The 2024 Evolution Championship Series (commonly referred to as Evo 2024 or EVO 2024) was a fighting game event held in Las Vegas from July 19 to 21, 2024 as part of the long-running Evolution Championship Series. The event marked the debuts of Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes] and Mortal Kombat 1. It also the return of Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike as a mainline game for the first time since 2009.
Venue For the first time since 2016, EVO 2024 took place in the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Top 6 of every game took place in an arena built within the convention center with the top 4 games by attendance taking place on Sunday.
Games Announced on February 6, 2024, the following games returned as a mainline game: Street Fighter 6, Guilty Gear Strive and The King of Fighters XV. Four games from previous franchises made their debut as a mainline tournament: Tekken 8, Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, Under Night In-Birth II and Mortal Kombat 1. Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike returned as a singles tournament for the first time since 2008. The game was last featured as a 2v2 tournament in 2009. Several other tournaments took place as part of the EVO Community Showcase as well as many more unofficial tournaments.
Participants A record 10,240 players took part in the mainline games.
Broadcast The tournament was streamed on the streaming site Twitch as well as YouTube, broadcast across multiple different streams.
Reveals Namco announced the return of Heihachi Mishima, thought to be dead after the events of the story of the previous game, to playable status with a gameplay trailer for Tekken 8. Capcom released a teaser trailer for Terry Bogard, someone who was previously announced as a future playable character for Street Fighter 6. Lucy from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was revealed as a Season Pass 4 character for Guilty Gear Strive, the first guest character in franchise history. Venom and Dizzy were also revealed to be characters set to be part of the season pass. CyGames released a gameplay trailer for Versusia as the next character for Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising. The trailer teased Vikala and Sandalphon as future characters for the game. A gameplay trailer for Samurai Jack was released for Multiversus with a release date of July 23 as well as a teaser for Beetlejuice. SNK revealed a gameplay trailer of Kevin Rian for Fatal Futy: City of the Wolves as well as Vice and Mature for The King of Fighters XV. The company also announced a new Art of Fighting game as well as a Samurai Showdown action RPG. Uzuki was revealed in a gameplay trailer for Under Night In-Birth II.
Results
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st Victor Woodley Punk Cammy, Akuma 2nd Adel Anouche Big Bird Rashid 3rd Samuel Arm EndingWalker Ed 4th Yusuke Momochi Momochi Ed 5th Naoki Nemoto Nemo M. Bison, Blanka, JP 5th Kuang Zhen Zhen JP 7th Amjad Al-Shalabi AngryBird Ken 7th Hajime Taniguchi Tokido Ken
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st Arslan Siddique Arslan Ash Nina 2nd Atif Ijaz Atif Dragunov, Feng 3rd Daichi Nakayama Nobi Dragunov 4th Lim Soo-hoon ULSAN Dragunov, Reina 5th Raef Alturkistani Raef Jin 5th Takaba Keisuke Keisuke Kazuya 7th Kim Hyun-jin JDCR Dragunov 7th Kim Jae-hyun CBM Jin
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st Shamar H. Nitro Jack-O, Giovanna 2nd unknown tatuma Sol Badguy 3rd unknown RedDitto Ramlethal 4th Atir Yosef Zando Asuka 5th Nicolas Yavrouian OoeyGooeyChewySnicker Anji 5th unknown Jack Happy Chaos 7th William Hjelte Leffen Happy Chaos 7th Ismaila Gueye Verix Nagoriyuki
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st Aaron Godinez Aarondamac Belial 2nd unknown Tororo Percival, Siegfried 3rd Mathieu Fardet Kojicoco Nier 4th Brian Huang Artorias Siegfried 5th Alex Vo Vermillion 2B 5th Oscar Jaimes Shinku Beatrix 7th Bradford Severance Xerom Charlotta 7th John K. Haveaniceday Djeeta
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st Joe Egami MOV Chun-Li, Elena, Ken2nd Issei Suzuki Issei Yun 3rd Henri Oung Chi-Rithy Chun-Li 4th Ryuji Hayashi Hayao Hugo 5th Franklin Nunez FrankieBFG Ken 5th unknown Resolve Urien 7th Clairet Jocelyn NiaBanH Makoto 7th unknown Shirokuro Chun-Li
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st unknown Senaru Eltnum 2nd unknown Mo.Sin Kuon 3rd unknown Notes Carmine 4th Jaden E. Defiant Londrekia 5th unknown Oushuu-Hittou Seth 5th Mario Silva Mario Wagner 7th unknown Mawaru Hilda 7th Izayah Davis BigBlack Byakuya
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st Dominique McLean SonicFox Johnny Cage/Khameleon, Sindel/Kung Lao, Homelander/Khameleon 2nd Nicolás Martínez Nicholas Johnny Cage/Khameleon, Johnny Cage/Kung Lao, Rain/Janet Cage, Baraka/Kano 3rd Pedro Ribeiro Zeeus Ashrah/Khameleon 4th Daniel Taibot TheMightyUnjust Homelander/Khameleon, Ermac/Sonya Blade 5th Javier Alonso MKJavierMK Scorpion/Khameleon, Scorpion/Jax 5th Alex Ruiz Dyloch General Shao/Khameleon 7th Curtis McCall Rewind Reiko/Tremor, Li Mei/Janet Cage, General Shao/Khameleon, Others 7th Wellington de Castro Konqueror249 Kenshi/Sub-Zero
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st Zeng Zhuojun Xiaohai Geese/Benimaru/Isla, Kyo/Benimaru/Isla 2nd Lin Chiahung E.T. Geese/Benimaru/Isla, Clark/Geese/Isla, Others 3rd Ángel Chong Tamago Blue Mary/Rock/Benimaru, Benimaru/Ryo/Rock 4th Rolando Neri ViolentKain Rock/Ryo/Iori, Kyo/Rock/Ryo 5th unknown KoferoHonesto Ryo/Yamazaki/Orochi Chris, Ryo/Yamazaki/Goenitz 5th Akihito Sawada Score Orochi Yashiro/Chizuru Kagura/Heidern 7th unknown mok Shun'ei/Isla/Kukri 7th Kang Myung-gu Lacid Meitenkun/Shermie/Ash
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