I checked my receipt from 2013. $555.52 for the hotel with the discount.
Did you stay for five nights? I looked up my bill from last year and it was $444.64 for four nights. I don't think that's too bad as long as you have a full room (and knowing how poverty FG people are, they'll stuff 10 people in a normal hotel room).
Time for EVO line up prediction:
This is always fun. :3
USF4, UMvC3, SSB4, MKX and GGXrd are pretty much locks at this point. The current version of KI is pretty likely as well. I think Injustice, TTT2 and KoF XIII are all dropped. BBCP is probably the hardest game to predict -- it really depends on when 2.0 comes out on console and how many players it brings back. DoA5:LR is an interesting dark horse, but I don't think this game has a big enough tournament-going player base, especially out of the couple of events where it sees some strength. P4AU and UNIEL I think really come down to if either game (or both?!?) can sustain a significant playerbase.
I would watch the numbers at NEC for the anime fighters.
I think SSBM is a real wild card -- it depends on how many players end up moving to SSB4 (remember, for a couple of years after Brawl came out it was still the bigger game -- and that game was wack) and if Nintendo is going to let that rock at all. Never mind the logistics of getting all those CRTs and Gamecubes for the event. -_-
Personally, I think it ends up like this -- if we're assuming 8 games.
USF4
UMvC3
Smash 4
MKX
GGXrd
KI
UNIEL
P4A2
(Although honestly those last two slots really come down to which playerbases stay the strongest out of UNIEL/BBCP/P4AU.)
Woah half the line up is anime games. That's ballsy for EVO.
It's not unprecedented -- at one point, Evo 2010's lineup was set to be half anime fighters (BBCT, MBAA, TvC -- BBCT got swapped for MvC2, so it still holds.
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