Tournament:EVO 2017

Evolution 2017, or simply EVO 2017, was the 16th edition of the Evolution Championship Series, a fighting game tournament held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event took place on July 14th to 16th, 2017, at the. It was announced on January 24th by EVO's tournament director Joey "" Cuellar, with both Super Smash Bros. Melee and returning as official games on the lineup. The and  channels broadcasted Smash 4 Top 8 live on Sunday evening, marking the first time a Smash tournament had been broadcasted on live television.

Super Smash Bros. Melee

 * 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 they won on unless mutually agreed to by both players.

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

 * Items are set to off and none. Pause and handicap are disabled. Launch rate is 1.0.
 * 2 stocks and 6 minute time limit.
 * 2/3 games; 3/5 for Winner's, Loser's, and Grand Finals
 * Customs and Equipment are turned off.
 * Mii Fighters are legal (1-1-1-1 Default Miis only). Amiibo however are banned.
 * First stage is decided by (Rock-Paper-Scissors) best of 1. Winner strikes, then loser strikes twice, then winner. (P1-P2-P2-P1)
 * Following stages decided by winner banning one stage from all stages and then loser choosing.
 * Winning player is not locked into the same character for the next match, but has to pick before loser selects character.
 * 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 they won on unless mutually agreed to by both players.
 * You may not play on a stage that is not on the available stages list. This will result in a double disqualification.
 * If a game ends with a self-destruct move, the results screen will determine the winner.
 * Sudden Death with a tied percentage/stock count will NOT determine the outcome of a tied game. A playoff match with 1 stock/2 minutes will determine the winner.
 * There will be no loading anything on to the tournament consoles.

Melee
During the tournament, was yellow carded following his set with  due to  appearing on-stage as his coach after the first game when the rules disallowed coaching after round 2 pools, a rule that Crunch said he was unaware. This decision was met with controversy as the rules regarding coaching past pools would result in a match loss for the coached player which Hungrybox did not receive. However, SFAT was also allegedly being coached by, which resulted in the match standing; this led to even more controversy, as many people agreed that SFAT was not being coached at all by G$, as the action performed did not qualify under the definition. Furthermore, the official EVO rules state that any incident should be reported at the time it occurs, and will otherwise be ignored, so technically, Hungrybox should not have been carded at all.

This tournament marked both and 's third appearances at an EVO Grand Final, with Armada making it through the Winner's side of the bracket while Mango entered through the Loser's side after falling to Armada in Winner's Finals and double-eliminating defending champion Hungrybox at 3rd. Armada defeated his longtime rival in Grand Finals 3-1, taking his second-ever EVO title and tying Mango with the most EVO titles for a Melee player.

Smash 4
The tournament saw the top 2 players from the previous iteration, and, severely underperform, as both players were eliminated prior to top 48: Ally lost to  and  to place 49th, while kameme lost to  and  to place 65th. In addition, also notably underperformed, losing to  and  for 65th. All three placements either tied or were the respective players' worst tournament placement up to that point.

After losing his Winner's Semis match to, ran through the Loser's bracket, defeating , , and Larry Lurr in the runback to meet  in Grand Finals. After resetting the bracket 2-3, Salem barely managed to defeat ZeRo in game 5 of the second set by making a high-percent comeback, winning his first major/supermajor event, as well as the first major/supermajor win for a player.

Salem's run was similar to Hungrybox's Melee run from the previous year where they both lost their winners semis matches 0-2 against the #6 ranked player at that time (Larry Lurr and, respectively), only to defeat them 3-1 in Loser's Finals after losing the first game and then win the tournament by playing a total of ten games against the #1 player at that time ( and , respectively), with one of the two sets' game 5 requiring an unlikely comeback.

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles
(1,428 entrants) Top 8 Bracket Top 48 Bracket

singles
(1,508 entrants) Top 8 Bracket Top 48 Bracket

Project M singles
This event was the 8th stop on the 2017 Project M Championship Circuit. As a result of Melee being mostly on Saturday and other factors, this event was smaller than previous iterations of Project M at EVO. (83 entrants) Top 8 Bracket

Trivia

 * , who is the main TO for, was invited as a guest during the EVO 2017 lineup announcement to comment about Smash 4 and the fixes the staff at EVO would do in order to improve on the title's tournament performance from the previous year.
 * This marked the first time that the finals was held on Sunday, and the Super Smash Bros. Melee finals was held on Saturday.
 * EVO 2017 marked the 10 year anniversary of Melee 's original appearance at EVO 2007.
 * At the beginning of Smash 4's Top 8, Twitch experienced serious server issues, due to the large number of people around the globe who attempted to watch the event.