Tournament:EVO 2013
| EVO 2013 | |
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| Dates | July 12-14, 2013 |
| Venue | Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino |
| Address/City | 3655 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas, NV 89109 
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| Attendance | 709 (for Melee) |
| Entry fees | Registration: Melee singles: |
| Pot size(s) | $6960 1v1 + $1000 pot bonus |
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 winners
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Mango 1v1 Mew2King & Hungrybox 2v2
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 1st | Mango |
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$3,205 |
| 2nd | Wobbles |
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$1,731 |
| 3rd | Hungrybox |
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$796 |
| 4th |  Armada |
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$550 |
| 5th | Dr. PeePee |
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$487 |
| 5th | Mew2King |
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$487 |
| 7th |  Ice |
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$348 |
| 7th | Shroomed |
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$348 |
| 9th | Leffen |
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| 9th | Silent Wolf |
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| 9th | SFAT |
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| 9th | Hax |
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| 13th | Axe |
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| 13th | S2J |
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| 13th | Taj |
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| 13th | Lucien |
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| 17th | Fiction |
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| 17th | Lord |
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| 17th | Fly Amanita |
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| 17th | Westballz |
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| 17th | PewPewU |
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| 17th |  Fuzzyness |
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| 17th | DaShizWiz |
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| 17th | Zhu |
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| 25th | Darkrain |
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| 25th | Reno |
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| 25th |  Eddy Mexico |
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| 25th |  Tomber |
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| 25th | Darrell |
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| 25th | OkamiBW |
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| 25th |  aMSa |
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| 25th | Nite |
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| 33rd | Bladewise |
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| 33rd | Swift |
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| 33rd | Jman |
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| 33rd |  I.B |
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| 33rd | Cyrain |
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| 33rd | MattDotZeb |
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| 33rd | Redd |
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| 33rd | Lovage |
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| 33rd | Phish-It |
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| 33rd | Dart! |
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| 33rd | Bob$ |
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| 33rd | Jace |
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| 33rd | SilentSpectre |
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| 33rd | Mr. F |
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| 33rd | Kounotori |
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| 33rd | DEHF |
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| 49th | Bacon |
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| 49th | Azusa |
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| 49th | Swedish Delight |
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| 49th | Sung666 |
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| 49th | Flow |
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| 49th | HugS |
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| 49th | PikaChad |
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| 49th | Tafokints |
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| 49th | Hyprid |
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| 49th | Lucky |
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| 49th | SummonedFist |
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| 49th | Vist |
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| 49th | Milkman |
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| 49th | Bimbo Mexico |
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| 49th | Boback |
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| 49th | Ken |
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| 65th | L |
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| 65th | J666 |
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| 65th | Cosmo |
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| 65th | Bizzarro Flame |
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| 65th | MacD |
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| 65th | Vudujin |
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| 65th | Yakal |
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| 65th | Neon |
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| 65th |  Eval |
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| 65th | G$ |
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| 65th | Kels |
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| 65th | ZoSo |
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| 65th | Aza |
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| 79th | Baka4moe |
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| 79th | Isis |
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| 79th | Omgage |
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| 79th | Stab |
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| 79th | everlasting yayuhzz |
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| 79th | Hectohertz |
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| 79th | Icer |
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| 79th | Crush |
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| 79th | Pi |
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| 79th | Choknater |
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| 79th | Eggz |
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| 79th | Android |
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| 79th | StriCNYN3 |
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| 79th | Meta |
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Doubles (Side Event, Top 6)
| Place | Name | Character(s) | Name | Character(s) | Earnings |
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| 1st | Mew2King |
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Hungrybox |
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| 2nd | Mango |
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Lucky |
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| 3rd | PewPewU |
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SFAT |
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| 4th | Armada |
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Android |
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| 5th | Ice |
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Leffen |
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| 5th | Hax |
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Jman |
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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.
