We'll see what happens. Viewing dune's casts he talks about other countries having a proper 'pyramid' of players where newer lower level players are plentiful at the bottom. Japan, he says is an upside down pyramid where high level players are more numerous and that there isn't a lot of new blood coming in comparatively.
In fact he was saying something along the lines of training with top players from other games on console and that he's teaching them kof. Something I thought was funny was that he said evo it will be interesting to see Japanese players (who chose 'strong' characters) vs foreign players who tend to chose who they like and who'll come out on top. He likened it to an RPG, when you arrive at a new town, you buy the most powerful weapon as soon as you get there (Japanese players)...heheh
Anyways, will be interesting to see how many show up to evo. I'm at least hoping for guys like ogosho, tenkawa, haregoro. Dune's the only one I know to be going atm.
Hopefully climax will be out this month and we'll start seeing 20 person tourney vids again...