Let's watch pro fighting games: EVO 2022 Aug 5 - Aug 7!

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Brett824: Mar 30, 2009; I could let these dreamkillers kill my self esteem or use the arrogance as the steam to follow my dream

Gimnbo posted:

I'm actually kind of surprised to see such a low exclusivity for MK9, unless there's some weird overlap between MK players and Smash players.

There's this game called "Injustice" that's out, you might want to read up about it.

# ? Jul 2, 2013 23:54

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# ? Jun 8, 2024 22:26

Tae: Oct 24, 2010; Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!

Gimnbo posted:

I'm actually kind of surprised to see such a low exclusivity for MK9, unless there's some weird overlap between MK players and Smash players.

I would guess it's because most of the MK9 players went over to Injustice, which is basically the new MK9 fighting engine.

# ? Jul 2, 2013 23:55

Gimnbo: Feb 13, 2012; e m b r a c e t r a n q u i l i t y

How I managed to miss that logical connection is beyond me.

# ? Jul 2, 2013 23:56

Roguelike: Jul 29, 2006; THUNDERDOME LOSER

Pockyless posted:

Here is a list of the number of people that signed up just for one game compared to the total number of entrants for that game. Lots of smash players!
code:
King of Fighters XIII 114/411 (28%)
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 432/1240 (35%)
Super Smash Bros Melee 394/664 (59%)
Mortal Kombat 9 22/190 (12%)
Super Street Fighter IV 505/1506 (33%)
Injustice: Gods Among Us 69/557 (12%)
Persona 4 Arena 126/383 (33%)
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 134/339 (40%)
Street Fighter X Tekken 36/522 (7%)

Interestingly, even though melee is the only event where the majority of players only came for one game, the majority (~53%) of players at evo have entered only event. Also there don't seem to be any players that entered all nine events and only three that entered eight events (all three entered everything except melee).

# ? Jul 3, 2013 01:28

Jmcrofts: Jan 7, 2008; just chillin' in the club; Lipstick Apathy

Mio Bison posted:

He also gets a bye in the first round of Injustice and if I win my first game I get to play against him. Now, I'm motivated.

Sounds like we're in the same injustice pool

# ? Jul 3, 2013 02:02

Mio Bison: Dec 14, 2005; violence is who I am, loser

Jmcrofts posted:

Sounds like we're in the same injustice pool

High-five Injustice buddy! See you in winner's finals after my day zero Sinestro terrorizes Forever King and coasts through the pool (I'm so screwed).

# ? Jul 3, 2013 02:20

iPodschun: Dec 29, 2004; Sherlock House

heiden posted:

I randomly came across someone in streamchat saying that Apologyman stopped playing seriously, any truth to that? I was really looking forward to him getting better at Firebrand since he seemed to be the only one that got his one-touch-kill down.

He's at the FGTV hosted tournament this week, so I'm guessing that the random stream dude is wrong also why are you reading stream chat

Also at the tournament this week: RayRay, Moons, Xian

http://www.twitch.tv/fgtvlive

edit: \/ Sanford said he's not going either.

iPodschun fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Jul 3, 2013

# ? Jul 3, 2013 05:01

Lieutenant Centaur: Oct 17, 2010; A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon

Dieminion announced on twitter he's not going to EVO "because of circumstances"

# ? Jul 3, 2013 05:02

may contain peanuts: Sep 28, 2007; WOW what a grate sports paly by the 49rs (better than seahawks)

Pockyless posted:

Here is a list of the number of people that signed up just for one game compared to the total number of entrants for that game. Lots of smash players!
code:
King of Fighters XIII 114/411 (28%)
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 432/1240 (35%)
Super Smash Bros Melee 394/664 (59%)
Mortal Kombat 9 22/190 (12%)
Super Street Fighter IV 505/1506 (33%)
Injustice: Gods Among Us 69/557 (12%)
Persona 4 Arena 126/383 (33%)
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 134/339 (40%)
Street Fighter X Tekken 36/522 (7%)

To me, the most surprising thing about this is that there are people who signed up only for SFxT.

# ? Jul 3, 2013 05:05

Woden: May 6, 2006

Is Noel Brown going to evo?

# ? Jul 3, 2013 10:58

Boobs is Fun!: Jun 25, 2005; KaneBlueRiver
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Woden posted:

Is Noel Brown going to evo?

Harsh, dude. Harsh.

# ? Jul 3, 2013 11:15

Foppish Yet Dashing: Jun 29, 2004; -horsepussy begins now
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Lieutenant Centaur posted:

Dieminion announced on twitter he's not going to EVO "because of circumstances"

Man, that sucks. I love watching him play. He's got the craziest Guile in town, plus that weird UMVC3 team.

# ? Jul 3, 2013 15:55

dorkasaurus_rex: Jun 10, 2005; gawrsh do you think any women will be there

Pockyless posted:

Here is a list of the number of people that signed up just for one game compared to the total number of entrants for that game. Lots of smash players!
code:
King of Fighters XIII 114/411 (28%)
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 432/1240 (35%)
Super Smash Bros Melee 394/664 (59%)
Mortal Kombat 9 22/190 (12%)
Super Street Fighter IV 505/1506 (33%)
Injustice: Gods Among Us 69/557 (12%)
Persona 4 Arena 126/383 (33%)
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 134/339 (40%)
Street Fighter X Tekken 36/522 (7%)

How many of these dudes are international? And how many people itt are going/entering at Evo?

# ? Jul 3, 2013 17:17

Roguelike: Jul 29, 2006; THUNDERDOME LOSER

dorkasaurus_rex posted:

How many of these dudes are international? And how many people itt are going/entering at Evo?

There's about 500 international players out of 3400 or so folks signed up. Canada sent the most international players (165) followed by Japan (75) and Mexico (73). There are thirteen (or so) countries that only sent one player including Belgium, Russia, Malaysia, and The United Arab Emirates. Three players claim to hail from the Isle of Man, eight players claim to be from England, and one player claims to be from the UK.

# ? Jul 3, 2013 20:51

Orange Crush Rush: May 7, 2009; You don't need thumbs for revenge

It makes sense that Smash has the most people that signed up just for that, it plays vastly different from everything else.

# ? Jul 3, 2013 21:01

Omnikin: May 29, 2007; Press 'E' for Medic

The picture gets better everytime, I swear to god

# ? Jul 3, 2013 21:21

dragon enthusiast: Jan 1, 2010

Orange Crush Rush posted:

It makes sense that Smash has the most people that signed up just for that, it plays vastly different from everything else.

I'm actually surprised the percentage isn't higher. Both communities benefit?

# ? Jul 3, 2013 22:43

Brett824: Mar 30, 2009; I could let these dreamkillers kill my self esteem or use the arrogance as the steam to follow my dream

just a butt posted:

I'm actually surprised the percentage isn't higher. Both communities benefit?

A lot of ex-smash players are now AE and (mostly) Marvel players, and a lot of Smash players branch out (Progducto and D1, the commentary duo likely to commentate top 8 both play and enter other traditional fighting games even though they consider themselves smash players). As well as probably a small amount of people who entered smash as well just because they think it's a cool game they used to play in college with bros or something but actually care about another game.

Brett824 fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Jul 3, 2013

# ? Jul 3, 2013 23:04

canoshiz: Nov 6, 2005; THANK GOD FOR THE SMOKE MACHINE!

I think Chris G was originally a Smash player, for what it's worth. Lots of people stick only with Smash but I'm willing to bet that a lot of them are from the pre-SF4 era when there weren't any other fighting games coming out.

# ? Jul 4, 2013 01:34

anime was right: Jun 27, 2008; death is certain
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canoshiz posted:

I think Chris G was originally a Smash player, for what it's worth. Lots of people stick only with Smash but I'm willing to bet that a lot of them are from the pre-SF4 era when there weren't any other fighting games coming out.

Also a lot of Melee players jumped ship when Brawl turned out to terrible for competitive play.

# ? Jul 4, 2013 01:58

ImpAtom: May 24, 2007

drat, Chris G loses by a hair.

# ? Jul 4, 2013 04:04

iPodschun: Dec 29, 2004; Sherlock House

http://www.twitch.tv/fgtvlive - Champ vs Moons FT15 right now. RayRay beat Drew Grimey 15-10.

https://www.twitch.tv/nycfurby has the end of battle Circuit
https://www.twitch.tv/leveluplive has WNF

edit: Chris G doesn't win. Flux beats him in winners final, WhiteBlack (Vergil/Task/Wesker) from Europe beats him in losers final.

iPodschun fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Jul 4, 2013

# ? Jul 4, 2013 05:09

Nativity In Black: Oct 24, 2012; If you're gonna have roads, you're gonna have roadkill.

I've been drinking, but I think Chris G got eliminated at Next Level.

E: Injustice and MVC3

# ? Jul 4, 2013 06:21

graynull: Dec 2, 2005; Did I misread all the signs?

Nativity In Black posted:

I've been drinking, but I think Chris G got eliminated at Next Level.

He's out in Marvel and already got eliminated in Injustice. ~~I think he's still in AE but that's not going to stream~~ I hear he lost AE also.

graynull fucked around with this message at 06:27 on Jul 4, 2013

# ? Jul 4, 2013 06:23

grieving for Gandalf: Apr 22, 2008

This dude's Vergil is beyond on point

# ? Jul 4, 2013 06:27

Tae: Oct 24, 2010; Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!

Huh, never seen a Point Virgil before.

# ? Jul 4, 2013 06:27

Nativity In Black: Oct 24, 2012; If you're gonna have roads, you're gonna have roadkill.

graynull posted:

He's out in Marvel and already got eliminated in Injustice. I think he's still in AE but that's not going to stream.

Someone on the mic said Sanford won AE. Chris G is gonna have to get a job at this rate.

Also America is getting bodied ATM.

E: So many mic blowouts.

# ? Jul 4, 2013 06:27

Kyrosiris: May 24, 2006; You try to be happy when everyone is summoning you everywhere to "be their friend".

Oh my god, this point Vergil is hype as gently caress.

Their mic is losing its poo poo.

# ? Jul 4, 2013 06:31

Nativity In Black: Oct 24, 2012; If you're gonna have roads, you're gonna have roadkill.

I can't usually watch the end of NLBC because of work, but the holidays let me watch some hype poo poo.

# ? Jul 4, 2013 06:34

pyromance: Sep 25, 2006

Tae posted:

Huh, never seen a Point Virgil before.

Padtrick out of norcal runs a point Vergil and does same first char xfactor stuff a lot. He hasn't been active that much lately but I think he's going to evo.

# ? Jul 4, 2013 06:36

iPodschun: Dec 29, 2004; Sherlock House

Combofiend is over at the FGTV house now playing non-serious sets with Moons https://www.twitch.tv/fgtvlive

# ? Jul 4, 2013 06:49

ToastyPotato: Jun 23, 2005; CONVICTED OF DISPLAYING HIS PEANUTS IN PUBLIC

The one time I don't bother watching Battle Circuit on purpose and Chris G loses? Who took him out? With what team? Was it close? Was he playing his real team?

# ? Jul 4, 2013 07:02

iPodschun: Dec 29, 2004; Sherlock House

FGTV is doing a round robin tournament with Champ, Combofiend, Xian, Moons, RayRay, Drew Grimey, and CJ now.

ToastyPotato posted:

The one time I don't bother watching Battle Circuit on purpose and Chris G loses? Who took him out? With what team? Was it close? Was he playing his real team?

I missed winners final but it was 3-2 Flux (usual ZMC) and he finished with a perfect. WhiteBlack from France took Chris out 3-1 with Vergil/Task/Wesker vs Chris' Morrigan/Doom/Vergil. I think it was two convincing wins from WB, one from Chris, then a close one to finish. WB then won grand finals 3-0 3-2.

pyromance mentioned it but WB's main tactic was land a hit on Zero/Morrigan then X-Factor to kill, then mixup the incoming character for kill or big damage and deal with the third. The mixup I remember him using was Helm Breaker, teleport+Task assist.

# ? Jul 4, 2013 07:22

bouncyman: Oct 27, 2009

iPodschun posted:

Combofiend is over at the FGTV house now playing non-serious sets with Moons https://www.twitch.tv/fgtvlive

Man I miss watching Combo play...
they started a round robin tournament. Combo lost 2-0 to cj using she hulk spencer strange, beat neo 2-1 using team nemo, and is now tied 1-1 against grimey with team nemo

# ? Jul 4, 2013 07:24

Lord Chumley: May 14, 2007; Embrace your destiny.

Nativity In Black posted:

I've been drinking, but I think Chris G got eliminated at Next Level.

E: Injustice and MVC3

Clever man, letting his guard down before Evo.

# ? Jul 4, 2013 13:37

Chacmool: Apr 12, 2007

Lord Chumley posted:

Clever man, letting his guard down before Evo.

It really didn't look like he threw. I would feel pretty confident in a runback going the same way, but WhiteBlack seemed to have more trouble with people that have "odd" teams.

# ? Jul 5, 2013 04:31