Evo 2019

2019 Evolution Championship Series

Evolution Championship Series logo
Tournament information
Location	Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Dates	August 2–4, 2019
Venue(s)	Mandalay Bay
Final positions
Champions	SSBU: Leonardo "MKLeo" Lopez Perez T7: Arslan "Arslan Ash" Siddique SFV: Masato "Bonchan" Takahashi BBTAG: Oscar "Shinku" James MK11: Dominique "SonicFox" McLean SS: Seon-Woo "Infiltration" Lee DBFZ: Goichi "GO-1" Kishida UNIST: ClearLamp SCVI: Yuta "Yutotto" Suda
Tournament statistics
Attendance	~9,000

The 2019 Evolution Championship Series, or EVO 2019, was a fighting game event held in Las Vegas from August 2nd to 4th, 2019 as part of the long-running Evolution Championship Series. The event offered tournaments for various video games, including Street Fighter V, Tekken 7, and Dragon Ball FighterZ, as well as the newly-released Soulcalibur VI, Mortal Kombat 11, Samurai Shodown, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate; the latter received the most entrants with over 3,500 players participating, making it the largest Super Smash Bros. tournament of all time.

Venue

EVO 2019 was, once again, hosted at the Mandalay Bay resort. The Mandalay Bay Convention Center hosted the first two days of the event, while the Mandalay Bay Events Center hosted the final day for the fourth consecutive year.

Games

The lineup was announced in February 2019 to have 9 games. Returning from last year are Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, Tekken 7, Dragon Ball FighterZ, and BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle. New additions are Soulcalibur VI, Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st], Samurai Shodown, Mortal Kombat 11, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which effectively replaced Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. Notably, this is the first year since EVO 2013 where Super Smash Bros. Melee was not included in the lineup, and was relegated to a side-event.

Participants

Over 9,000 participants were at Evo 2019.

Broadcast

As usual, the tournament was streamed on the streaming site Twitch.tv, broadcast across multiple different streams.

Results

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Place	Player	Alias	Character(s)
1st	Leonardo Lopez	FOX|MVG|MkLeo	Joker
2nd	Gavin Dempsey	TSM|Tweek	Pokémon Trainer
3rd	William Belaid	Solary|Glutonny	Wario
4th	Ezra Morris	eUnited|Samsora	Peach
5th	Tetsuya Ishiguro	Raito	Duck Hunt
5th	unknown	ProtoBanham	Lucina, Inkling
7th	Sota Okada	GW|Zackray	Wolf
7th	Paris Ramirez	Rogue|Light	Fox

Tekken 7
Place	Player	Alias	Character(s)
1st	Arslan Siddique	vSlash|Arslan Ash	Kazumi, Geese
2nd	Jae-Min Bae	Rox Dragons|Knee	Steve, Geese, Paul, Kazuya, Devil Jin
3rd	Hoa Luu	RAD|RB|Anakin	Jack-7
4th	Abe Takehiko	Team Yamasa|Take	Kazumi
5th	Takumi Hamasaki	COOAS/NBCS|Noroma	Steve, Dragunov
5th	Nakayama Daichi	Team Yamasa|Nobi	Dragunov, Steve, Jack-7
7th	Yuta Take	THY|Chikurin	Geese
7th	Sun-Woong Youn	UYU|LowHigh	Law, Shaheen

Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition
Place	Player	Alias	Character(s)
1st	Masato Takahashi	Red Bull Hx|Bonchan	Karin, Sagat
2nd	Adel Anouche	NASR|BigBird	Rashid
3rd	DC Coleman	CYG BST|Infexious	Zeku
4th	Atsushi Fujimura	Fudoh|Fujimura	Ibuki
5th	Derek Ruffin	iDom	Laura
5th	Masahiro Tominaga	YG|Machabo	Necalli
7th	Hiroki Asano	AZ|Kichipa-mu	Zangief
7th	Yangmian Huang	ALUS|YANGMIAN	Zeku

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
Place	Player	Alias	Character(s)
1st	Oscar James	GRV|Shinku	Ruby/Yang
2nd	unknown	FCRYUKYU|Kyamei	Akihiko/Mitsuru
3rd	Seitaro Ono	Domi	Akihiko/Yuzuriha
4th	Kazuya Kamisue	Mekasue	Jubei/Orie
5th	Christina Kabacinski	Bace	Mitsuru/Yuzuriha
5th	Shoji Sho	CAG|Fenritti	Mitsuru/Yuzuriha
7th	Kazuyuki Koji	SSNO|kojiKOG	Waldstein/Tager
7th	Jona Kim	Jona	Akihiko/Ruby

Mortal Kombat 11
Place	Player	Alias	Character(s)
1st	Dominique McLean	FOX|SonicFox	Cassie Cage
2nd	Ryan Walker	BC|Dragon	Cetrion
3rd	Sayed Ahmed	NASR|Tekken Master	Geras, Erron Black, Kung Lao, Sonya Blade
4th	Julien Gorena	UYU|Deoxys	Geras
5th	Tommy Tweedy	PG|Tweedy	Jacqui Briggs, Baraka, Geras
5th	Denom Jones	PXP|A F0xy Grampa	Shang Tsung, Kung Lao, Cassie Cage
7th	Andrew Fontanez	Noble|Semiij	Cassie Cage, Jacqui Briggs
7th	Alexandre Dubé-Bilodeau	PG|Hayatei	Erron Black

Samurai Shodown
Place	Player	Alias	Character(s)
1st	Seon-Woo Lee	Infiltration	Genjuro
2nd	Ryota Inoue	BC|Kazunoko	Haohmaru
3rd	Justin Wong	JWong	Tam Tam
4th	Reynald Tacsuan	Hitbox|Reynald	Genjuro, Haohmaru
5th	Fu-Pin Kao	RB	Genjuro
5th	Alex Valle	L|U|CaliPower	Galford
7th	Renato Martins	TF|Didimokof	Genjuro
7th	Chia-Chen Tseng	Brook|ZJZ	Charlotte

Dragon Ball FighterZ
Place	Player	Alias	Character(s)
1st	Goichi Kishida	CO|Go1	Bardock/Goku/Kid Goku
2nd	Dominique McLean	FOX|SonicFox	Bardock/Kid Buu/Kid Goku
3rd	Shoji Sho	CAG|Fenritti	Cell/Bardock/Vegeta
4th	Joan N.	VGIA|Shanks	Android 18/Adult Gohan/Goku
5th	unknown	Hirohiro	Android 17/Kid Goku/Teen Gohan
5th	unknown	B	Kid Buu/Adult Gohan/Yamcha
7th	Christopher Gonzalez	EG|NyChrisG	Teen Gohan/Tien/Yamcha
7th	Ryota Inoue	BC|Kazunoko	Kid Buu/Adult Gohan/Yamcha

Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st]
Place	Player	Alias	Character(s)
1st	unknown	WP|ClearLamp	Byakuya
2nd	unknown	Oushuu-Hittou	Seth
3rd	unknown	Hishigata	Nagase
4th	unknown	Kure	Yuzuriha
5th	Shinji Taharu	Neji	Mika
5th	Andy La	PUB|Rikir	Enkidu
7th	unknown	Senaru	Eltnum
7th	unknown	Libekichi	Mika

Soul Calibur VI
Place	Player	Alias	Character(s)
1st	Yuta Sudo	BNE|Yutotto	Voldo
2nd	Zain Tibeishat	Bluegod	Azwel
3rd	Jérémy Bernard	Oplon|Skyll	Mitsurugi
4th	Jonathan Vo	Woahhzz	Raphael
5th	Jovian Chan	PG|Shen Chan	Cervantes
5th	unknown	Tamonegi	Maxi
7th	Marie-Laure Norindr	Orange|Kayane	Xianghua, 2B
7th	Joshua Vernon	DF|Saiyne	Ivy

External links

• Official website