1- During the end of day 1, they decided last minute that they needed 2 stations for matches. Thats fine. One of the judges jumps up and yells like a psychopath “GET BACK” and doesn’t tell anyone how far he wants us back. When asked where the line needs to be, he literally yelled back “GET BACK” like we’re animals. It was a really shitty way to be treated. Some more respect for the people who are at the event would have been great.
2- Seats for watching the main stage during the end of the first 2 days were like treasure chests. Whoever had one never wanted to get up regardless of anything because of how few there were. I had to resort to going to other ballrooms and taking a seat back to the main stage just to have a place to sit. Not everyone can be there from 8am to midnight on their feet the entire time, and i appreciate the fact that day 3 finals were all chairs, but some more chairs for the other days would have been excellent. I understand if there are fire hazard rules and such in the way, but it still sucked.
3- Food situation didn’t bother me, i drove there and used valet to park, i ate anywhere i wanted. Ask around next time if someone has a car, i would have gladly taken people to go get food for themselves and their friends.
Thats all i can think of right now. The event was so awesome, and other then AE 12 finals being more boring then SFxT finals, it was crazy hype and im so excited for next year.
Assuming that we all want to just sit and watch finals all day on Sunday is kind of insulting. I didn’t fly to Vegas to watch a glorified stream. Half the seats weren’t even being used for most of the day.
Some of those matchups seemed like you could make them best of 99 and it’s still be 50-0. :nunchuck:
SUBTITLES ON THE VIDEOS. It’s mood-killing watching a just beautifully filmed touching documentary that you can’t understand a word of when you’re in the hall. I’m looking at you Gootecks and Mike Ross. Excellent work, but I look forward to actually hearing that video at some later point. Same with almost anything: figure out some way to have visible subtitles or other captioning, because we never hear a word of what anyone is saying.
MORE MEXICANS. That ole! chant made me want Bala to win. I love that spirit. More regional spirit.
I dunno, unless they’re totally mentally guard broken at that point, some of those guys should at least be able to recover for a game or two after a couple of losses.
Make finals top 4 or something. As much as I like watching as many matches as I can. KoF and Marvel started taking a long amount of time. And I don’t doubt that the amount of 2-0’s in SF4 had a bit to do with fatigued players. Even I was tired and I was just sitting at home the whole time watching on the stream.
Hello all, I am a dev for the mobile event schedule application at Guidebook and big time UMVC3 stream monster and semi long time shoryuken lurker (starting in ‘06’ when I was getting into MvC2). Are there any concerns/criticisms/suggestions you have as attendees for the app to make your lives easier and useful?
Some things that are about to be released by end of this summer, which I REALLY wish had made it out in time for EVO.
Searching through ALL schedule’s text instead of just the title. You would be able to search for “Chris”, “Justin W”, “Champ” to quickly find what pool each person is playing.
Background updating so that Evo organizers would be able to silently update everyone’s schedules without pushing you out of the guide to update. This would allow organizers to correct schedule times much more easily. It seems pretty common for scheduled event times to be pushed back and we want to make sure organizers have an easier way of updating unexpected push backs.
Better Twitter integration and experience (page through multiple hash tags, pull to refresh, replying to someone’s tweet, retweeting with a button.)
Better indoor mapping (I can’t release too many details on this one, but it’s going to be good).
Outside of these on my plate, if you think something could be improved/added and or if something was dumb / unneeded in the app please do not hesitate to reply / PM (I don’t want to deter from the “bigger picture” and experience of EVO.
My suggestions echo others in this thread. More streams. I wanted to see how a handful of my favorite players were eliminated.
Absolutely friggin’ loved EVO this year and was personally ecstatic that we could give something back to the FGC. Crazy mad respect for the skills, I was yelling at my screen.
Caesars is garbage and only exists to pull your money out of your ass in the fastest, most brutal way possible. We wound up going to the goddamn WalMart and buying groceries to eat.
If you lay across like 5 chairs that dudes want to sit in and go to sleep, you are a stupid asshole. Can’t even count how many times I saw what I thought was a few seats me and my crew could sit in only to roll up and see an ignorant motherfucker sleeping there. Go the fuck to your room and sleep in a bed, shithead.
I was sitting in the room since 11am and waited until all the finals finished to get up. Since I can’t trust anyone to save a seat. So no food and no bathroom breaks. So I really disliked it when games ran long, then you insisted on wasting more of my time with promos for games that I don’t give a shit about. Especially the 2 “shoryuken” poses. That was cool like 4 years ago in 2009, now its stale and boring. Then watching Ed Boon promoting his new game yet in the mean time you couldn’t even gather the players for the next finals? Same thing when they ran TTT2, I didn’t give a shit about snoop dawg making his ad, as much as I didn’t give a shit about seeing the ad itself much less wasting more eating and shitting time. Nor seeing more matches from TTT2. People who wanted to see is saw it at their booth. Why mess with the rest of us that didn’t give a shit about the game? And yet again, you couldn’t even the the players for the next top 8 on the stage so you can go through everything as quickly as possible.
Also those passes were wastes of money. No one enforced that shit. Where I was sitting there were at least 20 people without any form of badge. Kick those morons out, same with those you clogged up the aisles that almost shut down evo.
Too much waiting, all the hype was gone. Why is it that KOF was the most hyped game there? You killed all the hype for marvel by taking 45 minutes to start it after KOF ended. By that time, no one cared about SF4, hence why a third of the people there flat out walked out of the room after marvel ended.
Learn from keits on how to manage your time. Shit ran way to long. Same with the previous day while waiting for the ToL top 8 on stage.
Definitely not wasting my time and energy on this shit fest next year. Especially after the hotel lost my reservation so I had to try two other hotels so I had a place to sleep.
I’ve been to quite a few EVO events and i would have to say last years was the best that i have been to, the booths were open from the start of the event till the end of the event every day, so if you say didn’t feel like watching a certain match on day 3 you could go to a booth or a “free to play area” to pass the time. I went over to the skullgirls booth and they even admited to me that they were dissapointed that they had to pack all there things up and couldn’t maintain a booth for the last day.
the food as always is over priced but the evo food was down right rediculous 5 dollars for a simple hotdog, please i might as well save up another 10 dollars that i would more likly spend on a drink to go with that bad hotdog and go get a full blown meal. Don’t get me wrong it was convinent andi understand they have to try and recoperate the mony spent for the area for the food but that was rediculous.
Another thing that i understood and at the same time found it ultimatly very dissapointing, on day 3 where you could only get in to the main area with a badge was rediculous the area was pretty much empty until the UMVC3 finals started but the free to watch room was so over packed that it was flooded with people all the way out to the hall way while the main area was empty, i think a solution should of been the first 10 minues of finals only people with badges are allowed in so they can get a good veiw after the 10 minutes it should be a first come first serve type of deal.
If evo keeps growing at the current rate we DEFINITELY need a bigger venue. I am aware that this is the biggest room they have without upgrading to a car show room. It might be time to switch hotels then. If you were in a pool anywhere near the front stage you had so many people around you you could barely play. And people are oblivious to their surroundings or even what they are doing. Playing at any station near the stage pretty much ensured I had to fight my way through just to sit down and the chairs were constantly being bumped and slammed into during the matches.
I made sure when I was hungry to eat before going to the venue. I went to the evo food bar once, and dear lord 4 or 5$ for a tiny waterbottle? Yeah fuuuuuck that. It did seem like a lot of people without passes got into the main room as well. Because the side room had PLENTY of seating. Maximillians panel had more people in it that the overflow room did up through KoF finals.
Over all I had a lot of fun, but there are definite improvements that can be made.
Liuser, the app was awesome. I loved having it. I checked it probably 10 times a day while I was there. Kick ass job and I look forward to the improved version.
I can understand the food situation, hotels generally charge a higher value for convenience and the fact that its Vegas and a luxury hotel. But suffice to say, I was absolutely livid when I discovered there was a McD’s 2 minutes from the Caesar’s.
I personally loved and enjoyed the event, the only thing I would’ve suggest for improvement was the far back screen was monitoring the game itself, not the stream, so I couldn’t tell who was fighting who when I went back to watch or play one of the newer games.
More outside seating would be great. Because like someone said, after a while you had to literally fight someone or wait for them to just get up before getting a chair to sit down on for a few minutes. I never felt the venue got overcrowded until one of the big names started playing, then people flocked like fat kids to cake. Evo should look into renting the entire floor out and spreading pools into different rooms. If people got to walk a little further, it beats cramping or standing on someones shoulder to watch a match that isn’t on stream.
My only disappointment was that I did not bring a date, because I felt like one lonely ass dude sometimes compared to everyone else. :oops:
The second stream NEEDS to have a big screen of it’s own next year. Having 4 screens showing the same game seems somewhat wasteful. It would help clear the crowd from around the streaming station (which was in a terrrrrrrrrible spot this year in the corner, almost no room to watch, especially when it was a big match), and it would give the spectators something else to watch if the main stage stream is on downtime.
Player interviews/intros before matches.
More space between stations. Probably hard to concentrate when backpacks and joysticks are hitting the back of your head or getting in the way of the monitor during your tournament match. I don’t want to separate the crowd from the players, but with less space it might be needed.
More casual stations with popular games: One of my big reasons for coming was to get more offline games in, everyone says come to evo and play a ton of people, you’ll level up faster. I get there and there’s 2 AE stations with a 40 minute wait? Meanwhile the 3 people playing some anime game are taking up a screen at the BYOC area, and I got to play 3 games in the ballroom that weren’t my pools or at someones room.
Tape off floor seating: easy solution to the blocked isle problem: tape off floor seating with masking tape, don’t let people cross that line.
**Food: **that was highway robbery to pay $8 for four chicken strips. We’re already making the hotel a ton of money, why do they have to continue to take advantage of us?
Schedule: I agree with what others were saying, stuff ran WAAAAAY long, and then it was wait 10 minutes for the snoop dogg vid, and another 20 before the match already started. They should have a bigger stage, and get people ready on deck so they could have much faster transitions. I’ll agree that it seemed like SF4 had a lot of tired players.
Oh richstah I totally agree with that!. There were 4 big screens, 3 in the front with the stage and 1 hanging about half way back so people could watch it. The secondary stream ALWAYS had a massive crowd surrounding it but because of that crowd I never got to work my way over there. Having a big screen show what was on the secondary stream would have been great instead of 3 of the same.
