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Registration will open on July 19th for Bandai Namco’s SoulCalibur VI tournament at Evo 2018
Make sure you’re registered for Evo in time to join this battle!

Talk about cutting it close! With only two days left to sign up for Evo 2018, Bandai Namco has decided now is a good time to provide registration information for a side tournament for one of the most anticipated titles of 2018: SoulCalibur VI.
Prepare to test your mettle against the best weapon masters in the world! The SOULCALIBUR VI Tournament is coming to @EVO this year. Registration begins tomorrow at 9AM PT! pic.twitter.com/8j8gT5PNJ4
— Bandai Namco US (@BandaiNamcoUS) July 18, 2018
While this isn’t totally out of left field (and Tekken 7 appeared at Evo two years in a row before its console release) if this was the game you were basing your Evo attendance around, you need to make a decision real quick! Based on the tweet, registration opens for the SoulCalibur tournament on 7/19 on the (currently inactive) smash.gg site here. We will update this article with any changes to this announcement, so stay tuned!

Source: BandaiNamcoUS
Registration will open on July 19th for Bandai Namco’s SoulCalibur VI tournament at Evo 2018
Make sure you’re registered for Evo in time to join this battle!

Talk about cutting it close! With only two days left to sign up for Evo 2018, Bandai Namco has decided now is a good time to provide registration information for a side tournament for one of the most anticipated titles of 2018: SoulCalibur VI.
Prepare to test your mettle against the best weapon masters in the world! The SOULCALIBUR VI Tournament is coming to @EVO this year. Registration begins tomorrow at 9AM PT! pic.twitter.com/8j8gT5PNJ4
— Bandai Namco US (@BandaiNamcoUS) July 18, 2018
While this isn’t totally out of left field (and Tekken 7 appeared at Evo two years in a row before its console release) if this was the game you were basing your Evo attendance around, you need to make a decision real quick! Based on the tweet, registration opens for the SoulCalibur tournament on 7/19 on the (currently inactive) smash.gg site here. We will update this article with any changes to this announcement, so stay tuned!

Source: BandaiNamcoUS
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Over 1,000 people are registered for BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle at Evo 2018 — but the matches won’t be 3/5
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle is the youngest game to enter the main stage of Evolution 2018, and so its first year will be sort of a test run. One of the prevailing topics in the community has been whether the game should berun as 3 out of 5 rounds, particularly since every fight is just one “match,” and some of those can go by quickly. While some have been pushing for that to be the case, there’s an official response from Mr. Wizard and Tom Cannon: the game will run at 2 out of 3 rounds due to time constraints.
Here’s the reasoning Tom Cannon provided via Twitter:
Evo BBTag pools rules: 24 players per pool. 4 game setups per pool. Top 3 per pool advance. To run this pool from 24 -> 3 players, it takes 12 "waves" of players playing on the 4 setups.
— Tom Cannon (@ProtomCannon) July 18, 2018
Multiply by 12 waves and we get 2 hrs, 6 min, 7 secs. At Evo we must complete each pool in 1 hr, 45 min to stay on schedule. So, running 3/5 would put us roughly 21 minutes behind schedule for every round of pools! And this is if everything runs perfectly and on time.
— Tom Cannon (@ProtomCannon) July 18, 2018
Finally, he linked the data provided by community member and commentator EbonicPlague, who recorded a sample of match lengths.
Link to the data, with match times provided by @EbonicPlagueBB. Thanks for that btw! https://t.co/F1jKylQp2X
— Tom Cannon (@ProtomCannon) July 18, 2018
On the bright side, the interest in BBTAG is quite noticeable; I’m not sure anyone predicted that over 1,000 people would be entering the Evo 2018 tournament. If you’re not one of those, make haste, as there is still time to register for Evo 2018.
BlazBlue tag battle has over 1k entries. We are going to keep pools 2/3 for now, and if we see a significant amount of matches coming in quickly, we will re-evaluate moving everything to 3/5 for quarters and semis.
— Joey Cuellar (@MrWiz) July 17, 2018
Sources: Tom Cannon; Joey Cuellar
Over 1,000 people are registered for BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle at Evo 2018 — but the matches won’t be 3/5
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle is the youngest game to enter the main stage of Evolution 2018, and so its first year will be sort of a test run. One of the prevailing topics in the community has been whether the game should berun as 3 out of 5 rounds, particularly since every fight is just one “match,” and some of those can go by quickly. While some have been pushing for that to be the case, there’s an official response from Mr. Wizard and Tom Cannon: the game will run at 2 out of 3 rounds due to time constraints.
Here’s the reasoning Tom Cannon provided via Twitter:
Evo BBTag pools rules: 24 players per pool. 4 game setups per pool. Top 3 per pool advance. To run this pool from 24 -> 3 players, it takes 12 "waves" of players playing on the 4 setups.
— Tom Cannon (@ProtomCannon) July 18, 2018
Multiply by 12 waves and we get 2 hrs, 6 min, 7 secs. At Evo we must complete each pool in 1 hr, 45 min to stay on schedule. So, running 3/5 would put us roughly 21 minutes behind schedule for every round of pools! And this is if everything runs perfectly and on time.
— Tom Cannon (@ProtomCannon) July 18, 2018
Finally, he linked the data provided by community member and commentator EbonicPlague, who recorded a sample of match lengths.
Link to the data, with match times provided by @EbonicPlagueBB. Thanks for that btw! https://t.co/F1jKylQp2X
— Tom Cannon (@ProtomCannon) July 18, 2018
On the bright side, the interest in BBTAG is quite noticeable; I’m not sure anyone predicted that over 1,000 people would be entering the Evo 2018 tournament. If you’re not one of those, make haste, as there is still time to register for Evo 2018.
BlazBlue tag battle has over 1k entries. We are going to keep pools 2/3 for now, and if we see a significant amount of matches coming in quickly, we will re-evaluate moving everything to 3/5 for quarters and semis.
— Joey Cuellar (@MrWiz) July 17, 2018
Sources: Tom Cannon; Joey Cuellar
