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-''[[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.
+''[[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.
-''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> While EVO 2021 did occur in an online format, no ''Smash'' game was featured in any capacity.
+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, 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, 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>
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