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Evolution 2013 Fighting game championship of the World July 12th - 14th
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Jyosua and Bibiquadium will be streaming Guilty Gear and BlazBlue today.
Guilty Gear should start around 12, BlazBlue at 5.
Hopefully Kazunoko and Dogura take part.
Guilty Gear should start around 12, BlazBlue at 5.
Hopefully Kazunoko and Dogura take part.
Rentahamster
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They also need to make sure that people who play are the people who are supposed to play and not someone playing for someone else. Saw that happen...
toddhunter
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Between marvel and injustice we could crack a million views before the end of day 2. Would be something.
Haunted
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A constantly updated website to track all that shit would be really nice. Think Team Liquid tournament portals or Liquipedia for SC2 and Dota stuff. I get the distinct feeling that good production values for streams and spectators are too esports for a lot of the FCG guys. I mean, fucking paper brackets? "bububu that's how we always did it!"
Good example for when keeping it real goes wrong.
edit: in their defense, I will say that FCG tournaments move at a much faster pace than any other esports I know. Games are shorter and things are more hectic.
That's because, the answer lies in the heart of battle.
Agreed with the sentiments here, and this might be because I'm ignorant to the logistics of it all, but wouldn't integrating challonge work? I know it's used in a lot of locals, so perhaps it's not as efficient for something of this scale? Just a thought though.
Baleoce
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I agree with you, that's a side of the FGC I want to see improve the most. But that's where the esports money would come in. And there's kind of a standoff in that respect atm.
Thing on a Spring
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What a first day. My sleep schedule is well and truly borked now but I love it. Marvel's going to be nuts today.
toddhunter
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Would be great, but heck the EVO guys were scratching around for gamecubes and CRTs on the Thursday night.
I think you'll find a lot of those systems may end up being driven from the Asian based tournaments where there is better network infrastructure available. It'll just take time and money.
So basically if you only care about Tekken and only entered Tekken and won, then there is no reason for you to stay for Day 2 or 3 right? Yes I know there is panels and you can meet people and stuff. I am just wondering if someone only cared about participating that there would be nothing for him after he finished on Friday?
All these ideas sound beautiful on paper until you realize that the internet is involved in almost all of those good suggestions. And very very few venues actually have good internet to implement said ideas. It's not like this is MLG where they rent out Anaheim convention center and have a satellite truck with 1gbps symmetrical internet.
Pretty much with the venues the FGC has now dont expect these kind of things to happen
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often, to be honest. Player aliases are rarely if ever printed on the badges themselves, and sometimes the people at the registration desk don't even ask for proper ID.
I've known at least one person who has had decent success with borrowing one of his friend's badges, showing up to a random pool, and then assuming the name of a no-show for himself.
Several major TOs will tell you from experience that paper brackets make things run more smoothly. But I guess making up reasons and being condescending about it is more fun.
Consider the risks involved in relying on a website. They should be self evident.
There are alternative electronic options such as Tio, but again, think of the benefit vs the risk. I've seen brackets vanish to equipment failures. Also consider the volunteer staff. Let's be honest; you can't depend on everyone to be competent with this stuff, no matter how simple it might be for you and me. It's just makes for fewer potential headaches if you hand a bracket runner a 16-man bracket and ask him to fill in the blanks, than it does to depend on him to not fuck anything up with a computer station.
Rentahamster
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Oh god it's late. Welp, g'nite. Hell of a day.
SolarPowered
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toddhunter
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Sounds great
Sixfortyfive
He who pursues two rabbits gets two rabbits.
Top 8, losers side, plays Infiltration next.
Osu 16 Bit
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Pretty much, yeah.
There's always casuals/money matches though. I mean I'm playing IGAU today but I'll still be playing MK casuals and my team is doing an exhibition tonight.
Appreciate the insight Art. I had no idea that's how it worked. Still one would think that having a method of syncronizing the data (especially brackets) would be nice, but with the limited bandwidth available as well as potentially other variables, it would make the logistics a nightmare I guess.
Also, I enjoyed your match with Choi. Good old school footsies battle breaking down into sporadic hectic moments of seemingly random reads, or desperation moves (half screen roundhouse tatsus) made it all the more unpredictable (or perhaps it's just next level yomi, or familiarity with your playstyle). Sorry about the loss, but it was definitely a tense match.
You bring up numerous valid points. Would explain why I predominantly see it only being used for locals. I was thinking an infrastructure like Challonge but in an app form that uses p2p (perhaps a form of mesh network) to sync and update the brackets would be nice, giving people in charge of brackets admin rights to override, etc. But clearly my idea wasn't thought out well. Especially when considering the technical hurdles of the current venue types that majors are held in, as well as the human factors you mentioned.
QuikZilver
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scheduled to start in three hours I think. 8AM [whatever the timezone is called].
QuikZilver
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EVO staff did a great job of keeping top players on stream in the main stage. I would remember last year where i had to watch XBL warrior vs PSN warrior early on. There was none of that this year they kept it moving having at least one recognizable player on the main stage.
QuikZilver
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi4qom3AgzI
Haitani being outplayed uses "fuck you I'm a SF god" is highly effective.
Haitani being outplayed uses "fuck you I'm a SF god" is highly effective.
Mr.Marston
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Love you all.
Post count will definitely going up on my end when Marvel starts, especially when the unknown blood cause some upsets or new stuff.
Terareflection
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Kof should be starting today.
I am so Hyped right now, today was amazing, really.
AE.
Sako in top 8 with Evil Ryu.
Haitani in top 8 with Makoto!!!, so happy, great to see some new chataracters being represented at the top.
The Infiltration vs Laugh match, wow, that was edge of the seat stuff, you could cut the air with a knife, was so tense, amazing stuff, never seen a match like that before ever.
AE.
Sako in top 8 with Evil Ryu.
Haitani in top 8 with Makoto!!!, so happy, great to see some new chataracters being represented at the top.
The Infiltration vs Laugh match, wow, that was edge of the seat stuff, you could cut the air with a knife, was so tense, amazing stuff, never seen a match like that before ever.
QuikZilver
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRnlQ2LWnIE&feature=share&list=UU1M3px-vKG2ToJwSNUIsMTA
Tokido PLS
Tokido raging Demon pop-off .
Tokido PLS
Tokido raging Demon pop-off .
shaowebb
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MK9 pool play/semi finals:
http://www.twitch.tv/srkevo2/b/429454118
http://www.twitch.tv/srkevo2/b/429512256
MK9 finals
http://www.twitch.tv/srkevo2/b/429512256?t=7h42m
Shit is unreal. Tight play from everyone the whole tourney. There was even a blind guy in Winners Bracket for awhile who played by sound. Went by the name Rattlehead and was brought in by Kombat Houston. Dude is legit. Took a round on Tyrant.
Yes! haha, this was special, loved it.
Mr.Marston
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I actually watched Rattlehead's match. It was the only one I was able to watch.
Was mightily impressed.
Mr.Marston
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Good news. KOF was so good at EVO last year that it pushed me into buying the game.
Now that Sako has made it this far I really feel that he has a good chance of taking the whole thing. Even if Daigo was able to make it into a final with him by some miracle, Sako is pretty good against him.
Regardless of how he does after, just hope that Daigo takes out Inflitration.
Regardless of how he does after, just hope that Daigo takes out Inflitration.
throwawayname
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Many thanks for that!
Can someone put these +any future ones into the OT so people won't get spoiled looking for the these in the thread the day after?
Agreed. There's so much space for more information on streams. Though I doubt an ID system could happen. They could just put info on a slide or something, keep it updated and display it every once in a while.
The way I see it, the past few years have been about getting the actual stream production with cameras and commentators and all that solid. Now they can focus on the finer details.
This is probably also a good thing for streamers to get a sidekick guy for.
Awwww man, I feel kinda mad that I fell asleep early now since they even brought Seth in for commentary again and I missed that.
And looking at the rest of the uploads on that channel, I missed a TON of hot matches too.
Gonna have to see if I can pick up some cappuccino or even some cans of ice coffee or something to stay awake for Marvel, because I don't wanna miss quarter and semi-finals now if Super Street Fighter IV ended up looking that stacked, and Marvel is even more unpredictable.
fell asleep at 2am, woke up at 7am, tried desperately to go back to sleep but the marvel monster said no
If there are even half as many good matches in Marvel as there were in AE, I will be satisfied. Yesterday was so damn nuts. And there is a lot of salt waiting to be dished out in Marvel. Though honestly, Marvel is my favorite, but I'm having a hard time seeing it get as crazy as AE. Japan better be on its game in marvel and there need to be some other underdog blow ups.
If there are even half as many good matches in Marvel as there were in AE, I will be satisfied. Yesterday was so damn nuts. And there is a lot of salt waiting to be dished out in Marvel. Though honestly, Marvel is my favorite, but I'm having a hard time seeing it get as crazy as AE. Japan better be on its game in marvel and there need to be some other underdog blow ups.
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