July 22, 2014

Evolution 2014 recap

Last week we attended the largest fighting game tournament in the world, Evolution 2014. Over 5,000+ fighting game fans gathered in Las Vegas at the LVH Casino & Resort, with many people attending from various countries such as Japan, Australia, Great Britain, and more.

The calm before the storm…
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We teamed up with Capsule Entertainment and Godlike Combo to run a side-tournament for Street Fighter 3: Third Strike and Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate
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Attendee's got to play a pre-release of the new Jojo game, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle
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The Qanba booth had a gigantic fightstick on display
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Tried out a Virtual Reality headset…way better than the Virtual Boy
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This was just a small fraction of the seats available during Sunday finals
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The DOA5U grand finals consisted of 2 EVO world champions, FNATIC|Perfect Legend and RG|SonicFox. Here is the top 3 for the Dead or Alive 5 side tourney; 1st-RG|SonicFox (middle), 2nd-FNATIC|PerfectLegend (right), 3rd-AFD|Requiem (left)
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Wouldn't be right if we didn't take a team photo before we left Vegas. Till next year, EVO.
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