Today's piece of hilarity comes from a video taken at fighting game tournament Final Round XII just last month.
The footage (after the jump) was of two fighters, Kensou (C. Viper) and Liston (Sagat), who were all tied up and on match three of three. Whoever came out on top would place in the top 16 out of hundreds of participants. Nothing too out of the ordinary, yet.
But then, as the two fighters whittle each other down to low health, something funny happens. Both players execute an ultra combo, and both ultra combos miss. Yet, for some hilarious reason, everyone in the room jumps up and starts dancing as if the match is over; it's not.
After prancing about for a few seconds, Kensou finally realizes the fight is still going on, jumps on his controller, and nabs the victory. If this is any indication of how entertaining tournaments are, I need to start attending them more often.
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I could not tell at all what happened in that video. Everybody starts screaming and you never see what happens after that: you just see people screaming, plus a few shots of someone's back.
Of course it's a small TV, they're running a bunch of fights at these tournaments at once and they can't really afford rows of 50" HDTV's. Most of the equipment is probably loaned for use by people running/attending these things too. Fighting game tournaments are not particularly glamorous affairs.
Ha! Hey Grim, they uploaded another angle of the same match, and you can actually kind of see what happens in the end on this one. the quality is waayy better too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNkgp-iDhcU
Like what everybody else said, get a new TV set. That defeat is embarassing. It's like sneaking behind an enemy to stab them to death, only for the enemy to turn around blow your brains out.
When you're running a tournament with hundreds of people, and it isn't EVO who has Toyota and other big major sponsors and its the players themselves running/sponsoring the tournament, not everyone can afford LCD HDTVs. We play on what we can, as long as we can see the screen clearly, we can play. No matter how big the TV.
The using A CRT because there prob timing freaks and LCD's have a small delay from when you do something and you see it happen, unlike CRTs which are as close to instant as you can get.
I had no idea Destructoid had so many pompous whiny pricks theres an average .6 second difference of screenlag on HDTVs compared to .2 on Tube set while playing consoles. Video was heart wrenching as a Sagat player who also played in the tournament.
Yeah, most tournaments and conventions rely on people lending equipment. Unless attendance is in the 10,000+ range, resources will be damn limited. Hell, I've been working conventions for fifteen years and it still amazes me the ignorance-fulled expectations of people when it comes to such events.
For instance, when I was recently scouting hotels for a new convention (which may not happen due to a recent financial emergency on my part) I looked into one that hosted comic book and anime cons in the past. The asking cost for just one day? $12,000. Another hotel that's hosted smaller cons? $10,000. And that's just for <i>one day.</i>
You can go much, much lower, but you end up in a bad part of town. And after that you have rental fees for any other equipment you need, printing fees for any programs and badges, advertising fees, appearance fees for any guests along with their airfare, budgets for all the departments, and so on. It's a lot of work and a shitload of money just to get the damn thing off the ground. So if the TVs aren't all that hot, or the prizes kind of weak... please try to understand.
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7:00 PM on 04.06.2009
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I love at 2:29, he just realized that he just got his ass handed to him.
Also, small TV.
I also agree with the tiny TV comments...that shit is small for a tourney.
it is even more retarded when they slow it down at the end
here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNkgp-iDhcU
That guy at 3:30 is little crazy.
Pretty sure this took place at an Atlanta, GA. tourney.
Apparently we now know you've never been to a fighting game tournament. Like Wedge said, there are 20 of these matches going on at a time usually.
For instance, when I was recently scouting hotels for a new convention (which may not happen due to a recent financial emergency on my part) I looked into one that hosted comic book and anime cons in the past. The asking cost for just one day? $12,000. Another hotel that's hosted smaller cons? $10,000. And that's just for <i>one day.</i>
You can go much, much lower, but you end up in a bad part of town. And after that you have rental fees for any other equipment you need, printing fees for any programs and badges, advertising fees, appearance fees for any guests along with their airfare, budgets for all the departments, and so on. It's a lot of work and a shitload of money just to get the damn thing off the ground. So if the TVs aren't all that hot, or the prizes kind of weak... please try to understand.
A 0.6 to 0.2 second difference is almost half a second of lag and a 24 frame (out of 60) difference.
That's fricken unbearable for any sort of combo. Especially in SF where most big combos hinge on timings of 1-4 frames of execution.