Orb13
Smash Cadet
- Joined
- Jul 8, 2008
- Messages
- 50
Before I say anything I wanna make two things very clear.
1. Evo is awesome
Evo2k7 freakin rocked! I'm sure everyone remembers the famous HugS vs. Ken matches. 4 big tournies held across the united states with a huge final tourney in Vegas. Free of charge with big cash prizes, what's not to love? Even Evo2k8 wasn't a total letdown, 4 brand new fighting games premiered including street fighter 4 (which looks freakin amazing).
BUT...
2. Evo seriously let us down
Poor prize structure and horrible ruleset lead to low attendance for what is supposed to be the biggest fighting game event of the year. I'm not a top player, but I think that items can be used without breaking the game (granted a lot of in depth analysis has to be done to make items playable) However the way evo implemented items was simply myopic. I mean cmon medium spawn!?!?!?!? Smash balls??!?!?!?!?
I expect that like myself Evo has left a bad taste in your mouth. But I came to realize something, we don't need Evo. The smash community is self sufficient, we don't depend on anyone. So Evo sucked, so what? We still have big tournies ahead of us, a strong community, and a ****load of fun. We can always hope that Evo will improve for the rules for next year, but if they don't or if they drop brawl altogether, we'll live. Smash will always be alive as long as there's some dude playing with his buddies saying "Man today's just a bad day for me." and everyone in the rooms says "No johns!" As long as C. Falcon's knee is ridiculously manly and awesome smash will freakin rock! As long as someone gets a charge beam in the face and says "Cheap ****!!!" smash will be alive and well. Yes smash will be awesome along as someone somewhere is kicking his friends *****.
SOOOO guys let's move on! Don't listen to srk forum members saying that smash is kiddie game! And don't mind Evo being ****ing moronic!
VIVA LA SMASH!!!
1. Evo is awesome
Evo2k7 freakin rocked! I'm sure everyone remembers the famous HugS vs. Ken matches. 4 big tournies held across the united states with a huge final tourney in Vegas. Free of charge with big cash prizes, what's not to love? Even Evo2k8 wasn't a total letdown, 4 brand new fighting games premiered including street fighter 4 (which looks freakin amazing).
BUT...
2. Evo seriously let us down
Poor prize structure and horrible ruleset lead to low attendance for what is supposed to be the biggest fighting game event of the year. I'm not a top player, but I think that items can be used without breaking the game (granted a lot of in depth analysis has to be done to make items playable) However the way evo implemented items was simply myopic. I mean cmon medium spawn!?!?!?!? Smash balls??!?!?!?!?
I expect that like myself Evo has left a bad taste in your mouth. But I came to realize something, we don't need Evo. The smash community is self sufficient, we don't depend on anyone. So Evo sucked, so what? We still have big tournies ahead of us, a strong community, and a ****load of fun. We can always hope that Evo will improve for the rules for next year, but if they don't or if they drop brawl altogether, we'll live. Smash will always be alive as long as there's some dude playing with his buddies saying "Man today's just a bad day for me." and everyone in the rooms says "No johns!" As long as C. Falcon's knee is ridiculously manly and awesome smash will freakin rock! As long as someone gets a charge beam in the face and says "Cheap ****!!!" smash will be alive and well. Yes smash will be awesome along as someone somewhere is kicking his friends *****.
SOOOO guys let's move on! Don't listen to srk forum members saying that smash is kiddie game! And don't mind Evo being ****ing moronic!
VIVA LA SMASH!!!