For those of you who read my blog and don't know (i.e. nobody), EI3 is Eastern Invasion 3, an upcoming Perth-held tournament that hopes to eclipse and devour the largest Australian tournaments, and eventually become a standard for Australian national tournaments of the fightan variety. While its held by the Smash Community, input is being received from OzHadou (though fairly minor at the moment, since we're discussing things that don't really need input even from the Smash Community) to make it more than just a Smash national: an Australian Evo of sorts.
This obviously leads to the two centrepiece games being Super Smash Bros. Brawl and (due to the time it'll be held), Super Street Fighter 4. Melee is the only other game we've confirmed as an event at this point in time, and other fighting games are being nominated and discussed by the group as we speak. Some of the nominees so far are:
- Brawl+ (a mod for Brawl that increases hitstun, allowing for more combos, and balances the character so pretty much the entire cast is viable, except Ivysaur because nobody likes him)
- Tatsunoko vs Capcom (a 'sequel' to Marvel vs Capcom 2, the legendary insane combo crossover game, which was easily one of the fastest fighting games ever. Its more balanced, retains a good portion of the speed, but also lets people get out of absurd combos fairly well with a Mega Crush system, to prevent brokenness)
- Tekken 6 (Tekken, the world's main and really, the only, 3D fighter, has been reborn in competition 'recently' with Bloodline Rebellion finally killing Dark Resurrection off entirely. Time will tell if its as balanced as DR, but it certainly maintains the awesome juggles, and great cast. (It has a bloody bear, what more do you want?))
- BlazBlue (another spiritual successor, this time to the famous Guilty Gear XX, renowned as one of the best fighting games of all time due to its deep gameplay and good balance, despite a unique cast. While BlazBlue changes the engine slightly to revolve around oki and wakeup games, and has a smaller cast, Continuum Shift is well balanced, and maintains the uniqueness of every single character.).
Though, in all likelihood, at least one more nominee will crop up. While I've suggested the idea of a fan poll on both Smashboards and OzHadou to decide the remaining games, that hasn't gone any further yet, and it may remain on the committee to decide. Give me your inputs if you want to make sure they go through.
Now that the awesome stuff (i.e. the games being played, which let's be honest, is what gets you excited), we're onto the more 'boring' stuff now. A specific date hasn't been decided, other than it'll be held in January 2011. I suggested 9th-11th so I could have a national on my birthday, but I don't think anyone cares about that. While a venue hasn't really been decided yet, Kane has suggested a cinema we could get access to via one of his many, many contacts, which would also lend itself to an awesome finals (on the big screen!). The specifics of a stream haven't been discussed, but we will try within the entirity of our power to get a good quality stream up for everyone out there who wants to watch the best of Australia. ;)
There is some more suggestions I have, which I figured (since they rely more on community input) would be better off here than the committee, to see whether or not they're actually worth it. First of all, it would be possible for a nicely layed out DVD of all the finals to be released, which, though it might cost a small amount, would have all the finals in the full quality they were recorded in, which matters particularly with the pretty games like BlazBlue and Tekken. Secondly (and lastly for the moment, so as to not overload you people with awesome suggestions), though the event is primarily fighting, a good portion of the Australian Brawl community likes Pokemon. Thus, for those of you who read this for the Poking Men, would you be able to set up an actual DS team in time for the tournament, and if so, would you attend?
EDIT: So, it looks like a consensus was reached. The 'final' (for the moment) roster is:
- Brawl
- Melee
- Tatsunoko vs Capcom
- Super Street Fighter 4
- Tekken 6
- BlazBlue
Though, this could hypothetically change.
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