Tournament:EVO 2014

EVO 2014
Dates	July 11th-13th, 2014
Venue	Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino
Address/City	3000 Paradise Road Las Vegas, Nevada
Attendance	970 (for Melee)
Entry fees	Melee singles: $10 Melee doubles: $15 per person Project M singles: $10
Pot size(s)	Melee singles: $9,700 Melee doubles: $2,130 Project M singles: $610
Results
winners	Mango 1v1  Hungrybox &  Plup 2v2
Staff
Director(s)	Mr. Wizard

Evolution 2014, or simply EVO 2014, was the 13th edition of the Evolution Championship Series, a fighting game tournament held in Las Vegas, Nevada, from July 11th to 13th, 2014 at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino. The tournament featured Super Smash Bros. Melee on its official game lineup, but also hosted a side event for Project M on its "Bring Your Own Console" (BYOC) area. It was the 4th time EVO featured a Smash game and broke the record for the largest Smash tournament at the time, with 970 entrants for Super Smash Bros. Melee.

EVO 2014 notably featured Nintendo, the publisher for the Super Smash Bros. series, as a sponsor, with a speech given by Reggie Fils-Aimé, President of Nintendo of America; this was in stark contrast to Nintendo's attempt to shut down Melee at EVO 2013 a year earlier. In addition, Prog was presented the Cannon Award in his honor for his service to the Smash community.

Before Top 8 for Melee began at EVO, Nintendo of America President and COO Reggie Fils-Aimé wished the remaining professional smashers good luck in a YouTube video, thanking them (as well as all other Melee participants) for their dedication to the Super Smash Bros. series and their participation in the Super Smash Bros. Invitational.

Official Game Lineup

The official game lineup for EVO 2014 was announced on Frebuary 6th, by Joey Cuellar, EVO's tournament director, during iPlayWinner's live podcast, "The Fray!". Although Melee was intended to be included from the start, it wasn't officially confirmed on the lineup until March, due to a pending agreement with Nintendo regarding the approval for use of the IP at the event. After an agreement was reached with EVO, Nintendo was listed as one of the event's sponsors, but no cash bonus was added to the pot, awarding the top 8 winners only with the base pot, accumulated from a $10 entrance fee for the game.

Finals	Game	Entrants	Pot Size
Sunday	Ultra Street Fighter IV	1,979	$29,790.00
Sunday	Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3	1,014	$10,140.00
Sunday	Super Smash Bros. Melee	970	$9,700.00
Sunday	Killer Instinct	338	$13,379.80
Sunday	BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma	508	$35,080.00
Saturday	The King of Fighters XIII	319	$3,189.40
Saturday	Injustice: Gods Among Us	311	$3,110.00
Friday	Tekken Tag Tournament 2	257	$7,570.00

Ruleset

• Items are set to off and none. Pause disabled
• 4 stocks and 8 minute time limit.
• 2/3 games; 3/5 for Winner's, Loser's, and Grand Finals
• Wobbling is allowed. The freeze glitch and infinite stalling are banned however.
• First stage is decided by banning from the Starter Stages in P1-P2-P2-P1 order.
• Winning player is not locked into the same character for the next match, but has to pick before loser selects character.
• In a Best of 3 match, a player can ban 1 stage upon winning a game. In a Best of 5 match however, there are no stage bans.
• Maximum allowed time between games is 60 seconds. Any player violating this rule will be issued a loss.
• Dave's Stupid Rule: A player cannot counterpick the last stage he/she won on unless mutually agreed to by both players.

Stage list

Starter	Counterpick
Battlefield	Pokémon Stadium
Dream Land
Final Destination
Fountain of Dreams
Yoshi's Story

Results

Melee singles

(970 entrants)
Full bracket
Grand Finals

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Mango		$5,820
2nd	Hungrybox		$1,940
3rd	Armada		$970
4th	PPMD		$388
5th	Mew2King		$194
5th	Axe		$194
7th	Fly Amanita		$97
7th	Silent Wolf		$97
9th	Chillin
9th	PewPewU
9th	Plup
9th	Leffen
13th	Westballz
13th	S2J
13th	Hax
13th	Fiction
17th	Colbol
17th	ChuDat
17th	aMSa
17th	Eddy Mexico
17th	Nintendude
17th	Lucky
17th	ZeRo
17th	Shroomed
25th	MacD
25th	Bladewise
25th	Swedish Delight
25th	JAVI
25th	Hyprid
25th	The Moon
25th	Darkrain
25th	SFAT
33rd	Connor
33rd	Lambchops
33rd	DEHF
33rd	Cyrain
33rd	DJ Nintendo
33rd	Lucien
33rd	Lord HDL
33rd	Ken
33rd	SwiftBass
33rd	Mr. Brandandorf
33rd	Ice
33rd	Darrell
33rd	J666
33rd	OkamiBW
33rd	Zanguzen
33rd	Duck
49th	HugS
49th	SilentSpectre
49th	Reason
49th	Cactuar
49th	PikaChad
49th	s0ft
49th	Tafokints
49th	Tang
49th	SK92
49th	Kalamazhu
49th	Scar
49th	Excel_Zero
49th	Zhu
49th	Laudandus
49th	Lord
49th	Kels

Side events

Melee doubles

(72 teams)
Bracket
Grand Finals (part 1)
Grand Finals (part 2)

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Hungrybox		Plup		$1,065 ($532.50 each)
2nd	Mew2King		Hax		$532.50 ($266.25 each)
3rd	Leffen		Ice		$319.50 ($159.75 each)
4th	PewPewU		SFAT		$213 ($106.50 each)
5th	ZeRo		KoreanDJ
5th	MacD		Fiction
7th	Mango		Lucky
7th	Shroomed		S2J

Project M singles

(62 entrants)
Bracket
Grand Finals

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	ZeRo		$305
2nd	ChuDat		$152.50
3rd	DJ Nintendo		$91.50
4th	Metroid		$30.50
5th	Chillin		$15.25
5th	K9		$15.25

Notable matches

EVO 2014 included some of the strongest performances for Silent Wolf and Axe in a national tournament. They faced off in losers' top 8, splitting the first two matches with two-stock wins. In the final match, Axe counterpicked Fountain of Dreams, where he four-stocked Silent Wolf in 56 seconds, proceeding to losers' quarters.

Trivia

• This is one of only 2 tournaments where the places 1st to 5th were all taken by the Five Gods (outside of Axe, who also placed 5th), the other being Apex 2013.
  • EVO 2013 also had the Five Gods place Top 6, although Wobbles placed 2nd.
• This was the last EVO tournament Armada attended in which he didn't make it to Grand Finals.

External links

• Official website
• SmashBoards thread
• Results thread