News Rumor Mill: DOA to EVO Japan?

[VirtuaKazama]

It was recently announced at Tokyo Game Show 2016 that the inaugural EVO Japan is set for January 2018. Along with the announcement is a list of well-known fighting game community partnerships in Japan such as VFR (for Virtua Fighter’s Beat-Tribe Cup series), the legendary Mikado Arcade, KVO, Cooperation Cup, Game Newton, Tekken's MASTERCUP series, and much more. The partnership that stood out from the rest is Playse, which is known for hosting DOA tournaments in Japan.

In addition, former Shoryuken writer Ian “iantothemax” Walker speculated a tweet listing three 3D fighting games and the website of their communities, with FreeStepDodge being one of them.

This isn't the first time DOA has appeared at EVO, since DOA4 appeared at EVO 2006. Could this mean something huge for the DOA community? We’ll have to wait and see when the EVO Japan lineup is announced at EVO 2017 in July.

 

[deathofaninja]

Any additional tournament for DOA sounds good, but I'm going to wait it out before I start getting excited.

 

[EmeryReigns]

Would be awesome to see this happen!

 

[Onryoki]

I hope it does, DOA gets even bigger and more known then, I hope more players join and that they use characters that are barely used like Naotora and Alpha.

 

[Xhominid The Demon Within]

Hopefully we are announced for EVO Japan. While they still have the typical flagship games played there, there is still plenty of old and other niche games getting plenty of love from that side of the world compared to America and I'd rather those niche games is what makes EVO Japan and not simply EVO America in a different coat of paint.

 

[VirtuaKazama]

Hopefully we are announced for EVO Japan. While they still have the typical flagship games played there, there is still plenty of old and other niche games getting plenty of love from that side of the world compared to America and I'd rather those niche games is what makes EVO Japan and not simply EVO America in a different coat of paint.

Based on the partnerships, it looks like we might get those as well.

Mikado Arcade is known to have old school/obscure fighters. VF3tb World Cup is also listed, which means we could get VF3tb. There a ton of fighters there that have those qualities.

Also, I bet they are going to have Arcade Cabinet setups, just like the SBO series.

 

[Project Bokuho]

Can't wait!

 

[Rikuto]

I would probably try to travel for this if there were assurances it wouldn't be run with the typical single elimination bad format Japanese tournaments have.

 

[Force_of_Nature]

I would probably try to travel for this if there were assurances it wouldn't be run with the typical single elimination bad format Japanese tournaments have.

Indeed. Single elimination is really dumb for major competitive tournaments.

 

[Kasumi-Phase-X]

If there really is a DOA Tournament at EVO Japan, that would be something I would love to go to. Maybe this time I will improve from My previous experience from EVO15.

 

[ChaolanLegacy]

I can definitely see it happening, and hopefully it will.

 

[petopia]

Mastercup j1 climax subtitle should come back

 

[Project Bokuho]

Mastercup j1 climax subtitle should come back

Someone's back from the dead lol