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Don't want to devalue their headline event by handing out money at something owned by sony.
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Aug 8, 2023 15:14
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Sony truly believes in eSports, uh? How is no one in the media roasting them over this bullshit? This isn't a tiny event at a small arcade anymore.
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Aug 8, 2023 15:37
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Saoshyant posted:Sony truly believes in eSports, uh? I think EVO and the FGC in general is kinda insular, compared to the relationship other esports have with media.
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Aug 8, 2023 15:47
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The media doesnt care. I've not seen many articles about EVO at all and the ones I have seen are just talking about how many of the ps5 usb ports broke.
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Aug 8, 2023 15:47
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plus, what exactly is the article going to be? ''it would've been cool if the prize pools for this tournament were bigger, since they could've probably afforded it"
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Aug 8, 2023 16:38
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flatluigi posted:plus, what exactly is the article going to be? ''it would've been cool if the prize pools for this tournament were bigger, since they could've probably afforded it" If there's an article on where the money went it'd be pretty interesting
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Saoshyant posted:Sony truly believes in eSports, uh? no one believes in esports if anything its still shocking to me that Capcom is fronting a milli for capcom cup after holding out for so long
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Aug 8, 2023 17:27
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There are silly amounts of sports-washing dollars being thrown around right now, especially with one of the Birds winning Evo I wouldn't be surprised to see some 6/7 figure tournament in Dubai or something. Only real thing stopping it is Capcom not wanting their own big tournament being upstaged.
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Firebatgyro posted:There are silly amounts of sports-washing dollars being thrown around right now, especially with one of the Birds winning Evo I wouldn't be surprised to see some 6/7 figure tournament in Dubai or something. Only real thing stopping it is Capcom not wanting their own big tournament being upstaged. https://twitter.com/gamers8gg/status/1687537993152659459?s=46&t=kRx4sq76ryXHjk6wINOgEw
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Cat Machine posted:https://twitter.com/gamers8gg/status/1687537993152659459?s=46&t=kRx4sq76ryXHjk6wINOgEw drat lol
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I hope Dubai won't become the "Euro" EVO host city, in the hypotheis it will actually happen
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Cat Machine posted:https://twitter.com/gamers8gg/status/1687537993152659459?s=46&t=kRx4sq76ryXHjk6wINOgEw Holy crap Char posted:I hope Dubai won't become the "Euro" EVO host city, in the hypotheis it will actually happen Yeahhh.. but the fact that they didn't mention or even give a hint of the third location doesn't make me too confident about it lol
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lol @ the idea of the FGC being able to afford trips to Evo Dubai. I dunno maybe it's just me.
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AndyElusive posted:lol @ the idea of the FGC being able to afford trips to Evo Dubai. I dunno maybe it's just me. Everyone flies in free. They just have to hold onto your passport for a bit...
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If anyone thought there were too few women competing at EVO, then just wait for EVO Dubai. Not a single women in their right mind will attend. And any openly LGBT person will stay home, too. It's a dangerous place to be on. Saoshyant fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Aug 8, 2023 |
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AndyElusive posted:lol @ the idea of the FGC being able to afford trips to Evo Dubai. I dunno maybe it's just me. I know at least for the Pakistani players, they have been pushing for majors outside the US/EU because of how hellish it is for them to get visas, it is unfortunate that one of the nations that would be easy for them to travel for competition is, well
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AndyElusive posted:lol @ the idea of the FGC being able to afford trips to Evo Dubai. I dunno maybe it's just me. Trips to Vegas aren't cheap either
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AndyElusive posted:lol @ the idea of the FGC being able to afford trips to Evo Dubai. I dunno maybe it's just me. I mean yeah those tournaments aren't for the FGC. Its for the top percent of players who can afford it.
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The REAL Goobusters posted:I mean yeah those tournaments aren't for the FGC. Its for the top percent of players who can afford it. Being an eurogoon, is it that expensive for the average american dedicated FG player? I was planning a trip to EVO2018 but I ended up not going, flying to Las Vegas was like 1500 euro so the plan was to treat it like a trip. Were it in Berlin, dunno, I could take my car and drive there. Char fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Aug 8, 2023 |
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Aug 8, 2023 22:37
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In Training posted:Trips to Vegas aren't cheap either Guess it depends on where the flights leave from. Flights to Vegas from my location are in the in low hundreds while flights to United Arab Emirates is in the thousands.  The REAL Goobusters posted:I mean yeah those tournaments aren't for the FGC. Its for the top percent of players who can afford it. Fair enough.
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Char posted:Being an eurogoon, is it that expensive for the average american dedicated FG player? I was planning a trip to EVO2018 but I ended up not going, flying to Las Vegas was like 1500 euro so the plan was to treat it like a trip. Depends where you live in the states. Flights also got a bit more expensive recently. For example, someone probably isn't going to drive to Vegas from Texas
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I wont blame the players for attending it, cuz they've gone all in on this whole esports thing and they gotta put food on the table somehow, but I will not be watching that tournament.
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The REAL Goobusters posted:Depends where you live in the states. Flights also got a bit more expensive recently. The way it's been this hot and gas being as expensive as it's ever been? Probably not. Vegas heat can be awful on cars even if they're already prepped for the trip. Flying usually isn't so bad since most shitbox budget airlines have at least one non-stop to get you to Vegas. Flights more expensive, our flying system, network/whatever just collapses if one airline cancels a few flights. Pilots threatening to strike. It's a lot this year.
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It was cheaper for me to drive but I live in San Diego area so it was one tank to get to Vegas and another tank to get back.
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Also Vegas hotels are relatively cheap since they want you to go gamble.
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The REAL Goobusters posted:Depends where you live in the states. Flights also got a bit more expensive recently. FWIW a friend of mine did that for Evo 2011. I'll just say seeing northern New Mexico during sunset/at night and Arizona during sunrise was beautiful. Plus seeing all the wind farms in north Texas and stopping at Hoover Dam in the morning was really cool. Sucks that the Meteor Crater park wanted so much money for entry on the drive back.
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Saoshyant posted:If anyone thought there were too few women competing at EVO, then just wait for EVO Dubai.
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Cat Machine posted:SonicFox revealed today that he was offered a spot at the Gamers8 invitational in Saudi Arabia, but dropped out because he "doesn't enter tournaments he can't win" - I wonder if that's just a kinda weird excuse for being rightfully terrified of visiting the country as an LGBT person
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Cat Machine posted:SonicFox revealed today that he was offered a spot at the Gamers8 invitational in Saudi Arabia, but dropped out because he "doesn't enter tournaments he can't win" - I wonder if that's just a kinda weird excuse for being rightfully terrified of visiting the country as an LGBT person It's almost certainly that, considering he was offered an all-expenses-paid trip to a tournament where placing 7th-8th nets you more money than winning Evo did.
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Uh, just realized SonicFox didn't reach top 6 of any game, including one's home turf game Mortal Kombat. That's unusual. Apparently Angrybird also got through SonicFox at some point during the SF6 gauntlet. There was also an exhibition with the new Skullgirls character Marie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg4m4FBZcPs And that's about it. Kept a low profile on this EVO from what it looks like.
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Anyway, I collected the top 6 finals of every game I could find, thankfully the Youtube EVO channel got those out fast so no need to go through 12 hours long Twitch VODs: Mortal Kombat 11 Melty Blood Type Lumina Granblue Fantasy Versus King of Fighters XV Dragon Ball Fighter Z Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 Guilty Gear Strive Tekken 7 Street Fighter 6 Ads plus all the time wasted between matches were awful, a couple of GF mirror matches were extremely unhype, but all in all, UMvC3 pools, Tekken 7, KOFXV, and especially SF6 were legit great. See you next year!
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Saoshyant posted:Uh, just realized SonicFox didn't reach top 6 of any game, including one's home turf game Mortal Kombat. That's unusual. Apparently Angrybird also got through SonicFox at some point during the SF6 gauntlet. tbf he intentionally DQ'd himself from other games because he wanted to focus on SF6 this year. Didn't really work out for him but that was the reasoning.
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Saoshyant posted:Anyway, I collected the top 6 finals of every game I could find, thankfully the Youtube EVO channel got those out fast so no need to go through 12 hours long Twitch VODs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibF65hpUQPE GG +R spooky also hosted XRD but the vod isnt up yet.
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Boogalo posted:GG +R Thanks. Spooky's also got the top 6 for BB Central Fiction and Soulcalibur VI. I'm going to add all of those to the OP for easy reference. If anyone knows of more VODs for the other side tournament games, let me know, I missed every single of those since I had no Internet during the first two days of EVO. Edit: also found SamSho's and Garou's on SNK's channel. It's the full thing though so I'll have to timestamp the top 6 of each. Saoshyant fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Aug 9, 2023 |
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The REAL Goobusters posted:I mean yeah those tournaments aren't for the FGC. Its for the top percent of players who can afford it. CharlestonJew posted:tbf he intentionally DQ'd himself from other games because he wanted to focus on SF6 this year. Didn't really work out for him but that was the reasoning.
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ReverendHammer posted:FWIW a friend of mine did that for Evo 2011. I'll just say seeing northern New Mexico during sunset/at night and Arizona during sunrise was beautiful. Plus seeing all the wind farms in north Texas and stopping at Hoover Dam in the morning was really cool. Sucks that the Meteor Crater park wanted so much money for entry on the drive back. Lol yeah I had a group of friends who did the roadtrip to Vegas from Texas in this huge van. Wild. This was years ago though The REAL Goobusters fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Aug 9, 2023 |
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Saoshyant posted:Thanks. Spooky's also got the top 6 for BB Central Fiction and Soulcalibur VI. If you want to go twitch vod spelunking, these were the sidegame schedules https://twitter.com/_AmedeoAvogadro/status/1686824163623960576 https://twitter.com/_AmedeoAvogadro/status/1687132140683796481 edit: i wonder if the person who runs GDQvods would like to expand out to fightgame tournament vods and timestamps links
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Double Bill posted:It's almost certainly that, considering he was offered an all-expenses-paid trip to a tournament where placing 7th-8th nets you more money than winning Evo did. i dunno. sonicfox has never made veiled references to anything, there's not a diplomatic bone in their body when their team won twitch rivals and they were asked if they were going to CEO they straight up said "you want me to go to florida? gently caress that, i'm black" lmao
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