{"id":1443,"date":"2009-07-17T20:24:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T03:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driph.com\/words\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2009-07-17T20:25:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T03:25:14","slug":"evo-2009-tournament-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/2009\/07\/evo-2009-tournament-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"EVO 2009, Tournament Day 1."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m awfully sorry, Guerra family.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3435\/3731303320_6c02a3f0c9.jpg\" alt=\"Today's Events\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Electricity is a precious commodity at EVO. Circuits were strained early on and there was a bit of confusion regarding allotment, so we held off on setting up the cabinets and superguns until we could find a dedicated circuit.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3457\/3731292326_7c2be0e95a.jpg\" alt=\"All stacked up\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While waiting for the power situation to be resolved, I walked the floor a bit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3518\/3731295634_bbc7953793.jpg\" alt=\"Evo signin\" \/><br \/>\nHigh attendance this year, and they ran out of pretty much everything. I wish I&#8217;d gone for an EVO stick bag first thing in the morning, as by the time I got around to checking, they&#8217;d long been sold out.<\/p>\n<p>The main stage.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2550\/3731296350_e1dcca2882.jpg\" alt=\"Evo stage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Capcom, showing off <strong>FATE Unlimited Codes<\/strong>, <strong>Tatsunoko VS Capcom<\/strong>, and <strong>Marvel VS Capcom 2<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2512\/3731293154_26436aa2d2.jpg\" alt=\"Capcom display\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Namco-Bandai&#8217;s <strong>Tekken 6<\/strong> display.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2426\/3731293964_edaa861c52.jpg\" alt=\"Tekken 6 display\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>BlazBlue<\/strong>! Some beautiful character designs in this game.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2428\/3731301332_c5068af702.jpg\" alt=\"BlazBlue\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Power situation resolved.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2636\/3730501087_b6f1a90054.jpg\" alt=\"Power.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the cabinets finally up and running (and on free play), folks begin to trickle over.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2561\/3731299282_1dc907d1ea.jpg\" alt=\"arcade cabinets\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>SUPER MINI NEO ACTION!<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3509\/3731298554_cd9f750b83.jpg\" alt=\"Neo-Geo MVS 13 cabs.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Floor drops were temporary laptop gaming oases, at least until facilities would come by and shoo everyone away.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2498\/3731300648_e8598ce64f.jpg\" alt=\"power oasis\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Super Smash Bros<\/strong> row.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2625\/3731301896_6f7ef59996.jpg\" alt=\"Super Smash Bros\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The arcade games had players constantly throughout the day. It&#8217;s a great feeling watching someone have a blast on a cabinet you&#8217;ve restored.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2558\/3731299992_8e85e2ce23.jpg\" alt=\"Arcade hit!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, day 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m awfully sorry, Guerra family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,39,35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcade","category-community","category-las-vegas","category-video-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}