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[Amedo310]

Smash keeping the lights on for the FGC community.

This is 100% true for my local scene.

 

[Mit-]

On the subject of the venue, is 12,000 a lot of seats compared to past EVO events?

Should I be worried about it selling out?

I'm also curious if it's TOO big. Hopefully it doesn't look half empty the whole time.

 

[Ghostofst4rm4n]

Well, hotel and flight booked. This is my first evo, pretty pumped for it.

Is everyone doing the Westgate with the event discount? I was actually shocked at how reasonable it was, $314 for 4 nights. I saw a couple posts earlier in this thread calling the Westgate a shitpile but looking at reviews it really doesn't seem that bad - average seems around 3.5/5 based on reviews I've seen. And really, I'm not expecting anything luxurious, just relatively clean and no bedbugs. Maybe I'm missing something but it doesn't look like there's another not-terrible hotel near the convention center with a reasonable price.

Congrats! Did you book your flight as well? If so what site did you use for your tickets?

 

[Sinatar]

On the subject of the venue, is 12,000 a lot of seats compared to past EVO events?

Should I be worried about it selling out?

I'm also curious if it's TOO big. Hopefully it doesn't look half empty the whole time.

The previous ballroom held something like 7000 people. It's going to sell out in a matter of minutes when tickets go up.

 

[papertoonz]

Guilty Gear
Marvel
Mortal Kombat
Melee
Street Fighter

Will probably be the Sunday schedule.

If I'd have to guess the Saturday schedule,

Killer Instinct
Tekken 7
Pokkén
Sm4sh

That said, I'm feeling that it may be likely that one game will have it's finals moved to Friday due to frontloading and I'm thinking it'll be Killer Instinct. Last EVO they ran through pools, quarters, semis and finals all in one day, and it had even less entrants than Persona 4 Ultimax which was last year's game that got thrown into Friday. I don't think they'll have Tekken 7 on Friday since the entrants for that will most likely only increase due to launch hype. Pokkén will probably surprise a lot of people with it's entrants due to the seemingly evident overlap as well as just the brand recognition inspiring more entrants.

the set up for games will be 1, 3, 5. there is going to be a game done on friday

 

[Peléo]

I'd definitely like to try it. If I ever get a nice hacked setup going, I'll be giving it a shot for sure.

I wish Nintendo could accomplish things like SD Remix or Project M, but I understand that it's not really feasible either. They have to design these games for more than just competition, and they don't have the benefit of working directly and incrementally with the community.

You dont even need a hacked setup. Just like 20xx, a memory card with the SD remix file is enough.

Yes, seeing Nintendo overall philosophy, it will always be a more reaction based interaction (like the patches in Smash 4) than a collaborative creative work. Which is quite unfortunate. The insight of top players would be incredible useful for balancing characters and their tenacity would be really helpful to discovering glitchs and exploits.

I hope someday this will be a reality. A man can dream.

 

[BiggNife]

Congrats! Did you book your flight as well? If so what site did you use for your tickets?

I ended up booking my flight through United because they're the only airline that does nonstop flights from Newark to McCarran and I really didn't want to take the risk of a fucked up layover. I checked Priceline, Orbitz, Expedia and United's site and the prices were pretty much the same give or take a few dollars, so I decided the easiest thing to do was to order it through the airline itself.

Mr Wizard tweeted that the Westgate has sold through 2800 rooms with the Evo discount so I'm guessing most people went that route. If anyone here thinks there's a better hotel nearby with a similar price, let me know. I'm willing to rebook if it's worth it, but I have zero experience with Vegas hotels.

 

[FadedRevolution]

for those that already booked their hotel does it come out now or does it come out after your stay?

 

[NotLiquid]

the set up for games will be 1, 3, 5. there is going to be a game done on friday

In that case I'm honestly tempted to say it will be a coin flip between Killer Instinct and Pokkén because while I don't see the former getting as many entrants as the latter, I do see it getting the shaft on account of it being either unproven or maybe not wanting to cluster the Nintendo games.