Tournament:EVO 2013

EVO 2013
Dates	July 12th-14th, 2013
Venue	Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino
Address/City	3655 South Las Vegas Boulevard Las Vegas, Nevada
Attendance	709 (for Melee)
Entry fees	Registration: Melee singles: $10
Pot size(s)	Melee singles: $6,960 + $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 second largest Melee tournament to date, with 709 entrants (behind EVO 2014's 970 entrants), and was the largest Melee tournament for a year with 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

Official Singles (Top 92)

Bracket
Note that MacD and Eval took Jtb and LK007's places, respectively.

Place	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Mango		$3,205
2nd	Wobbles		$1,731
3rd	Hungrybox		$796
4th	Armada		$550
5th	Dr. PeePee		$487
5th	Mew2King		$487
7th	Ice		$348
7th	Shroomed		$348
9th	Leffen
9th	Silent Wolf
9th	SFAT
9th	Hax
13th	Axe
13th	S2J
13th	Taj
13th	Lucien
17th	Fiction
17th	Lord
17th	Fly Amanita
17th	Westballz
17th	PewPewU
17th	Fuzzyness
17th	DaShizWiz
17th	Zhu
25th	Darkrain
25th	Reno
25th	Eddy Mexico
25th	Tomber
25th	Darrell
25th	OkamiBW
25th	aMSa
25th	Nite
33rd	Bladewise
33rd	Swift
33rd	Jman
33rd	I.B
33rd	Cyrain
33rd	MattDotZeb
33rd	Redd
33rd	Lovage
33rd	Phish-It
33rd	Dart!
33rd	Bob$
33rd	Jace
33rd	SilentSpectre
33rd	Mr. F
33rd	Kounotori
33rd	DEHF
49th	Bacon
49th	Azusa
49th	Swedish Delight
49th	Sung666
49th	Flow
49th	HugS
49th	PikaChad
49th	Tafokints
49th	Hyprid
49th	Lucky
49th	SummonedFist
49th	Vist
49th	Milkman
49th	Bimbo Mexico
49th	Boback
49th	Ken
65th	L
65th	J666
65th	Cosmo
65th	Bizzarro Flame
65th	MacD
65th	Vudujin
65th	Yakal
65th	Neon
65th	Eval
65th	G$
65th	Kels
65th	ZoSo
65th	Aza
79th	Baka4moe
79th	Isis
79th	Omgage
79th	Stab
79th	everlasting yayuhzz
79th	Hectohertz
79th	Icer
79th	Crush
79th	Pi
79th	Choknater
79th	Eggz
79th	Android
79th	StriCNYN3
79th	Meta

Doubles (Side Event, Top 6)

Place	Name	Character(s)	Name	Character(s)	Earnings
1st	Mew2King		Hungrybox
2nd	Mango		Lucky
3rd	PewPewU		SFAT
4th	Armada		Android
5th	Ice		Leffen
5th	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 winners' 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