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| ssbuwinner                = {{Sm|MkLeo|Mexico}} (2019)
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| player(s) with most wins  = {{Sm|Mango|USA}} (Melee 2013 and 2014)<br>{{Sm|Armada|Sweden}} (Melee 2015 and 2017)
| player(s) with most wins  = {{Sm|Mango|USA}} (Melee 2013 and 2014)<br>{{Sm|Armada|Sweden}} (Melee 2015 and 2017)
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The '''Evolution Championship Series''', or simply '''EVO''', is a fighting game [[tournament]] series held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada. The tournament, first held in 1996 as '''Battle by the Bay''', is organized and directed by Tom "inkblot" Cannon and Tony "Ponder" Cannon, (and formerly Joey "{{Sm|Mr. Wizard}}" Cuellar), founders of fighting game website Shoryuken.com.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://evo.shoryuken.com/f-a-q/ |title= Evolution Championship Series F.A.Q. |publisher=Evolution Championship Series official website |accessdate=2015-06-22}}</ref> EVO is widely recognized as the premier event for fighting games and the largest fighting game tournament in the world. As of [[EVO 2019]], the tournament series holds the record for [[List of largest Smash tournaments|the largest Smash tournament to date]], with 3,522 players entering ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''.
The '''Evolution Championship Series''', or simply '''EVO''', is a fighting game [[tournament]] series held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada. The tournament, first held in 1996 as '''Battle by the Bay''', is organized and directed by Tom "inkblot" Cannon and Tony "Ponder" Cannon, (and formerly Joey "{{Sm|Mr. Wizard}}" Cuellar), founders of fighting game website Shoryuken.com.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://evo.shoryuken.com/f-a-q/ |title= Evolution Championship Series F.A.Q. |publisher=Evolution Championship Series official website |accessdate=2015-06-22}}</ref> EVO is widely recognized as the premier event for fighting games and the largest fighting game tournament in the world. As of [[EVO 2019]], the tournament series holds the record for [[List of largest Smash tournaments|the largest Smash tournament to date]], with 3,522 players entering ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''.
==History==
==History==
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EVO 2015 went on to break another record for the largest Smash tournament, with both ''Melee'' and ''Smash 4'' nearing 2,000 entrants. Despite concerns that featuring two ''Smash'' games on the lineup would result on a large player overlap, less than 16% of the total numbers of entrants registered for both games.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/OneFrameLink/status/616627483320950784 |title=Smash Registration statistics |publisher=One Frame Link |accessdate=2015-07-26}}</ref> At EVO 2016, both ''Melee'' and ''Smash 4'' broke their records for their largest tournaments, each of them breaking 2,000 entrants for the first time, and having over 4,000 unique players across both games.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://evo2016.j.layershift.co.uk/match/statsPlayer |title= Player game stats |publisher= Bavo Bruylandt (aka acku80/bavobbr) |accessdate=2016-07-18}}</ref> EVO 2016 still holds the record for the largest tournament for both of their games, and the ''Smash 4'' tournament held the record for the largest Smash tournament overall for three years until EVO 2019 beat it. While ''Melee'' and ''Smash 4'' at EVO 2017 and 2018 did not have the largest tournament of the year, they are still among the top ten largest tournaments for each game.
EVO 2015 went on to break another record for the largest Smash tournament, with both ''Melee'' and ''Smash 4'' nearing 2,000 entrants. Despite concerns that featuring two ''Smash'' games on the lineup would result on a large player overlap, less than 16% of the total numbers of entrants registered for both games.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/OneFrameLink/status/616627483320950784 |title=Smash Registration statistics |publisher=One Frame Link |accessdate=2015-07-26}}</ref> At EVO 2016, both ''Melee'' and ''Smash 4'' broke their records for their largest tournaments, each of them breaking 2,000 entrants for the first time, and having over 4,000 unique players across both games.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://evo2016.j.layershift.co.uk/match/statsPlayer |title= Player game stats |publisher= Bavo Bruylandt (aka acku80/bavobbr) |accessdate=2016-07-18}}</ref> EVO 2016 still holds the record for the largest tournament for both of their games, and the ''Smash 4'' tournament held the record for the largest Smash tournament overall for three years until EVO 2019 beat it. While ''Melee'' and ''Smash 4'' at EVO 2017 and 2018 did not have the largest tournament of the year, they are still among the top ten largest tournaments for each game.


===2019: ''Ultimate''===
===2019-present: ''Ultimate'' and future===
{{main|EVO 2019}}
{{main|EVO 2019}}
''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'' was announced to make its EVO debut in 2019. While confirmed to replace ''Smash 4'' if it released in time in 2018, this was the first EVO post-release. For the first time since EVO 2012, ''Melee'' was not revealed to be in the lineup, instead being hosted as a side event, making EVO 2019 the first one since 2014 to feature only one Smash game instead of two. ''Ultimate'' at EVO 2019 ended up becoming the largest ''Smash'' tournament of all time and the first tournament to achieve over 3,000 entrants. Not only that, it was the most popular game at EVO 2019 and was the first time a Smash game had the most entrants at EVO. It also had the highest peak viewership on Twitch for any game at EVO that year.
''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'' was announced to make its EVO debut in 2019. While confirmed to replace ''Smash 4'' if it released in time in 2018<ref>https://twitter.com/mrwiz/status/971921848945528833?s=21</ref>, this was the first EVO post-release. For the first time since EVO 2012, ''Melee'' was not revealed to be in the lineup, instead being hosted as a side event, making EVO 2019 the first one since 2014 to feature only one Smash game instead of two. ''Ultimate'' at EVO 2019 ended up becoming the largest ''Smash'' tournament of all time and the first tournament to achieve over 3,000 entrants. Not only that, it was the most popular game at EVO 2019 and was the first time a Smash game had the most entrants at EVO. It also had the highest peak viewership on Twitch for any game at EVO that year.


===2020-2022: COVID-19 and termination===
''Ultimate'' was announced to return for the lineup of EVO 2020, with ''Melee'' remaining off the lineup. However, as a result of the [[COVID-19|COVID-19 epidemic]], EVO 2020 was cancelled.<ref>https://twitter.com/EVO/status/1256308529163452416</ref> ''Ultimate'' was cut from the lineup of EVO Online, the planned online replacement. EVO Online was later cancelled following [[2020 Super Smash Bros. sexual misconduct allegations|allegations of sexual misconduct]] against EVO CEO Mr. Wizard.<ref>https://twitter.com/EVO/status/1278859734099963904</ref>
Despite the high viewership, EVO 2019 would mark the last EVO tournament that featured ''Smash'' in its main lineup. Although ''Ultimate'' was announced to return for the lineup of EVO 2020 - with ''Melee'' remaining off the lineup - the [[COVID-19|COVID-19 pandemic]] cancelled the tournament. ''Ultimate'' was cut from the lineup of EVO Online, the planned online replacement; that tournament was also cancelled entirely following [[2020 Super Smash Bros. sexual misconduct allegations|allegations of sexual misconduct]] against EVO CEO Mr. Wizard.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703012613/https://twitter.com/EVO/status/1278859734099963904|title=EVO Online cancellation}}</ref> The next year, EVO was once again held online, however, ''Smash'' remained off its lineup. The year after that, after being co-purchased by Sony Interactive Entertainment, EVO released a statement stating that Nintendo had chose not to continue hosting ''Smash'' tournaments with them, effectively removing it from the lineup permanently.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/EVO/status/1497662793897721860|title=EVO on ''Smash'' in 2022}}</ref>


==Champions==
==Champions==


==={{GameIcon|Melee}} ''Melee'' Winners {{GameIcon|Melee}}===
==={{GameIcon|Melee}} ''Melee'' Winners {{GameIcon|Melee}}===
{| class="wikitable"
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| [[EVO 2015|2015]] || Adam Lindgren || {{Sm|Armada|Sweden}} || {{Head|Peach|g=SSBM|s=16px}}{{Head|Fox|g=SSBM|s=16px}} || {{Sm|Hungrybox|USA}} || {{Head|Jigglypuff|g=SSBM|s=16px}}
| [[EVO 2015|2015]] || Adam Lindgren || {{Sm|Armada|Sweden}} || {{Head|Peach|g=SSBM|s=16px}}{{Head|Fox|g=SSBM|s=16px}} || {{Sm|Hungrybox|USA}} || {{Head|Jigglypuff|g=SSBM|s=16px}}
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| [[EVO 2016|2016]] || Juan Debiedma || {{Sm|Hungrybox|USA}} || {{Head|Jigglypuff|g=SSBM|s=16px}} || {{Sm|Armada|Sweden}} || {{Head|Fox|g=SSBM|s=16px}}<!--Armada only won sets with Peach at this tournament; please refrain from adding his Fox.-->
| [[EVO 2016|2016]] || Juan Debiedma || {{Sm|Hungrybox|USA}} || {{Head|Jigglypuff|g=SSBM|s=16px}} || {{Sm|Armada|Sweden}} || {{Head|Peach|g=SSBM|s=16px}}<!--Armada only won sets with Peach at this tournament; please refrain from adding his Fox.-->
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| [[EVO 2017|2017]] || Adam Lindgren || {{Sm|Armada|Sweden}} || {{Head|Peach|g=SSBM|s=16px}} || {{Sm|Mango|USA}} || {{Head|Fox|g=SSBM|s=16px}}{{Head|Falco|g=SSBM|s=16px}}
| [[EVO 2017|2017]] || Adam Lindgren || {{Sm|Armada|Sweden}} || {{Head|Peach|g=SSBM|s=16px}} || {{Sm|Mango|USA}} || {{Head|Fox|g=SSBM|s=16px}}{{Head|Falco|g=SSBM|s=16px}}
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==={{GameIcon|Brawl}} ''Brawl'' Winners {{GameIcon|Brawl}}===
==={{GameIcon|Brawl}} ''Brawl'' Winners {{GameIcon|Brawl}}===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
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==={{GameIcon|SSB4-U}} ''Smash 4'' Winners {{GameIcon|SSB4-U}}===
==={{GameIcon|SSB4-U}} ''Smash 4'' Winners {{GameIcon|SSB4-U}}===
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{| class="wikitable"
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==={{GameIcon|SSBU}} ''Ultimate'' Winners {{GameIcon|SSBU}}===
==={{GameIcon|SSBU}} ''Ultimate'' Winners {{GameIcon|SSBU}}===
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! Year !! Player !! Tag !! Character(s) !! Runner-up !! Character(s)
! Year !! Player !! Tag !! Character(s) !! Runner-up !! Character(s)
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| [[EVO 2019|2019]] || Leonardo Lopez Perez || {{Sm|MkLeo|Mexico}} || {{Head|Joker|g=SSBU|s=16px}} || {{Sm|Tweek|USA}} || {{Head|Pokémon Trainer|g=SSBU|s=16px}}
| [[EVO 2019|2019]] || Leonardo Lopez Perez || {{Sm|MkLeo|Mexico}} || {{Head|Joker|g=SSBU|s=16px}} || {{Sm|Tweek|USA}} || {{Head|Pokemon Trainer|g=SSBU|s=16px}}
|-  
|-  
| [[EVO Japan 2020|Japan 2020]] || Shuto Moriya|| {{Sm|Shuton|Japan}}|| {{Head|Olimar|g=SSBU|s=16px}} || {{Sm|Kome|Japan}} || {{Head|Shulk|g=SSBU|s=16px}}
| [[EVO Japan 2020|Japan 2020]] || Shuto Moriya|| {{Sm|Shuton|Japan}}|| {{Head|Olimar|g=SSBU|s=16px}} || {{Sm|Kome|Japan}} || {{Head|Shulk|g=SSBU|s=16px}}
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===''Project M'' Winners <small>(side event)</small>===
===''Project M'' Winners <small>(side event)</small>===
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{| class="wikitable"
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! Year !! Player !! Tag !! Character(s) !! Runner-up !! Character(s)
! Year !! Player !! Tag !! Character(s) !! Runner-up !! Character(s)
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| [[EVO 2014|2014]] || Gonzalo Barrios || {{Sm|ZeRo|Chile}} || {{PMHead|Pit|s=16px}} || {{Sm|ChuDat|USA}} || {{PMHead|Kirby|s=16px}}
| [[EVO 2014|2014]] || Gonzalo Barrios || {{Sm|ZeRo|Chile}} || {{Head|Pit|g=SSBB|s=16px|l=Pit (PM)}} || {{Sm|ChuDat|USA}} || {{Head|Kirby|g=SSBB|s=16px|l=Kirby (PM)}}
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| [[EVO 2015|2015]] || David Vargas || {{Sm|iPunchKidsz|USA}} || {{PMHead|Lucario|s=16px}} || {{Sm|Bladewise|USA}} || {{PMHead|Peach|s=16px}}
| [[EVO 2015|2015]] || David Vargas || {{Sm|iPunchKidsz|USA}} || {{Head|Lucario|g=SSBB|s=16px|l=Lucario (PM)}} || {{Sm|Bladewise|USA}} || {{Head|Peach|g=SSBB|s=16px|l=Peach (PM)}}
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| [[EVO 2016|2016]] || Jonathan Sosa || {{Sm|Sosa|USA}} || {{PMHead|Wario|s=16px}} || {{Sm|Junebug|USA}} || {{PMHead|Diddy Kong|s=16px}}{{PMHead|Ike|s=16px}}
| [[EVO 2016|2016]] || Jonathan Sosa || {{Sm|Sosa|USA}} || {{Head|Wario|g=SSBB|s=16px|l=Wario (PM)}} || {{Sm|Junebug|USA}} || {{Head|Diddy Kong|g=SSBB|s=16px|l=Diddy Kong (PM)}}{{Head|Ike|g=SSBB|s=16px|l=Ike (PM)}}
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| [[EVO 2017|2017]] || Neil Goel || {{sm|Filthy Casual|USA}}||{{PMHead|Wolf|s=16px}} || {{sm|lloD|USA}}||{{PMHead|Peach|s=16px}}
| [[EVO 2017|2017]] || Neil Goel || {{sm|Filthy Casual|USA}}||{{Head|Wolf|g=SSBB|s=16px|l=Wolf (PM)}} || {{sm|lloD|USA}}||{{Head|Peach|g=SSBB|s=16px|l=Peach (PM)}}
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| [[EVO 2018|2018]] || Tyler Graves || {{sm|Fuzz|USA}}||{{Head|Mewtwo|g=PM|s=16px|l=Mewtwo (PM)}} || {{sm|Nyx|Chile}}||{{PMHead|Mr. Game & Watch|s=16px}}
| [[EVO 2018|2018]] || Tyler Graves || {{sm|Fuzz|USA}}||{{Head|Mewtwo|g=PM|s=16px|l=Mewtwo (PM)}} || {{sm|Nyx|Chile}}||{{Head|Mr. Game & Watch|g=SSBB|s=16px|l=Mr. Game & Watch (PM)}}
|}
|}
<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_Championship_Series |title=Evolution Championship Series |publisher=Wikimedia |accessdate=2016-05-08}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_Championship_Series |title=Evolution Championship Series |publisher=Wikimedia |accessdate=2016-05-08}}</ref>
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**{{Sm|Ally}} of Canada winning ''Smash 4'' at EVO 2016.
**{{Sm|Ally}} of Canada winning ''Smash 4'' at EVO 2016.
**{{Sm|MkLeo}} of Mexico winning ''Ultimate'' at EVO 2019.
**{{Sm|MkLeo}} of Mexico winning ''Ultimate'' at EVO 2019.
*{{Sm|Leffen}} won ''Melee'' at EVO 2018 and ''{{iw|Wikipedia|Guilty Gear Strive}}'' at [https://www.start.gg/tournament/evo-2023/details EVO 2023], becoming the first player to win both platform and traditional fighting game titles at official EVO events.
*[[Ken]]'s [[Shippu Jinraikyaku]] [[Final Smash]] references EVO 2004's ''Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike'' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS5peqApgUA loser's finals] between {{s|wikipedia|Daigo Umehara}} and {{s|wikipedia|Justin Wong}}. Daigo parried every hit of Justin's [https://streetfighter.fandom.com/wiki/Hoyokusen Hoyokusen] then won the match with Shippu Jinraikyaku, which famously became known as "{{s|wikipedia|Evo Moment 37}}." Ken's Shippu Jinraikyaku references the parrying pose from ''Street Fighter III'' when activating the move, as well as having a lightning bolt effect at the beginning of the move from ''Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike''. In Ken's reveal trailer, he parried Little Mac's attack then followed up with Shippu Jinraikyaku.
*[[Ken]]'s [[Shippu Jinraikyaku]] [[Final Smash]] references [https://liquipedia.net/fighters/Evolution_Championship_Series/2004 EVO 2004]'s ''Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike'' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS5peqApgUA loser's finals] between {{s|wikipedia|Daigo Umehara}} and {{s|wikipedia|Justin Wong}}. Daigo parried every hit of Justin's [https://streetfighter.fandom.com/wiki/Hoyokusen Hoyokusen] then won the match with Shippu Jinraikyaku, which famously became known as "{{s|wikipedia|Evo Moment 37}}." Ken's Shippu Jinraikyaku references the parrying pose from ''Street Fighter III'' when activating the move, as well as having a lightning bolt effect at the beginning of the move from ''Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike''. In Ken's reveal trailer, he parried Little Mac's attack then followed up with Shippu Jinraikyaku.


==External links==
==External links==
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