Nope.
Register once…and it’s final.
Technically you can add games ONE more time to your registration after the fact. But its huge pain in the butt, so please try to register with the games you want to play.
your in vegas… who cares bout 50 bucks
I agree i think evo should be held somewhere in oklahoma in a random Days Inn, So the fee would be like, 10 dollars. that will save me 50 bux!
Can we go to EVO pay the venue fee and watch the guys play or what? I can’t make it this time but really I’m not good enough to compete. I just wanna watch it live at the venue.
Spectating is free…
Ah thanks much 
This is the first time I have ever seen a thread with people complaining about EVO cover charges…I get snapped at for $10-20, lol…
Vegas is once a year, I am 100% sure they have to have minimum hotel and venue and all the crazy stuff for setup the unions have to do…after the MK Vegas tournament bill came, it’s a big holy $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Geez… can someone close this, please?
If you listen to the Wakeup SRK podcast, it explains why the coverage went up. Its not by much anyway… With an event expecting to almost double in size from last year, that means that they have to be more prepared and that means MORE equipment. Monitors, PS3s, copies of all the games per station, DLC for the games, the fee to pay for having it at the Rio, advertising, administrative stuff, etc… most of that money is going towards that and let me tell you… running ANY size tournament isn’t cheap. You’re going to be seeing at least 40+ PS3s on… 40+ Asus monitors w/… tons of copies of each game and finding a good quantity of particular ‘used’ games isn’t easy either, so most of those games will purchased new.
Where is that Koop’s Guide for Evo on a budget? Read that if you’re tight on funds… I’ve always manage to get to Evo every year (except last year due to work) on a fixed budget. The cheapest I’ve spent at Evo was around $260 or so… not bad if you know where to eat, find roommates, book you plane/bus in advance.
-Rotendo
The $50 is steep though, maybe they should institute a $5-$10 cover charge for spectating to subsidize the cost for tourney entrants.
This is my second EVO, I went in 2009 as well. I will probably attend EVO’s here and there, but probably will skip out on entering in the future since it isn’t worth $60 to go 0-2 to me.
Suit yourself. There are other people who happen to go 0-2 as well, you’re not in the minority. If you’re fine with spectating, they keep it free for a reason.
Dude… it’s more than just entering and going 0-2. You can get many casuals in with many genuine players from all over! Meet people from SRK IRL, chill and hang out with them, and why not enter? You don’t know if you’ll go 0-2 without actually trying. Trust me… it is worth every dollar.
-Rotendo
Rotendo, I plan on going 0-2 because I don’t play the new games on a consistent basis.
In 2009, I went 2-2 in HDR strictly on muscle memory from ST and I like the game.
I went 0-2 in SFIV because I don’t practice it enough to be competent at it.
I will still go to EVO, but I rather enter the side tourneys of the games I play and like more instead of paying $60 to get raped at the newest game I don’t really care about.
I agree about the $10 entry fee. Let’s get that shit up, once and for all.
$50 venue fee is worth it for Evo. Also, you usually get a shirt included with the fee.
I agree that $20 entry fee with top 32 payout would be preferable.
Why not use Keits’ payout structure? That seemed legit.
I would also like to see the entry fee increased. EVO is already the biggest FG tournament in the world and generates tons of hype whether you’re there live or watching it on a stream. I feel the only thing missing is a huge pay out, and I mean a gargantuan one. Yes, over 20k for SSF4 was pretty nice last year. But it still seems kind of small considering how many people entered.
Part of the reason the World Series of Poker generates a lot of interest is because of the money involved. If the top games like SSF4 and MvC3 could generate a pay out of 50k+, I think that wound help garner more attention and interest from outside of the FG community and just add to EVO’s prestige. I’m spending over $400 just to get there(not even including cost of food), another 10 or 20 to enter SSF4(or MvC3 in other peoples case) isn’t a big deal.
I’d like to see someone of a higher authority seriously approach Mr. Wizard and the Cannons about this. I’d like to see what they think and if they feel it can be done without scaring off the community.
We need a cost-benefit analysis to find out what the numbers would be regarding payout and people turning up to find the ideal amount to charge.
It is difficult because of the SF4 boom in EVO enrolment, but looking at figures for '09, '10, and '11 may help with factoring whether changing things to higher/more payouts would be ideal for '12.
How much are people willing to spend? From reading this thread there’s definitely a strong mix of both “entry too high” and “higher entry fees so folks will have more of a chance at fight money”.
I’d rather it be higher while using Keits’ payout system. Up entry fee to $50 and call it day. If you’re traveling to Vegas to play fucking video games, you’re already paying for travel and hotel anyways, you can pay $50 to enter the biggest tournament in the country.
meh the venue fee is sorta steep… but it’s EVO… freaking deal… now the food is what’s going to wreck your wallet… last time i survived on pepsi and pizza from the hotel shop and it cost me pretty big… then i splurged on some cheesecake which was like $10… per slice…