Tournament:EVO 2013

EVO 2013
Dates	July 12th-14th, 2013
Venue	Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino
Address/City	3655 South Las Vegas Boulevard Las Vegas, Nevada
Attendance	709 (for Melee)
Entry fees	Registration: Melee singles: $10
Pot size(s)	Melee singles: $6,960 + $1,000 pot bonus
Results
winners	Mango
Staff
Organizer(s)	Joey "Mr. Wizard" Cuellar
EVO Staff	Joey "Mr. Wizard" Cuellar, Shoryuken (SRK) James Chen (LevelUp Live)
VGBootCamp, CLASH Tournaments, Melee It On Me, Team OXY	GimR, Chibo, Prog, D1, Scar, TheCrimsonBlur

Evolution 2013, or simply EVO 2013, was the 12th edition of the Evolution Championship Series, a fighting game tournament held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada, which took place on July 12th to 14th, 2013, at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino. It was the largest Smash tournament of 2013 and broke the record for the largest Smash tournament at the time, with 709 entrants for Super Smash Bros. Melee. EVO 2013 also had twice the entrants as the previous largest Melee tournament, Pound 4.

Originally, Melee was not to be a featured game at EVO. However, when looking for an 8th game to add to the roster, the EVO staff held a donation drive for breast cancer research, wherein the game community that donated the most money to the drive would have their game featured as an official game at EVO. Although there was stiff competition from the Skullgirls community, a massive push from the Melee It On Me podcast staff resulted in the Smash community raising nearly $95,000 by the final day of the donation drive.

The tournament is now known as a landmark event and a major turning point in Melee history. It marked the beginning of an explosive rise in the game's popularity, and ushered in an era that featured significantly increased turnout and more new tournaments hosted than ever before. EVO marked the beginning of the Platinum Age, in which Melee transitioned from a largely grassroots scene to a more professional "eSport."

A particular event that sparked outrage among the entire gaming community was when Nintendo attempted to block streaming for Melee at EVO a few days before the tournament was set to begin. However, because of extreme community backlash, Nintendo retracted the ban hours later. It was later revealed that Nintendo had also attempted to shut down the Melee portion of the tournament altogether.

However, the tournament proceeded, and Melee joined such games as Super Street Fighter IV and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 on the main stage. For commentary on the main stage, Prog was joined by famed Street Fighter commentator James Chen.

Tournament summary

EVO 2013 was Mang0's first supermajor victory since Pound 4 in 2010; after losing to Wobbles in winners' quarters, he went on an extended losers run, defeating SFAT, Ice, Dr. PeePee, Armada, and Hungrybox to make it to losers' side of grand finals; he then defeated Wobbles in two sets of grands to win the tournament. Wobbles also went on an impressive run in 2nd place, defeating Shroomed, Mang0, Dr. PeePee, and Hungrybox en route to grand finals. His performance at EVO has become one of the most well-known Cinderella runs in the game's history, having defeated three of the Five Gods using the Ice Climbers, considered below the standards of a top tier character. This was also the first supermajor since Viva La Smashtaclysm in 2007 where at least one of the players in grand finals was not a member of the Five Gods. Armada had initially announced his retirement from competing in early 2013, but decided to attend EVO regardless; he was defeated by Dr. PeePee and Mang0, finishing 4th, his lowest placing at a North American tournament since Pound 4.

The winners' finals set between Wobbles and Hungrybox became particularly infamous. Wobbles defeated Hungrybox 2-1, but after game 3, neither player knew that the set had ended, as both assumed that winners' finals was a best-of-five set. Livestream footage shows a EVO founder Tom Cannon walking up to inform both players that the set was over. Hungrybox later stated that the event had been advertised as having best-of-five sets for winners' and losers' finals, but the TOs changed the set count at the last minute.

Mang0's set-winning up smash roll read vs. Hungrybox in losers' finals has become one of the most well-known moments in competitive Melee history.

Official game lineup

Finals	Game	Entrants	Pot Size
Sunday	Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition	1,601	$16,370.0
Sunday	Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3	1,297	$13,020.0
Sunday	Injustice: Gods Among Us	582	$5,820.00
Sunday	Super Smash Bros. Melee	709	$7,952.00
Sunday	The King of Fighters XIII	433	$4,270.00
Saturday	Street Fighter X Tekken	573	$5,730.00
Friday	Mortal Kombat (2011 video game)	233	$2,330.00
Friday	Persona 4 Arena	400	$4,000.00
Friday	Tekken Tag Tournament 2	355	$3,550.00

Ruleset

General rules

• Items were set to none.
• 4 stocks
• 8 minute time limit
• Wobbling was allowed. The freeze glitch and infinite stalling were banned however.
• Matches that time out would be determined by the remaining number of stocks, then percentage of the current stock if stocks are tied. In the event of a percentage tie, the match would be replayed in full. Sudden Death is not to be played, and will not count.
• If a player accidentally paused while stealing a life in doubles, the opposing team could deem that stock forfeit. Pausing could be turned off to prevent this.
• Stage Striking (in the order 1-2-1) was used to decide the stage on game 1.
• In a Best of 3 match, a player could ban 1 stage upon winning a game. In a Best of 5 match however, there were no stage bans.
• Before the next game, the winner of the previous game decided their stage ban and character. The loser would counterpick stages and characters accordingly.
• A player could not counterpick the last stage they won on unless mutually agreed to by both players.

Stage list

Singles stage list

Starter	Counterpick
Yoshi's Story	Pokémon Stadium
Fountain of Dreams
Battlefield
Final Destination
Dream Land

Results

Super Smash Bros. Melee singles

(709 entrants)
Bracket
Grand Finals
Note that MacD and Eval took Jtb and LK007's places, respectively.

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Mango		$3,205
2nd	Wobbles		$1,731
3rd	Hungrybox		$796
4th	Armada		$550
5th	Dr. PeePee		$487
5th	Mew2King		$487
7th	Ice		$348
7th	Shroomed		$348
9th	Leffen
9th	Silent Wolf
9th	SFAT
9th	Hax
13th	Axe
13th	S2J
13th	Taj
13th	Lucien
17th	Fiction
17th	Lord
17th	Fly Amanita
17th	Westballz
17th	PewPewU
17th	Fuzzyness
17th	DaShizWiz
17th	Zhu
25th	Darkrain
25th	Reno
25th	Eddy Mexico
25th	Tomber
25th	Darrell
25th	OkamiBW
25th	aMSa
25th	Nite
33rd	Bladewise
33rd	SwiftBass
33rd	Jman
33rd	I.B
33rd	Cyrain
33rd	MattDotZeb
33rd	Redd
33rd	Lovage
33rd	Phish-It
33rd	Dart!
33rd	Bob$
33rd	Jace
33rd	SilentSpectre
33rd	Mr. F
33rd	Kounotori
33rd	DEHF
49th	Bacon
49th	Azusa
49th	Swedish Delight
49th	Sung666
49th	Flow
49th	HugS
49th	PikaChad
49th	Tafokints
49th	Hyprid
49th	Lucky
49th	SummonedFist
49th	Vist
49th	Milkman
49th	Bimbo Mexico
49th	Boback
49th	Ken
65th	L
65th	J666
65th	Narcissa
65th	Bizzarro Flame
65th	MacD
65th	Vudujin
65th	Yakal
65th	Neon
65th	Eval
65th	G$
65th	Kels
65th	ZoSo
65th	Aza
79th	Baka4moe
79th	Isis
79th	Omgage
79th	Stab
79th	everlasting yayuhzz
79th	Hectohertz
79th	Icer
79th	Crush
79th	Pi
79th	Choknater
79th	Eggz
79th	Android
79th	StriCNYN3
79th	Meta

Super Smash Bros. Melee doubles (side event)

(22 teams)
Grand Finals

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Mew2King		Hungrybox
2nd	Mango		Lucky
3rd	PewPewU		SFAT
4th	Armada		Android
5th	Ice		Leffen
5th	Hax		Jman

Trivia

• Taylor Hicks, winner of the fifth season of American Idol, tied for 257th place for the Melee tournament.
• Three matches that were played in Losers' were not accurately reflected in the bracket; in Quarter-Finals Pool I57, the bracket shows that Darkrain defeated Fiction and proceeded to lose to Shroomed, while Axe defeated Lord. In actuality, Fiction defeated Darkrain and proceeded to lose to Axe, while Lord lost to Shroomed. Due to how the brackets work, this seems to have been the players accidentally playing the wrong matches rather than any actual fault of the bracket (with the exception of the incorrect result between Fiction and Darkrain).

External links

• Main site
• Smashboards thread
• Main info thread
• Results thread
• Top 8 videos thread
• Brackets