Does everyone forget about the blue screen DQ of death on the dreamcast or the superghetto homemade stick that shortout the entire console?:rolleyes:
Or there’s the my TV is too small to play on or this TV makes the game look pixel fighter if it’s a HDTV. I’ve heard it all for arcades tournaments and console tournaments. There are problems with both ways of running tournament IMO. 1st and formost THERE IS NO CORRECT/BETTER WAY TO RUN A TOURNAMENT! No one way is better than the other IMO.:wgrin:
Arcade tournaments are not better than console and vice versa. I say use what you have and if you have the arcade perfect version of a game IMO you should use it if you can. FinalRound is the original “console warrior” tournament. That’s where the term came from and I fought like hell for console tournaments to get the respect they deserve, but I also understand we can’t forget where it all started from.
I understand eveyone points on console vs. arcade, but I started FR as a console tournament only and didn’t gain the respect around the community as a legit major until we got the health mixture of arcade machines and console games. I want to duplicate the old school arcade feeling for tournaments and share that with the younger generation that never got a chance to play in the golden years of arcade scene. I live in the 98% that DSP spoke of that doesn’t have an arcade scene and I truely understand his points, but in the same vein I don’t want to forget the roots, fundamentals, general feel that only an arcade type tournament can bring.
I know that EVO is the standard that everyone should strive for, but with all due respect to everyone that runs evo (“I can’t and won’t be a cookie cutter version of their tournament”). They worked too hard to have someone try to X-copy their shit and try to call it some other name besides evo. This is not a diss, so I don’t want anyone running back to the cannons or wiz or anyone in charge of running evo saying that shinblanka was dissing evo and the way it’s run. Far from that people. I respect the hell out of all of those guys for the things they do for the people and a slowly dying fighting game scene, because IMO if there wasn’t any EVO the fighting game scene would be gone the way of the DODO bird in the usa as we know it today.
FRX is only a tournament while EVO is more of a convention for all of the people in the USA and all around the world with the same hobby as me with the biggest tournament in the world as the main draw. It’s much more than a tournament IMO. It’s a social gathering of people from different backgrounds, colors, and creeds to meet and compete against someone with the same interest as them. I know every tournament usually takes it’s lead from evo with rulings and games played at majors, but ultimately it’s up to the other major organizers to define how his or her tournament should played what game should be played and what is the general mode/feeling you want to give your tournament that year.
I CHOOSE TO TRY TO KEEP THE FEEL OF FRX TO AN OLDSCHOOL ARCADE STYLE TOURNAMENT!!! With a health mixture of consoles and arcade cabinets!
That’s what I was raised up on and that’s the gift I want to give to the younger generation of fighters. I personally don’t want to let the arcade/interaction part of tournaments go. I see a future for fighting game tournament and it heading to online majors. The interaction with people will be gone and when that happens the best thing about tournaments will be dead. I don’t know what it is or can’t put my finger on it, but there’s something about playing your foe on a cab that brings the best and worst out of players.
What get’s the blood flowing more than beating your foe walking away from the cab? Or throwing your hand up and turning your back away from a foe that has said he was better than you online on SRK or the fanboys looking over his shoulder over their favorite players match. Or a massive crowd around the main cabinet for the grand final match up. The energy in that setting can’t be matched IMO, and that’s what I want to try to capture at each Final Round. I hope you guy’s understand what and why i’m having some games cab’s and some console. I hope it won’t detour you from attending this years event, but if it does I totally understand.