:lol: On sunday although I’m watching most of Evo finals there are a couple games I don’t really care too much for and during those times I’d like to play some of the Beta test games I haven’t got to play much do to long lines during the other days. 
I was glued to my seat, even sat through the abysmal Tekken finals lol! Only time I got up was to take a piss or grab some grub but we always had someone holding our seats.
More chairs!!!
And get a bigger projection screen (or place the side ones at better spots), so sitting in the back ain’t so bad.
I just sit and watch everything on Finals day.
I’d seriously pay to have my own reserved seat. Just don’t be dicks about it and sell off all of the best seats. Something like the 6 front-right rows would be cool.
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You just asked for two contradicting things.
Reserving/selling the first six rows/don’t sell the best seats
Though, I think reserved seating is a great idea.
I think a lot of the decision making stems from the games you play. If you’re only into SSFIVAE seriously, odds are pretty good you’re not going to suffer through the other games you have no interest in. The format of the stream is obviously designed to maximize viewership through a steady incremental increase of people. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the earlier games aren’t watched by as many people as the latter ones.
I’d be very interested in testing out a “seat purchase” next year. Say… $10 buys you a seat in the middle aisle closest to the stage. I know some seats were reserved this past year for Capcom employees and affiliates. Opening it up further to maybe 100 - 200 at a small premium would bring increased revenue. People want the best seat in the house. It’s likely they’ll pay for it knowing it’ll be there for them when they’re ready.
Keep the brackets on the computer and make them available online so that the audience/commentators are well informed throughout the tournament
Add more presentation value. I’ve watched Evo live stream the last two years and really enjoyed it, but it could use even more hype, especially in top eight. A very important element to any spectator sport (and I think we agree that fighting games are quickly growing in that department) is accessibility. Your average SF and VS player needs to be able to be entertained from the start. Right before top 8, recap the action. Show the top moments in each of the top eight contenders climb to the finals. If last years champ is there, make a big deal about it. Have brief interviews with the top 8 players, interlaced with highlights of there careers (picture Justin Wong talking about how he thinks he can beat Diago this time, then showing Evo moment #37, and his Comeback moment in MV2 with cyclops, all the while with the announcers hyping the upcoming battles. Give the top 8 entrance music and let them walk up from the crowd, and have a camera following them, panning to the crowd showing how insane and hype they are getting. Give them opportunities to showboat if they want like Poongko did before he demolished Diago. Last but not least, absolutely keep Skisonic as an announcer, he is professional, exciting, and knowledgeable. Don’t ever give the spot to some Mike Goldberg golden voice sounding idiot. It might be difficult to walk the line of making evo accessible to the general player, while still being special to the hardcore fans and players like us, but if you can do it I don’t see a limit to how big fighting games as a spectator sport can get.
Maybe I should do a whole write up on it. Just writing this made realize I have a lot more to say on the subject. Anyway see you all in 2012!
I’m usually there around mid-finals of the first game top 8 to get a seat through out finals. So since I get back mad late from partying I don’t have to wake up dumass early but early enough to get a good seat and not miss much action. Last Evo I made it when BB was halfway through top 8. I wish for the LOVE of gawd they have brackets somewhere, where spectators can see upsets and pools they missed without having to bother judges or asking a million people. Whether live updates online I can see via phone or somewhere posted in the ball-room.
Like most said, more seats, people sitting in isles and stopping evo was frustrating, and fuck all that reserve seating shit. I dont want to pay for fucking seating, Las Vegas is expensive enough. Just have more seats if possible. I had a really good seat near the front row when I woke up early enough.
While I wasn’t at this year’s Evo, I have been at previous ones in Vegas and when the games I wanted to watch weren’t on-screen… I honestly left to wander the event hall, visit vendor booths, play side games, play early builds of games set up, tend to work (yeah, I had to work during Evo…) tasks, wander the casino area, etc.This worked out fairly well because I enjoyed 50% of the games in competition, and couldn’t really care about the other half. So I got a very nice balance of spectator time and doing other stuff.
more seats, i saw some guy steal another persons seat despite his friends holding it for him, when the guy came back the dude wouldnt budge and it took like a whole row of people calling him out before he finally moved. i thought there was gonna be mayhem for a little while though. (actually some security at the event might be a good idea, people stealing seats, people stealing sticks, security seems a no-brainer to me)
i think premium pay seats is a good idea, i feel bad for people there by themselves who can’t keep a seat held down.
heck i’d buy a row just so my friends and i could go get something to eat without worrying about losing our spots.
maybe $15 for 1 seat and $20 for a pair?
I show up about 2-3 hours before AE finals start; Playing some casuals, money matches, beta test games 
I got there at open… and never left my seat until after Grand Finals SSFIV:AE.
I voted C, but honestly, most (if not all) betas were packed up rather early. IIRC, they were only up for BlazBlue, and taken down before any other game started, which actually seemed rather rude. If the set ups are going to be there during any games on finals day, they really should be there for all of them, or at least all but the last game, since that would give more than enough time to pack them up still.
I would have liked to play more UMvC3 and SFxT but Capcom took them down after BB finals, which was the one I wanted to see. So if the beta games were up more on Sunday I would have played them but sine what I wanted to play wasn’t I just watched BB finals then went to go find a place to play casuals until I had to leave to go see a show.
I usually post up a few hours before the games I want to watch, so I can slowly creep up and get some good seats!
Got me some 3rd row middle seats this year, so I will continue this trend!
I think if you are going to shut down the beta tests all day on Sunday then on Saturday night after the venue is close have more chairs added.
I’m a mix of A and B… Championship Sunday is like an all-day, tailgate type thing for me and my boys, but we also try to rotate and get food on games we care less about…
I think the beta test games should run most of the day though in the back. I was looking forward to getting some time in with them on sunday and that didn’t happen 
It might even be best to have the beta test games in a separate room with a TV that shows the stream, it some people might prefer that and it might be easier for the rest of us to get good seats for the finale.
- I.C.E.
Not being a tekken player, I didn’t really want to watch the whole finals on Sunday and instead played beta SFxT. At least, I think it was still up early on Sunday. But I watched the entire finals for MVC3 and SSF4 and was very happy to stay. Evo made me actually want to play more games though, and so I might pick up tekken, and then next year I’ll actually sit through the whole thing. MK9 I am already going to learn for sure. Personally, I would cater more to the viewers than anything else on Sunday.
except to go pee i was in my seat. There should be some sort of lunch break, I was starving by the end