Evo 2020 Online Tournaments - Or how every pro player imaginable will complain about lag during Official Tournaments

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Is EVO 2020 being online only a bad thing?

  • Pro Players are always gonna bitch about something. This changes nothing.

  • The internet is definitely going to fuck up something. It's a bad idea

  • LOL (Insert hated player here) is gonna cry about lag. lmao

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CatharticShitHead

CatharticShitHead

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if you like the vidya and you like it when the funny Japanese man screams "Hadouken", then like me, you probably like watching tournaments of said fighting games. From the ungodly and rancid smelling smash community to the tranny worshipping mortal combat community, tournaments around fighting games have been as old as the genre itself. But now, here in 2020, it is a first for the history books.

Due to COVID19, EVO, one of the biggest fighting game tournaments, consisting of many different fighting games, in the world has been postponed and moved into the summer of 2020 in an online-only format. How will this work? Well, I don't know but what I do know is that some pro players are already saying that this will prove to be an issue.

The main argument is that if tournaments are fully online with no LAN matches whatsoever, then there will be some lag or input lag in some capacity. Meaning that arguably, players will not be performing to their fullest, being held back by the horrors of wifi matches.

I thought this was interesting because EVO has always been with people playing right there in the rooms, doing local vs. With no possibility of input lag at all. But now EVO seems to want to just tackle that possibility altogether.

What do you guys think? Is this going to be a shitshow where Wifi warriors are going to dominate and/or players are going to lose due to lag? Or is this all just semantics and online tournaments change nothing besides the fact that players are in the comfort of their own home?
 
Doing EVO as online only will be terrible. The only reason they haven't canceled is probably because the companies already payed them to bump their shitty new fighters into the main brackets.
 
It's gonna be a hilarious shitshow not just because the matches themselves will be horrible, but because whoever wins will be in the DSP situation of winning a tournament that none of the best players gave a shit about.
 
Unless the companies that made the fighting games are in the works for an update patch that will improve the netcode, the fights themselves are going to be between "Kind-of-Shit" to "HOLY FUCK DAT LAG THO!!!"

With my experience, depending on the game, the player characters will either teleport to different parts of the screen or the moves will look like they made an impact but dont (this is mostly with 2d fighters), or the entire match will stutter like you're watching it in 0.25 speed on YouTube (mainly 3d fighters). I know people shill for GGPO but it's not full-proof. Even people on fightcade bitch about the netcode.

Also is EVO absolutely sure that the people in the tournaments have the best possible internet ever? I know in some countries the internet is fucking garbage.
 
If they're already willing to cancel the attendance and tickets and popcorn sales why can't they just bring the competitors in with no audience for in person matches in a rented hotel conference room? The games they've got for evo this year all have shit netcode.
 
nagant 1895 said:
If they're already willing to cancel the attendance and tickets and popcorn sales why can't they just bring the competitors in with no audience for in person matches in a rented hotel conference room? The games they've got for evo this year all have shit netcode.
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Because all fighting game tournaments besides a handful of invitationals are completely open entry. Have been from the outset.
 
I expect a ton of bootleg Low tier gods complaining about lag, or whineing about spamming moves.
 
It was brought up in a podcast I listen to, but what's to stop people from tagging in others to play for them and a bunch of other cheating shenanigans? Everyone is in their home, how is EVO staff gonna regulate that? You're basically working on the honor system if no one can see you.
 
KingofNothing said:
It was brought up in a podcast I listen to, but what's to stop people from tagging in others to play for them and a bunch of other cheating shenanigans? Everyone is in their home, how is EVO staff gonna regulate that? You're basically working on the honor system if no one can see you.
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Fuck, I never thought of that. Some pro's are basically proven because I know they're gonna be streaming it but everyone who's not streaming it can basically cheat just like you said.

Damn. I wonder how they're gonna deal with that. :thinking:
 
CatharticShitHead said:
Fuck, I never thought of that. Some pro's are basically proven because I know they're gonna be streaming it but everyone who's not streaming it can basically cheat just like you said.

Damn. I wonder how they're gonna deal with that. :thinking:
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How can you deal with that? Unless everyone gets a camera, there's no real way to prove that someone wasn't being a shit during the match. And that's even assuming they have the bandwith to play the game and stream if giving everyone a camera was even an option.
 
Mike Z must be laughing right now.

As much as I'd like to revel in the shitshow I'm pretty disappointed as under night in birth managed to develop a decent reputation that's going to take a hit from it's ass netcode.

Oh well, at least it's not played on switch. Suck it, Smash community.
 
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