Month: June 2017

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Only 24 hours left to register for Evolution 2017!

There’s still time to sign up for the world’s biggest fighting game tournament!

Registration for Evolution 2017 — coming to the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 14-16 — is still open, but only for another 24 hours! Registration on smash.gg closes at 11:59 PM PDT later today, June 30th. That means there’s still almost a full day to sign up to compete in one (or more) of the nine main stage game events:

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Why sign up for Evo 2017? Here’s a few new reasons.

aksys-logoAksys Games & Arc System Works have jumped in to support fans and competitors of BlazBlue: Central Fiction and Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 by providing $10,000 pot bonuses to both games this year, and their booth on site will offer event-exclusive new merchandise!

tekken7-logo-black-750Tekken 7 has already exceeded 1000 registrants at Evo 2017 — meaning this will be the biggest Tekken event to date! It will be a true King of the Iron Fist Tournament.

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In addition to AnimEVO’s many other side tournaments, Bandai Namco is now officially supporting the Gundam Versus side tournament! It’s free to enter — but you still need a pass to Evo!

Source: smash.gg (Twitter)

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How does the order of the last four matches affect players’ performance in finals?

A discussion on how changing the order of the final matches can affect the outcome.

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Tensions run high and endurance is pushed to the limit for players that have reached the final matches in the Winners and Losers brackets. To set up the Grand Finals, somebody needs to get knocked down to Losers–but how significant is the sequence of these final fights to the competitors?

In this blog post, Glenn discusses the difference between two match sequences that occur in Capcom Pro Tour events; the order of matches are either:

Sequence 1:
Losers bracket Semifinal, Winners bracket Final, Losers bracket Final, Grand Final [LSF/WF/LF/GF], or
Sequence 2:
Winners bracket Final, Losers bracket Semifinal, Losers bracket Final, Grand Final [WF/LSF/LF/GF]

The primary difference is whether the loser of Winners Finals has to play immediately after in Losers Finals (sequence 1) or if the winner of Losers Semifinals plays immediately afterwards in Losers Finals (sequence 2). Why is this significant? Because a player is playing their next match either immediately off of a high-stakes win or loss — and that’s going to have an impact on their mindset and momentum.

Glenn examines recent CPT results, and how the first sequence tends to result in poorer performance from the player that just lost their Winners Finals. After factoring in how much break time players get between fights, they argue that the second sequence is better for both the competitors and the spectators. Read the entire argument here!

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Crossout – 3M Players Wreaking Havoc in PvP and PvE

Crossout went public just over a month ago on PC, PlayStation 4 and XBox One. In that time, over three million players have managed to destroy 150M vehicles in PvP and 1.5M Leviathans in PvE. Loot obtained during these battles has been used to create millions of items that can be sold on the in-game market that sees over a million transactions everyday.