My generation? I’m 23, I might have worded somethings wrong to give you a different impression. However, Street fighter does not have the same appeal as other competitive sports. It seems to be the case that it is harder for regular ESPN viewers to relate to not just to street fighter but fighting games and video games in general.
We don’t live in Korea with televised Starcraft tournaments, and we don’t have the luxury of having a culture such as Japan in which they televise tournaments such as SBO and don’t look down on videogames.
The scene is small and there is not a large enough base for it to even warrant it being on television. One way I think that it is possible is if there was more communication and cooperation. Instead of having random tournaments and a few majors scattered through out the year if we had a concrete schedule of events like other scenes such as Chess, Cheerleading, Golf, etc. Pepole will definately take notice and get interested. Its also good to have organizations to represent the scene as a whole too. Check these out
Websites dedicated to their specific sports with schedules, rules, FAQ’s and other helpful information. If SRK and the leaders of EVO would one day have a site such as this then that would be a great leap in the right direction. However, SRK is not built such as these websites and use a forum format for its visitors. In comparison to these sites its understandable that people might not take streetfighter seriously. No disrepect of course to the admins and such its just the way it is.
I know everyone wants to lobby for SF and EVO to be on regularly broadcasted but we still have some work to do on our end as well to get better organized as a whole.
Maybe you did. That’s what I read, so that’s how I took it.
We’re going to agree to disagree then, because from my perspective EVO/SRK more than met the bar you’re setting. It also meets the criteria that these other novelty competitions posses, yet for some vague reason people tell me that our event is considered unacceptable.
On the same note, Evolution was actually in an optimal position to have coverage the last two years running (with Toyota sponsorship). I’m not even talking about regular broadcasting here either, I’m talking about one look at this quirky shit shoot that all of the ‘fill in the blank with cup stacking, dominoes, whatever’ gets. It isn’t as if the staff are violently against ESPN banners.
Maybe I’m a little too personally invested into this subject. I’ve tried to shove coverage towards this event ever since B4. Every time EVO has met the requirements, there becomes a new set of flaky excuses about why it doesn’t deserve coverage. Honestly, the day the event moved out of a hole in the wall arcade in Sacramento was the day all of those excuses wreaked of bullshit.
Just for shits n’ giggles for everyone else reading the thread. During this year’s GDC I approached a guy I knew about covering EVO this year. It’s a yearly ordeal and I figured I should start the dialogue early with this guy since we were shooting the shit. The excuse this time, Well. Isn’t the event kind of…well…sketchy? (said as if it were ghetto).
Names obviously omitted.
I dunno. You guys take that however you want. Maybe stop letting the e-thugs in? ba boom pssssht! :looney:
Has anyone here heard of the Championship Gaming Series? (www.thecgs.com) I watched bits and pieces of it last year but didn’t have time to follow it regularly. It airs exclusively on DirecTV’s The 101. While it certainly isn’t perfect (“coaches” and “drafts” have to go…) it seems to do a number of the things we want for televised gaming. The fighter within the league is DOA4 which, while generally hated by most “serious” fighing game fans, seems to be set up decently well enough within the league. If someone else could “borrow” a few things from their method and apply it to other fighters OR if someone could manage to get Street Fighter 4 or Tekken 6 in (let’s face it, almost nothing else stands a chance of being accepted at the venue) the 2009 division. Some things do seem to fluctuate like the quality/knowledge of the announcer in the matches. A few matches:
yeah i think the doods that were doing the announcers did a decent enough job explaining what was happening on screen and they even threw in some fighting game jargon to appease the “hardcore” scene, i like how Fatality made the RPS analogy and that one guy brought up baiting during one of the matches…
i also liked how they explained the character perks each person was using i think thats something that helps
Anyway, whether or not Evo can or should be broadcast on ESPN or G4 or whatever doesn’t really matter because it isn’t and debating about it doesn’t produce anything. I’ve said it before, but we can’t expect other parties with no vested interest in our community to start promoting for us. We should be setting up live webcasts. Think about what is in our power to promote our community, not what is in someone elses power.
