Evo 2019

The 2019 Evolution Championship Series (commonly referred to as Evo 2019 or EVO 2019) was a fighting game event held in Las Vegas from August 2 to 4, 2019 as part of the long-running Evolution Championship Series. The event offered tournaments for various video games, including Street Fighter V, Tekken 7, and Dragon Ball FighterZ, as well as the newly-released Soulcalibur VI, Mortal Kombat 11, Samurai Shodown, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate; the latter received the most entrants with over 3,500 players participating, making it the largest in person Super Smash Bros. tournament of all time.

2019 Evolution Championship Series
Evolution Championship Series logo
Tournament information
LocationLas Vegas, Nevada, United States
DatesAugust 2–4, 2019
Venue(s)Mandalay Bay
Final positions
Champions
  • SSBU: Leonardo "MKLeo" Lopez Perez
  • T7: Arslan "Arslan Ash" Siddique
  • SFVAE: Masato "Bonchan" Takahashi
  • BBTAG: Oscar "Shinku" Jaimes
  • MK11: Dominique "SonicFox" McLean
  • SS: Seon-Woo "Infiltration" Lee
  • DBFZ: Goichi "GO-1" Kishida
  • UNIST: Masaru "ClearLamp" Higuchi
  • SCVI: Yuta "Yuttoto" Sudo
Tournament statistics
Attendance~9,000

Venue

EVO 2019 was, once again, hosted at the Mandalay Bay resort. The Mandalay Bay Convention Center hosted the first two days of the event, while the Mandalay Bay Events Center hosted the final day for the fourth consecutive year.

Games

The lineup was announced in February 2019 to have 9 games. Returning from last year are Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, Tekken 7, Dragon Ball FighterZ, and BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle. New additions are Soulcalibur VI, Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st], Samurai Shodown, Mortal Kombat 11, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which effectively replaced Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. Notably, this is the first year since EVO 2013 where Super Smash Bros. Melee was not included in the lineup, and was relegated to a side-event.

Participants

Over 9,000 participants were at Evo 2019.

Broadcast

As usual, the tournament was streamed on the streaming site Twitch, broadcast across multiple different streams.

Reveals

A few days before the tournament, a trailer for Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition revealing three upcoming characters, E. Honda, Poison, and Lucia from Final Fight was accidentally uploaded to Steam a few days ahead of its reveal at EVO by Valve, who apologized for the upload, stating that it was a "Regrettable and unintentional situation".[1]

After the finals for Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late [st] concluded on Saturday, the game director of French Bread, Kamone Serizawa took to the stage to announce the newest version of the game, titled Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late [cl-r] alongside new character, Londrekia Light, with the game slated for an early 2020 release.[2]

After the BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle finals ended, Arc System Works revealed a major update to the game and revealed four out of nine new characters including Yumi from the Senran Kagura series, Akatsuki and Blitztank from Akatsuki Blitzkampf, and Neopolitan from RWBY, with a release date of November 21.[3]

Controversy

During the Tekken 7 Grand Finals, a Metal Gear Solid-like codec call video featuring Solid Snake talking to Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada was shown to the audience at the event in the big screen that have fans thinking that the character will be the next DLC character. However, EVO confirmed that it was not an official tease, but more of a little joke. Harada was surprised by the video and fans expressed dismay that it was not a real announcement. More than 12 hours since EVO made the statement, David Hayter, the voice of the character that was used in the video said in a tweet that they have "failed to consult me, or Konami", reiterating to not use his voice to promote other games ever.[4][5]

Results
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Place Player Alias Character(s)
1st Leonardo Lopez MkLeo Joker
2nd Gavin Dempsey Tweek Pokémon Trainer
3rd William Belaid Glutonny Wario
4th Ezra Morris Samsora Peach
5th Tetsuya Ishiguro Raito Duck Hunt
5th unknown ProtoBanham Lucina, Inkling
7th Sota Okada Zackray Wolf
7th Paris Ramirez Light Fox
Tekken 7
Place Player Alias Character(s)
1st Arslan Siddique Arslan Ash Kazumi, Geese
2nd Jae-Min Bae Knee Steve, Geese, Paul, Kazuya, Devil Jin
3rd Hoa Luu Anakin Jack-7
4th Abe Takehiko Take Kazumi
5th Takumi Hamasaki Noroma Steve, Dragunov
5th Nakayama Daichi Nobi Dragunov, Steve, Jack-7
7th Yuta Take Chikurin Geese
7th Sun-Woong Youn LowHigh Law, Shaheen
Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition
Place Player Alias Character(s)
1st Masato Takahashi Bonchan Karin, Sagat
2nd Adel Anouche BigBird Rashid
3rd DC Coleman Infexious Zeku
4th Atsushi Fujimura Fujimura Ibuki
5th Derek Ruffin iDom Laura
5th Masahiro Tominaga Machabo Necalli
7th Hiroki Asano Kichipa-mu Zangief
7th Yangmian Huang YANGMIAN Zeku
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
Place Player Alias Character(s)
1st Oscar Jaimes Shinku Ruby/Yang
2nd Kamei Hiroyuki Kyamei Akihiko/Mitsuru
3rd Seitaro Ono Domi Akihiko/Yuzuriha
4th Kazuya Kamisue Mekasue Jubei/Orie
5th Christina Kabacinski Bace Mitsuru/Yuzuriha
5th Shoji Sho Fenritti Mitsuru/Yuzuriha
7th Kazuyuki Koji kojiKOG Waldstein/Tager
7th Jona Kim Jona Akihiko/Ruby
Mortal Kombat 11
Place Player Alias Character(s)
1st Dominique McLean SonicFox Cassie Cage
2nd Ryan Walker Dragon Cetrion
3rd Sayed Ahmed Tekken Master Geras, Erron Black, Kung Lao, Sonya Blade
4th Julien Gorena Deoxys Geras
5th Tommy Tweedy Tweedy Jacqui Briggs, Baraka, Geras
5th Denom Jones A F0xy Grampa Shang Tsung, Kung Lao, Cassie Cage
7th Andrew Fontanez Semiij Cassie Cage, Jacqui Briggs
7th Alexandre Dubé-Bilodeau Hayatei Erron Black
Samurai Shodown
Place Player Alias Character(s)
1st Seon-Woo Lee Infiltration Genjuro
2nd Ryota Inoue Kazunoko Haohmaru
3rd Justin Wong JWong Tam Tam
4th Reynald Tacsuan Reynald Genjuro, Haohmaru
5th Fu-Pin Kao RB Genjuro
5th Alex Valle CaliPower Galford
7th Renato Martins Didimokof Genjuro
7th Chia-Chen Tseng ZJZ Charlotte
Dragon Ball FighterZ
Place Player Alias Character(s)
1st Goichi Kishida Go1 Bardock/Goku/Kid Goku
2nd Dominique McLean SonicFox Bardock/Kid Buu/Kid Goku
3rd Shoji Sho Fenritti Cell/Bardock/Vegeta
4th Joan Namay Shanks Android 18/Adult Gohan/Goku
5th unknown Hirohiro Android 17/Kid Goku/Teen Gohan
5th unknown B Kid Buu/Adult Gohan/Yamcha
7th Christopher Gonzalez NyChrisG Teen Gohan/Tien/Yamcha
7th Ryota Inoue Kazunoko Kid Buu/Adult Gohan/Yamcha
Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st]
Place Player Alias Character(s)
1st Masaru Higuchi ClearLamp Byakuya
2nd unknown Oushuu-Hittou Seth
3rd unknown Hishigata Nanase
4th unknown Kure Yuzuriha
5th Shinji Taharu Neji Mika
5th Andy La Rikir Enkidu
7th unknown Senaru Eltnum
7th unknown Libekichi Mika
Soul Calibur VI
Place Player Alias Character(s)
1st Yuta Sudo Yuttoto Voldo
2nd Zain Tibeishat Bluegod Azwel
3rd Jérémy Bernard Oplon|Skyll Mitsurugi
4th Jonathan Vo Woahhzz Raphael
5th Jovian Chan Shen Chan Cervantes
5th unknown Tamonegi Maxi
7th Marie-Laure Norindr Kayane Xianghua, 2B
7th Joshua Vernon Saiyne Ivy
gollark: I uploaded potatOS.
gollark: Ah, good, you're using a whitelist and not a blacklist.
gollark: Can I just safety-test it? Does it have a public URL?
gollark: Run it as root (`sudo`).
gollark: ***ever.***

References
  1. "Valve Leaks Street Fighter 5 DLC Ahead Of EVO, Issues Apology". Gamespot. Jordan Ramée. Retrieved August 3, 2019.
  2. "Under Night In-Birth EXE: Late[cl-r] with new character Londrekia coming early 2020". Eventhubs. Justin Gordon. Retrieved August 3, 2019.
  3. "BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle adding nine more characters; enter Senran Kagura, Akatsuki Blitzkampf, and more RWBY". Nintendo Wire. Ricky Berg. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  4. "An Evo 2019 Joke Had Fans Thinking Snake Would Be In Tekken 7". Kotaku. Heather Alexandra. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  5. "Solid Snake actor calls out EVO for using his voice without permission". Digital Trends. Gabe Gurwin. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
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