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Evo 2025 Lineup Includes Fatal Fury CotW 732j25 MVC2

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:00:20 +0000

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The Evo 2025 title lineup was revealed at the announcement show that was broadcast on the official YouTube channel. Eight fighting games will appear as the primary highlights in the Evolution Championship Series 2025, including SNK's new release of Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves and the return of Marvel Vs Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes.

Here is the main title list for Evo 2025, which will take place in Las Vegas in early August 2025:

Street Fighter 6

Tekken 8

Guilty Gear -Strive-

Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising

Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes

Mortal Kombat 1

Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves

Marvel Vs Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes

At the end of the show, it was revealed that Evo 2025 will also have an extended lineup that includes the following titles:

Rivals of Aether II

Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O.

The King of Fighters XV

BlazBlue CentralFiction

Killer Instinct

Plus at least three more titles which are to be announced on February 15, 2025

The first six main entries retain their positions from the 2024 edition. Even though SNK replaced The King of Fighters XV with Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, which is slated for release on April 24, 2025, the former still exists in the extended lineup.

However, even though Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike is also appearing at Evo Japan 2025, the title is nowhere to be seen in this lineup. It remains to be known whether 3rd Strike will be among the additional extended lineup titles that will be revealed on February 15, 2025, or not.

Evolution Championship Series 2025 will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA on August 1-3, 2025.

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EVO Japan 2020 Announced For January 24 5g1d2d 26 With Tekken 7, SoulCalibur VI, BBCTB, More

Mon, 05 Aug 2019 07:00:32 +0000

At EVO 2019 the tournament organizers confirmed that there will be another EVO Japan next year with EVO Japan 2020 in January featuring games such as BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, SoulCalibur VI, Tekken 7, and more.

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Evo 2019 Finals Schedule Kicks Things Off With SoulCalibur VI 2i2228

Mon, 22 Jul 2019 17:30:47 +0000

The first game in the Evo 2019 finals schedule is SoulCalibur VI, and the last is Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

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Evo 2019 Final Registration Numbers Are In 713e4w Smash Ultimate Set For Biggest Smash Tournament Ever

Mon, 15 Jul 2019 10:30:40 +0000

Following an update a few days ago that put Dragon Ball FighterZ as the 7th game with over 1,000 entrants at Evo 2019, tournament organizer Joey Cuellar announced the tournament’s final registration numbers.

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EVO 2019 Registration Scoreboard’s April Update Has Smash Ultimate On Top And A Rise From UNIST 3n413h

Tue, 02 Apr 2019 22:30:40 +0000

Registration for this year’s Evolution Championship Series is ongoing, and tournament organizer Joey Cuellar, a.k.a. Mr. Wizard, shared the April update for titles leading with most registrations.

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EVO Japan 2019’s Six Main Titles Announced 5y182e

Fri, 14 Dec 2018 16:00:11 +0000

EVO Japan 2019 is a couple months away and tournament organizers announced the six main titles that will be headlining the big fighting games tournament.

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EVO Japan 2019 Will Take Place In Fukuoka In February 6r73a Here’s A New Trailer

Mon, 06 Aug 2018 07:00:23 +0000

Now that this year’s Evolution Championship Series has wrapped up, fans can look forward to the next big event with EVO Japan 2019 set for February 2019. Here’s a new trailer that was shared at Evo 2018.

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BlazBlue 4w725p Cross Tag Battle, Tekken 7, Street Fighter V Are Free-To-Play On PC This Weekend

Fri, 03 Aug 2018 15:00:07 +0000

There’s no better time of year than Evo weekend to watch and play fighting games, and Steam is in on the hype with a free-to-play weekend for several key titles and sales for the big event.

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Tue, 31 Jul 2018 23:00:06 +0000

Fighting game fans, get hype, Evo 2018 is just around the corner. Here’s the official streaming schedule with info on when and where to watch the big show with nine different Twitch channels.

You can check out the full stream schedule below:

Here’s the tournament schedule by games:

You can check out the lineup of commentators for the Evo World Finals below:

Finally, here are links to all the Twitch.tv channels for the main events:

Last year we saw some big announcements at Evo 2017 and global biz dev Mark “MarkMan” Julio appears to be teasing more of that for this year’s tourney:

If you're a gaming fan then you definitely do not want to miss out on ANY of the action that will be taking place during Championship Sunday of #EVO2018! Aside from the action packed competition... last year we had a record number of WORLD PREMIERE announcements! Don't MISS IT!

— Mark Julio (マークマン) (@MarkMan23) July 31, 2018

Evo 2018 runs from August 3-5, 2018 at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas.

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Here’s Evo 2018’s Final Registration Leaderboard Count 454f38

Fri, 20 Jul 2018 08:00:12 +0000

Registration for this year’s Evolution Championship Series has come to an end and tournament organizer Joey “Mr. Wizard” Cuellar provided the final count for its tournament lineup.

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Dead or Alive 5 1c1565 Last Round Is Getting An Official Side Tournament At EVO 2018

Tue, 22 May 2018 22:30:37 +0000

Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja announced that its fighting game Dead or Alive 5: Last Round will make its first major appearance at EVO as a side tournament called Dead or Alive EVO Showdown 2018.

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Dragon Ball FighterZ Takes A Bigger Lead In Evo 2018’s Registration Count 5j5o50

Thu, 03 May 2018 15:00:50 +0000

Evolution Championship Series founder and tournament organizer Joey “Mr. Wizard” Cuellar provided a registration leaderboard update for its EVO 2018 lineup of games.

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Evo 2018 Returns To Las Vegas At Mandalay Bay August 3 3l11f 5, 2018, Get Hype With A New Trailer

Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:00:01 +0000

The biggest fighting game tournament in the world, Evolution Championship Series, will return to Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay events center on August 3-5, 2018. Here’s a new trailer to get the hype started.

This will be the first time since Evo 2008 that the event takes place in August, which is the month the event used to take place on from Evo 2002 to 2008. The games lineup hasn’t been announced yet, but we can expect to hear about it sometime in January.

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Evo Japan 2018 Registrations Are Now Open 4w35f And It Is Completely Free

Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:00:16 +0000

Evolution Championship Series is going to Japan this January, and registration has recently gone live via Smash.gg. s are free for the seven titles in the event’s lineup.

EVO Japan 2018’s lineup features Tekken 7, Guilty Gear Xrd: Rev 2, The King of Fighters XIV, BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, ARMS, and Street Fighter V. All tournaments except Smash 4 and ARMS (no prize pools) will have a prize pool of 1 million yen, or roughly $9,000 USD. (

Participants will have until December 31, 2017 to , and the event will be free for both participants and spectators, but its finals on day 3 will need a ticket to view at Akiba Square, and they’ll go on sale sometime in late October.

Here’s more about Evo Japan from the tournament organizers:

Evolution Championship Series: Japan（EVO Japan for short) is the another fighting game tournaments in the world, which has shared the same visions and philosophy of original EVO. EVO Japan is opening on the motherland of fighting game, with huge scale open tournament and the prize. To be the top of EVO Japan, will be a great honor to all fighting game players.

EVO Japan is not only a big tournament, but also focusing on to self-produced events by the communities, as the original EVO does. "Unite the communities", EVO Japan will s your ideas-- such as side tournaments, side-by-side trainings, and free play -- to make a great time for all fighting game players and fans. As a player, as a exhibitor, as a volunteer staff, and of course as a visitor, everyone is welcome to be part of EVO Japan.

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Your One 2y6i4y Stop Guide For All Evo 2017 Tourneys And Where To Watch Them

Fri, 14 Jul 2017 16:45:49 +0000

Evolution 2017 just kicked off, and to share our hype for the major event we put together a one-stop guide with the schedule and stream links for all main and side tournaments.

[Thanks for the timetable, Reddit.]

Below is the full schedule for all the main and side tournaments. Keep in mind that the times are estimates and some events (as is often the case with Smash Bros.games) may end up taking up more time than expected due to delays from longer sets and technical difficulties.. In any case, you can get more accurate times and updates on the Twitch channels.