Just three days before EVO 2013, on July 9th, the organization received notification from Nintendo's legal department informing that EVO would not be allowed to live stream the Super Smash Bros. With intense support from the Smash community and a coordinated final push from the Melee It On Me crew, Melee eventually won the 8th spot after more than $94,000 were raised. Through a donation drive for breast cancer research, the game community that donated the most money to the drive would have their game featured as an official game at EVO 2013. 2013-14: Melee return and record numbers įollowing EVO 2009, no Smash was featured at EVO again until EVO 2013, when a campaign to choose the 8th game on the official lineup was announced. In 2009, Brawl wasn't featured as an official game at EVO 2009, but a notable side tournament was organized, with support from the EVO staff in partnership with All is Brawl team (now Nintendo Dojo), gathering 128 players and using the accepted standard ruleset with items off. The tournament ended up gathering 110 players and was widely criticized for its ruleset, having many items turned on, including the Smash Ball.
Brawl release date set to March 2008, the EVO staff decided to feature Brawl as an official game instead of Melee, choosing to support the newer game in the series. It was also the largest Melee tournament until GENESIS two years later. Melee was officially announced as part of the EVO Circuit and EVO World 2007 finals, in Las Vegas, being the largest Smash tournament of 2007, with 270 players. Main articles: EVO World 2007, EVO 2008, and EVO 2009Īlthough Smash wasn't added to EVO's official game lineup until 2007, interest in adding the game to the roster started in early 2004, when Tom Cannon, one of EVO's founders, started a discussion for the game's inclusion in the forums.
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As of EVO 2019, the tournament series holds the record for the largest Smash tournament to date, with 3,522 players entering Super Smash Bros. EVO is widely recognized as the premier event for fighting games and the largest fighting game tournament in the world. Wizard" Cuellar), founders of fighting game website. The tournament, first held in 1996 as Battle by the Bay, is organized and directed by Tom "inkblot" Cannon and Tony "Ponder" Cannon, (and formerly Joey " Mr. The Evolution Championship Series, or simply EVO, is a fighting game tournament series held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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