PLEASE IGNORE ANY RED LINKS ON THIS PAGE. THEY REFER TO WIKIPEDIA PAGES.
INSTEAD OF HAVING A SEPARATE ARTICLE FOR EVO CHAMPIONS OF OTHER YEARS AS IN THE WIKIPEDIA TOUGEKI PAGE, I'LL TABULATE ALL THE DATA INTO THE CURRENT 2007 WINNER TABLE.
The Evolution Championship Series, frequently referred to as just Evo, is an annual, predominantly North American, fighting video game tournament held at various venues around North America. It was brought about and established in 2002 to replace the B-Series tournaments held annually prior to it's inception.
The championship consists of qualifying rounds (four, since EVO 2007, designated EVO East, West, North and South) and a final round dubbed Evo World. Each round holds a tournament for each game within the line up (typically double elimination), and is held over a weekend.
History
Beginning with the B-Series set of tournaments that were held from YEAR to YEAR, Joey Cueller (?) established Evolution and began operations from evo2k.com. Evo2k.com links to the website Shoryuken.com, another Cueller owned project that was formed before (?) evo2k.com wherein the forums serve as the primary connection between the event management and the players involved. Particular notice is paid to comments made on the forum, and significant changes have occured directly as a result of forum user request or posting.
Game representation over the years is as follows.
- Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike - All tournaments
- Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo - All tournaments
- Marvel vs Capcom 2 - All tournaments
- Capcom vs SNK 2 - All tournaments
- Guilty Gear XX: #Reload - 2003 - 2005 Slash - 2006, 2007
- Soul Calibur 2 - 2003, 2004
- Tekken 5 - 2005, 2006
- Tekken 4 - 2003, 2004
- Tekken Tag Tournament 2003, 2004
- Virtua Fighter 4 - 2003, 2004
- Dead or Alive 4 - 2006
- Mario Kart DS - 2006
- Street Fighter Alpha 3 - 2002
- Tekken 5: Dark Ressurection - 2007
The 2006 championship series is noteworthy for being the first, and thus far, only instance of a non fighting game taking a tournament slot.
Format
Each tournament is played either individually (with the exception of the Guilty Gear tournament, which is usually in teams of three) in a double-elimination (single elimination for Guilty Gear) system to determine a winner. Attendance to a qualification rounds is not mandatory in order to join the Evo World round as each and every stage of the championship is open. Qualifier rounds serve to secure players a higher seed position for the final tournament than they might otherwise obtain by only attending World.
Unlike other fighting game tournaments, such as Tougeki, Evolution allows players to play games casually outside of the tournament setting, setting aside areas for players to set up their own consoles called "Bring your own Console" or "BYOC".
Champions
2002
2003
| Game | Player(s) | Character(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Marvel vs Capcom 2 | ||
| Capcom vs SNK 2 | ||
| Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike | ||
| Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo | ||
| Tekken 4 | ||
| Tekken Tag Tournament | ||
| Soul Calibur 2 | ||
| Guilty Gear XX Slash | ||
| Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution |
2004
| Game | Player(s) | Character(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Marvel vs Capcom 2 | ||
| Capcom vs SNK 2 | ||
| Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike | ||
| Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo | ||
| Tekken 4 | ||
| Tekken Tag Tournament | ||
| Soul Calibur 2 | ||
| Guilty Gear XX Slash | ||
| Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution |
2005
| Game | Player(s) | Character(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Marvel vs Capcom 2 | ||
| Capcom vs SNK 2 | ||
| Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike | ||
| Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo | ||
| Tekken 5 | ||
| Guilty Gear XX #Reload |
2006
| Game | Player(s) | Character(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Marvel vs Capcom 2 | ||
| Capcom vs SNK 2 | ||
| Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike | ||
| Hyper Street Fighter 2 | ||
| Tekken 5 | ||
| Dead or Alive 4 | ||
| Mario Kart DS | ||
| Guilty Gear XX Slash |
2007
| Game | Player(s) | Character(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Marvel vs Capcom 2 | Michael Mendoza (Yipes) | ??? |
| Capcom vs SNK 2 | Ryo Yoshida (D44 BAS) | ??? |
| Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike | Shinya Ohnuki (Nuki) | Chun-Li |
| Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo | Hajime Taniguchi (Tokido) | Vega/Balrog |
| Tekken 5: Dark Ressurection | Josh Park (Arario) | Jack 5 |
| Super Smash Bros. Melee | Ken Hoang | Marth |
| Virtua Fighter 5 | Itazan | Shun Di |
| Guilty Gear: Accent Core | Team Yossan | ??? |
DVD releases
The championships are filmed and through the staff, are released in DVD format over multiple discs for seperate games (multiple games where footage is less abundant are compounded). This typically occurs a few months after the championship finishes.
Because of DVD production problems, The 2005 DVD release was through torrent files of the ISO disc images and arrived around the time that the 2006 championship was set to begin.
External links
References
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