Sony Interactive Entertainment, in partnership with esport company RTS, has hosted the annual Evo Fighting Tournament. The co-founders of the tournament, Tom and Tony Cannon, will ‘now’ remain involved in the advisory roles.
Although it’s now a Sony PlayStation event, Mark Julio, director of global business development at Evo, says that the annual tournament still open to all platforms.
Here are some official PR from SIE, along with Evo’s message:
“For PlayStation, today’s announcement is an exciting step in our journey to promote the growth of the combat community and sports, and to support competitive gamers widely on our consoles. Fighting games are hugely popular on PlayStation consoles, with gamers exceeding 1.1 billion.play hours in 2020 alone.We are committed to breaking down the barriers for gamers to compete at all levels and providing a global platform of the best in their class to showcase their skills and passion set. ‘
A Nintendo spokesperson provided the following statement to IGN, mentioning how the company will continue to “rate” Evo as it plans for the future Super Smash Bros. tournament activity:
“Nintendo enjoyed attracting fans to previous Evo tournaments and wishes the organizers of the show the best with their new venture. We will continue to evaluate Evo and other opportunities as we plan for future online and offline Super Smash Bros. tournament activities. ”
Evo will return this year, with a full online competition taking place between 6 – 8 August and 13 – 15 August. Admission is free and players from North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America will be able to compete.
The series of games currently includes Tekken 7, Street Fighter V: Champion Edition, Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate and Guilty equipment -Strive-. More details will be shared in the “coming weeks”.
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