<3 James Chen, and I applaud your efforts sir. I’m sure if I would have said something to you about Sebastian and I playing you would have moved one of us, but since it was 1 match I didn’t really care anyway. =)
Everyone knows that tournaments never run as smoothly as you want them to (especially those of us who have run them), and I understand this. It went about as well as I expected, and although I’m not angry, there were a few things that disappointed me.
Tournaments being held up for as long as 2 hours because a “named” player or a Japanese player was nowhere to be found. Were there special rules that prohibited them from being disqualified? One of my friends was 10 minutes late to his match and got DQ’d. A well-known MvC2 player was over an hour late for his and still got to play as far as I know. =p
Single match is… how should I put this? Not the American way. One of the biggest factors that differentiates our tournaments from Japanese tournaments is the fact that 90%+ of our national or ranked tournaments are 2 out of 3 matches. If you plan on changing it to 1 match halfway through, don’t advertise them as being 2 out of 3 matches and have ALL games single match to keep things fair.
Have more people help with sign-ups. Waiting 90 minutes to talk to Tom to have him put me into the correct bracket for the correct game was not fun. Signing-up and making sure everyone is where they need to be should take precedence over starting tournies. That’s just my opinion though.
Please try and make some separations or cordon off the areas around the “machines” so people can actually get to them and not be smothered. This had a lot to do with 75% of the TVs being taken over by Halo/SOCOM players on Saturday, but the crowd was so bad that the nice people from Tecmo that were there demoing Ninja Gaiden Black had to pack up and leave because they couldn’t move. And I can’t really concentrate on playing when some fat sweaty guy is so close to me that I can smell what he had for breakfast. =(
On Saturday, most of the semi-final games I saw on the big screen were MvC2. I don’t give a rat’s ass about that game - where was the love for ST?
Other than those few things, I thought it was good. The room was large and ventilated, and until 1500 kids showed up to play Halo, it was rather easy to move around. I enjoyed the fact that there was water provided for the players (although the cups ran out pretty early on) and there were mints for people to chew on, because some players need that. If you can get some love from the Axe body spray guys next year, things will be even better! Neil’s cabinet had it’s own section, which was popular also, and it was cool that you guys let Vic/Neil run tournaments outside of your own.
Overall I thought Evo kicked ass, but since this is the bitching thread let me drop a few complaints:
1st Complaint: Day 2 was awful. All I saw was foggy brown 1st person shooters everywhere. All the SF games were packed away in the corner, you couldn’t fucking move around. And you can forget about BYOC or casuals. I’m so glad that Halo2 shit got booed down, I only regret I wasn’t there to join in the booing. Fuck MLG.
2nd Complaint: Hey all you fat stinky fucks out there, take a goddamn shower. It was bad enough I couldn’t move how crowded it was I had some B.O. ridden fat shit so to boot I couldn’t breathe. Goddamn.
People who were booing are not that smart. Fighting games are not the only games that are played competitively. I don’t like FPS’s really (SOF2 is hot though), but you have to respect the people that play them. You know how many people make fun of people who go to fighting game tourneys? Then we make fun of people who play other genres in other tourneys? It doesnt add up.
That said though, BYOC area needed to be bigger. Maybe get those other conference rooms?
one match 3s would have mattered to me if I would have known before even starting the match. I was under the impression it was 2 out of 3 like the other 3s pool I was watching, shit even Buk (who I lost to ) thought it was 2 out of 3 to
Can’t speak for anyone but myself, but I know I waited a long time to DQ even non-famous players. I even tried to re-insert DQ’ed people who showed up over other people I DQ’ed if I could, but it never worked out.
True. But we don’t want to do it to those we can keep at 2/3. We’d prefer it that way, but we did state in the rules page all along that we can adjust these things at any time due to time constraints. It sucks that the most popular game is the one that suffers (popular = most people = takes longest) most often.
It does take precedence. That’s why we started so late the first day, trying to get those few people straightened out. But a lot of people don’t seem to agree with that.
But thanks for understanding that you had to end up playing your friend. We’ll definitely do our best to not have that happen anymore in the future.
i dont get why a tournmanet game had to be held in the byoc though. I would expect MLG to have covered a space for them to actually play, instead of sniping the byoc.
You know, i was a little upset about it not being 2/3 in 3s as well, but oh well. It probably would have kept me in the tourney longer as sometimes it’s a huge advantage to have the chance to adapt to your opponents game play. But oh well, shit happens, eh?
Overall it was pretty fun. It was my first time at Evo and i got a shitload of experience. Next year i’ll be more prepared now that i know what to expect. For those that didnt have time to get to the strip, i’m not sure why you didnt, but then again, i’m not you. I’m assuming because you had late pools. I found ample time to hit up the strip on Saturday Night and it was a fookin hoot. The rest of the non-tourny night time i spent drinking until 6 in the AM. There were some good room matches going on as well. I even got the chance to get owned by Chikiu’s Necro a few times.
I’m looking forward to seeing you all next Evo. Cheers
-slicing part of my left finger when i tried to open the door to the shuttle on the airport.
-300 dollar camera breaking
-fat burger
-fat burger giving me diareeah on friday and makeing me sick till sunday
-who ever had that sore throat giving it to me!
-paying 20 dollars for a dispoasable camera
-paying AT LEAST 30-40 bucks on water the whole weekend
-chicken teriyaki at pancake house(probably shoulda known better on this one, but i survive on chicken)
-loseing me ID, or having it stolen. No idea wtf happend there.
-not knowing where i parked and getting lost
The worst part about evo was during the finals. right before 3rd strike. “Alright you guys, congratulate the winners of the Halo tounament!!! the winner here recieves $2949 (whatever) and is qualified to go to the national halo tournament where they have a shot to win $60,000!!!” … $60,000… i’m sorry, fighting games are fun, but i think i’m gonna start playing Halo. If Ohnuki, Crow, Duc Do, Gian, RF, BAS and Qudans pooled the money they won, they might come up with 12,000… if even that… So even if you sweep every game at evo, you don’t even come close to what a freakin halo player gets?! I wanna know what capcom has to say about this seeing as how it’s more than a majority of the people there playing their games. where’s the love crapcom? stop spending your money of half-assed street fighter movies that get boo’d and give it to the people that matter. wait… capcom might read this, i can’t insinuate who the important people are… IT’S THE PEOPLE WHO CAME TO EVO TO PLAY. i saw no capcom love at evo… i’m even almost positive that capcom didn’t give the SF generations movie to evo, but it was some other third party. does capcom even know evo exists? do they care? wtf??? i’m tired of ranting… there could’ve been so much more, but then again, i’m a person that’s never satisfied… a Halo player that’s given up on fighting games that’s never satisfied… piece out SRK. i’m joining a halo forum…
you’re right about Capcom. what they’re doing (or not doing rather) is pretty weak.
anyway, that being said, who here is playing for money? its nice to see people play these games not for money but for pride, competition, fun and enjoyment.
if you’d rather play for money (course i doubt youd actually win close to the amounts you mentioned), then you definitely should, for you never understood what the thing is about to begin with.
Yeah, I also felt that the $60k prize for Halo being announced was a slap in the face to all of us, emphasizing how the general gaming public just doesn’t give a shit about us (and it really didn’t help that Halo also got about 75% of the room). I didn’t boo though, but I was unhappy about that.
The only really big complaint I have about the change to single matches is that no one really put in any effort to inform us that we switched over. I, for one, didn’t even know it was one game per match until AFTER I lost my first game in my qualifying pool (I still qualified, but I still wish I knew about it before).
1 person fixing the brackets the day of evo…that line was taking way too long. Now I didn’t mind that I was put into the wrong game because I knew it could be fixed… but then I got owned up by only 1 staff member helping =[
yes it was a bit mean and maybe uncalled for but think about it:
their tournament took away our BYOC room for 2 fuckin days and their grand prize was a slap in our face. so with all that built up frustration, there is gonna be some booing.
