ARCADE

a film by Kurt Vincent and Irene Chin
EVO photo courtesy of Kotaku.com Screw the holidays, it doesn’t get any better than this time of the year! We sit, poised at our computers, ready to stream, making joke Justin.tv accounts, (mine is AdamSesslerisGodlike), and priming our various Stream Monster copy-and-paste shenanigans (（╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ ) for we have reached  the cusp of Evolution 2011. Who can contain their excitement (or their intense jealously for those who are going)? Surely not this fighting game fan! What’s even more exciting is that Arcade’s very own Kurt Vincent is going to be there on the fighting game front-lines, hitting everybody with sick bread n’ butter  of cr.mp, st.mk, overhead boom, DP+ camera, FADC, Ultra II: The Close-Up. Follow him @ArcadeMovie on Twitter for Evo updates throughout the weekend! But with all the fanfare we tend to forget the little guy: the arcades that made this all possible. The places that cultivated the scene, brought the community together, and got the ball rolling in the direction that it is today. Not to mention develop the talent! When you watch the top 8 of AE this weekend, I guarantee that all of them were devoted to playing this game in arcades for months before it made its way onto home consoles. And some of the best players you see at Evo owe their skills to CF: Justin Wong, Henry Cen, Santhrax, LI Joe, Ricky Ortiz, Yipes, Chris G. And that’s just naming a few. This literally goes on and on. Even Viscant, who’s now known for being one of the best Online Warriors in the tourney scene, got his start at CF. So as we prep to stay up to all sorts of ungodly hours of the night watching the stream, take a second think of the arcades that allowed the grand majesty that is Evo to exist in the first place. Then get back to prepping that notepad that has all the images you plan on copy & paste spamming in the chat, you little Stream Monster you! （╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ -Reed

EVO photo courtesy of Kotaku.com

Screw the holidays, it doesn’t get any better than this time of the year! We sit, poised at our computers, ready to stream, making joke Justin.tv accounts, (mine is AdamSesslerisGodlike), and priming our various Stream Monster copy-and-paste shenanigans (（╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ ) for we have reached  the cusp of Evolution 2011. Who can contain their excitement (or their intense jealously for those who are going)? Surely not this fighting game fan! What’s even more exciting is that Arcade’s very own Kurt Vincent is going to be there on the fighting game front-lines, hitting everybody with sick bread n’ butter  of cr.mp, st.mk, overhead boom, DP+ camera, FADC, Ultra II: The Close-Up. Follow him @ArcadeMovie on Twitter for Evo updates throughout the weekend!

But with all the fanfare we tend to forget the little guy: the arcades that made this all possible. The places that cultivated the scene, brought the community together, and got the ball rolling in the direction that it is today. Not to mention develop the talent! When you watch the top 8 of AE this weekend, I guarantee that all of them were devoted to playing this game in arcades for months before it made its way onto home consoles. And some of the best players you see at Evo owe their skills to CF: Justin Wong, Henry Cen, Santhrax, LI Joe, Ricky Ortiz, Yipes, Chris G. And that’s just naming a few. This literally goes on and on. Even Viscant, who’s now known for being one of the best Online Warriors in the tourney scene, got his start at CF.

So as we prep to stay up to all sorts of ungodly hours of the night watching the stream, take a second think of the arcades that allowed the grand majesty that is Evo to exist in the first place. Then get back to prepping that notepad that has all the images you plan on copy & paste spamming in the chat, you little Stream Monster you!

（╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

-Reed

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