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Half? I haven't been to the last 3 EVO or so but no way in hell half. Maybe online, but did you see the crowd at Summer Jam? That's definitely not anime. As long as we have Mavhel we will always have HOOD N****!
You can't see the "anime" in people. Should have smelled the air and then you'd know the truth.

Desu
 
AE IS DEAD

ANIME KILLED IT

It'll be interesting to see what happens to the AE numbers next season. With WNF going to a lineup of AE, VF5, and TTT2, there isn't another Capcom or 2d fighting game tournament for AE players to enter on the side. I think levelup is counting on the AE players to pick up Tekken but I don't really see that happening in big numbers. Maybe enough tekken players will go and also enter AE to keep the numbers stable, or maybe WNF will just lose more entrants.
 
Season's Beatings usually gets more Marvel entrants though doesn't it?

Last year was ~300 for AE and ~200 for MvC3, it happened very close to the release of UMvC3 which obviously hurt the turnout. But you'll want to put your Bison dollars on AE having a higher number than UMvC3 this year.

Doesn't matter anyway, because most people will go to SB for UMvC3 and not AE.
 
Season's Beatings usually gets more Marvel entrants though doesn't it?

AE had 270, Marvel 3 had 170. I don't expect it to be lopsided this year. It'll probably be very close, maybe 20 or 30 apart regardless of which game is on top. But SF4 has tons of players who show up for every major. Marvel has more stream monsters, especially the vocal ones. Plus it's the new hotness, while SF4 has faded recently in the past year. But it still brings out huge numbers for every major, actually ending up #1 half the time regardless of the lack of hype or anticipation.

The EVO champ Infiltration(along with his buddy Laugh) is confirmed for SB, so that should make for a more interesting AE tournament.
 
In terms of hype this is how it is for me

high level p4a = high level umvc3 > high level SF4 > high level Tekken/SC>VF5>>>>>>>mediocre level p4a/umvc3>>>>mediocre level sf4.


Unfortunately there is a lot of mediocre sf4. Marvel is like 50/50 pending on which event you watch.

Watching WNF is pretty much "are they showing P4A? then watch. If not, then alt tab more"
 
The EVO champ Infiltration(along with his buddy Laugh) is confirmed for SB, so that should make for a more interesting AE tournament.

Chances are he'll body everyone for free, so i am not sure how that will make for a more interesting AE tournament. It doesn't sound like any more foreigner is coming for AE.
 
Chances are he'll body everyone for free, so i am not sure how that will make for a more interesting AE tournament. It doesn't sound like any more foreigner is coming for AE.

Well I didn't mean more competitive. I meant something on the lines of a top international player is coming. When Daigo and the Japanese were always expected to win every time they showed up in 2009/2010, people still looked forward to it because they don't get to see guys like this often. He's not a huge draw like Daigo, but it's more interesting having him in the mix then just a battle of Americans which bores everybody now because international competition is the only time people look forward to AE nowadays.
 
Honestly, can we please keep personal drama that has nothing to do with fighting games out of this thread?

You ask this of a thread consistently more interested in eating up whatever slop Triforce dishes out on Joe's stream on a weekly basis than learning anything of substance that UltraChen puts out on the same day.

At the very least Tri-force's rambles are things directly related to sponsorships and tournament results so they are loosley related to Fighting Game discussion.

This shit is completely irrelevant.

Whatever man, I guess if everyone wants to discuss this who am I to object.

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Fucking hell. Seriously, unrustle your jimmies guys. It's a thread about fighting games and the drama surrounding the players and other assorted personnel in the community. That's literally what this thread is about week in week out. If you want to talk about a specific game then go to that thread, or just bring up whatever interests you in this thread.

This thread is great BECAUSE it has so much personal drama in it. That drama produces witty one line responses, stupid one line responses, arguments, photoshops, stupid meme pics, etc. It's all very entertaining, and personally I prefer that to some dry academic thread where we can't talk shit about whatever stupid thing some player said on twitter or talk about a couple of sponsored players who ended their relationship.

And Triforce is awesome fuck the haters, REAL TAWK.
 
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Fucking hell. Seriously, unrustle your jimmies guys. It's a thread about fighting games and the drama surrounding the players and other assorted personnel in the community. That's literally what this thread is about week in week out. If you want to talk about a specific game then go to that thread, or just bring up whatever interests you in this thread.

This thread is great BECAUSE it has so much personal drama in it. That drama produces witty one line responses, stupid one line responses, arguments, photoshops, stupid meme pics, etc. It's all very entertaining, and personally I prefer that to some dry academic thread where we can't talk shit about whatever stupid thing some player said on twitter or talk about a couple of sponsored players who ended their relationship.

And Triforce is awesome fuck the haters, REAL TAWK.

IT'S REAL RAP!
 
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