Only rollback games like Mortal Kombat 11, Killer Instinct, Skull Girls, and Them's Fightin 'Herds will have a tournament. The rest will be exhibitions.
The organization of Evolution Championship Series (EVO), responsible for the most important world fighting videogame tournament in the sector, has announced what the already confirmed EVO Online will be like, an online alternative of what was to be the great event of the season this summer with a lineup of titles already closed. Lights and shadows for the candidates, because the great titles on the scene will not have an open tournament due to their poor online connection.
Great titles will have to be made up of exhibitions
Thus, the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas will not open its doors this August and it will not do so as could be expected in its online alternative because the initial list of nine games that were going to have their own championship, such as Street Fighter V: Champion Edition, Tekken 7, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate or Dragon Ball FighterZ will not have an open tournament. The low guarantee of a good connection (ping, latency and more) has led to the resignation of the organization to allow these four works to have their own tournament, what this means for the great players of these titles. There will only be exhibits and content for them.
Those that will have an open tournament are the following titles: Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath, Killer Instinct, Them’s Fightin ’Herds and Skullgirls 2nd Encore; that were not initially covered in EVO 2020.
Introducing Evo Online! pic.twitter.com/ecf8gxNGUW
– EVO (@EVO) May 14, 2020
What will EVO Online 2020 be like?
The organization has explained what the EVO Online roadmap will look like since the beginning of July, when the starting gun will be launched on a calendar that will consist of five weekends:
- July 4th and 5th
- July 11 and 12
- July 18 and 19
- July 25 and 26
- From August 31 to 2
EVO 2020 lineup; they will not have a tournament but exhibitions
Thus, the initial lineup of nine titles will have to settle for these exhibitions, whose methodology and scope will be detailed in the coming dates: reet Fighter V: Champion Edition, SoulCalibur VI, Tekken 7, GranBlue Fantasy Versus, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate , Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late (st), Samurai Shodown and Marvel vs. Capcom 2.
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