Tournament:EVO 2018

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EVO 2018
Dates	August 3rd-5th, 2018
Venue	Mandalay Bay Events Center
Address/City	Las Vegas, Nevada
Results

Evolution 2018, or simply EVO 2018, is the upcoming 17th edition of the Evolution Championship Series, a fighting game tournament held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada. EVO 2018 is scheduled to take place on August 3rd to 5th, 2018, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. It was announced on February 6th, by EVO's tournament director Joey "Mr. Wizard" Cuellar, that both Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U would be featured as official games on the EVO 2018 game lineup. The event will see the return of Melee on the Sunday finals, as Smash 4 was on the main stage in the previous year.EVO 2018 featured a playable demo of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, courtesy of Nintendo.

Official Game Lineup

Finals	Game	Entrants	Pot Size
Sunday	Street Fighter V	2,484	TBA
Sunday	Dragon Ball FighterZ	2,575	TBA
Sunday	Tekken 7	1,538	TBA
Sunday	Super Smash Bros. Melee	1,351	$13,510
Sunday	Guilty Gear Xrd REV2	629	TBA
TBA	Super Smash Bros. for Wii U	1,354	$13,540
TBA	BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle	1,178	TBA
TBA	Injustice 2	363	TBA

Trivia

• This is the first year where the lineup announcement stream was not co-hosted by Mike Ross. Instead, Tekken Project and EVO staff member Mark "MarkMan" Julio was the co-host.
• This is the first EVO since 2014 that doesn't feature a total of nine games in the main EVO lineup.
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was confirmed to replace Super Smash Bros. for Wii U in the event it was released in time for EVO 2018. However, this will not take effect as it will release four months after EVO 2018.

External Links

• EVO's website
  
• EVO's twitter
  
• EVO's Tournament Director twitter