EVO 2014

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  1. Kaelan
    #1 Source
    What is EVO?




    Evolution (or EVO, for short) is the largest fighting game tournament in the world, and it happens once a year in Las Vegas. It's that time of the year again: this year's EVO will be on this weekend, starting Friday morning, with most games' final matches happening on Sunday. If you've never watched before, this is a great time to start!

    You can watch the tournament from the two streams: SrkEvo1 and SrkEvo2. Capcom Pro Tour will broadcast all of the Ultra Street Fighter 4 pools through its official channel. The main games this year are Super Smash Bros. Melee, Injustice, Killer Instinct, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Ultra Street Fighter IV, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, King of Fighters XIII and Blazblue: Chrono Phantasma, with additional side tournaments happening for Skullgirls, Persona 4 Arena, Soul Calibur V and Super Street Fighter II Turbo.

    Below is the full schedule (times in PDT / GMT - 7):

    evo2014_stream_schedule_v3.png

    There will also be an additional stream by Madcatz, covering some of the numerous side-tournaments that always happen at EVO, as well as showing off various upcoming games, like Yatagarasu: Attack on Cataclysm and Persona 4 Arena: Ultimax.

    Mad_Catz_Booth_Schedule.jpg

    Traditionally EVO includes several other events besides the main tournament, like guest panels and areas where developers bring preview builds of games still in development for players to test and give feedback on. This year, like the last, EVO is also raising funds to support a scholarship for a degree in Game Design at the NYU Game Center in New York. If you're interested, can find more info on how to contribute to that here: http://shoryuken.com/2014/07/08/stream-monstering-for-a-cause-support-the-2014-evo-scholarship/

    Another thing that usually happens - a small thing, but one of my favorite parts of watching the finals on Sunday - are the community-created intros for each game, usually put together by independent artists and composers. These were the intros for some of last year's games:

    Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition 2012




    Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3




    Persona 4 Arena



     

    Super Smash Bros. Melee
  2. Arin
    #2 Source
    ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN

    Stoked for the SC5 tournament. I wonder if Patsuka has been getting any attention lately and if Viola will top like she did at the last tournament. Would love to see the announcers rage again. No Dead Or Alive 5 makes me sad, but I guess Chrono Phantasma makes up for it. I expect to see lots of Tagers and Ragnas. Oh and also the Tekken portion of EVO is lame. It's all Bobs and Kings, literally no one else.
  3. Kaiser
    #3 Source
    At this point all I care about at EVO is smash. Those matches are always hype inducing, so I can't wait to see them, I hope the other games will be able to hype me up.
  4. Kaelan
    #4 Source
    Other streams:

    Friday

    Saturday

  5. Kaelan
    #5 Source
    In case anyone missed this, or if you wondering whether it's worth watching:
  6. TheTonyOne
    #6 Source
    I didn't get to watch EVO, sadly, but I was wondering if the Super Smash Brothers Melee scene is still redonkulously stupid about "low tier" characters. I know at least the Washington State scene was ridiculously stupid about them, actually blacklisting me citywide at one point from entering tournaments because I beat some kid as Roy, and therefore must have been cheating.
  7. Arin
    #7 Source
    ^ Salt Levels too high.

    I wonder if Meta Knight is actually.....you know.......Meta.
  8. TheTonyOne
    #9 Source
    I see the Melee skill level has gone up drastically since I was on the tourney scene. Of course, that IS Evo footage, and not local tourney footage.

    Local tourneys usually consisted of scrubs that thought they were good enough for Evo because they could shine a little bit. Or barely understood how to wavedash.