Haha! I'm right there with you. Exhausted, but still hyped up oddly enough. I can't tell if I want to go to sleep, play SF, or just youtube some matches.

Great EVO this year. I've always been one of those people who skip most of the other events and just watch EVO but I might start following them more going forward.

@starvinggamer: I feel like if I commit hard I'll be more likely to put the work in to get good at the game.

@i_stay_puft: That's what I did two years ago, though things can get dry from time to time, don't feel bad about stepping away for a few months then returning.

@hassun: What a fucking scumbag...That's screwed up.

Well.. It's now 7 AM here, but how am I supposed to sleep after a Top 8 like that? The feels!

Great great EVO.

@hassun: Two Juris in Top 8 ;)

I need to go to the store and get something to drink lol. all I have at home is alcohol.

1:00AM finisher for me.

Wow what a top 8. I really wanted Infiltration to win it all, but was rooting for Gamerbee in the grand finals.

What a craptastic way for it to wrap up. I SWEAR the rules were if your stick does shit like that then you win the entire game, not just the round... Are EVO rules written anywhere in regards to stick malfunctions/pauses? Bee is a better guy than me. I would have been calling for a game win. Sorry bra... shoulda bought MadCatz you done goofed!

Easily the best EVO since Evo Moment #37 back in the day.

Those James and S.Kill feels at the end. ; ;

I have to go next year for SF5. If the money is there, then I am all over it!

@zlatko:

http://evo.shoryuken.com/additional-rules/

Pausing is the round, as it has always been.

Man, that was so fun to watch!

That was the greatest top 8 in SF4 history. A fitting end for it's top dog presence. Twitter has been blowing up with Gamerbee discussion, and I have to agree, that after such a vicious road to Grand Finals, it was heartbreaking to see him lose it. I don't think that this means we should forget about Momochi. He played clean and solid the whole way through and earned his victory.

Unfortunately, that pause will be a blemish on that set forever. Something to wonder how things might have been different if it hadn't happened. I feel like the pause was handled well. No huge meter changes and a forfeit of the round. Whether by stick malfunction or button press, it really begs the question if Capcom will use the hold-to-pause feature that SkullGirls has so brilliantly implemented in Street Fighter V.

Overall, seeing America demolished, Juri's feet represented in top 8, favorites stopped (@hassun Sorry about Tokido), and tiring finals was amazing. That Losers Finals alone was one of the greatest sets I've ever seen. One that I think people will analyze and rewatch for years to come.

I may have wanted Infiltration to win, but he entertained everyone in the end and is already qualified for Capcom Cup.

I also may have started crying when Seth finally sniffled the moment before the stream went down. While the pieces of shit remain pieces of shit for stealing at these events, the real community is unlike any other and quite frankly I'm lucky to be part of it. These events are the best gatherings around video games you could ever ask for that simply can't be topped by DotA or LoL. I cannot wait for EVO 2016 when Daigo will take it with his fundamentals based Ryu. Go ahead, tell me I'm wrong about that prediction!

@dan_citi: I feel sorry for Ai Ai but at least he returned to form for a short time in the Nemo match. I hope he comes out to more international tournaments now. Maybe with an r/Kappa sponsorship.

@zlatko:

j. If a player accidentally or intentionally stops his game for any other reason, he will be forced to forfeit the round. Examples include accidentally pressing the start button on his controller to pause the match, unplugging his or his opponents joystick, etc. If the game cannot be restarted from the exact point of interruption, the player is forced to forfeit the Game.

k. Match interruptions beyond the players control (e.g. the game crashes or freezes) will be dealt with directly by the Tournament Organizer. All best attempts will be made to resume the round from where it left off. If that cannot be accomplished, the Game will be replayed with both players picking the same characters and modes.

The rules were followed perfectly.

Haha! In all of this I completely forgot about Necalli. Our new Street Fighter character! Very exciting. A cool looking character. Interesting gameplay. Can't wait to see more and really get a hold of his playstyle.

@viciousbearmauling: The disappointment is slightly lessened by the fact that Momochi won with Tokido's stick.

I think the first year of SFV will be the best chance the USA has gotten yet to win a main SF EVO. Because of the lack of Japanese arcade release (SFV not getting an arcade release puts massive question marks on its adoption by the Japanese FGC and really has me worried.) and because of people like Justin Wong who are amazing at picking up a game quickly. He did in SFIV and won pretty much everything at the EVO exhibition as well, even soundly beating Combofiend.

Finally, I would like to remind everyone that the GB chat is back up and the salty suites are being streamed.

Okay good.

However, one part of the rules seems... off. "If the game cannot be restarted from the exact point of interruption, the player is forced to forfeit the game." They didn't start right from that round. The time had to tick away, Gbee got two hits, the game was paused towards the end again, then a new stick was found, and then the third and last round was started.

The rules don't state how the forfeit of the round is to take place either. Do we just add an invisible "okay Gamer is up one round even though it says Momochi is up 1-0 right now" and then continue from this point onward as if this is the 1-1 point?

The whole thing is meh to me. 100% anti hype.

Notice that is game freeze etc not on pause. You're conflating rules @zlatko.

@fredchuckdave: Ah I'm doing the Amazon preorder OS in case a cool CE gets announced later

@zlatko: Different section:

Reporting Equipment Failure: Video game hardware has a tendency to break down during tournaments. Buttons or joysticks will occasionally break down in the middle of a match, leaving the player on the broken side at a significant disadvantage. The following rules will be used in the event of a breakdown.

a. In the event of an equipment failure, they player has the option to stop the Game in progress to obtain an replacement.

b. If a Game is stopped in progress, the reporting player must forfeit the current round.

c. New equipment must be immediately available. If replacement equipment cannot be obtained in a timely manner, the player must continue to play on their current equipment or forfeit the Match.

d. Once replacement equipment is obtained, the player is given the rest of the round to configure their buttons and test the new equipment. If the player gains an undue advantage by doing so (e.g. charging an abundance of super meter), they must forfeit the Game.

e. A player may opt to switch out equipment between Games at no penalty. When this occurs, the player will be given ample time to configure his buttons before the next Game begins.

Applying this to that situation: Momochi's stick malfunctioned during the match. He reported it, thereby forfeiting the round. It wasn't an accidental nor an intentional pause, it was equipment failure.

Anyway, we're not supposed to get another Premier any time soon, right? I need some time to recover.

@zlatko: So Momochi was 1 round up in the final game. During the second round his stick failed. The match was halted and in accordance to the rules Gamerbee won round 2. They let the time run out because that way there is as little as possible extra metre gain. Making them both start in round 3 with pretty much the same amount of metre. I don't think there is a more elegant and honest way to do it really.

P.S. Is that a Seth Killian avatar? Looks nice.

So according to

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2015/07/19/a-new-challenger-joins-street-fighter-v-introducing-necalli/

Nicalli does have a command grab, and the intro trailer showed a dive kick. This character is going to be bananas.

Almost forgot to add the trailer:

I actually ended up napping during melee. The heat probably contributed to that a little though, now that I think about it.

S(t)ick recovery:

AND

@crocbox: I napped during Melee too, and skipped part of Marvel to get groceries and grab take out (saw LS, LF, and GF though). Glad I was pretty fresh going into SF.

@westernwizard: Yeah, the way Marvel and especially SF turned out, I'm glad I was able to recharge a bit.

Everything wrong with Tekken (and modern Japanese pop culture):

Despite the setbacks, Momochi continues to prove that this is his year. Congrats to him, Gamerbee, and Infiltration for making top 3. Welp, the road to 500k marches on!

If they run both USF4 and SFV next year, will Evo be 4 days long? Can't imagine them running 4 huge tournaments (SF4, SF5, Melee, Smash U) in 3 days. Especially with the overlap between USF4 and SFV

@thunderslash: It's kind of crazy this is his first CPT tournament win this year. And now he is pretty much guaranteed to be the top seed for the next Capcom Cup.

Necalli is basically Wolverine with a command grab lmao. good shit.

Man, work needed me to come in early so I missed most of marvel and all of SF4. Catching up on the drama now.

Always gotta be something crazy at Evo every year.

@hassun: I think you meant to say everything right about both those things. Damn shame this won't be in western versions though.

GamerBee and Momochi appear to still be trending on Twitter heh

@dan_citi: More Sabretooth IMO. And the game already has "Birdie!" o_O

Can't wait for the beeeeeeta!

You duders need to come to Evo next year so I'm not sitting there being introverted by myself. Was still a fucking amazing experience.

That and the above blurb about stick malfunction does make sense. It was handled like it should have been.

Yes it is S.Kill! It came from that amazing art that was floating around pre-EVO of all the heavy hitters and commentators in this art style. So dope.

This was the first EVO I've followed, having only recently gotten super into fighting tournaments in the last year (really only in the last three or four months--I started my semi-regular series on my fumbling attempts to learn fighting games back in May (which I need to start updating again, particularly after this weekend), and what a great fucking year to get started. Saturday night I couldn't conceive of any finals being as batshit insane as the Killer Instinct finals were, but then the GGXrd finals happened and were crazy, and the MKX finals weren't quite as crazy because everyone knew Sonicfox had that shit locked up in spite of his loss earlier but were still pretty fucking crazy, and then basically every match of the USFIV top eight had me on the edge of my seat (to say nothing of the MvC3 finals, which were exciting in their own right). This is without mentioning all the other side-tournaments going on (I see you Melty Blood) and oh yeah the P4AU tourney, good lord.

To say nothing of the fact that I dove deep into the various fighters I owned during downtime (read: any time Smash was on the main stage, or in between bouts--the nice thing about Melty Blood is that it runs real good in a window so I just had it up in between fights). I generally pack up my stick every night, but this weekend I just left it out on my desk, because I didn't want to have to stop watching long enough to open it up and take it out (a process that takes like two seconds, if we're being honest). I think at one point I had like five or six streams going, switching back and forth between them all. What a great fucking weekend this was. Doubtless this whole week is going to involve me dicking around in fighting games (I just picked up GGXrd last night and am eager to see how Milla and her hat play tonight, and I have continued my undefeated streak with Chie in online play (granted, I've only played two matches, but shut up and let me have this) and will probably be diving into that some more). Plus, of course, it was fun as hell to hang out with all you dudes in the chat as it all happened. What a fantastic way to spend a weekend.

So, when's the next big tournament?

I'm glad to see all the international players learning the american style of poppin' off.

When in Rome.

@ford_dent: There is a bit of a lull after EVO (With the weeks/months leading up to it being so busy, that's a good thing.) but there are still a few tournaments around the world in August. For the bigger ones you'll have to wait until late September.

http://shoryuken.com/tournament-calendar/

http://capcomprotour.com/schedule/

@hmoney001: Provided they remember how to count rounds, of course.

Man was that fun to watch. I'm not very good at fighting games, but was totally captivated by the action yesterday. I could not pull myself away last night or really all day. The intensity and the drama of the Street Fighter grand finals was terrific. I was pulling for Gamerbee as he clawed his way to the finals and then took it all the way to the last possible round. I felt badly for Momochi when his stick broke. At the time, I didn't know if he was done or if it would continue. That was definitely worth staying up late to watch (on the east coast) even if I am dragging at work today.

Articles are starting to go up about rising thunder

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/07/20/rising-thunder-the-pc-fighting-game-made-for-your-keyboard

So they're making the fighting game I would make if I made a fighting game. Interesting and exciting. Props to Seth and the Cannons.

@l1ghtn1n:

I barely have time for games I bought and paid for so I'd feel bad to sign up for an alpha and potentially take up a slot that could go to someone with more time, so I haven't signed up yet. I am pumped to see someone build a FG like I have wanted to see in the world to know if it will actually work or not.

BTW anyone else surprised to see no GB coverage (at least yet)? Considering Seth is a regular on the E3 panels every year so he knows the crew and they showed a LOT of other people the game.

Goddamnit, EVO, I can't hold all these feels. ;^;

Gamerbee looking absolutely soulcrushed, his fiancee coming over in tears, that was emotional in and of itself, but when James Chen started crying on camera, I damn near lost it. What a fuckin' tournament. You could write an entire novel on the SF4 Top 8 alone. Just some bonkers stuff.

Highlights from me:
Nobi's Dragunov play through all of Tekken 7's Top 8
The Sleep comeback against MyGod in KI Top 8
Domi's DIRTY Cinder bomb loop in KI Top 8
Rico Suave finally making it to the top of the KI mountain
The entire Xrd Top 4
[A]rmada returning to the Melee throne
KBR winning Mahvel
Every last fucking second of the SF4 Top 8

I would say that I'm looking forward to next year, but with a bar this high, I don't know if I'll be able to handle next year. XD

Also, are we talking about Necalli here, or is there a different thread for that?

@stormtphoenix: That's a good set of highlights! Alex put the Necalli trailer on the site if you want to chat it up there.

Speaking of which, shout-out to @alex and @austin_walker for checking EVO out this year!

I'm glad both of them checked it out, now an actual conversation can be had on the beast cast instead of one person sharing their experience :D

@lanechanger: Agreed!