1 tournament... oh but I'm sure half of them would just sleep through their pools anyway.
As for your earlier post about why Capcom only bumped up SFIV prize pot? Simple... they didn't want MK9 to have the biggest pot pool @ the event and SFIV has the most entrants, was closer and hey 25 > 23, 25 is a good number and it's the 25th anniversary.
Good on them too, lol @ Mk9's fraudulent ass. As for your last point about Tag 2, pretty much agree... maybe Namco can offer a free t-shirt.
Hopefully for Evo 13
Street Fighter X Tekken > Darkstalkers or heavily reworked SfxTK, whatever Capcom do.
MK9 > DoA 5
SCV > Tekken Tag 2
KOF > Persona 4 (with dlc chars and rebalance)
AE and UMVC3 will continue to be the big 2, AE wins again since outside of America most people don't give a shit about marvel. Persona 4 gets 3rd place as Atlus once again offers a t-shirt.
Also Evo 2011 numbers.
SSFIVAE - 1456 Players
MVC3 - 1072 Players
MK9 - 516 Players
Tekken 6 - 224 Players
Blazblue CS2 - 208 Players