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EVO 2020 cannot be a physical event due to the pandemic, so the organisers have pivoted the event to an online-only event (via PC Gamer).
Introducing Evo Online! pic.twitter.com/ecf8gxNGUW
— EVO (@EVO) May 14, 2020
Held over five weekends, EVO Online starts on July 4 and ends on August 2, and sign-ups and further information will be supplied soon. Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Tekken 7, Street Fighter V: Champion Edition, SoulCalibur VI, Granblue Fantasy: Versus, and Samurai Shodown will feature, but Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has been left by the wayside. This may be due to the game’s problematic online performance, which won’t cut it in a competition where winners are decided by literal frames.
Mortal Kombat 11, Killer Instinct, Them’s Fighting Herds, and Skullgirls 2nd Encore are the open tournament games. An online-only EVO will be an interesting challenge for the organisers to rise to, as technical issues could cause quite the headache. We’ll see what happens, and if they do pull it off, this could change competitive events and make them more accessible for a wider range of competitors.
