The 2025 Evolution Championship Series (commonly referred to as Evo 2025 or EVO 2025) was a fighting game event held in Las Vegas from August 1 to 3, 2025 as part of the long-running Evolution Championship Series. The event marked the debuts of Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves as well as the return of Marvel vs Capcom 2 as a mainline game for the first time since 2010. This also marked the debut of the EVO Extended Lineup of 8 games.
Venue EVO 2025 returned to the Las Vegas Convention Center with a return to a Top 8 Finals lineup. The Top 8 of the official lineup of games took place in an in-building arena while the Extended Lineup took place entirely outside of the arena. Nevertheless, all 16 games were broadcast by tournament organizers and were given a trophy ceremony.
Games Announced on January 16, 2025, the following games returned as a mainline game: Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, Guilty Gear Strive, Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, Under Night In-Birth II and Mortal Kombat 1. Marvel vs Capcom 2 returned as a singles tournament for the first time since 2010. In addition, it was revealed that the tournament would also support 8 additional games as part of the Extended Lineup: The King of Fighters XV, Rivals of Aether 2, Virtua Fighter 5: R.E.V.O., BlazBlue: Central Fiction and Killer Instinct were revealed the same day while Samurai Shodown and Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 were revealed at later dates.
Participants Nearly 8,500 players competed in the mainline games with more attending the Extended Lineup and other tournaments.
Broadcast The tournament was streamed on the streaming site Twitch as well as YouTube, broadcast across multiple different streams.
Reveals Capcom revealed a teaser trailer for C. Viper, the second character in the season 3 pass as well as a trailer for Outfit 4 costumes for several Street Fighter 6 characters. Bandai Namco released a gameplay trailer for Armor King as well as a teaser for Miary Zo, a new fighter from Madagascar. Sega revealed a World Stage update for Virtua Fighter 5: R.E.V.O. as well as brief gameplay of Virtua Fighter 6 featuring Akira and Stella Bryant. Arc System Works revealed a gameplay trailer for Cyberpunk: Edgerunner's Lucy, the final character for season 4 DLC of Guilty Gear Strive. In addition, Wilmas was revealed as the next character for Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising as well as EX versions of every character in the roster. SNK revealed additional gameplay footage of Ken Masters and revealed he is available afterwards while stating the release date of Chun-Li to be the winter of 2025. Hunter × Hunter: Nen × Impact revealed Neferpitou as the first DLC character for the game. There were also beta testing of Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls and Invincible VS.
Results
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st Saul Leonardo Mena II MenaRD Blanka 2nd Kakeru Watanabe Kakeru JP 3rd Chan Pak-yin Micky Cammy, Mai 4th Arman Hanjani Phenom Cammy 5th Zeng Zhuojun Xiaohai Mai, M. Bison 5th Keita Ai Fuudo Ed, Dee Jay 7th Shin Moon-sup Leshar Terry, Mai, Ed 7th Amjad Al-Shalabi AngryBird Ken
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st Arslan Siddique Arslan Ash Nina, Anna 2nd Atif Ijaz Atif Anna 3rd Yuta Take chikurin Clive, Lili 4th Han Jae-gyun Mulgold Claudio, Lei Feng 5th Yoon Sun-woong LowHigh Bryan 5th Daichi Nakayama Nobi Lars, Steve. Dragunov 7th Oh Dae-il Meo-Li Jack-8 7th Kim Hyun-jin JDCR Dragunov
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st Goichi Kishida GO1 Kain, Marco 2nd Lin Chiahung E.T. Hokutomaru, Billy 3rd Shoji Sho Fenritti Kain 4th Lee Chung-gon POONGKO Gato 5th Kazuyuki Koji KojiKOG Billy 5th unknown Laggia Hotaru 7th Ho Kun Xian Xian Gato 7th Tsutomu Kubota kubo Hokutomaru
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st unknown Kshuewhatdamoo Johnny 2nd unknown RedDitto Ramlethal 3rd unknown Aboii Potemkin 4th Yuya Fujiwara tatuma Sol 5th Kim Jae-won Daru_I-No I-No 5th unknown Jack Happy Chaos 7th Ismaila Gueye Verix Nagoriyuki 7th unknown Precho Goldlewis
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st Matthieu Fardet Kojicoco Beatrix 2nd Brandon Wanders Zane Grimnir 3rd unknown Tororo Percival, Siegfried 4th Junichi Kumano Fukunaga Versusia, Lancelot 5th unknown Zenith Grimnir 5th Kyran Reives Monarch Metera 7th unknown Ryazu Charlotta 7th Alex Vo Vermillion 2B
Place Player Alias Characters 1st Ken Villalobos Khaos Magneto/Storm/Sentinel, Sentinel/Storm/Cyclops, Magneto/Storm/Cyclops2nd Andy Nguyen VIGGA Magneto/Storm/Psylocke 3rd unknown Servbot Magneto/Storm/Psylocke 4th Peter Rosas COMBOFIEND Sentinel/Magneto/Iron Man 5th Daniel Maniago Clockw0rk Strider/Doctor Doom/Sentinel 5th unknown Peruchamp Storm/Sentinel/Captain Commando 7th Jason Ramoutar Gconceptz Magneto/Storm/Psylocke 7th Johnathan Talley telly Sentinel/Storm/Captain Commando
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st Jaden E. Defiant Londrekia, Hyde, Ogre 2nd Izayah Davis BigBlack Byakuya 3rd Randy Knotts knotts Wagner, Orie, Seth 4th Mario Silva Mario Wagner 5th unknown suteneko Mika 5th unknown Revert Linne 7th unknown Senaru Eltnum 7th unknown OmniDeag Eltnum
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st Dominique McLean SonicFox Cyrax/Madam Bo, Sektor/Kung Lao 2nd Nicolás Martínez Nicholas Havik/Mavado, Reiko/Tremor, Homelander/Ferra, Baraka/Tremor 3rd Mustafa Bicici Kanimani Sindel/Tremor, Homelander/Ferra, Johnny Cage/Tremor 4th unknown Hourglass_of_rain Mileena/Kung Lao, Mileena/Tremor 5th unknown Onlinecale213 Kung Lao/Sektor 5th Javier Alonso MKJavierMK Scorpion/Terra, Scorpion/Tremor 7th George Foulkes Jr. Grr Geras/Motaro 7th unknown MichaelCeraFan Geras/Motaro
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