Tournament:EVO: Difference between revisions

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, 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>