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Official EVO 2012 / 2k12 Livestream Discussion Thread (July 6-8)

@ricetopher: Ha!

Capcom vs. SNK 2 - http://www.twitch.tv/run_it_back_arcade

Friday - Casuals

Saturday - Tournament

Skullgirls - http://www.twitch.tv/toptiergaming/

Friday - Singles Tournament

Saturday - Teams 3 vs 3

BREAKING NEWS!

We now have confirmation of plans for side-streams at EVO 2012

Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown - http://www.twitch.tv/8wayrun

Persona 4 Arena, BlazBlue Continuum Shift: Extend, Melty Blood Actress Again: Current Code, and Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus - http://www.twitch.tv/xiei

BREAKING NEWS!

We now have confirmation of plans for side-streams at EVO 2012

Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown - http://www.twitch.tv/8wayrun

Persona 4 Arena, BlazBlue Continuum Shift: Extend, Melty Blood Actress Again: Current Code, and Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus - http://www.twitch.tv/xiei

@MrVoo: Xiaohai and Dakou don't really take the game seriously, which is a shame. Their KOF fundamentals allowed them to get far, but maybe not very far against BALA, or the other top KOF players in the US(Romance,Reynald, Mr.KOF, The Beast/Chris KOF, Luis-Cha, etc...).

Hope I'm wrong though, and they have practiced the game more.

Great post. Can't wait to see the top chinese kof players vs the socal/mexican scene. Also looking forward to AE and Floe playing IWTBTG too.

@Petiew: hahaha yeah what an asshole. The Giant Bomb staffers aren't too familiar with tournament player etiquette because with the exception of maybe Interns Lemon and Ben, they don't watch fighting game events. So to them a button check is probably something they think is done in the menus.

Unless Kessler did it on purpose?!

We now have an Official Livestream Discussion Thread for EVO 2012, before we jump over there tomorrow night for the EVO pre-show, I give you one last look at the best moments from EVO 2011. See you in the discussion thread!

Features 8 year old Noah Solis in 5th place who reached the Top 48 in MvC3. A feat so impressive he not only got covered by Giant Bomb (Meet Noah Solis, the 8-Year-Old Fighting Game Wunderkind ), he also appeared on the second Big Live LIVE Show: Live! with Seth Killian beating up Giant Bomb's interns in UMvC3 (skip to 10:00 for Intern beat-down).

@FLStyle said:

@Reddy1124 said:

@JJOR64: I also CAN'T wait until the floe Pregame show. That's probably the only thing he's gonna be somewhat sucessful in. Kappa

hahaha Very true!

@JJOR64 said:

So should we make this thread the official EVO thread or should we make a new one?

Like a separate "official livestream discussion thread?" I've no problem with it.

Yeah, let's do a separate Official stream thread for EVO since this thread is a preview thread for the event.

Dark Phoenix be the overbearing character she was

It seems like Dark Phoenix is on the rise again lately...

@Reddy1124: I'll be playing Street Fighter. Also signed up for SFxT, but haven't played that in months.

@Reddy1124 said:

@JJOR64: I also CAN'T wait until the floe Pregame show. That's probably the only thing he's gonna be somewhat sucessful in. Kappa

hahaha Very true!

@JJOR64 said:

So should we make this thread the official EVO thread or should we make a new one?

Like a separate "official livestream discussion thread?" I've no problem with it.

@JJOR64: I also CAN'T wait until the floe Pregame show. That's probably the only thing he's gonna be somewhat sucessful in. Kappa

@Reddy1124 said:

@MethodMan008: On a related note, I'm going to EVO for the 1st time this year and I am hype as shit! I curious as to what games people are playing if they are going there. I'm playing AE, Mahvel, X Jab, and Soul Calibur.

Didn't sign up for KOF to get that free shirt?

@MethodMan008: On a related note, I'm going to EVO for the 1st time this year and I am hype as shit! I curious as to what games people are playing if they are going there. I'm playing AE, Mahvel, X Jab, and Soul Calibur.

So should we make this thread the official EVO thread or should we make a new one?

POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONGKO!

@Phatmac said:

All I care about is Persona 4 Arena.

Amen. I really want to break down another game in video detail, and P4 is really looking sick. Can't wait to dissect it.

The makers of Divekick launched its Kickstarter for a PC release!

@Wes899: BBCSEX didn't make the cut, sadly. I think the BB community felt burned out when they released Extend as a separate retail title instead of a patch, and/or maybe the "ANIME GAME" stigma. Hell if I know.

Gonna have to check out some of the matches. Man I wish I had half the skillz in fighting games these guys have. I did manage to drop a Carl jump loop on some poor guy in a local tourney at one time, too much fun.

Any news on a Blazblue side event? It was an actual event last year I think. Sad to see it gone. Oh well I guess. Looking forward to EVO as always.

Just heard about pelican x lol

Pretty hyped for this!

@Anwar: No worries, let me break it down for you.

Leading up to EVO there's been 17 events in the Road to EVO season from January to June, Spooky streamed 7 of them as well as spending an entire week in North California in February streaming Team Street Fighter in the Cross Assault show, in addition to a lot of other events. This means that in the last 6 months, Spooky has been lucky if he's spent three weekends in a month at home and a number of times only one weekend if he's been in high demand. That means constantly travelling around the USA with his stream equipment to these events. That's mainly why they call him the hardest working man in the fighting game community.

Some of these events around March/May turned out to be of ... questionable quality, so he feels a bit jaded about it.

Next year he's going to cut down quite a lot on which events he travels to do streaming for. I imagine this means he'll still do the bigger ones, like EVO and CEO and the weekly Big Two from New York every Wednesday night. But as far as Road to EVO events are concerned, a lot of these events are going to have to rely more on their local streamers, however good or bad they may be.

@LordXavierBritish said:

@ImmortalSaiyan said:

I'm curious how SFXT is going to go down. I bet many of the entrants are doing just cause and for the money, not for any passion for the game.

All of that nonsense has been patched out save for the block stun on jabbing. Even then, it doesn't take much effort to throw out a Cross Counter when someone's block string is that predictable.

I'm still having a lot of fun with SFxT, and the online community (on PS3, at least) is still full of new people coming in every week; rarely do I ever fight the same person in ranked matches twice. The professional scene, however, did a complete 180 once they got their hands on the game, and it's a shame they aren't making any concerted effort to utilize most of the systems; you have players like Ricky Ortiz and Justin Wong complaining about the game as whole just because Rufus got his divekick nerfed. That's just the way things go with balance changes. Plus, it doesn't help that the commentators are full of negative opinions whenever it's on stream. An enthusiastic voice can go a long way in making something exciting. There was a moment during the CEO stream when only five people were watching SFxT in person and the commentators were observing the crowd for KoFXIII.

Either way, I will agree that, at this point in time, SFxT isn't that fun to watch. And I say that because it's hard for the game to replicate the "one pixel of health" or "insane comeback" moment. The momentum sways too heavily toward one player, and it's easy to determine the pulse of a match once the first hit lands. Going back to the CEO stream, the top 4 had some matches that ended with players standing still with ten seconds left on the clock; they knew it was impossible for one side to win.

Anyway, this is just a long-winded way of me saying that I like SFxT and I hope EVO will generate some hype for it. At least the team play will add a bit more drama to the mix.

So crazy excited!

MK9 FTW!!!!!!

Holy shit, old school FChamp. That was god damn epic. Pop offs. Fuck esports.

Secret chat again?

@OllyOxenFree said:

@ThePhantomnaut said:

@OllyOxenFree said:

@ThePhantomnaut said:

I gotta fight Poongko in KOF first. :(

Got my money on Poongko! Sorry, duder! :P gl;hb

No hating but gl:hb is so annoying to hear. It puts me in a bad mood. :(

Whatever though.

Good luck; have Batman?

Yeah unfortunately. But you did it out of good faith so thank you regardless. :P

@OllyOxenFree said:

@ThePhantomnaut said:

I gotta fight Poongko in KOF first. :(

Got my money on Poongko! Sorry, duder! :P gl;hb

No hating but gl:hb is so annoying to hear. It puts me in a bad mood. :(

Whatever though.

@OllyOxenFree said:

@ThePhantomnaut said:

I gotta fight Poongko in KOF first. :(

Got my money on Poongko! Sorry, duder! :P gl;hb

No hating but gl:hb is so annoying to hear. It puts me in a bad mood. :(

Whatever though.

I gotta fight Poongko in KOF first. :(

@ThePhantomnaut said:

I gotta fight Poongko in KOF first. :(

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. That sucks dude.

Thank you so much for putting this together.

I gotta fight Poongko in KOF first. :(

@Lunar_Aura: I must admit I'm very surprised Namco Bandai could dip into their pockets a little more for the ScV community who've done an excellent job representing themselves.

@jewunit said:

@BaconGames said:

As someone who only watched the MK steam last year and had a blast, it's a shame the entrants are about half compared to last year. At the same time over 250 entrants is probably better than what people were expecting. Either way I really look forward to the commentary from the pros one year later about the game, it's place in the fighting scene, and their speculation about its present and future at Evo.

I think MK has a chance at making it back next year. The community has continued to rally around the game even if it is a bit smaller than some of the other games.

I am personally very excited for KOF XIII. As with SSFIVAE is made exponentially more exciting by international competition. A player named b.a.l.a. has been dominating the U.S. tournaments including the two MLB ones. However, there are a number of players outside of the U.S., including Poongko, Xian, and Mago, who stand to make his road to the tournament a much harder one.

MK has a chance, if only to keep the new viewers it gained last year who'll be oblivious to the game's performance this past year. Also keep in mind that if Injustice makes it out in time for EVO 2013, then that could replace it. I also expect Tekken TAG Tournament 2 to replace Soulcalibur V.

Assuming that Capcom don't turn SFxT into a game worth playing and watching by this time next year then that will more than likely by dropped, leaving a gap for another game.

@BaconGames said:

As someone who only watched the MK steam last year and had a blast, it's a shame the entrants are about half compared to last year. At the same time over 250 entrants is probably better than what people were expecting. Either way I really look forward to the commentary from the pros one year later about the game, it's place in the fighting scene, and their speculation about its present and future at Evo.

I think MK has a chance at making it back next year. The community has continued to rally around the game even if it is a bit smaller than some of the other games.

I am personally very excited for KOF XIII. As with SSFIVAE is made exponentially more exciting by international competition. A player named b.a.l.a. has been dominating the U.S. tournaments including the two MLB ones. However, there are a number of players outside of the U.S., including Poongko, Xian, and Mago, who stand to make his road to the tournament a much harder one.

So disappointed at that Soul Calibur 5 prize pool. That five grand is gonna be divided for the top 8. Not like I wanna win for the money, but shit c'mon.

As someone who only watched the MK steam last year and had a blast, it's a shame the entrants are about half compared to last year. At the same time over 250 entrants is probably better than what people were expecting. Either way I really look forward to the commentary from the pros one year later about the game, it's place in the fighting scene, and their speculation about its present and future at Evo.

I'm glad to see Skullgirls is there but will it be streamed? I don't know how they handle side tournaments.

SBO West Coast Quals are pretty insane right now. Dieminion and JWong OCV'ing all over the place. :O

Also, over five thousand people in chat, NO SLOW MODE, and the chat is going very smoothly.

Shout outs to not lazy mods. /side eyes to giantbomb mods

I'm curious how SFXT is going to go down. I bet many of the entrants are doing just cause and for the money, not for any passion for the game.

Aw man, awesome post. The EVO information can be hard to keep up with if you don't check in on streams every week or so, so it's nice to have a place to compile all the info. Good job!

I personally can't wait to see some KOF action. I was really into SFxT but it just didn't put its hooks into me like most other fighters do. Skullgirls should also be interesting if I can find whatever side-stream will be showing it.

On the subject of MK, I think it's doing well. This is the first time they really tried hard to make an MK game for competitive play and it's had some solid showings. I think (and hope) Netherealm is smart enough to build off the really solid foundation they laid down for the next MK game.

One of the EVO co-founders Tom Cannon did an interview with GameSpot on their number of entrants among other things.

The EVO 2012 World Finals in Las Vegas, Nevada, next weekend will be the biggest in the event's history, EVO co-founder and Shoryuken.com president Tom "inkblot" Cannon told GameSpot.

The crowd is glued to the action at EVO 2011.

"We will have over 3,500 competitors (actual human beings), which is a record for us," Cannon said. "I estimate another 4,000-6,000 spectators, but it's impossible to say accurately as it's free to attend except Sunday."

Among the record number of challengers at the event will be Team MadCatz's Daigo "The Beast" Umehara and Evil Geniuses' Justin Wong. There were 2,500 competitors in 2011, and approximately 1,700 in 2010. Not only is this year's number of competitors the most ever, it's also the biggest jump from one year to the next.

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/evo-2012-draws-record-number-of-entrants-6384601

I don't think I've watched a fighting game live stream since the last EVO and I kinda stopped playing fighting games, but man EVO! Gotta watch EVO. Time to sit in front of the computer and get some hype!