EVO Tournament Lineup Suggests SC5 is the 3D Fighting Game to Play

For years now, Evolution has dictated which games would be considered main stream fighting games. The EVO staff has recently announced which fighting games would be included in their tournament lineup this year. As many of us expected, Tekken did not make the cut. However, Soul Calibur 5 did. Soon after this announcement, it was also announced that Namco will be adding pot bonuses and support for some of the EVO qualifier tournaments. This info makes me think that Tekken will take the back burner for the rest of the year and SC5 will be the 3D game to play. I'm a fan of both games and I sincerely hope that SC5 turns out to be a great game. I will do my best to cover both Tekken and Soul Calibur in the coming months. On the topic of streaming. As I mentioned before, we were not given official permission to stream TTT2 during the location test at Super Arcade. We will however be streaming SC5 tournaments when the game is released. Thanks for your continued support. 

List of EVO games and qualifying tournaments can be found below. More info on the EVO tournament season can be found HERE. 

Street Fighter X Tekken

Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition, Version 2012

Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3

Soul Calibur 5

King of Fighters 13

Mortal Kombat 9

 

Apex Tournament Series, New Brunswick, New Jersey Jan 6-8

Winter Brawl, Philadelphia, PA Feb 18-19

OzHadou Nationals X, Sydney, Australia Feb 17-19

Final Round, Atlanta, GA March 2-4

South East Asia Major, Bugis Arcade, Singapore Mar 17-18

NorCal Regionals 10, March 24-25

Texas Showdown, Houston, Texas April 6-8

PowerUp 2012, Cincinnati, Ohio April 13-15

Team Mad Catz Championships, San Diego, CA April 13-15

Toryuken, Toronto Ontario, Canada May 4th-6th

Season’s Beatings: Summer Slam, Columbus, OH May 5th

Northwest Majors, Seattle, WA May 26th

Ultimate Fighting Game Tournament 8, Chicago, IL May 25-27

Montreal Annual Tournament, Montreal, Canada June 3-4

East Coast Throwdown, Morristown, NJ June 9-10

CEO 2012, Orlando, FL June 15-17

Midwest Championships 2012, Nashville, TN June 22-24

Comments

[2BitJack]

reality is my new favorite asshole.

[J G Wentworth]

It's my money and I want it now!

[Devil Kazuya]

Honestly this is just the logical decision. Tekken 6 is winding down and after the abysmal top 8 last year it's a no brainer for the evo staff.

Namco obviously also wants to promote their new console fighter, and Tekken still has somewhat of a presence with Sfxtekken

Tekken will get love again next year if we have a ttt2 console release...

[Linux_thefallen]

Looking forward to UFGT8 and Evo2k12 maybe we'll bump into each other Aris I look forward to it

[Reality]

Just so you know, the last post wasn't written by me but someone in my name.

[Forest]

I no longer give a shit about EVO.