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EVO 2023 Megathread - Everything You Need To Know

Intro

Hi everyone,

August is finally here, which means it's almost time for the next entry in the history of EVO. For those of you who are new, EVO, or Evolution Championship Series, is the single biggest Fighting Game tournament in the world, and annually gathers the strongest players across a multitude of games to crown a champion, be it a defender of a previously claimed title, or a page opener for the next big name in a particular competitive scene, rest assured there's no shortage of hype, tears and drama around these parts.

The 2023 edition, taking place from August 4th through August 6th at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, is now the 21st tournament across the entire running of EVO under its brand's establishment way back in 2002 (meaning last year's event also celebrated the 20th anniversary), even though its roots go even further back a few years while it was just a simply player gathering in a small arcade cabinet venue. And as we look both at the rich past and hopefully an even brighter future - it's important to remember that EVO isn't simply a big fighting game event, it's quite literally the Super Bowl or the Wrestlemania or the World Cup or [insert similar example in your hobby here] of the genre, and has grown to be a massive weekend-long festival for players and games big and small, so even if your community has a dozen people in a single discord channel - you're just as welcome to come and set up a local inside EVO as the most popular FG IPs.

Given this scale, it can be hard to keep a track of all things happening surrounding and during EVO, so I went ahead and made this thread in order to gather as much info as possible within a single place. I hope all of you will enjoy the event, whether you're watching it at home or perhaps travelling to Vegas as we speak, and that you'll find this post useful.

On top of being a truly massive event on its own, EVO also serves as season kickoffs or a major qualifier/championship points stage for several professional esports Fighting Game circuits, namely the Capcom Pro Tour for Street Fighter 6, Arc World Tour for Guilty Gear Strive, DBFZ World Tour for Dragon Ball FighterZ, SNK World Championship for The King of Fighters XV, and Tekken World Tour for Tekken 7.

Additionally, the EVO weekend usually has its share of brand new reveals, announcements and other news for the fighting game genre as a whole, so even if you aren't a competitor yourself or don't find high level matches interesting, the event is worth following at least to catch a glimpse of fresh stuff for a title of your preference as it unfolds live.

And now, without further ado.....................



EVO 2023 - Main Event

Game Name Total Entrants Brackets Link Subreddit Discord Server
Street Fighter 6 7061 start.gg r/StreetFighter Invite
Guilty Gear -Strive- 2481 start.gg r/Guiltygear Invite
Tekken 7 1580 start.gg r/Tekken Invite
Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 1346 start.gg r/MvC3 Invite
Dragon Ball FighterZ 838 start.gg r/dragonballfighterz & r/dbfz Invite
The King of Fighters XV 666 start.gg r/kof Invite
Melty Blood: Type Lumina 554 start.gg r/meltyblood Invite
Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate 449 start.gg r/MortalKombat Invite

Schedule & Streams (All times in UTC -7) - Alt Version by AmedeoAvogadro

The entirety of the main games lineup will also be streamed on EVO's YouTube channel



EVO 2023 - Community Showcase

Game Name Brackets Link Subreddit Discord Server
BlazBlue: Central Fiction start.gg r/Blazblue Invite
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle start.gg r/blazbluextagbattle Invite
Capcom vs SNK 2 start.gg - Invite
DNF Duel start.gg r/DNFDuel Invite
Guilty Gear Xrd REV 2 start.gg r/Guiltygear Invite
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R start.gg - Invite
Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 start.gg r/MvC2 Invite
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax start.gg - Invite
Skullgirls: 2nd Encore start.gg r/Skullgirls Invite
Soulcalibur VI start.gg r/SoulCalibur Invite
Super Street Fighter II Turbo start.gg - Invite
Street Fighter Alpha 2 start.gg - Invite
Street Fighter III: Third Strike start.gg - Invite
Ultra Street Fighter IV start.gg r/SF4 Invite
Street Fighter V: Champion Edition start.gg r/StreetFighter Invite
Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r] start.gg r/UnderNightInBirth Invite
Vampire Savior start.gg r/Darkstalkers Invite
Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown start.gg r/virtuafighter Invite

Schedule & Streams (All times in UTC -7) - Alt Version by AmedeoAvogadro



EVO 2023 - Side Events

Game Name Brackets Link Discord Server
Akatsuki Blitzkampf: Ausf. Achse challonge Invite
Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Oratorio Tangram start.gg Invite
Dance Dance Revolution start.gg -
Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax Ignition start.gg Invite
Eternal Fighter Zero start.gg Invite
Garou: Mark of the Wolves start.gg Invite
Granblue Fantasy: Versus start.gg Invite
Idol Showdown start.gg Invite
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R challonge Invite
Kill la Kill the Game: If start.gg Invite
Killer Instinct start.gg Invite
Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite start.gg Invite
Mega Man Battle Network 6 start.gg -
Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code start.gg Invite
Million Arthur Arcana Blood start.gg Invite
Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs. 2 XBoost start.gg Invite
Phantom Breaker Omnia start.gg Invite
PlayStation All-Stars start.gg Invite
Power Rangers: Battle For The Grid start.gg Invite
Project Justice challonge Invite
SAMURAI SHODOWN start.gg Invite
Street Fighter x Tekken start.gg Invite
Super Dragon Ball Z start.gg Invite
Tatsunoko vs Capcom start.gg Invite
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 start.gg Invite
The Last Blade 2 start.gg Invite
Them's Fightin' Herds challonge Invite
Touhou Hisoutensoku start.gg Invite
TMNT x Justice League Turbo start.gg Invite
Ultra Fight Da ! Kyanta 2 challonge Invite

Schedule & Streams (All times in UTC -7) - Alt Version by AmedeoAvogadro

  • | Friday, August 4th | Saturday, August 5th | Sunday, August 6th :-:|:-:|:-:|:-: 10:00 | EFZ - MAAB - Gundam | GBVS | - 10:30 | - | Phantom | - 11:00 | Samsho | Garou - BFTG - Kyanta | - 12:00 | Dengeki | - | - 13:00 | TFH - DDR | Tatsunoko | SFXT 14:00 | - | Akatsuki - Jojo - MMBN6 | - 14:30 | - | - | MVCI 15:00 | Idol | KI | - 16:00 | KLK - Justice | TLB2 | - 16:30 | - | - | TTT2 - TMNT 17:00 | - | Gundam Top-8 | - 18:00 | Touhou | Melty - Virtual On | - 19:00 | Super DBZ - PS All-Stars | - | -



EVO 2023 - Onsite Activities

Official Friday Showcase Panels - evo.gg

  • 10:00 - Arc System Works

  • 10:55 - CyGames

  • 12:00 - Arc System Works

  • 12:30 - Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2

  • 12:40 - MenaRD Interview by Seth Killian

  • 13:10 - Hidden Variable Studios

  • 13:45 - Aether Studio

  • 14:00 - Indie Fighting Games

  • 14:20 - Justin Wong's UMVC3 Match Retrospective

  • 15:00 - Capcom

  • 16:00 - Bandai Namco

  • 16:40 - Killer Instinct 10-Year Anniversary Invitational

  • 18:10 - Indie Game Roundtable

Official Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising Side Tournament - start.gg

  • Begins August 4th @ 12:30, follows with Top-32 on August 5th @ 10:00, Concludes with Top-6 on August 5th @ 16:00

  • Streams are on the EVO and EVO7 Twitch channels, as well as the Stage G and Main Stage YouTube channels

Official Cosplay Contest - evo.gg

  • Begins August 4th @ 13:00, runs for 2 consecutive days

  • 3 judges comprised of popular cosplayers will select a total of 6 contestants

  • The final showoff, an interview segment, and voting on August 5th

  • Livestream to be held on teamsp00ky Twitch channel

Official Crunchyroll at EVO Booth - evo.gg

  • Playable versions of various games like Street Fighter Duel

  • Live Musical perfomances by K?D, Shihori, Meirlin, Hyper Potions, James Landino, VGR, and Kino featuring remixes of various videogame and anime themes

  • Various swag, merch, and collectible items

Official Chipotle Community Lounge Booth - evo.gg

  • Runs for the entire EVO weekend

  • Grants competitors who don't drown in pools a special entree card that can then be redeemed for an exclusive goody bag

  • Includes a separate on-site Street Fighter 6 tournament with its own brackets, the winners of which also can receive a Chipotle goody bag

  • The area also provides a viewing space for the main EVO broadcast, USB charging stations, and a photo booth

  • Any and all Chipotle orders made during EVO's running time grant customers a special promocode for Fighter Coins, an ingame Street Fighter 6 currency

Playable Preview Builds of upcoming Fighting Games

Various Third-party Exhibitions on the Showfloor - evo.gg

Various Sponsor & Partner Booths at the venue

Various IRL EVO Streams from inside the venue

ReversalTNS Salty Suite - Twitter

  • First-time partnership between ReversalGG and TampaNeverSleeps

  • Features Exhibition matches between various pro players

  • This year's Salty Suite lineup includes Street Fighter 6 and Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3

  • Event kicks off August 3rd @ 18:00

  • Will be streamed over at reversalgg and Tampaneversleeps Twitch channels

Level|up Hawaii Suite - Blogpost

  • Held and organized by the local Hawaii FGC in partnership with Alex Valle's level|up tournament series

  • Features a selection of special tournaments and events, running all weekend long

  • Main event this year is a 3v3 Street Fighter 6 Team Tourney with several pro Street Fighter competitors

  • Event kicks off August 4th @ 22:00

  • Will be streamed over at leveluplive Twitch channel

Sunday Finals Salty Suite - Twitter

  • Organized by Jason_Gamedev

  • Features primarily matches in Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3

  • Event kicks off August 6th @ 19:00 and will run all night long until morning

  • Will be streamed over at deadxpride Twitch channel



EVO 2023 - Additional Links

Community-made Spectator Guides for the Main Event lineup

Multistream Viewer solutions for setups with multiple/wide format displays and screens

SuperCombo Wiki's Fighting Game Community Discord Server Lists

Official EVO Linktree

Official EVO 2022 Archive Playlists



GET HYPE, HAVE FUN WATCHING, AND ENJOY THE SHOW!!













Should I get MvC Infinite 80% off for $13? Even with all the disappointments? Should I get MvC Infinite 80% off for $13? Even with all the disappointments?
Question

*I know this is MvC3, I didn't want to only ask the r/mvci people that may or may not be baised*

I probably would have gotten the game, if Venom wasn't dlc, and that dlc commercial was out before the game even relased.

The same company from the SF X Tekken scandal, where all the dlc characters were hidden on the disc when the game dropped, and they pretended to make dlc after. I despised and severly distrusted them after seeing this type of thing AGAIN. Such blatent abuse of trust/feigning an honest content template.

------------------------------- Characters -------------------------------

I often felt I DEFINITELY would have gotten the game if I could finally have my Dante & Vergil tag team. But Vergil will never happen now.

Speaking of, Dante:

  • SEVERAL of Dante's moves are misquoted. Meaning he says the wrong voice lines, with the corresponding moves from the DMC3 game the character is based off of. As if it was made by 3 party devs that were partially ignorant of the source material!!

  • (Instead of Beowolf gauntlets/boots, he has Gilgamesh from DMC4, where he would not have any of the DMC3 weapons that he has in MVC: Infinite and MVC3)

  • That's like buying a shitty Dragonball game where the kamehameha is yellow, and he misquotes his own moves. "Solar-solar-flare!" or some non-sense.

----------------------------------- Game -------------------------------------

After some MvC3 being abhorrently unplayble online for me (I do not have a pc for parsec or mods) I decided from then on,

The Netcode Rule: If a fighting game does not have good roll back netcode (like it feels comparable to offline) I WILL NOT buy it. Period. Devs need to get their shit together.

I heard the netcode was great for this game. I remember Maximilian_Dood loving the tag combo mechanics, and I love labbing creative horse balls no one may have done before, and being able to respond to a sitiuation spontaneously with a little know-how, into dramatic cinematic results/moments. Restrictive combo rigidity is boring.

Also I HATE meta. A new player who's first question to a game is "What's the meta" makes me almost physically ill. If I can't pick what I want without having to fight in a rained on concrete uphill battle, blindfolded on rollerblades, fuck that, I'm out.

----------------------------------Verdict? ----------------------------------

So is it worth the money? Does it still have players after it's harsh cancel fiasco?

Is it worth the time learning the characters?

Or should I just get DNF: Duel? Which I'm realizing I forgot about and have a HARSH craving for. When everyone's busted, no one's busted. 😱🤯🥳 (Heard it was fun!)




If There's was a Marvel vs Capcom 4 what would you like to see team ups and story arcs If There's was a Marvel vs Capcom 4 what would you like to see team ups and story arcs

The Marvel characters and universe will be the alternative versions of themselves based on Marvel Strike Force, Marvel Contest of Champions, Marvel Future Fight and such. It mainly takes inspiration from Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Spectacular Spiderman, X-Men Evolution and such. The Events like civil war and such never happen.

If there's a future MVC game who should be the main antagonists of the game? There's always two villains team up in each game, Magneto and M.Bison for 2, Doctor Doom and Albert Wesker for 3 and Ultron and Sigma for Infinite. If we get an actual new MVC4, who should be team-up this time? Which Marvel and Capcom villains paired up? Which Marvel and Capcom heroes team up? Which Marvel and Capcom group factions merge as one? Which Marvel and Capcom fusion stages?