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Evo 2024 Announcement Show scheduled for February 6, 5 PM PST
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I honestly don't think Evo 2023 was that high because of the CapCup payout. Only a few hundred players are really competing for cash at any tournament. SF6 pulled in thousands and thousands and thousands of casual ass casuals.
SF6 is not going to get a million dollars for the Cap Cup winner next year, but it will likely have a payout that's higher than any other pro tour.
technically i think lots of people signed up cuz of of the CapCup payout
the CapCup payout was one of the things that caused Evo to raise their payouts, which certainly drew in a lot more signups
you can say that not many people look to go for the money, but the money brings in a lot of more causal players to give it a go
5,000 showed up for SFV in 2016 and wasn't no millions on the line. People just like playing SF at Evo.
2016 had the $500k for SFV. SF is popular, but the giant prize pool the first year doesn't hurt.
i mean, that was the first year for SFV at evo and the $500k pot iirc, thats not nothing
SFV was first or 2nd in entrants at Evo its entire run. DBFZ, Smash Ultimate and Strive took first in their debut years, but SFV was steady at Evo. If Tekken 8 gets more entrants than SF6 (which is very possible) it'll be the first time Tekken has gotten more entrants than SF at Evo in at least 15 years.
Street Fighter always does well at Evo.
My predictions
Sunday Main stage:
Tekken 8
Street Fighter 6
Guilty Gear Strive
Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising
Saturday:
UNIST
MK1
DBFZ
MvC2 or CvS2 for the Saturday night hype
Sunday Main stage:
Tekken 8
Street Fighter 6
Guilty Gear Strive
Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising
Saturday:
UNIST
MK1
DBFZ
MvC2 or CvS2 for the Saturday night hype
KoF will be there just for the sole fact that EVO probably wants to be the exclusive place to debut another Garou 2 trailer.
Them saying the expo hall will be all three days makes me wonder if they are going old-school this year and everything will take place there.
The only one of these I doubt is DBFZ, unless that rollback patch hits before summer.
KI for the throwback game is a good call.
Oh yeah I'm aware of that, been two years in a row. It can get bad lol.
Very curious where they go next.
Very interested in where the new venue will be. The switch from Bally's to Mandalay Bay was a big upgrade back in the days of SFIV. Not sure where in Vegas would make sense for the next move. I just hope the new venue is actually better instead of some cost-cutting measure.
I'd bet KI with its new patch is a lock for the retro game slot. That'll be sick as long as the KI players show up in numbers.
I'm hoping Project L is far enough along that we start getting annual announcement trailers at EVO. Maybe they can announce its final name and do a "real" reveal trailer. Heck, it may actually come out next year, so that timing would make sense.
I'm hoping Project L is far enough along that we start getting annual announcement trailers at EVO. Maybe they can announce its final name and do a "real" reveal trailer. Heck, it may actually come out next year, so that timing would make sense.
Yeah it's not there anymore. It could be anywhere on the strip.
SPHERE???!?
sphere too small, but they should have an ad on there at least
Is sphere too small for grand finals?
I have no idea how big the sphere is on the inside.
they could probably make it work, but ticket prices to afford the screen usage would be TOO MUCH i bet lol
Shit that's hype too. Put seats on the golf course, have that country club losing their minds for all new reasons.
I would bet against that. Tekken 8 is doing amazing and it's going to get some huge numbers at EVO. But I think it still falls short of whatever decline SF6 has this year. Nothing yet has proven to reach new heights far beyond anything else the way the SF series has at EVO and I think that will still mostly hold true at this EVO. That being said I don't think the difference will be big. Something like 4.5k for SF6 and 3.5-4k for Tekken 8 is my early guess.
I don't know if either hits 4k, but both cracking 3k seems very possible. Will probably be plenty crossover entrants between the two as well.
I think both games are a lock for 3k with SF6 still managing to hit 4k at least. I feel that way because I think attendance will still be very good. Not as good as last year(9k), but far better than 2022 when they only had around 5k. So lets say 8k people come, that's plenty of people to help bloat numbers all around.
Aside from that I think SF6 being so much more well received means a better year over year decline(in terms of percentage). I'm guessing like 40% where as SFV dropped nearly 50%.
Considering MK11 didn't even get 500 at last year's record setting Evo, probably in the 400 range again.
What if Capcom decides continues to drop cash into the CPT pot for the 2024 season? That'll keep those entrants up.
I'm still of the belief that the new venue is The Venetian. It's connected to The Sphere, and the Venetian Expo Center is bigger than Mandalay Bay CC. You have the tournament hall at the latter, and finals day at the former. If you're looking to top the Mandalay experience, that's one way to do it.
So what's your predictions?
My guess:
SF6
MK1
Tekken 8
Guilty Gear Strive
Granblue Versus Rising
UNIST 2
KOF XV
Retro Game (Killer Instinct)
Seems pretty predictable this year. The only mixups are the retro game and DBFZ. I just don't think there's enough interest for the later anymore.
My guess:
SF6
MK1
Tekken 8
Guilty Gear Strive
Granblue Versus Rising
UNIST 2
KOF XV
Retro Game (Killer Instinct)
Seems pretty predictable this year. The only mixups are the retro game and DBFZ. I just don't think there's enough interest for the later anymore.
So how's KOF15 been doing lately? Might just be me but I haven't heard any big or small rumblings.
I think they finally took care of the top tiers and it's more balanced.
With all these Xbox rumors, it's going to be really wild if your Killer Instinct for retro game at Evo prediction comes true.
KI going multi platform would be so fucking good for the franchise. With how poorly MK1 is doing, we def need KI to come back.