Tournament:EVO 2019

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EVO 2019
Dates	August 2nd-4th, 2019
Venue	Mandalay Bay Events Center
Address/City	3950 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas, Nevada
Attendance	3,522
Results
winners	TBD

Evolution 2019, or simply EVO 2019, will be the 18th edition of the Evolution Championship Series, a fighting game tournament held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada. EVO 2019 is scheduled to take place on August 2nd to 4th, 2019, at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. It was announced on February 26th, by EVO's tournament director Joey "Mr. Wizard" Cuellar, that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate would make its debut as an official game on the EVO 2019 game lineup. While it was confirmed to replace Smash Wii U if it released in time in 2018, this will be the first EVO post-release. Notably, for the first time since EVO 2012, Super Smash Bros. Melee was not revealed to be in the lineup—although Melee will still be present as a side event on August 3rd—making EVO 2019 the first one since 2014 to feature only one Smash game at EVO instead of two. Ultimate will run on version 3.1.0, rather than running on 4.0.0 with Hero, due to the update being released after the cutoff date for patches and being a few days before the tournament.

It is currently the largest Smash tournament of all time, with 3,522 entrants signed up for Ultimate.

Official Game Lineup

Finals	Game	Entrants	Pot Size
Friday	Soulcalibur VI	746
Saturday	Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st]	1,156
Saturday	Dragon Ball FighterZ	1,193
Saturday	Samurai Shodown	1,726
Saturday	Mortal Kombat 11	1,573
Sunday	BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle	642
Sunday	Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition	1,942
Sunday	Tekken 7	1,894
Sunday	Super Smash Bros. Ultimate	3,522

Results

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles

(3,522 entrants)
Top 32 Bracket
Top 8 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
5th
7th
7th
9th	Abadango
9th	Kameme
9th	Nietono
9th	Dabuz
13th	ScAtt
13th	Mr.R
13th	Shuton
13th	Marss
17th	Shogun
17th	Pandarian
17th	HIKARU
17th	WaDi
17th	Elegant
17th	Nairo
17th	Plup
17th	Maister
25th	Vintendo
25th	ESAM
25th	Rotsuku
25th	Seven
25th	Sinji
25th	Stroder
25th	Myran
25th	kept
33rd	CaptainZack
33rd	ZAKI
33rd	Skilly
33rd	Masashi
33rd	Salem
33rd	Cyro
33rd	Dragoomba
33rd	Zenyou
33rd	Mao
33rd	Puppeh
33rd	MastaMario
33rd	Lea
33rd	Eim
33rd	Chag
33rd	Kome
33rd	Sparg0
49th	Atelier
49th	TheFlow
49th	Etsuji
49th	iStudying
49th	AC
49th	Prodigy
49th	Wizzrobe
49th	VoiD
49th	Lui$
49th	Larry Lurr
49th	Gackt
49th	Jw
49th	Mew2King
49th	Seth
49th	Javi
49th	Umeki
65th	Seagull Joe
65th	Ogey
65th	8BitMan
65th	Corona
65th	Cosmos
65th	Dark Wizzy
65th	Mada
65th	Frawg
65th	YMCA
65th	FOW
65th	Biddy
65th	MuteAce
65th	YOC
65th	Awestin
65th	PEW
65th	varun
65th	SexyBeast420
65th	RAIN
65th	sm0ke
65th	Nicko
65th	Logix
65th	SoulArts
65th	ANTi
65th	RFang
65th	huto
65th	NAKAT
65th	falln
65th	T
65th	Stronghold
65th	Phantom
65th	ZD
65th	MVD
97th	BreaD
97th	Lima
97th	takera
97th	Z
97th	MrConCon
97th	Heeew
97th	SS Rose
97th	Diamond D.
97th	Cheeks
97th	DD
97th	crow
97th	Wisdom
97th	EKING
97th	Duwang
97th	Brosinex
97th	Charliedaking
97th	Ozone
97th	Widget
97th	Mr.Newport
97th	Shoe
97th	Thirsty
97th	Death Arcana
97th	Osiris
97th	0mart
97th	LightningCam
97th	Denti
97th	Razo
97th	Zace
97th	Rickles
97th	Phoenix
97th	BassMage
97th	Konga

Side Events

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles

(111 entrants)
Top 4 Bracket

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Hungrybox
2nd	ChuDat
3rd	Bungwipe
4th	dansdaman
5th	Zhea
5th	Cleps
7th	SK92
7th	Nainsoo
9th	Andymosity
9th	RAFADIL
9th	Bacon
9th	Woodchipdust

Trivia

• Due to flight issues, LeoN was unable to attend the tournament, where he was seeded to eventually face MkLeo. In what was dubbed by some as the "Bowser curse", none of the Bowser players that had their matches shown on the official EVO Twitch stream won their sets.
• Raito is the only returning player from EVO 2018 that placed Top 8 in the singles tournaments for both Smash 4 and Smash Ultimate.
  • Coincidentally, this is also the second year in a row Dabuz placed just outside of Top 8 and got 9th for both games.
• As there was only one official EVO stream for the Ultimate tournament, players like Hungrybox and ZeRo went out of their way to provide the results of numerous off-stream sets via Twitter and Twitch, respectively. This led to praise from the community for their efforts.
• After Mr.R lost to ProtoBanham, he pointed out that Proto had been looking at his phone in the middle of the set and asked if there was a ruling on it (due to the possibility of mid-set coaching, though Proto was apparently looking up kill combos for Inkling). After asking Bear (who helped direct the tournament), Bear told him that there was no such ruling and that the set was legitimate. Although some accused him of being a sore loser, he later confirmed on Twitter that he had no intention of replaying the set and was surprised that no such measure was put in place beforehand.
• With Mew2King and his Smash protégé Wizzrobe both placing 49th, Plup was the highest-placing player in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate singles that is otherwise known for being a professional Super Smash Bros. Melee player, placing 17th.
• This tournament marks the worst placement for a number of players in a Smash Ultimate tournament:
  • Larry Lurr
  • Cosmos with a placement of 65th.
  • MVD with a placement of 65th.
  • T with a placement of 65th.
  • ZD
  • Nakat
  • Lima with a placement of 97th.
  • Fatality with a placement of 129th.
  • Mr E with a placement of 193rd.

External links

• EVO's website
• EVO's twitter
• EVO's Tournament Director twitter
• smash.gg page
• Melee Side Event Smash.gg page