The best in the world in Smash Bros Ultimate, Street Fighter V, Tekken 7, Samurai Shodown, FighterZ …
The EVO is like the Olympic Games of fighting games. A date that every summer focuses all the focuses on fighting games, where the best players seek glory and make great announcements for the genre. This year not only remains the same for the Las Vegas event held from August 2 to 4, but also has numbers to confirm: EVO 2019 is a record date. For the first time, seven games exceed one thousand registered: Smash Bros Ultimate, Street Fighter V, Samurai Shodown, Mortal Kombat 11, Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late and Dragon Ball FighterZ, to which add Soul Calibur 6 and Blazblue: Cross Tag Battle
There are several numbers that denote the importance of this quote. The first and most relevant is to see that Smash Bros Ultimate has combined the communities of SSB4 and Melee. The absence of the second, much requested in forums and social networks, has not prevented Ultimate from adding more registrants (3,492) than the sum of the two games last year (2,605). Behind Smash Street Fighter V remains, but with almost 500 registered less in a date in which three new characters will be announced: Honda, Poison and Lucia. The Top 3 is closed by Tekken 7, the only game that year after year has been growing in registered and that goes from 1504 to 1,885 this 2019. Even Soul Calibur 6, with about 700 registered, can celebrate that this will be his tournament with the highest number of participants. An essential Evo.
The strength of Samurai Shodown, the surprise Under Night …
The great entry after Smash Bros is presented by Samurai Shodown, which debuts in the EVO with 1,719 registered. The SNK game, which is catching community and convincing, will undoubtedly be one of the great names of the EVO. The tension of their fights, the understanding of their development and the outcomes promise epic moments and unexpected turns by doquiers (and many Genjuros, by the way). An entry that has surpassed that of Mortal Kombat 11, with 1,567 registered.
Both are ahead of the surprise Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late, a title that was born in 2012, came out on consoles between 2014 and 2015 and that despite its indie and niche character, will be on the date with more registered than Dragon Ball FighterZ Why? Although in Europe it went unnoticed – as with many games of this court – it is a technical, demanding and high quality title. He starred in the biggest EVO 2018 side tournament, his community has been persistent and faithful and the showcase has allowed many people to know him. And more will do during this weekend.
The games of ‘thousand registered’ Dragon Ball FighterZ close. Last year's leader has dropped more than 50% of his registrants, something that surely can be attributed to the problems with tournaments at the end of 2018, the lack of knowledge of the World Tour until recently and a DLC policy that does not It's satisfying on ads and pace. In any case, the star game in Spain maintains numbers (1191) higher than the last years of Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, a game that only broke the barrier of 1,200 registered in its first year in 2013 and hollow anime / tag that occupies the ASW title today.
Spain lands in Las Vegas: Shanks, Vegapatch and more
Spain will have a representation never seen in the 2019 EVO. The "boom" that FighterZ has meant for our country, with the push of entities such as BCNFighters has made fighting games on the map. Shanks, our best player, currently among the first in the World Tour ranking and who recently knocked out the current EVO champion, SonicFox, will look for a place in the Top 8 that will not be easy. It will be time to test yourself with the best Japanese, Americans and also a French community that now seems somewhat ahead in Europe. Together with our Vigilante, other outstanding players. Calbu as winner of the Giants League and many powerful community names: Genisgod, Inex, Inu, K4ution, Galletas and Morph. In addition to FighterZ, Sh4rin, also of the Vodafone Giants team, will be punishing hard in Samurai Shodown.
But we will not have only representation in FighterZ. Vegapatch (Vodafone Giants) is the great Spanish hope in Street Fighter V with its imposing FANG, which despite the tier list is placed as one of the leading names in Europe and seeks to do so in the EVO. Fasoll de Giants and Faabi, administrator of findyourtech.gg, participate in Mortal Kombat 11, a tournament that is promised of the highest level since the core of the community is American; Finally, Griec, winner of the last Vortex, will be representing Spain in Tekken 7.
Schedules, endings and where to see it
The tournaments start at 19 in Spanish time. Except for Street Fighter V, which will broadcast all the pools and semifinals through twitch.tv/capcomfighters, the rest of the previous and semi-final stages of the tournaments can be seen through the EVO channels. In this schedule created by Bacho you can see the schedules of the pools and semifinals.
The tournament finals can be followed in streaming as follows (Spanish time):
- Soul Calibur 6 – Saturday 3 at 5h
- Under Night In-Birth – Saturday 3 at 7 p.m.
- Dragon Ball FighterZ – Saturday 3 at 10pm
- Samurai Shodown – Sunday 4 at 1h
- Mortal Kombat 11 – Sunday 4 at 5h
- BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle – Sunday 4 at 6pm
- Street Fighter V – Sunday 4 at 9pm
- Tekken 7 – Monday 5 at 00:30
- Smash Bros Ultimate – Monday 5 at 4h
All finals at: https://www.twitch.tv/evo
