Equipment failures happen all the time in sports: bats break, tennis racket strings snap, shoes fly off in basketball. Play is stopped and the situation is fixed. But it seems a lot more calamitous when it's a video game, particularly the final of the biggest fighting game tournament in the world.
Momochi, facing Gamerbee in the grand final of EVO 2015's Ultra Street Fighter 4 tournament got what must be every fighter's worst nightmare: a disconnection notice just as the second round began, with Momochi leading 1-0.
EVO 2015 rules stipulate that if an equipment failure occurs while a game is in progress, the fighter with the malfunction must forfeit that round. Correction: Gamerbee accepted the forfeit of that round. An earlier version of this story said he hadn't.
Unfortunately for Gamerbee — who had been on a tremendous, crowd-pleasing run — his sportsmanship didn't get a karmic reward. Momochi took the final 3-2.
You can see all of the results of EVO 2015's nine main tournaments and 15 side tournaments and exhibitions here, via EventHubs.
Momochi, facing Gamerbee in the grand final of EVO 2015's Ultra Street Fighter 4 tournament got what must be every fighter's worst nightmare: a disconnection notice just as the second round began, with Momochi leading 1-0.
EVO 2015 rules stipulate that if an equipment failure occurs while a game is in progress, the fighter with the malfunction must forfeit that round. Correction: Gamerbee accepted the forfeit of that round. An earlier version of this story said he hadn't.
Unfortunately for Gamerbee — who had been on a tremendous, crowd-pleasing run — his sportsmanship didn't get a karmic reward. Momochi took the final 3-2.
You can see all of the results of EVO 2015's nine main tournaments and 15 side tournaments and exhibitions here, via EventHubs.
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- Fighting Game TV
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- Kotaku
