Totally ridiculous. Even if it’s not perfectly ideal, the community would still be worse off if the event didn’t happen.
I’m just talking from my own experience at participating and organizing tournaments. All kinds of shit happens.
Hey if you want to make a tournament with bizarre rules and give away money be my guest. I’m just telling you what are the standards for “real” tournaments that do what tournaments are supposed to do and show who are the best players.
PDP was turning out to be a great tourney until the hype was killed during the top 4 matches.
The interviews broke the flow of the tournament but the idea has merit.
You can’t build a fanbase without getting some way for observers to connect with the competitors. Most of them failed at being interesting but that just shows off how hit or miss interviews can be.
I just loved it people were initially dogging Fubarduck calling him a homo; and then he started talking about why he started becoming competitive and how JOP inspired him. Literally only one person was left spewing trash. Everyone else just the shut the fuck up because they recognized how much they were being tools in chat. That moment alone made the interview format worth exploring in the future and it wasn’t the only reason.
PDP was the sponsor and a big one at that so it is disrespectful to even say they can’t have a moment to specifically pimp their product.
The best part of the interview format was getting some info from not just anyone on the development team of NRS but Ed Boon himself. The amount of knowledge he dropped made the experience all the better. Skisonic also deserves credit for not being dumb and tossing out relevant questions instead of softballs like some interviewers in other media.
I have yet to watch an EVO outside of the champions and semis but PDP certainly brought a lot of things to the tournament scene that made it better than Powerup such as a prize pool structure that makes fighting game esports look more financially viable and a humanizing aspect in examining the people participating in matches, the people who made the game and the people who hosted the tournament.
What Powerup had going for it was a better finals, better analysis commentary (play by play was better at PDP) and one less rule for FGC elitists to moan about.
Again, just because it doesn’t conform to your ideal ruleset doesn’t make it not a “real” tournament. Everyone there took it seriously. If you don’t want to, that’s fine. You’re the one missing out.
Is there a video of Ski talking netcode with Ed Boon anywhere?
Also, Cyrax is going to be drowning his sorrows in a bar with Sentinel very soon.
Cyrax is still going to be great. He is just fair now with larger tech window. Can someone confirm or deny if PDP lost money on the venue? It seems like they gave out a lot of money to a few people.
Everyone says Cyrax will still be strong post-patch but I have a hard time understanding why that would be the case.
Every single Cyrax player at PowerUp and PDP relied heavily on the reset glitch and bomb trap trick to win. And it’s not like Cyrax was dominating those matches either. It was always pretty close vs Kung Laos, Sub, Raiden and Ermacs.
I’m just trying to imagine those same Cyrax matches but without the glitch and bomb trap and I just can’t see how Cyrax could’ve won. He might still be decent A or maybe B tier but no doubt it’s going to be tough for him at high levels.
It depends if the other top tier are nerfed, if not then yeah, he’ll drop beneath them as he’ll need to burn through a lot more meter to do the same damage. Afaik he needs one stock to do the same damage after landing a net if the trap was changed to be easily techable (supposedly the nerf)
There’s no need to nerf Cyrax if you aren’t going to nerf Kung Lao etc.
Kung Lao, Raiden and Ermac were shitting all over Cyrax the whole time as was anyone able to keep him out, I’m fine with increase in the tech window i just hope they don’t go overboard, and if he doesn’t need the bomb trap to be good why have we seen no one use human Cyrax yet hes got that awesome teleport after all
Great tournament and a great experience.
I know I didn’t go because PDP forced you to use their sticks. I was pretty much told I was retarded for saying this before, but I’m sure it hurt their attendance. I don’t care how big the prize pool was. I wasn’t buying a plane ticket to go two and out on their shitty stick. I tried to get used to the thing leading up to the tournament, but it wasn’t happening. Oh well, I’ll use that money for Evo and Revelations.
Cyrax needs the bomb trap to be competitive, if they take that away and make his command grab more techable, he’s garbage. He got blown up by the time he got to top 8 play.
Yeah, people are really overreacting to the bomb trap. I’ll state again, if it was a 55% combo people wouldn’t be as up in arms about it. But that’s pretty much what it boils down to. And I agree, Cyrax needs it to be competitive.
I think they’re doing something reasonable to control it. I’m really glad they aren’t just flat-out removing it.
It was kind of sad to see so many Kung Lau’s and Raiden, but hopefully that will change as time goes on…
Does anyone have a link talking about nerfs and things like that? I haven’t heard anything about this.
Yo, where the hell is the link for these supposed nerfs?
I want fucking proof goddammit
cyrax needs his bomb trap?
isn’t the whole point of the bomb trap to abusing the command grab to reset bomb/net ?
that’s bs, glitch.
buff cyrax if need be, but glitch has gotta go.
It’s not a glitch at all, and not everything unintended needs to be removed. Seems like a lot of unnecessary work to remove one thing, nerfing him, then making him better in different ways when they could just leave him alone and it’d be fine.
exactly what i’m wondering myself…
or can someone at least elaborate on the discussion that took place?
i dont think it was ed i think it was another dude but they said its getting fixed it should be in the last last video of day two footage after the ceremony i think
no the bomb trap and the net reset glitch are two separate things.
theres multiple bomb traps cyrax has just the command throw is the easiest to set up, basically you force your opponent to eat an ublockable bomb for a juggle combo.
the net reset tricks the game into thinking that your combo has finished allowing you to use another net in your combo and restart the damage scaling.
didnt tom brady say in a recent podcast the fact they making you play on their stick is retarded? aris blew up on that topic also, a majority of the known mk9 players seem to play on pad; tom brady, kraziebone, perfect legend, and i believe reo also. so for them to make it mandatory hurt them. imo the only reason youre seeing players from other games crossover to this one is because it had a huge payout, jwong himself said hes going to focus on mvc3 after this tourny.