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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.

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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, 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.

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>