A 4 day event would be great if you’re going to use more games next like like SFxT, KOF13, SCV, etc. along with what were featured this year.
To make it work it would really depend on where EVO will be hosted at, and the schedule for the games.
if you make it four days, i’ll definitely show up for all the days, but i wouldn’t mind keeping the 3 day format either.
Even if there weren’t extra tournaments on that added day, it would still be a whole new day to play some beta games and maybe have one or two more panels. That way people who have work won’t be missing much? It seems like a win/win to me.
It depends on what making it this 4th day would entail for the fighting game community as a whole. I do not see how opening up the events for 4 days would be a deterent for the current community. Having said that I think making a 4th day should be justified with the intention of bringing more people in to the event and increasing the fighting game community’s size as a whole. Given EVO’s current attendance rates can the production costs justify making a fourth day without charging people to attend. I would rather see stronger ‘production values’ put into the current 3 day event before we determine whether or not to add a fourth day. While EVO is not doubt exploding in popularity there is still much more room for improvement within the current 3 day event. This should be done before determining whether or not a 4th day is a sound financial decision. I personally feel that the only way a 4th day may be cost effective would be if the event started charging for spectators to attend.
Four days would give a lot more breathing room for a lot of things and events. It would give people more time to visit panels and then watch games playing, and it would leave things less cluttered, assuming more games weren’t added to the roster. On the flipside, it might ultimately exhaust people even more than they already are normally, and given how much better each EVO is becoming, four days of solid hype and madness might seriously kill someone >.> The commentators and the die hard audience members would lose a lot of sleep and food over it if another day was added.
I don’t rightly know how “cluttered” the scheduling was this year despite watching the entire thing at home, but it felt mostly like all the games, displays, events, and video content was played on schedule without too much of a hassle. But with the way the fighting game community is growing, there might be more of this stuff to come and you guys might have more trouble fitting it all on the big screen within the allotted time. Having an additional day would be a huge advantage in this side of things.
But on the other side, like I said, people would really stress their limits. This includes, as other people have posted, people who have work schedules to stick to back home, among other things. And trying to fit all the top 8 in the last day with more games might be hellish (although you can clip out bonus videos for day 3 instead, depending), although I don’t foresee the game list suddenly creeping up past 5-6 games, since in the past games were voted in favour of other games. In the worst of cases, top 8 would be divided between two days… and if games like SFIV and Marvel were split up like that, it would basically be two days of killer hype at the end of the night, and I just don’t know if people have the energy for that D: I never thought I’d be defending peoples’ health when I started typing this, but it seems like it could be a legitimate concern.
Of course, you have idiots like me who spent way too much time staring at the computer monitor this EVO and felt sick come Monday morning. I suspect a lot of people did this :c </ramble>
I think you can get away with making Thursday a mandatory half day, and run games with the smaller turnouts then. You could run more events or even the smaller grand finals Saturday night.
I take the entire Thrusday off every time but I voted for 3.5 days, seems most reasonable.
I think a 4 day event would be great if it were modeled after Comic-Con where the first day is strictly for pools for the lower tier games, beta tests, presentations and mingling.The following day after would be more pools, leaving Saturday and Sunday for finals of every game.
Im a 3 day guy. granted, i usually get to vegas early afternoon on thursday. but thats usually for chillin, vegas style. I think 3 days is an exhausting event to begin with, as fun as it may be.
the other problem, is a lot of people cant get that many days off, due to lack of vacation days, new job, too long away from the kids, etc… or whether it be money issues(travel expenses potentially go up, depending on what is decided). another potential problem, lets say i can only go to evo for 3 days. and something really awesome is happening thursday that i want to attend, bu tthen i also have pools/semis for another game i love to play on a saturday. well not only will i miss finals sunday, even if i did good and somehow made top 8, i wouldnt be able to stay. so now its a dilemma, which do i sacrifice?
These may be extreme or whatever, but its just ideas that popped into my head. i always make sure i got 5-7 days off for evo(i need my extra time off post evo to handle EVOla or just rest from the entire weekend), so I really wont have issues regardless. But im afraid it could also splinter player base. Unless thursdays are gonna be for retro fighters, which these days, is a totally different crowd.
I may have voted for 3 days, but if the ideas are pretty sick, i may reconsider, as others would too.
just my 2 pesos
I’d say try to be flexible about the schedule; if there are enough games that are actually worth being put on stage, then by all means have it on all four. Otherwise, the current 3 day schedule is pretty exhausting enough for everyone involved.
For this year I personally think Saturday went on WAY too long, but at least Sunday went by fast, despite the minor interruptions here and there (such as people not clearing the aisles during the AE finals).
I’m gonna have to agree with a majority with people here… Have it four days only if you plan on adding 2+ games to the tournament.
Right now I’m planning on going from Brazil to Vegas for a 1-week stay, just for Evo. If it’s 4 days, all the best for me, and right now I want a fair representation of FGs at Evo. Evo exposure sure is a big deal for our community in general, so the more days, in a good balance of interest and dedication, the better.
Best of luck to all involved, I’m in there son! o/
I’ve got a good job + not married, so vacation is whatever. Make it four days!
I think three days is good enough.
This one of those tricky situations. If it is 4 days with all the new/most popular games, then I’m all for that. It sucks that some games get dropped from main lineup due to lack of time available. I really don’t like being in Vegas for 4 days though as it is.:wgrin:
My spouse & I attend & while we arrive Thursday night, making it 4 days would kill it for both of us. We can’t be the only adults here with jobs that aren’t accompanied by PTO, right?
3 days is ok
A four day event is going to have a lot of conflict with many people’s work schedules (yes people actually have jobs while playing competitively) unless they have a lot of vacation time. I say keep it three days unless you put the games with a lot of participants on the weekend (Friday-Sunday). You can then have Thursday for the games with the least amount of participants.
Either way I voted to keep it at three days.
I work weekend nights, so I can only hit 2 tournies a year max, and usually it’s 0-1. I’d want the full experience.
You could always also stagger the big games, so some folks could leave Saturday if they had no interest in the games on Sunday.
The real question is can you run 7 games in 3 days?
3 1/2 days. Run smaller games pools Thursday night.
I’m there for all four if you guys make it! The only thing I’d need to do would save a bit more money for the extra hotel day.
I wonder what FChamp and his crew got for being stuck in the elevator.