Poll: EVO 2010

[Space Spoons]

As the fighting game aficionados among you may already know, tomorrow kicks off the first day of Evolution 2010, an international fighting game championship that, for all intents and purposes, amounts to the World Series of Street Fighter, Tekken, Meltyblood and the VS. games.

Those of you who don't follow the scene closely probably know of EVO through the infamous Daigo Umehara video:

Spoiler: Everyone's already seen this by now.

This year is pretty significant. For the first time ever, G4TV (yeah, yeah, I know) is going to be providing live streaming coverage of the event in its entirety. I'll be the first to admit that G4 is more or less a shadow of its formal self, but this can't be a bad thing. Given the touch-and-go quality of past EVO streaming attempts, G4's participation could lend some necessary tech and legitimacy to the entire operation. If you'd like to follow the stream, you can find it here [http://g4tv.com/EVO].

And, of course, EVO 2010 is going to be hosting the first playable build of Marvel vs Capcom 3 ever released. It's not likely to be the final version, as the release of the game is so far off, but just seeing it in action is bound to be interesting.


Anyway, getting back on topic:
I don't know how many Escapists follow the fighting game scene, but with the tournament starting tomorrow, I just have to ask; is anyone here participating? Anyone heading out to watch? Planning to watch the stream, maybe? Are you for America or Japan? Stick or pad? Ultra I or Ultra II?

Oh, and here's the schedule of events for reference:

FRIDAY, JULY 9TH
9AM-NOON TATSUNOKO VS. CAPCOM POOL PLAY
NOON-MIDNIGHT SSFIV PLAY

SATURDAY, JULY 10TH
9AM-1PM TEKKEN 6 POOL PLAY
1PM-3PM TEKKEN 6 SEMI-FINAL BRACKET
[HIGHLIGHTED MATCHES BETWEEN THE TOP 64 PLAYERS]
3PM-9PM SSFIV SEMI-FINAL BRACKET
[HIGHLIGHTED MATCHES BETWEEN THE TOP 64 PLAYERS]

SUNDAY, JULY 11TH
FINAL 8 PLAYERS IN EACH TOURNAMENT

10AM-12PM MELTY BLOOD, ACTRESS AGAIN
TOURNAMENT FINALS
12PM-2PM MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 2 TOURNAMENT FINALS
2PM-4PM TATSUNOKO VS. CAPCOM TOURNAMENT FINALS
4PM-4:30PM SSFIV WOMEN'S INVITATIONAL FINALS
4:30PM-6PM SUPER SF II HD REMIX TOURNAMENT FINALS
6PM-8PM TEKKEN 6 TOURNAMENT FINALS
8PM-9PM MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3 EXHIBITION
9PM-11PM SSFIV TOURNAMENT FINALS

 

[Aerodynamic]

I'm not interested, I would rather play the games myself then watch some people play them on TV.

 

[TermOfEndearment]

Nobody beats Daigo. That is all.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

snip.

i have seen that video like 100 times...and it never gets old. god i wish i could be that good at these fighting games. although they get bored after like 10 matches in a row..idk how they play those games so damn much.

but anyways, no i wont be matching, if there are some cool highlights from the matches i might watch those. otherwise no.

 

[Conqueror Kenny]

I'm all the way in London, so I'm not going, I'm just going to be a stream monster. The time difference won't make it easy to watch but hopefully I catch some good matches.
I'm rooting for an American (Justin Wong) to win it really, just because they speak English and so I'm more interested in the American scene than the Japanese one.

Really I couldn't care much less about TvC or Melty Blood (I've never even heard of this game before now). But I'd like to see as much as I can from Street Fighter 2 and 4, Tekken 6 and Marvel.

Nobody beats Daigo. That is all.

Yeah, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1nrVfdlhU4] I [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y15txcersc] agree [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U08xNVUx7RA] with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iXnPd7POao] this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5GYHbVsrvE] guy [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWAPsF738N8]