It truly sucks that I had to get play-by-play info on KOF finals from a website versus the stream, but I would've lost my mind watching all of that at work.
I knew, but never expected KOF to be THAT good at EVO. 90K viewers, 1000+ entrants (shirts or not), and at least half the roster used has to be one of the best results for a new (yet legendary) fighting series entering EVO I think.
Sad BALA, Reynald, or no one else from NA could take the trophy, but I'll admit I wanted a surprise, and we all got one. Online over here, it'll be interesting to see MadKOF on everyone's hitlist. I hope there are just as many surprises and underdogs from everywhere and new places, that get Top 8. I'm quite happy that it's practically a guarantee that there will be a next year for KOF at EVO. I know I'm thinking ahead of myself, but the damn hype won't go away.
Question guys, after seen this EVO Finals, do you think KOFXIII needs a small (really small) balance patch? Or did Mad KOF proved that this game is as balance as it can get?
Got to point out how funny it is how Karou's tier list and claim that "the game isn't balanced" was shitted on so thuroughly. I can almost say with certainly that NO ONE would thought Duo Lon and Chin Gentsai would've shown up, let alone dominated in GF at EVO. I can only wonder how XIII tier lists will be looked at after today.
The only thing we could ask for is the Climax patch with changes virtually nothing for most of us, and hopefully does work on the netcode for most. Other than that, we're set.