Evolution 2K3 - Huge US Fighting Game Tournament

Namflow writes "Shoryuken.com just announced Evolution 2K3. Evolution is the biggest annual fighting game tournament in North America. This year is especially exciting because not only will there be the normal Capcom 2D fighters, but a host of 3D games such as Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution. Time to start saving..." Even Tekken 4 and Soul Calibur 2 are included this year, as well as traditional classics like Super Street Fighter II Turbo and the newest 2D of Capcom Vs SNK 2, for this big showdown from August 8th-10th in Pomona, California.

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Game Tournaments

[Matrix272]

It's about time someone had a fighting game tournament. I don't know if this is an annual thing that I've never heard about or what, but there have been FPS tournaments since they first came out.

Anybody remember the 80's movie The Wizard about a video game tournament where they unveiled Super Mario Bros. 3 at the end?

Hope for the best

[Joe the Lesser]

A well run tournament can be a great thing, but a poorly run one can cause confusion and frustration.

While I'm sure they're professional enough to run a tournament well, here's my experience with game tournaments.

Once I showed up for a tournament, and realized after a few hours that I was supposed to lug my PC with me if I wanted to play! Nevermind the 20 unused computers sitting there. My mistake was thinking they would force others to share for those who didn't feel like dragging their computer from their apartment to the game hall, but I went home unhappy.

I went back to the rules page, and while in the fine print it did say you needed a computer to play, it allowed you to sign up and click the box that said you weren't bringing a computer, which obviously wasn't good news.

The best tournament I went to was well run. Only competitors were allowed in the game area, and the PCs were supplied by the group hosting the tourament. Unfortunatly, I had expected all such events to be well organized...