So far, everything is coming together nicely. We should have EIGHT console stations available, four MvC2 cabinets, and two Super Turbo cabs. ALL cabinets will have fully new controls, including all buttons, switches and joysticks. We are going to have a tech do this for us Friday morning so that we will have Friday night to break everything in (during Marvel teams for example) and in working shape for Saturday-Sunday.
So far, not many people have pre-registered, but this is understandable since I’m assuming a lot of people want to be 100% sure they’re coming, and what they’re entering. REMEMBER, PRE-REGISTRATION CLOSES AT MIDNIGHT ON THURSDAY MAY 25TH. If you do not register by that time, then you will have to show up on Friday to get the $10 cover charge discount. IF NOT, you WILL be paying a $15 cover charge fee for late entry on Saturday-Sunday. NO EXCUSES. All entries are NON-REFUNDABLE.
I’m pretty pumped, and I know a hell of a lot of other people are. ECC is arguably the best MvC2 cabinet tournament in the country, if not overall in the world…pair that with both CvS2 and 3s on console, together, for the first time, with enough stations so it doesn’t take forever…add in ST on SWITCH STICK controls…the first DOA4 tournament to be held at a Street Fighter Major…Guilty Gear Slash…and you’ve got yourself one hell of a tournament.
Also, I’ve said it already but if anyboyd else is interested in team tournaments for CvS2/3s/ST, POST HERE! I’ve only seen 2 people respond since last time, and I want to know if there’s enough interest to hold these events.
Any team tournaments will DEFINITELY be FULL teams, meaning every person gets a full team of 3 fighters in CvS2. In previous years, compromises had to be made when there weren’t enough stations, but this year we will have more than enough PS2s and TVs to accomodate this.
Also, I posted an apology to the Guilty Gear community over in that Ohio tournament thread, and I want to post one here too.
I want to apologize to the Guilty Gear community for anything that I may have said to disrespect them. Although I may not like or play GG myself, it is still a community of gamers that deserves respect, and the game definitely deserves a spot at ECC.
I know that certain other parties have used the misquotations of things I said, out of context, to hype up their own events running parallel to ECC. Not only is this disrespectful to myself (who cares), but to the entire gaming community. All these people have succeeded in doing is exploiting misinformation to promote their own events and “hype up” their own reputations…pretty selfish. In addition, they’ve succeeded in dividing the community even further than before. Ever wonder why the majority of Fighting game tournaments can’t get sponsorship? Ever wonder why there’s no “tournament league” for any fighting games? This is why.
Instead of taking the time to talk to myself or Josh Wigfall about the GG situation at ECC, certain parties took it into their own hands to try to slander ECC on other message boards, and right now they’re taking part in a word-of-mouth campaign to say that there isn’t even any Guilty Gear at ECC. When I tried to reach out to the parties who are running this tournament, I was BANNED from the Guilty Gear message board, and I was never contacted to discuss the issue although I had requested it. This is pure BULLSHIT, and not the way to go about things.
We cared so much about GG, we ended up moving the tournament from Friday (which was originally planned) to Sunday (which was requested by GG players), we recruited CHAZ (a GG player) to run it, and now we are in the process of securing multiple console stations for you to play on.
People have accused me of being unprofessional when it comes to Guilty Gear. I do want to apologize to anyone who feels this way. Maybe some of the things I said about GG were out of line, but at the same time, they ring true: time WILL be limited, it WOULD have been easier/better to have Slash on Friday, and I really DON’T care about GG myself personally (that’s why we recruited Chaz and I’m not running it!). But regardless of how I feel, growing up with SF and respecting that series of games, it’s not reason for anyone to boycott ECC, which is arguably the longest-running and BEST fighting video game major in the COUNTRY.
I hope that this will help to clear the air between myself and the GG community. I also hope to see lots of you on the Sunday of ECC. And, I also hope that those of you who are planning to go to the Ohio event on Saturday, and THEN fly/drive to Jersey for Slash on Sunday of ECC, are successful and have no problems. YOU guys are the most dedicated gamers I’ve ever heard of!
Also, I would love to do team tournaments, BUT I need to know if anybody is interested. If you could please post your team…and if anybody else could post their teams…it would greatly increase the chance of this tournament happening. Plus, I could make brackets ahead of time.
You pick your own team for EACH match. If you win the match, you must KEEP that team vs. your second opponent. But you are NOT required to keep that team throught the entitre tournament.
We will have LOTS of PS2s and LOTS of time for this, so we can do pretty much whatever we want, i.e. whatever the CvS2 community wants. So just tell us who’s playing and you’ll be good!
You realize that you can request blind pick, so your opponent has no idea who you’re going to use, right? You’re not stuck with playing the same team the entire tournament.
oh teams. yeah i realize that i can do double blind but i think itd be more interesting if you had to stick with one team throughout the entire team tourney
We can do it whatever way people want, I’m open and willing to do whatever is most requested. Probably, what will end up happening is come Saturday afternoon/night once CvS2 singles are down to final 16, I’ll pull aside a few top players (Justin, Nestor, anybody else there who plays CvS, etc.) and ask them what they suggest for a team format.
Now I have a short message to all the Tekken players who backed Jinmaster and his tournament that he’s running to compete with ECC:
It seems that since Tekken 5.0, and the HUGE prizes that go along with it, has been announced for EVO, nobody is complaining that they want DR anymore. Gee, that’s funny, because we WERE going to throw a huge Tekken 5.0 tournament at ECC, until Jinmaster decided to run a Tekken DR/SC3 tournament in Philly at the same time.
So, while you all could have been in New Jersey practicing for a game with over $8k in prizes in less than three months, against hundreds of players, you’ll either be sitting at home doing nothing, or you’ll be in Philly, playing against a handful of players, in a game that has no competitive future due to cost and availability issues. It doesn’t make any difference how GOOD a game is, if it’s too expensive to get and there’s no console release, it will not be played. Compare a game like Unreal Tournament 2004 to Halo 2…a FAR superior FPS, but a much MUCH smaller competitive audience, since Halo 2 can pretty much be played by anybody for about 200 bucks, while you need an expensive computer to run Unreal.
I hate to say I told you so, but I’ve already said it in about three other threads, so I might as well. Next time, fucking LISTEN to me and not Jinmaster!
I’m thinking about going to this but…I dunno. Got another tournament just 10 minutes down from where I live on Sunday and it should be a good turnout since J.Wong will be there for casuals (well…that’s what he says).
It’ll be hard finding someone in MD that’s going to ECC late Friday night.
Two things. Its not cool to just “ask some top players”. Make a decision and implement it, hold a poll right now, ask opinion from everyone right now. Asking some random people at the time of tourney is not very professional imo, why don’t you just deal with it right now? It most likely wont finish if you try to organize it one day, or one night.
Also…damn grow up about the tekken shit. Arent you in charge?
Is there gonna be any ST Teams or some AE Hyper action at ECC this year? If not, somebody make this happen please.
Jeron, me vs you in ST or Hyper. Best of 7. Loser buys the other some food.
DSP, me vs you in ST or Hyper. Best of 7. Loser gets a handshake and I told you so.
I could easily post a poll, but that’s had a LOT of mixed results. There are still people complaining that they didnt’ know about the “3s on console” poll and are angry that it’s on PS2. Also I really don’t think SRK staff are too thrilled with the amount of ECC threads floating around, so making yet another poll thread would be a no-no.
If people have opinions on this, please post. Christian why the heck didn’t you give your opinion? lol.
And I HAVE been trying to get info on who’s interested, but so far nobody has really posted about it besides a handful of players. This happens every year, thats why team tournaments are usually spur-of-the-moment things at most events, because nobody is sure if they want to do it until the last minute. But I’m sure we can at least set the rules in stone.
SO, if you either want to be locked into only using one team in CvS2 teams (can’t switch your characters for the entire tournament), post. Or if you want to be able to switch mid-tournament, post. The message here is, POST!
As for the Tekken issue…
Let me clarify my statements so nobody can take them the wrong way (wouldn’t be the first time).
First of all, the statements I made do NOT apply to all Tekken players. I know there is a group of you who support ECC and wanted to come and play, and are furious that 1. Namco won’t give you a PS2 port of DR and 2. Jinmaster is selfish and did what he did. Remember, I WANTED to have a smaller, capped DR tournament and a full scale Tekken 5.0 tournament on console. I have NOTHING against the Tekken community as a whole.
Now, who I DO have issues with are obviously 1. Jinmaster and 2. the bunch of Tekken players who came on here and also on Tekken Zaibatsu, slamming ECC. The gist of their comments? “Chris Cotty is a rich guy who won’t rent us DR cabs for ECC, the Break sucks, Dunellen sucks, ECC sucks, the staff of ECC sucks.” These players then went on to follow Jinmaster and his proposed tournament in Philly and continued to slam ECC. But now that it’s been announced that EVO is Tekken 5.0, they must be feeling REALLY stupid.
Now my point isn’t to rub salt in wounds, but to basically just give those people a WAKE UP CALL. Hopefully next time, you will not listen to Jinmaster. PLEASE learn from what’s happened and actually listen to those who are trying to incorporate Tekken into the fighting game community, such as the staff of ECC and EVO. WE ARE TRYING TO HELP, but it’s Namco’s fault there is no PS2 port of DR. I wish to god there was, because I would probably be playing it myself if there was! and there definitely wouldnt’ be any of this needless drama over Tekken.
I want to APOLOGIZE to anybody who thought I was basically trying to diss the entire Tekken community, because I’m not. I said it incorrectly, I only meant to address those that, for some reason, are trying to pull Tekken away from the fighting game majors, AGAIN. This has happened before and only in the past few years, through the incorporation of multiple Tekken games at EVO and also at ECC, that Tekken has been pulled into the general fighting game audience. I have no idea WHY the Tekken community would want to pull away from this support and go do their own thing…I mean, is Tekken 5.0 REALLY such a bad game? Were people saying that before DR came out?
I’m curious, if anybody has any answers, please post.
