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Currently, that solution sucks sweaty donkey balls. If you can’t do it properly, why do it? Another solution could be getting top quality sticks and have them at the exact measurements of a capcom deluxe cab. That means the height AND the distance from stick to stick are exactly the same. Then grab some stools. Since it’s console, a stick can be unplugged for a pad but, you still have to be next to the opponent. For 3 years I’ve brought up the issue that we play against the Japanese in THEIR style on our turf. W…T…F!?! Of course they win consistently. The scales are imbalanced. I’ve played the Japanese on side by side MANY times and they fall for peripheral vison-joystick fakes like ANYone. Actually, moreso since they don’t play that way. At B5 the Japanese respected the mindgame involved there. SF used to be so much more than merely reacting to the screen. It’d be nice to force the Japanese to sit RIGHT THE F*CK NEXT TO US with their sticks and us on ours. We’re in the US. It’s only fair to play American style SF. It isn’t as if the Japanese have us play side by side when we go over there. That complaint has been ignored and an entire aspect of American SF is all but lost or forgotten. To me, that shows that SRK respects the Japanese more than they respect their own peeps. Want more proof? The Japanese had special treatment with sticks again this year. Americans WANTED to play on their sticks instead of the ones provided because they were so much better. Wtf is up with that? At least we agree on something here, though:)

I won’t discuss A3. SRK saw it dying and just encouraged it’s death. That’s so against the true SF mentality of keeping the good games alive. At least wait until the Japanese come over and ruin the game for us before just letting it drop. There are a lot of slow paced runaway games showcased now. It’d be nice to save the fighters that accent…FIGHTING.

I didn’t mean to say that if it came across that way. We’ve lost so many players since 2k2. At that time, there were plenty of players. Only more were interested in attending. Now, that statement might be true but, it’s only true because of the path SRK has taken.

I agree. However, if you go forward and it f*cks things up, then it’s better to go back to the way it was done before it was broken. In this case, going forward is cool but, that doesn’t mean to change things that work fine. It’s like going through a maze. If you make the wrong turn, go back to where you were when you made it and move forward from there. As far as I’m concerned, the forward steps have taken us backward. I can’t prove that, but I speculate that if you have a huge tourney that’s all SF, now, it won’t gather the players that Evo2k2 had and 2k2 would’ve had MORE players had they had full tourneys for both 3s and A3. I believe SF has lost more players than having the other games has gained. SF has not been enhanced at all. It’s been downplayed. Wasn’t the purpose to enhance SF? Yeah, that’s what I was told.

Of course I’d be a part of that if I were really a part of that. However, it’s all the SRK staff. I’ve already pointed to proof that SRK doesn’t care what the players say as long as ppl attend.

You may not see me as being helpful. I understand. However, if SRK seemed to listen to peeps, you’d think I were helpful. WIthout SRK support, I’m complaining. With their support, I’m contributing ideas(apprehensively though:( ). My positioned is viewed strictly by SRK’s take on it.

I’m surprised that you see my posts as an attempt at sabotage. I feel it’s more like the last remnants of a voice from a scene that no one cares is all but gone. I’m just kicking and screaming into the night. My words are just the last bits of hope coming out of me. If my words do undermine what’s going on? Good. Although that’s incredibly doubtful. But if I undermine their killing of ideas the scene was built upon. GREAT! I stand for those ideas and am against whoring SF out for mere numbers. But seriously, my words have little effect but it feels good to vent and it’s nice to know that some, like Tru3tn01, can see where I’m coming from and can understand cuz, it feels like most that would understand gave up already. I’ll use my voice as much as I can cuz this shit is sad to me. I was so not hype this year. This shit’s sapped my energy for the scene and that sucks.

Anyway, if I’m sabotaging through my words than SRK has sabotaged SF by it’s actions.

I copy my shiet before I post too, heheh. It’s just smart.

Apoc.

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It’s been said many, many, many times. While it’s true that APEX controlling Evo seeds did encourage certain people to go to tournaments, the reason why APEX isn’t being used to seed Evo is because there was some heavy cheating going on back at Evo2K2. People would fill their tournaments with imaginary people and be rolling in the APEX points come Evo. Just the Pac North division seeding alone was severely fucked up at Evo2k2. The clear three best in norcal at the time were Ricky, Choi and Nelson. Out of those three, only Ricky had a top 3 seed.

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While that’s a good reason, I don’t recall any proof that these ppl were imaginary. Wait, I do recall one but, that wasn’t PacNorth.

Why not have it affect seeding and then have seeds picked by SRK based on the players’ passed tourney records? Throw 'em up before Evo and see if there’s any disagreement.

The problem wasn’t Apex affecting seeds, it was certain ppl, if what you’re saying is true. Having Apex not affect seeds isn’t a solution, imo. Perhaps appointing an Apex rep or 2 for each region that are willing to show up every tourney to legitimize results? That’s a lot better than having an all but meaningless ranking system. Apex was hot when it first came out cuz that shit meant something. I stopped caring about locals and any non-majors the moment Apex was disregarded.

If Apex doesn’t reflect Evo’s results, aside from the Japanese, at least somewhat closely, the rankings can’t be viewed as legitimate. I think re-linking the 2 would be a smart idea. Perhaps then, every major could realistically use Apex as a seeding tool.

I’m just saying, all it’s good for now is to say “Our website hosts a ranking system!” Having it just to have it sucks.

Apoc.

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Extra stuff.

WAY too much to reply to in the latest Apoc rant. And to nitpick over one or two point in the whole thing would be a discredit to the rest of it. Plus, I’m not an expert on much of what he said, but I do have my own opinion…

The way I see it, tournaments are as good as the people that attend. Competition? Sure, that’s nice, but most people know they aren’t going to win. Heck, with most tournaments only giving prizes to the top three even top players know that there’s a good chance they won’t win jack.

That being said, there is another problem IMO with the fighting game scene, and that’s Capcom. Street Fighter just isn’t what it once was, because Capcom fails to innovate and upgrade their games properly. I personally don’t see the insult of adding Smash Brothers to the mix. It’s a well-made fighter which improved upon another well-made fighter which was so good it spawned it’s own community. Also the best selling console fighter of all time, but that’s another story.

Recently Capcom has pretty much mae crap. Other than Resident Evil games, can you name some good Capcom games in the last two years? Heck, other than remakes and sequels, can you name any? Case in point, Smash improved from 64 to melee by adding air-dodging, ground dodging, toning down throws and adding more characters and stages so that a lot of the broken stuff was easier to handle or removed altogether. You take Guilty Gear XX and go to Reloaded, and you’ll find a much better game. Why? They tweaked all the characters so that the easy damage is gone and the balance is much, much better. Factor in Sammy’s response to how badly they screwed up Reloaded the first time and you see how they were able to make Reloaded into such a good game. (Of course, Isuka is another story.)

Now take Capcom. Never mind how they haven’t released a new fighting game in three years or so. They take a popular game in Third Strike, and they ‘upgrade’ it by removing unblockables from Urien and Oro, making them weaker. Chun-Li? Ken? Yun? All the same. That decision puzzles me to no end. Furthermore, only a few characters ever change supers in tournament play, from what I’ve seen. (Makoto, Akuma, Elena, Remy, Dudley, Alex, Hugo, Necro, Oro, Ryu, and Yang are the only ones I’ve seen. That may seem like a lot, but I’d only make a strong case for Makoto, Dudley, Elena, Hugo and Yang.) Doesn’t this seem like something that should be changed?

Alpha 3 is still played in Japan, at least at A-cho from what I’ve seen. It seems to me that it still has much, much potential to become popular again. Why not take that game and add some tweaks, like Sammy did with GGXX? Give TOMO and his awesome V-Nash a better chance.

Now Apoc says he has firsthand reports that CFJ sucks. Capcom just doesn’t seem to have it, so I say why not add non-SF games?

Furthermore I’d guess the scene is dying a bit simply because people are growing up. It’s not exactly a prestigious thing in the US to be the Street Fighter champion. I like the scene because I can hang out with my friends and play. A good time at a tournament IMO has less to do with the tournament itself and moreso with the people that go. And you don’t need to practice SF in order to hang out.

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Well, CFJ is still testing. I’d rather think that’s the reason they test the game. It sucks now but hopefully the testers get the main problems ironed out. It was said that part of the problem was that all of the systems, together, made one big mess. It’s also really unbalanced in CLEAR favor of the Vampire characters.

They aren’t that close to finishing. As is turns out, there’s going to be 6 or 7 characters per game represented. Also, the “All New” characters, like Ingrid, will all be coming from Capcom Fighting All Stars.

I’m not saying that I have faith in them to make a great fighter anymore. They seem to love randomized guessing a lot lately.

Apoc.

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I don’t always agree with Apoc, but damn that guy is slick.

I really don’t understand WHY there is no A3 still, people have offered boards, people have offered cabs, and yet SRK still doesn’t want to do it? What if it was completely self contained, i.e. the players run it all, handle maintenance, bring in the equipment, etc. But you still have it under the list of evo games, would that work? Or even better, since you want turnout for A3 before resubmitting it, howabout having it as a semi official tournament(ie what I described above) until it gets to a certain body count(64 or something, I dunno what you guys would want) and if it does, THEN you could start supporting it more. It wouldn’t detract from the event, cause it wouldn’t bother the rest, but if it DID get enough people then it would qualify as a game you want to run, thus making everyone happier.

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Thanks for misunderstanding my post.

All I’m saying is that some people like arcade, some people like console, and some people like both. People shouldn’t be up in each others business because they think their format is better. If you don’t like a tournament format, then don’t go to those tournaments.

Console and arcade are different formats. There is a lot of overlap, but people shouldn’t expect the arcade players to jump at the chance to play on console, and vice versa.

Most of all, I’m saying that people should a) do what they enjoy doing and b) give back to the scene that they enjoy.

I should add that people should stop trying to run everyone else’s life. Hypothetical example: If you don’t like the fact that PS2 urien guardbreak happens later and you can’t hit-confirm the lowfierce for the juggle like you can on arcade, you don’t have to play in the PS2 tournament, but you shouldn’t hate on those that do decide to enter.

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The way the Cannons decide which games go into Evo is generally based on the size of the scene. GGXX players wanted it in Evo, so we held big ass tournaments and the Cannons noticed. 3s players wanted it in Evo, so they did likewise. The A3 scene, as far as I can tell, never really organized its ass well enough to pull that off.

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Yeah, A3 crowd has been consistent in not really liking any of the console ports (Saturn is best, but the hardest to find). So there haven’t been as many tournaments post-CvS1, since it’s not a hugely popular game. I’m ready to break down and hold tourneys on the DC version…this coming from a guy who plays Rose, and you can mash out of Rose’s Level 2/3 anti-air super by mashing the kick buttons on the DC/PSX version of the game (btw, Really, Capcom? REALLY? Fuck you too.)

It’s TOMA, actually. Sorry to nitpick.

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A3 is pretty damn dead. People complained that at Evo there was no A3 even in the BYOC room. There was an XvSF tourney, some random SNK games, but no A3. Lot’s of people say ther like A3, but nobody makes any effort at all. All the people who chime in with “me too” in threads about A3, why not bring A3 to the BYOC room and play it? Not doing yourselves any favors…

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No offense, Pat, but you HAD to use the word “generally” and even you knew it.

See, the US NEVER got into VF aside from the smallest possible pockets. It was never even close to A3 in popularity. If it is now, it’s ENTIRELY due to Evo’s support.

That’s my problem. All the reasons and excuses are convenient and don’t hold true across the board. It leads one to believe that SRK finds us stupid. I’m hella sick of them making decisions like they think they know better than everyone else, combined, YET they still turn around and act like they’re dumb. It’s insulting. Whatever excuse they give, the fact remains that, at least, VF had next to no popularity, and still doesn’t even with Evo. Can someone point me to one US tourney for VF that is only VF? Of course not. Would that many ppl travel for VF if not for the draw of the other games as well? Of course not. VF has been held for 2 years and it was the least popular good game in the states and always has been. Um…that’s kicking SF aside in order to force VF to become popular here.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not against VF and have held VF before, myself. However, doing it at the expense of good SF games is a slap in the face to the SFers that made Evo big. I’m not saying that SRK doesn’t get major props for organizing large gatherings but, NONE of it would’ve happened if NOT for SF players in the first place. If you’re gonna force a game into popularity again(like we did with ST), then you should respect the SF players first and foremost. That’s how the shit got so big in the first place.

It’s the same attitude as giving the Japanese preferential treatment with controls. Get a clue and take care of home first. There’ll be a lot less pissed and dissatisfied folks. But on the real, THEY DON’T CARE. Check Inkblot’s response to Ohaya1234 when asked why CvS2 wasn’t 2of3 even though it was said to have been. Inkblot told Ohaya that we turtle too much. Yo, when I couldn’t have HF, I was jumped on being told I owed Choi money cuz he paid for his trip expecting that, among other complaints. But when ppl travel expecting CvS2 to be played as the Cannons said it would, it isn’t even taken seriously. How about just saying “We fucked up and couldn’t make it happen. Basically, what we said ended up being a lie because of that.” That’s the truth. HELL, that was one of the main reasons given for having console, because it would improve CvS2 in that way. So, we were lied to twice, right there. Do they cop to it? Course not. It doesn’t gain props or make them look hot. Fuck being honest and being accountable for what you tell players. Replying jokingly to Ohayo’s post was insulting to me when seeing the nice and mature way Ohayo asked the question. He just wanted an honest answer. Instead he got brushed aside with a laugh. Yeah, SRK cares what we think? Evo is for THEM and not for the players. Otherwise, they would answer to the players. I hear them talk about how much money they put into it but, being real, that AIN’T shit compared to the ammount of money ppl paid to travel and attend the event as well as compete. The players should get props for the turn-out and a big muthafuckin’ “THANKS FOR MAKING IT POSSIBLE FOR SRK TO DO THIS.” They clearly forget that without the players’ money, this shit can’t even happen. No respect. It’s time to fess up. Shit failed in every way that players foresaw. We didn’t have to wait for Evo to see this. SRK didn’t listen to us and the shit happened. Gee, the players were right about the DCs AND the controller issues? Go figure. Who would’ve thought that SRK posters would have more accurate insight into the problems of the event BEFORE it happened? SRK didn’t. Player intelligence just isn’t regarded at all. That shit is mad arrogant. In fact, I haven’t seen one dominant player have that much arrogance in the scene. That shit is mad funny.

Is it any wonder, now, after I’ve pointed out so much, that the SF scene is in jeopardy? SRK needs to respect SF much more and players will follow suit. This “new game” mentality makes the event into the dorky sausage fest of the year instead of the best tournament of the year. If the SF game is good or its’ players highly respect it, hold it, before adding any other games. Be respectful to the players that got them there. It’s not as if they don’t have the ability to please everyone. They don’t even try because they don’t care.

Fuck the mentality that says there will be no games that have had an arcade release by 2007. That’s a recipe for mainstream dumbshit. It might as well be a Mario Party tourney.

Let’s make it clear: SFA3/ST/SF3:3s/CvS2/MvC2…hell, even HF, get so much respect from the players, SRK should honor that and those should be the frickin’ staples of the tourneys. Are they going to drop Tekken Tag if Tekken 5 sucks(I’m sure it won’t but, I’m making a point)? THAT would be dumb. Throwing out the more respected game because it’s older? W…T…F?

Keep the shit respectable. If the new games gather that much respect, then add 'em. If they don’t(like CvS1), don’t bother, no matter how many players like it “for fun” or combos. This is supposed to be a SERIOUS tourney with a serious competitive environment. To do that, you need to have games that are well respected, not games that are just new. Have 'em all if you can. If you can’t? Knock off the least respected non-SF games first until the tourney is doable.

It should be about integrity, not numbers. Quality over quantity(how long do I have to preach that shit before ppl get a clue?). Who cares if Evo gets so big it gets coverage if everyone watching knows it’s a joke?

Have some respect and take care of home, first. That means controls too. Things can be done to make everyone happy without compromising the integrity of the scene. SRK seems to think this is impossible or just doesn’t care about the scene and only care about what it can do for them.

If I’m insulting, I say stop insulting the SF scene that Evo was built upon before telling me to be less insulting.

Apoc.

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Firstly, because there is NO CONSOLE version…but…

Because the tourney isn’t official. XvsSF was never a respected tourney game, EVER. It’s a scrub game for fun. More ppl like XvsSF than respect it. Also, there is no console version of SFA3(not a tourney version). So, it pretty much has to be official for ppl to play. Anything less is pretty insulting.

I didn’t make any effort because, unless it’s announced officially, A3 players won’t fly.

They did try to put one up at Evo but, the controls were so horrible and HAD to be set on the table because the cords were too short. It was completely unplayable for me and I wasn’t going to take an hour, while waiting, to get used to the sticks. I love A3 and I didn’t bother playing it more than a few times. Not when jab dps come out as jumping jabs, lol. But this problem goes throughout the console issue.

Seriously, I don’t even play A3 anymore because folks follow SRK and SRK disses it. Therefore, the comp will die or be sub-par.

If A3 were announced for next year, I’d get an x-box, modded, and play on mame. Or use my pc to play on kaillera. Without a serious competition, I’m not going to waste my time with a lag-fighter.

At Evo2k2, we had already dropped A3 until it was announced for Evo. Then we dropped cvs2, lol.

Ppl want to play the games they can compete at Evo on. It’s as simple as that. If A3 isn’t at Evo and there’s no true console port, like me, players just stop playing. That’s on the blame of Evo.

I have yet to see a tourney, run by SRK, that had A3, that had a poor turn-out for it. It wouldn’t happen. Unless, of course, they announced it like a month ahead of time.

SRK can talk all the shit they want but, I’ll believe that A3 shouldn’t be there when they announce it early and they still have poor attendance. That never happened. SRK omitted A3 on their own and, therefore, contributed the MOST to the death of the A3 scene. It’s pretty obvious that A3 needs Evo as much as VF does.

Hell, I would plan the A3 tourney next year and run it with other A3 peeps if it were announced now. That way, if it were messed up or had poor attendance, then they could all laugh and say I told you so. But, that wouldn’t happen. A3 players would be grateful for the showcasing and get back into it. Those, of course, that still play fighting games and haven’t bailed yet. Hey, this way, all the heat would be on me. Of course, the idea that it would get a great turn-out and make SRK look like asses for the past 3 years is enough to deter them from the idea.

But let me make this clear, my complaints have little to do with A3 and everything to do with the mentality of SRK. Why, when I post, do ppl, SOMEHOW, think that I’m talking about A3 underneath it all? WTF? Are the real points so incredibly hard to gather? Try reading my posts without SFA3 on the brain.

Apoc.

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That said, let me talk about A3 some more.

For what it’s worth (not much, but), staffing will not be a problem if an A3 tourney were run at Evo. While I may not agree with the SRK staff’s descision, I do understand it.

I do think Apoc is correct. If SRK announced tommrow that CvS2 or MvC2 or whatever weren’t going to be at Evo next year, there would be fewer tournaments for those games too. You may see MWC or ECC get a few more entries, because people spend their traveling money getting there instead, but it would definitely hurt the scene.

I wouldn’t go as far as to say that no A3 at Evo contributed to the scene’s death…the fact is, people could have started holding their own tournaments and start the scene by themselves, like people started to do with GGX/X, or with 3S, but because of a couple of issues (ie somewhat shady ports, and the game is just old and sometimes hard to find), people decided not to. Woulda coulda shoulda, didn’t. Would the game being at Evo helped the scene a lot, and made it much bigger than it is now? Fuck yes. And, to the best of my recollection no one has ever stated that it wouldn’t matter if A3 was at Evo, because the game wouldn’t have gained any populairty or momentum. That would be a retarded claim. But I find a statement like “if you can get 64 people for an A3 tourney, we’ll see if we can throw it into Evolution,” to flawed. It’s hard to get 64 people for Marvel anymore, depending on where you live.

Blah blah. It’s my day off from work, so I’m posting a lot. I’m just some guy who misses A3 and wants it to be at a major. I’ll probably still show at Evo next year.

N-Ken: that’s a good question. I honestly don’t know if there are enough people with A3 boards to make that proposal, however. What would be nice is to have a World Championships of A3, like FFA did with 3S. Be hard to schedule (you couldn’t have it at FFA, because if you have an A3 machine and a 3S cab in the same room, they start fighting). I will try to throw something together for Evo next year, even if it’s just 5 Dreamcasts running A3 in the BYOC room…

Edit: oh, I forgot. There’s this thing that happens where if you use two incompatible sticks, the 2p one(?) won’t register on DC A3. Sorta like in MvC2. I think they both have to be MAS sticks or something…? I dunno, I’ll look into it. You win again, gravity…

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I am from Seattle although I am in no way saying that I am speaking for all players from Seattle. That being said I have spoken to some Seattle players about this past Evolution and next years Evolution and all that. The players I spoke with felt that because Evolution is console there’s nothing really to look forward to anymore. We (the players in question and I) thought of Evolution 2k3 and 2k2 and even B5 as a culmination of our efforts for that year of gaming. The tournaments we played in and the practice sessions we had were, in at least some small way, thought of as practice for the major we all would be attending that year. That being said with the choice to put Evolution on console it seemed to us that the experience was cheapened. I myself hate console tournaments. I have never played in a console tournament (aside from maybe a 1 dollar for fun tournament at Cody’s house or something) and I’m certainly not going to start now. I don’t see the point in driving 1k miles to a console tournament when I won’t drive 5 miles when there’s one here.

A lot of people talk about all games will be console so why not go console now? Well that’s fine. Maybe someday all games will be console. However, Marvel and CvS 2 aren’t console. These are the two main games being played in the US (vs. series and sf respectively) That statement may not hold 100% true for all areas but for the general majority I believe that to be true. These are arcade games that are still played by a great deal of people in the arcade. These aren’t straight to console release with no arcade cabinets in existence. If a game comes out someday that I play that’s console only then I will attend console tournaments because that’s the only option. However, when you’re talking about an arcade game being played on a console at the biggest tournament of the year that’s just insulting.

I realize that perhaps there are financial limitations to cabinets to be considered. However, I haven’t personally heard this for a reason as to why the switch was made to console so if that’s the case then perhaps I could be enlightened. The only reason I have read is that it’s because all games will eventually be console and this will make the transition smoother when that happens. The scene here is fairly dead at the moment. A lot of people feel if there’s no big tournament at the end of the year then the overall drive to play isn’t there. Hopefully the next tournament will turn things around but you never know. The players I talked to thought that instead of Evolution we might as well go to ECC or something like that. If it’ll be an arcade tournament then it would make more sense to go to that then to Evolution. We want to play an arcade game on in an arcade environment, meaning a cabinet at the very least. I realize my opinion won’t matter to anyone really but I felt after reading a bit of this thread to give my input.

In closing I had a great time at B5, Evo2k2 and Evo2k3 and I really hope that there will be a reason for me to go to Evo2k4. If not, ah well. BYE BYE

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I was just making an aside about A3, I basically agree with most of what Apoc has said. (How much of it I read, anyway…)

I think the basic summary is this: It’s better to have a smaller number of tourneys run right.

More isn’t always better. It’s nice for the community to agree on a small number of games they care about and focus on those games.

I don’t see the point in mixing 2d and 3d games. I can’t think of many people that are genuinely great at both, and the communities don’t overlap as much as you might think. Maybe there are some good organizational reasons, but it seems like a distraction.

The Cannons’ do have a point about game moving towards consoles. Sooner or later, the fighting games worth playing probably will be on consoles only for most people. I don’t know what to do about that exactly, but standardized controls would be a step in the right direction. (No plugging and unplugging, no changing button configs, etc etc - it wastes time and standard controls = level playing field)

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someone was playing A3 in the BYOC room. IIRC, dr. b played a few games of Dramatic Battle. most people didn’t even know what that was.

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Nah, that’s cool. I think what happened was I just watched too much Azumanga Daioh and my brain warped.

I like the idea that someone mentioned earlier about 3-d games on one day and 2-d on the other. Among other reasons, this would give each tournament more room in which to run their games.

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This is a golden nugget of wisdom lost in the sea of discontent of the last 4 pages in this thread.

Please apply this wonderful insight to Evo. We will do everything we can to run great tournaments, but within the Evo format (console). If this displeases you, it is up to you to make a difference in your community. Simply demanding that Evo accomodate your format isn’t going to accomplish anything.

Apoc, I’m talking to you. You will post tens of thousands of words on this forum, but won’t lift a finger to help A3 community yourself. If you cared about the A3 community you would mobilize it. Get people to support what A3 scene there is at MWC. Organize local A3 tournaments. Do something.

Instead you sit on your old-school ass and demand that I do something for you. I was at MWC – were you? Go ahead… I can feel it coming; the deluge of Apoc-text about how SRK is killing everyone and we’d all be better off if I would just die. While you’re writing it, keep in mind that in 2002 3s and A3 were in the exactly the same position – both were exhibitions only. The only difference is that I personally really liked A3, but HATED 3s. Now 3s is the crowd-favorite tournament at Evo, and A3 is dead. I wonder how that happened?

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I don’t have time to read any of Apoc’s posts. I have no idea where he gets the time to write them. I thought I’d take some time to answer your questions, though.

Better than what? :slight_smile:

Staying small is relatively easy. Find an arcade, get in good with the manager, and you’ve got yourself a tourney. Until your local arcade closes, or doesn’t get the latest game in because the manager’s afraid to take the risk. What do you do then?

Well, you hit the nail on the head: the biggest reason is organizational. I couldn’t disagree with you more on the “seems like a distraction” point, however. Even if there were 0 overlap between the communities, pooling our resources gives us the ability to do things that we couldn’t individually.

The examples are endless. Without a certain headcount, we couldn’t afford to rent decent facilities to run the tournament. That means the multiple bigscreens, seatings for finals, WWE style introductions, BYOC room, etc. go out the window. Furthermore, external partners just aren’t interested in small time gamers. Namco, for example, may not have been intersted in showing Tekken 5 at EVO if it were only a 120 man Tekken tournament instead of a 750 man mega-tournament.

It’s sooner. Look at all the arcades that have closed across the nation in the past 2 years. How many of the ones that are still open will get GGXX #R? CFJ? Will Capcom even bother selling an arcade PCB in the states? Almost certainly not.

Consoles are a standard accessible to everyone, everywhere. It would be silly not to adopt that standard. The only reasons not to are purely nostalgic, IMHO.

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Yeah, I agree w/ margalis about standardized controls. But I think you guys should have setups similar to the japanese 3s setup, or that red arcade panel setup someone had built, except it should of been strapped to the table to have more stablility. Other than that and seating heights, I thought that Evo was quite a success. And Cannons, if you have problems building these things, I’m sure you could go to the Hardware section and ask the builders for help, the community is more willing to help than you think. My apologies if these topics were already brought up, there’s a fuckload of pages I didn’t want to browse through.