Tournament:EVO 2013

EVO 2013
Dates	July 12-14, 2013
Venue	Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino
Address/City	3655 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas, NV 89109
Attendance	709 (for Melee)
Entry fees	Registration: Melee singles:
Pot size(s)	$6960 1v1 + $1000 pot bonus
Results
winners	Mango 1v1  Mew2King &  Hungrybox 2v2
Staff
EVO Staff	Mr. Wizard, James Chen
VGBootCamp, CLASH Tournaments, Melee It On Me, Team OXY	GimR, Chibo, Prog, D1, Scar, TheCrimsonBlur

EVO 2013 was a fighting game event (the latest in the Evolution Championship Series), which featured the return of Super Smash Bros. Melee to the mainstream fighting game tournament scene after a six-year absence from EVO. It is the largest Melee tournament - and the largest tournament of any Smash game - to date, with 709 entrants, over twice the amount of players that attended Pound 4, the previous record holder.

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 $95000 by the final day of the donation drive.

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.

For commentary on the main stage, Prog was joined by famed Street Fighter commentator James Chen.

Ruleset

General rules

• Items are set to off and none.
• 4 stocks
• 8 minute time limit
• Wobbling is allowed. The freeze glitch and infinite stalling are banned however.
• Matches that time out will 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 should be replayed in full. Sudden Death is not to be played, and will not count.
• If a player accidentally pauses while stealing a life in doubles, the opposing team may deem that stock forfeit. Pausing may be turned off to prevent this.
• Stage Striking (in the order 1-2-1) is used the decide the stage on game 1.
• In a Best of 3 match, a player can ban 1 stage upon winning a game. In a Best of 5 match however, there are no stage bans.
• Before the next game, the winner of the previous game decides their stage ban and character. The loser will counterpick stages and characters accordingly.
• A player cannot counterpick the last stage he/she 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

For more detailed results, see the results thread link at the bottom of the page.

Official Singles (Top 92)

1.  Mango  $3,205

2.  Wobbles  $1,731

3.  Hungrybox  $796

4.  Armada  $550

5.  Dr. PeePee  $487

5.  Mew2King  $487

7.  Ice  $348

7.  Shroomed  $348

9.  Leffen 

9.  Silent Wolf 

9.  SFAT 

9.  Hax 

13.  Axe 

13.  S2J 

13.  Taj 

13.  Lucien 

17.  Fiction 

17.  Lord 

17.  Fly Amanita 

17.  Westballz 

17.  PewPewU 

17.  Fuzzyness 

17.  DaShizWiz 

17.  Zhu 

25.  Darkrain 

25.  Reno 

25.  Eddy Mexico 

25.  Tomber 

25.  Darrell 

25.  OkamiBW 

25.  aMSa 

25.  Nite 

33.  Bladewise 

33.  Swift 

33.  Jman 

33.  I.B 

33.  Cyrain 

33.  MattDotZeb 

33.  Redd 

33.  Lovage 

33.  Phish-It 

33.  Dart! 

33.  Bob$ 

33.  Jace 

33.  SilentSpectre 

33.  Mr. F 

33.  Kounotori 

33.  DEHF 

49.  Bacon 

49.  Azusa 

49.  Swedish Delight 

49.  Sung666 

49.  Flow 

49.  HugS 

49.  Chad 

49.  Tafokints 

49.  Hyprid 

49.  Lucky 

49.  SummonedFist 

49.  Vist 

49.  Milkman 

49.  Sidefx 

49.  Ken 

65.  L 

65.  J666 

65.  Tai 

65.  Cosmo 

65.  Bizzarro Flame 

65.  MacD  (taking JTB's place)

65.  Vudujin 

65.  Yakal 

65.  Neon 

65.  Eval  (taking LK007's place)

65.  G$ 

65.  Kels 

65.  Zoso 

65.  Aza 

79.  Baka4moe 

79.  Isis 

79.  Omgage 

79.  Stab 

79.  Everlasting Yayhuhzz 

79.  Hectohertz 

79.  Icer 

79.  Crush 

79.  Pi  (under the name 'Smash 4 is gonna suck')

79.  Choknater 

79.  Eggz 

79.  Android 

79.  StriCNYN3 

79.  Meta 

Doubles (Side Event, Top 6)

1.  Mew2King  &  Hungrybox 

2.  Mango  &  Lucky 

3.  PewPewU  &  SFAT 

4.  Armada  &  Android 

5.  Ice  &  Leffen 

5.  Hax  &  Jman 

Trivia

• Melee was the oldest featured game at the tournament.
• Melee was one of three games that broke the EVO record for the most watched fighting game of all time, with roughly 134,000 viewers on the official live-stream.
  • Melee was the first of the three games to break the record, and is currently the second-most watched fighting game of all time.
• Taylor Hicks, winner of the fifth season of American Idol, tied for 257th place for the Melee tournament.
• During the finals set between Wobbles and Hungrybox, neither player knew that it was a Best of 3 set. EVO founder Tom Cannon informed the two before a fourth match could ensue.
• 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.

External links

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