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

The Evolution Championship Series 2014, or simply EVO 2014, was a fighting game tournament held in Las Vegas, Nevada, from July 11th to 13th, 2014. It featured Super Smash Bros. Melee as a game once again, being the successor to the previous year's EVO 2013.

It is the third-largest Melee tournament to date, with 970 entrants (behind Apex 2015's 1,037 entrants and EVO 2015's 1,869 entrants), and was the largest Melee tournament for over six months, surpassing the record of 709 entrants set by EVO 2013 the previous year.

The tournament was expected to be the wrap-up of the rivalry between Mango and Armada, the two best Melee players in the world; they had defeated each other in grand finals in several national tournaments over the previous few months. However, Armada, using Young Link, lost to Hungrybox's Jigglypuff in both winners' semifinals and losers' finals, placing 3rd. Hungrybox moved on to grand finals and was defeated by Mango's Fox.

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 supposed dedication to the Super Smash Bros. series and their participation in the Super Smash Bros. Invitational.

Results

Melee singles

(970 entrants)
Full bracket

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

Melee doubles (side event)

(72 teams)
Bracket

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 (side event)

(62 entrants)
Bracket

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 under a minute, proceeding to losers' quarters.

External links

• Official website
• SWF thread
• Results thread