I was saying at most it will be 66% longer (66.6666…% if you want to get that technical). You’re saying somehow that it will be longer than this when it isn’t mathematically possible for 3 out of 5 to take 66.666…% longer than 2 out of 3 if everything is maxed out.
So agree to disagree is dead out then 
In a way you’re kind of (inadvertantly) right anyways though, like astro said the out of match stuff, especially at a big tourney is a more significant timesink than an extra 1-3 rounds anyways.
Capcom could fix that with PRESS BUTTON CONFIG preferably AT THE CHARACTER SELECT SCREEN
There’s still the dreaded evo problem “Is XXXX here? He has 5 minutes before we DQ him!” (5 minutes pass) “Is XXX here yet? He has 10 minutes until we DQ him!”
If you’re trying to expedite things, how about having a “button judge” so to speak. No button checks unless you’re sure it’s absolutely necessary. If by some bad luck, your buttons are wrong and you started the match anyway, you get 1 “false start” and someone else (the button judge, not you) rechecks the buttons. If nothing was wrong, you forfeit the round.
That or Capcom could implement a mandatory “quick and dirty” button config à la HDR before the round starts.
I’m all for a best 3 out of 5, and a damage nerf.
It’s just basic statistics too, a larger sampling (even of randomness if you’re going to pull that card) gives you a more accurate idea of who the better player is.
I know this is a hard sell to a lot of people, but I think MvC3 really encompasses better than most games why that single W isn’t always the best way to gauge who is better. At the end of the day, isn’t everyone more satisfied when we can all agree that the better player won?
Its simple man… ITS MAHVEL BAYBEE!
But on a serious note. I do believe it should be 3/5 too. Shit, more chances for me to win a match lol.
Second option or just deal with the button checks. If they’re not going to implement the correct button configuration utility (we’re using the word “correct” here instead of “different”) then I want whatever fool at Capcom reminded how stupid of a configuration utility they insist of shafting the players with every time someone says “Get hype for button checks!”.
Capcom should use Mr. X’s “Hold Start to Pause” feature that can be Skullgirls[SIZE=4] as well[/SIZE] because accidental pauses will happen especially with more mashing adding in UMvC3
Who is mashing their start button for damage?
Should I post pics of the non TE madcatz sticks with start button on the face?
Oh. Well I wouldn’t know about that, I’m not so unfortunate 
Capcom should add/change a lot of things. However their usual answer seems to be “If enough people demand it we’ll…” aka “Go fuck youself!”.
game 1 in marvel 3 is like if you had a boxing match but before the round starts you have to flip a coin and whoever loses gets hit in the nuts with a baseball bat beforehand
Watching Devastation makes me wish Marvel was 3/5 :[
its an option that only good for tournaments, outside of tournaments people will find MAD annoying/unresponsive.
It’d be nice to toggle tho
Based on the poll looks like 75 percent clear majority agree in a 3/5 set for the game whenever it’s feasible. I’ll try to get this out there to the masses and see what we can do for at least a local tourney top 8 3/5 and major top 32 3/5. SFIV AE took hella long to finish up matches when that shit was only 2/3. Marvel matches go by quick so I don’t see why a bare minimum for more interesting matches towards the later brackets can’t be feasible. SFIV players get more rounds so MVC3 players should get more matches.
Look likes Yipes’ Curly Mustache tournament series will be played 3/5 all the way though.
First step to getting it to majors, I hope.
This wouldn’t even waste that much time in tournaments. If everyone at a tournament actually got their shit together, played their matches, and reported them right away then any tournament could be done in like 3 or 4 hours. The vast majority of time wasted in tournaments is on stupid shit like someone not reporting a match (simultaneously holding up the bracket and preventing matches from starting on that station), waiting for people who go to get food or something and they don’t get DQ’ed just because they have a recognizable name while someone else got DQ’ed 10 minutes ago at the same bracket round (the only acceptable reason for allowing a late match should be that the player had to play in another tournament match for another game at the same event), waiting for button checks from people who are too lazy or cheap to bring their own damn sticks/pads so they have something they are familiar with and can do a button check in 5 seconds max, people hogging stations for money matches during tournament time (get that shit done before or after tournament), and people playing casuals on their stations after a tournament match since everyone else thinks they are still playing a tourney match so they can get away with it.
Speaking as someone who has attended somewhere around 100 tournaments total (not just for fighting games, but Starcraft, Smash, and M:TG) and been involved in organizing some of them; this is always the problem. The games themselves never actually take very long, but tournaments take long because people are selfish.
Well I just heard Yipes is making his Curleh mustache tournament 3/5 all the way through so lets see how that’ll go. It is an invitational though so Im guessing there won’t be that many players so it probably won’t drag out too long compared to what a tournament with like 100-200 people might have but still.
Honestly, I’ve been doing 100+ game sets with players in my local area since this game began. Those REALLY show you who the better player is.
Evo should be round robin best of 100. Hire Starbucks to sponsor it with free hot coffee enemas to keep people IN THERE.