Evo 2024

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2024 Evolution Championship Series
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Tournament information
Location Las Vegas, United States
DatesJuly 19, 2024–July 21, 2024
Venue(s) Las Vegas Convention Center
Participants10,240
Final positions
Champions
  • SF6: Victor "Punk" Woodley
  • T8: Arslan "Arslan Ash" Siddique
  • GGS: Shamar "Nitro" Hinds
  • GBVS:R: Aaron "Aarondamac" Godinez
  • SF:3S: Joe "MOV" Egami
  • UNI2: "Senaru"
  • MK1: Dominique "SonicFox" McLean
  • KOFXV: Zeng "Xiao Hai" Zhuojun
Tournament statistics
Attendance~18,000
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The 2024 Evolution Championship Series (commonly referred to as Evo 2024 or EVO 2024) was a fighting game event held in Las Vegas from July 19 to 21, 2024 as part of the long-running Evolution Championship Series. The event marked the debuts of Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes] and Mortal Kombat 1. It also the return of Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike as a mainline game for the first time since 2009.

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Venue

For the first time since 2016, EVO 2024 took place in the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Top 6 of every game took place in an arena built within the convention center with the top 4 games by attendance taking place on Sunday.

Games

Announced on February 6, 2024, the following games returned as a mainline game: Street Fighter 6, Guilty Gear Strive and The King of Fighters XV. Four games from previous franchises made their debut as a mainline tournament: Tekken 8, Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, Under Night In-Birth II and Mortal Kombat 1. Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike returned as a singles tournament for the first time since 2008. The game was last featured as a 2v2 tournament in 2009. Several other tournaments took place as part of the EVO Community Showcase as well as many more unofficial tournaments. [1]

Participants

A record 10,240 players took part in the mainline games. [2]

Broadcast

The tournament was streamed on the streaming site Twitch as well as YouTube, broadcast across multiple different streams.

Reveals

Namco announced the return of Heihachi Mishima, thought to be dead after the events of the story of the previous game, to playable status with a gameplay trailer for Tekken 8. Capcom released a teaser trailer for Terry Bogard, someone who was previously announced as a future playable character for Street Fighter 6. Lucy from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was revealed as a Season Pass 4 character for Guilty Gear Strive, the first guest character in franchise history. Venom and Dizzy were also revealed to be characters set to be part of the season pass. CyGames released a gameplay trailer for Versusia as the next character for Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising. The trailer teased Vikala and Sandalphon as future characters for the game. A gameplay trailer for Samurai Jack was released for Multiversus with a release date of July 23 as well as a teaser for Beetlejuice. SNK revealed a gameplay trailer of Kevin Rian for Fatal Futy: City of the Wolves as well as Vice and Mature for The King of Fighters XV. The company also announced a new Art of Fighting game as well as a Samurai Showdown action RPG. Uzuki was revealed in a gameplay trailer for Under Night In-Birth II. [3]

Results

PlacePlayerAliasCharacter(s)
1st Flag of the United States.svg Victor Woodley Punk Cammy, Akuma
2nd Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg Adel AnoucheBig Bird Rashid
3rd Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Samuel ArmEndingWalker Ed
4th Flag of Japan.svg Yusuke Momochi MomochiEd
5th Flag of Japan.svg Naoki NemotoNemo M. Bison, Blanka, JP
5th Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Kuang ZhenZhenJP
7th Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg Amjad Al-ShalabiAngryBird Ken
7th Flag of Japan.svg Hajime Taniguchi TokidoKen
PlacePlayerAliasCharacter(s)
1st Flag of Pakistan.svg Arslan Siddique Arslan Ash Nina
2nd Flag of Pakistan.svg Atif IjazAtifDragunov, Feng
3rd Flag of Japan.svg Daichi NakayamaNobiDragunov
4th Flag of South Korea.svg Lim Soo-hoonULSANDragunov, Reina
5th Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Raef AlturkistaniRaef Jin
5th Flag of Japan.svg Takaba KeisukeKeisuke Kazuya
7th Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Hyun-jinJDCRDragunov
7th Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Jae-hyunCBMJin
PlacePlayerAliasCharacter(s)
1st Flag of the United States.svg Shamar H.Nitro Jack-O, Giovanna
2nd Flag of Japan.svg unknowntatuma Sol Badguy
3rd Flag of the United States.svg unknownRedDitto Ramlethal
4th Flag of Israel.svg Atir YosefZando Asuka
5th Flag of South Korea.svg Nicolas YavrouianOoeyGooeyChewySnicker Anji
5th Flag of the United States.svg unknownJack Happy Chaos
7th Flag of Sweden.svg William Hjelte LeffenHappy Chaos
7th Flag of Senegal.svg Ismaila GueyeVerixNagoriyuki
PlacePlayerAliasCharacter(s)
1st Flag of the United States.svg Aaron GodinezAarondamacBelial
2nd Flag of Japan.svg unknownTororoPercival, Siegfried
3rd Flag of the United States.svg Mathieu FardetKojicocoNier
4th Flag of the United States.svg Brian HuangArtoriasSiegfried
5th Flag of the United States.svg Alex VoVermillion 2B
5th Flag of the United States.svg Oscar JaimesShinkuBeatrix
7th Flag of the United States.svg Bradford SeveranceXeromCharlotta
7th Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg John K.HaveanicedayDjeeta
PlacePlayerAliasCharacter(s)
1st Flag of Japan.svg Joe EgamiMOV Chun-Li, Elena, Ken
2nd Flag of Japan.svg Issei SuzukiIssei Yun
3rd Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Henri OungChi-RithyChun-Li
4th Flag of Japan.svg Ryuji HayashiHayao Hugo
5th Flag of the United States.svg Franklin NunezFrankieBFGKen
5th Flag of the United States.svg unknownResolve Urien
7th Flag of France.svg Clairet JocelynNiaBanH Makoto
7th Flag of Japan.svg unknownShirokuroChun-Li
PlacePlayerAliasCharacter(s)
1st Flag of Japan.svg unknownSenaruEltnum
2nd Flag of the United Kingdom.svg unknownMo.SinKuon
3rd Flag of Japan.svg unknownNotesCarmine
4th Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Jaden E.DefiantLondrekia
5th Flag of Japan.svg unknownOushuu-HittouSeth
5th Flag of Mexico.svg Mario SilvaMarioWagner
7th Flag of Japan.svg unknownMawaruHilda
7th Flag of the United States.svg Izayah DavisBigBlackByakuya
PlacePlayerAliasCharacter(s)
1st Flag of the United States.svg Dominique McLean SonicFox Johnny Cage/Khameleon, Sindel/Kung Lao, Homelander/Khameleon
2nd Flag of Chile.svg Nicolás MartínezNicholasJohnny Cage/Khameleon, Johnny Cage/Kung Lao, Rain/Janet Cage, Baraka/Kano
3rd Flag of Brazil.svg Pedro RibeiroZeeus Ashrah/Khameleon
4th Flag of the United States.svg Daniel TaibotTheMightyUnjustHomelander/Khameleon, Ermac/Sonya Blade
5th Flag of Spain.svg Javier AlonsoMKJavierMK Scorpion/Khameleon, Scorpion/Jax
5th Flag of the United States.svg Alex RuizDyloch General Shao/Khameleon
7th Flag of the United States.svg Curtis McCallRewind Reiko/Tremor, Li Mei/Janet Cage, General Shao/Khameleon, Others
7th Flag of Brazil.svg Wellington de CastroKonqueror249 Kenshi/Sub-Zero
PlacePlayerAliasCharacter(s)
1st Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zeng ZhuojunXiaohai Geese/Benimaru/Isla, Kyo/Benimaru/Isla
2nd Flag of the Republic of China.svg Lin ChiahungE.T.Geese/Benimaru/Isla, Clark/Geese/Isla, Others
3rd Flag of Mexico.svg Ángel ChongTamago Blue Mary/Rock/Benimaru, Benimaru/Ryo/Rock
4th Flag of Mexico.svg Rolando NeriViolentKainRock/Ryo/Iori, Kyo/Rock/Ryo
5th Flag of Mexico.svg unknownKoferoHonestoRyo/Yamazaki/Orochi Chris, Ryo/Yamazaki/Goenitz
5th Flag of Japan.svg Akihito SawadaScoreOrochi Yashiro/Chizuru Kagura/Heidern
7th Flag of Japan.svg unknownmok Shun'ei/Isla/Kukri
7th Flag of South Korea.svg Kang Myung-guLacid Meitenkun/Shermie/Ash

References

  1. ↑ "EVO 2024 Lineup Announced: Mortal Kombat 1 and Tekken 8 Make Their Debut, and a Classic Returns". IGN . Will Borger. Retrieved February 6, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Evo 2023 Breaks Multiple All-time Registration Records". escharts . Retrieved August 8, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Evo 2024: All the big reveals and announcements". Polygon . Michael McWhertor. July 20, 2024. Retrieved July 22, 2024.
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