Thats coz there is some people that thinks that maybe they will have to wait for a while to get their money back … also anothers dont trust to pay their stuff online at all.
That’s exactly why I didn’t do it. Didn’t want to wait for my money back and I like to stay away from online pay as much as possible. I wanted to, but because of the above-mentioned reasons, I didn’t. Woulda been nice if we didn’t have to pay ahead of time, cuz I think Alpha 3 woulda had a chance to get picked.
But I understand the Cannons’ request for pre-pay, since it would have sucked for them if like 50 people signed up for some game and simply didn’t enter the tourny after all.
Eh, never easy to plan tournaments I guess. Sometimes stuff’s damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Where was the announcements??
JP
Due to low voter turn-out, we cannot in good faith add any of the votable titles to the official EVO lineup.
However, in an attempt to recognize the winning efforts of the KOF community, we will offer them the use of dedicated on-site tvs should they wish to run their own tournament.
As stated, we will be honoring refunds for ALL of the votable games. This includes KOF. According to the rules we posted, players could expect a refund unless the game had at least close to 100 entries. Since that is not the case in whatever KOF contests will be held, we don’t want to “hijack” anyone’s vote by forcing them to play in a much smaller tournament. This doesn’t mean KOF voters must take a refund, but it is available to them. All other tournament money will be refunded automatically in the manner requested. Any remaining KOF entry fees will be handed out to the winners.
To respond to the remaining issues:
–Yes, TTT currently has a low number of votes. However, people planning on entering that tournament can register for it all the way up until the day before the tournament starts, meaning that many may be waiting to sign up (just as they are on the other games), because they enjoy standing in long lines. That said, if TTT does ultimately have a very low number of entrants, it will be on the chopping block for next year’s lineup, just as VF4 was reduced to “possible” status based on it’s low number of entrants last year (in spite of the fact that it is a solid game and had an exciting finals).
–As far as the various reasons for not voting, etc.: If it wasn’t easy enough for you this time, I have bad news–it doesn’t get a lot easier than this, folks. Voting needs to be done in advance so we can make arrangements to have any extra equipment needed on hand, and we think it needs to be paid to avoid having people who aren’t attending control what happens for the people that are. The amount of money is also not a lot- 10$ is not major cash for anyone (if you don’t have 10$, you probably can’t afford a tournament anyway (or even afford lunch)), especially when it is completely refundable. If anyone has any realistic ideas for how to improve the voting system, we welcome the suggestions.
We worked hard to implement the voting system in an effort to give the players direct control over which games would be played (beyond the titles that are already clearly popular), and on a personal note, I have to say I am disappointed. This is not a disaster and there will be some really fun events instead of the extra games, but if we’d had 1/10th as many actual votes for (Game X) as we’ve had posts about how criminal it was to exclude (Game X), we’d be staging the world’s largest (Game X) tournament this year.
Big ups to the people that did vote and I’ll see everyone @ EVO.
best,
Seth
If we’re running our own, that means AES is finally fair game, right? Or no?
actually before anything…i want to give my sincerest thanks to SRK for at least giving us the opportunity we’ve wanted for a long time to showcase ourselves and our game on a national stage…
People…this may seem to be a dissapointment to some but i see this as a huge opportunity for SNK gamers to really step it up another level…we can run this on AES if we want to…as of now, we have ONE AES, ONE KOF2002 Cart, and at least 3 NEOGEO AES compatible sticks available for use for this tourney…we want people to play in our tourney because then we can possibly make a decent case to get our game showcased…we will need everyone to help out with equipment, organizing, whatever…this is KOF on a national stage and we litterally have free reign over the outcome this…
I have also posted this at Neo-Geo.com, SNK-Capcom.com, Cyberfanatix, and Orochinagi.com…anywhere else i should post?
And MrWizard will say it again and again. PS2 version OR NOTHING. Don’t get me wrong I’m a fan of 2002 but he’s stated his opinion on the matter and I don’t see it changing. How many pages was this matter discussed in this forum?
now that its a unofficial tournament, you can use AES or whatever you want.
mexico .
Would 100 people have paid online for 3s if that was the only way it’d be included? I’m thinking that MvC2 would’ve just barely reached the mark. SFA3 would’ve been great, Apoc is already there. But my complaining won’t change anything so that’s that.
So, no chance of the KoF tournament being shown on the EVO DVD?
Well good luck to you on that, hopefully you guys get a better turn out then that tourney that s-c.com help at that anime con where only 20 or so people showed up or whatever.
To SRK and specially Mr. Wizard, thank you very much for giving the KOF community a chance. Now it seams that this will have to be un official again.
Its good to know that this year will have SRK support to have some designated TVs to run a tourney.
Well it seams that its time for THE ANSWER and my team THE K-FORCE to step up and help the KOF community.
We will defenetly help out to do something but if we wanna do something big everybody has to help out, cause the K4Z only count with one neo-geo and one copy of kof for aes.
I will start a thread on monday since Im leaving to mexico tonite for their national tourney. If anybody has any ideas please start to write them.
Once again thanks SRK, and we can still use your help.
Please post your ideas here, and disregard the one made by XTG I asked K4 to make a better one.
This is great news…I hope everything works out great Oscar and I’ll enter myself ha. See you guys at EVO.
Jaime
so what’s the joystick situation for the neogeo hardware? i’ll play
if were going to have an unofficial tourney now…
why bother with 2k2 when we can play 98 or neowave?
Hellsap…why not all 3? im down for Thrice the KOF…
I also posted this “this” being my paragraph post at the top of this very pageat Ookami…anyone here ever heard of it? i was contacted by the person who runs it…seems ok to me…
cosign that shit down!
I hate to ask, but when can we expect our refunds from the cancelled tournaments?
paypal will be processed sometime today.