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Injustice 2 will be 3/5 with a 180s timer at EVO

SneakyTortoise

Official Master of Salt
This is pretty huge news. After much debate on Twitter, it appears that the voices of the competitive NRS community have been heard.

The official Evo rules have changed to allow Injustice 2 sets to be 3/5, with the timer set to 180s. I'm sure everyone going to compete in Injustice 2 will be happy with this change.

http://evo.shoryuken.com/additional-rules/
 
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Blitzace10

The Aquatic Ace
Has anyone heard if this is going to to be on Main Stage sunday? or is the top 8 on Saturday like some of the others?
 

Juggs

Lose without excuses
Lead Moderator
*BREAKING NEWS*

EVO has blessed us with keeping the same rules we've had for every tournament since the game came out. With 60 seconds less, of course. It's almost as if they want Injustice 2 to finish quicker than other games.

No that can't be true, otherwise finals would be on Saturday...
 

DDutchguy

Stand 4'ing airplanes out of the sky
*BREAKING NEWS*

EVO has blessed us with keeping the same rules we've had for every tournament since the game came out. With 60 seconds less, of course. It's almost as if they want Injustice 2 to finish quicker than other games.

No that can't be true, otherwise finals would be on Saturday...
I mean to be fair how many matches actually take 240 seconds to finish? I highly doubt the 60 seconds less will make any big difference besides maybe two matches in pools that have the timer run out.
 

Juggs

Lose without excuses
Lead Moderator
I mean to be fair how many matches actually take 240 seconds to finish? I highly doubt the 60 seconds less will make any big difference besides maybe two matches in pools that have the timer run out.
240 seconds shouldn't be the standard at all. Hell even 180 is still too long imo. From what I've seen, the average match takes around 120-130 seconds off the timer. The longer ones are around 160-170. But you can't fully customize the timer. I'm perfectly fine with 180, that wasn't my point.
 

Juggs

Lose without excuses
Lead Moderator
Obviously this is "good news", but we shouldn't have had to pull teeth just to get our standard rules. This shouldn't be good news, this should be the standard. I'm definitely happy but EVO still treats the NRS community like they're forced to treat us decently, or how we deserve to be treated.

I know people will say I'm being pessimistic or just complaining. But I was raised to give the same respect I'm given. I still cannot believe Injustice 2 finals are on Saturday.
 

Tanno

The Fantasy is the Reality of the Mind
I'm glad that INJ2 is getting recognized this way. However, I'm not going to compete there with this many problems INJ2 has.

Good luck there.
 

Roy Arkon

I will leave my seal on you!
While this is good, IJ2 should've been on Sunday. How are these people keep treating us like crap? Last year we got MKX on Sunday, but the treatment until that point was just ridiculous, and now they put us on Saturday, while IJ2 is still new? What the fuck???