Category Archives: EVO

Road to EVO 2012: Toryuken Official Games Trailer
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The official trailer for Toronto’s Toryuken tournament was recently released, cementing the game lineup for their Road to EVO event this year. As a part of the EVO Tournament Season, winners of the official line-up of games will earn precious seeding points to make their lives easier at the big tournament this summer. All the [...]

Road to EVO 2012: Final Round XV Results
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Final Round XV in Atlanta, GA has officially come to an end. It was an extremely hype event with so many upsets for each and every game. Be sure to check out the match log for the results.

Slasher Reports on the State of eSports in 2012
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Rod “Slasher” Breslau recently wrote an article about eSports and where he sees it heading in the coming year. 2012′s calendar is absolutely stacked with events, game releases, and other press-worthy spectacles, and Slasher does his best covering each and every one. From MLG and its lineup to the EVO tournament season and the fighting [...]

Road to EVO 2012: OzHadou Nationals 10 Results
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OzHadou Nationals 10, one of the stops on the Evo 2012 Tournament Season, is live right now from Sydney, Australia. The premier event is the Arcade Edition tournament, as it features Singapore’s Xian, Melbourne’s ToXY, and all of New South Wales’ best. Check out the stream right here, and you can find some results and [...]

Super Turbo @ EVO 2012: The Tournament of Legends
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It can be the year 2050 where denizens ride on hover-boards and plucky teenage heroes travel to the future with Christopher Lloyd as their guide– and people will still be playing ST. Why? Because it’s more than just a classic– it’s THE classic. There are names from the ST era that you utter on a whim [...]

Atlus Giving Away Exclusive KOFXIII T-Shirt To EVO Entrants
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For those planning to compete in The King of Fighters XIII at EVO2k12, Atlus has a little special something for you. Atlus will be giving away an “exclusive, extremely limited” Mai Shiranui EVO Championship Series T-shirt. Source Atlus.

Evo Provides $10,000 in Pot Bonuses on the Road to Evo
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With APEX in the can and Final Round just around the corner, the Road to Evo is in full swing.  To make things a little more interesting, we’re introducing the Road to Evo Pitstops.  At four special tournaments, we’re providing $2500 in cash incentives to the winners of the Super Street Fighter IV AE 2012, Ultimate [...]

Raw Footage from EVO 2004, Featuring John Choi, Mike Watson, Jason Wilson
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We were sent some nostalgic footage early this morning by Shirts that was shot at the Evolution Tournament in 2004. There’s a bunch of old-school Street Fighter III: Third Strike gameplay, as well as Capcom vs. SNK 2 and Super Street Fighter II Turbo. If you attended this tournament or just want to check out [...]

Road to EVO 2012: Civil War Tournament April 28-29
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Virginia’s annual Civil War Tournament is back for its fourth year, this time as part of EVO’s 2012 tournament season. It’s set to include all six EVO games, as well as five other side-tournaments. If you live on the east coast and plan on participating in multiple games at this year’s Evolution tournament, this looks [...]

Road to EVO 2012: SSFIVAE Ver. 2012, UMvC3 APEX Tournament Footage Now Available
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Jaxel of 8 Way Run recently started uploading replays from last weekend’s APEX Tournament, the first stop on the this year’s road to EVO. While this event was small in relation to other majors, it had no shortage of amazing moments. These videos feature some of the best Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition ver. [...]

Road to EVO 2012: Ozhadou Nationals 10 in Sydney, Australia February 17th-19th
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Australia’s Ozhadou Nationals yearly tournament is celebrating it’s tenth year, and what better way to mark this occasion than to act as an official Evolution Tournament Season event in this year’s Road to EVO? OHNX will serve as the very first Australian major of 2012, and the winners of each tournament will find themselves in [...]

Road to EVO 2012: APEX Tournament Results
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Today is finals day at this year’s APEX Tournament! While it’s mainly a Smash event, they’re also running tournaments for Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition ver. 2012, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and Mortal Kombat 9 in preparation for EVO 2012 later this year. The participation is a bit lower than usual, but there’s [...]

Chubby Boy Films Planning New Street Fighter Flick
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Chubby Boy Films, The guys behind the awesome Balrog: Behind the Glory short film are planning a new project! Right now they’re looking for funding to produce the film. If they get the green light the film will debut at Evo 2012 in July. You can check out the teaser for their new project here. [...]

Wakeup SRK Live E006 – EVO 2012 Game Reveal Special
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The audio-only mp3 version and Youtube archive of last night’s Wakeup SRK Live are both available now. MrWizard joined us on the show to reveal all six of this year’s EVO games, as well as all of the EVO Tournament Season events. While that information is literally everywhere at this point, you may still want [...]

Mr. Wizard Reveals EVO 2012 Line Up on Wakeup SRK Live Tonight at 7 PM PST
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A new year, a new Evolution Tournament season! Tonight’s special live edition of Wakeup SRK is one you won’t want to miss, as Mr. Wizard is stopping by to drop some choice knowledge about EVO 2012 and the special events leading up to it. He plans to cover a variety of topics, including EVO 2012′s [...]