Yeah, but that has never had anything to do with the organization, but the players. They just get more top players, due to the arcades being still alive and being a more thinly inhabited country. EVO would be a thousand times better if all players who could qualify to SBO had funding (and time off work) to travel abroad too.
Because Daigo wants the easy $$$ that evo offers (USA is free in anything that is not MVC related and now on mvc3 that is starting to be debatable ), Japan has stupid laws against money prizes.
Man that’s sad, I remember first time I saw that tourney it was quite possibly the greatest thing ever but it seems Evo has taken the crown and it looks like the International scene has shifted away from it, that and I’ve heard execution wise the last couple have been pretty disappointing. That is a true shame. Hopefully they will bounce back SBO was definately name recognition no one can denounce that.
I personally prefer it if there’s no event instead of another lame SBO.
I will surely miss it, but if EVO Japan happens Im totally ok with that.
This far from a huge loss. Evo has been the pinnacle of fg tournies for a while now. SBO hasn’t really meant much since what, 2K4? So yea, I don’t see this as being a big deal. EVO has always been GO TO tournament.
SBO has been bigger than SBO by a long shot for non Capcom games, ST, and 3S since the last SBO.
Mainly because of the prize money, not the competition.
I love Evo but SBO just has easily higher quality players and gameplay. The vast majority of international players are unable to attend Evo for obvious reasons, so SBO easily has the best players. For a TOP player, the one thing that makes Evo hard to win is that you have to go through a huge bracket, with some good competition generally near the end of the bracket. With SBO, every player you face is as strong, or stronger than you, at all stages of the bracket.
thats the nature of a qualifier-based tournament, isn’t it? you have to be above the bar to enter sbo, while evo is open to anyone
Yes and now the question is whether SBO is a worse tournament because only the best players can enter it. When you have an open tournament, you’re going to have lower competition.
If Evo wants to win the “highest level tournament” award, they need to hold many qualifiers around the world (including many in Japan) and to figure out some way to pay for the player’s trip.
on the flipside, it can be argued that there’s more variance in results due to single elim that otherwise wouldn’t be there (luck is a bigger factor in placing)… and also i think its pretty much undeniable that evo has a better atmosphere for the average person due to location and its attendants and the environment in general. you can’t really go to sbo as a spectator with the hopes of being able to play casuals (unless that changed recently, idk)
That’s why EVO is the better tournament. The level of comp. is just as high, but it’s inclusive to everyone.
Don’t get me wrong SBO holds a special place in my heart as that tournament where it is just incredible and yeah my view is tainted by old man nostalgia but Evo is by far better just because there can be more upsets as you don’t know if some unknown decided to show up and wreck people this time because he felt like throwing his hat into the ring. It’s like one giant high stakes casual in which everyone can participate and you meet great people to boot. I’m just sad that SBO has had such a fall from grace.
I just finished explaining how the level of competition is not as high…
- The large majority of the international top players, are unable to attend Evo, even though it is an open tournament
- Players of all levels can participate at Evo, resulting in also a much lower AVERAGE level of play.
Anyway, from a spectator viewpoint, SBO has the better quality matches, but Evo just has more matches to watch and is much easier to access (doesn’t charge a fee, doesn’t require you to jump through hoops to view it, etc). Both have a lot of hype but in different ways - at SBO, you get hype based on the crazy high level of play. With Evo, you can get hype from some of that too but a lot of it is from player rivalries and the atmosphere that it creates.
Definitely, I don’t like the way SBO does things in terms of the fighting game scene, but that’s irrelevant to the quality of the tournament itself (ignoring the last SBO of course).
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