Sony jointly acquires the world's largest fighting game festival 'EVO'


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Nelo Hotsuma

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) announced that it has acquired 'The Evolution Championship Series (EVO)', which is known as the world's largest fighting game competition, in collaboration with e-sports company RTS.

Evo joins the PlayStation® family – SIE Blog (Japan)
https://www.sie.com/jp/blog/2021/03/19/welcoming-evo-into-the-playstation-family/

Sony Interactive Entertainment and New Esports Venture, RTS, Jointly Acquire the Evolution Championship Series (EVO) | Business Wire
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210318005890/en/



RTS, which participated in the acquisition of EVO with SIE, is CEO of Stuart Saw , senior vice president of Endeavor, a company that specializes in esports event management, branding and management. SIE said, 'This partnership is a new form of collaboration, and by bringing together the resources and expertise of each, we will promote the global spread of Evo and strive to improve the fan engagement of this iconic game tournament. I will continue to do so. ' In addition, EVO co-founders Tom Cannon and Tony Cannon will continue to be involved in EVO as advisors.

EVO is the world's largest fighting game tournament, which began with the predecessor of the Super Street Fighter II X -Grand Master Challenge- tournament 'Battle by the Bay' held in New York in 1995. A wide variety of fighting game powerhouses such as the series, the ' Tekken ' series, and the ' THE KING OF FIGHTERS series Super Smash Bros.' series are competing.


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Benedicto de Jesus

EVO The Daigo Umehara Mr. players Tokido players, Fu-throat player, herring roe , such as players, we have joined many also Japanese professional fighting gamer. In particular, Umehara of 'EVO 2004' held in 2004 showed 'Evo Momento' at the Street Fighter III 3rd STRIKE -Fight for the Future- tournament, which was 'the most watched fighting game tournament in the world.' It was registered in the Guinness World Records as 'Video of'.

Evo Momento-YouTube


It was announced in May 2020 that such EVO will be held online as 'EVO Online' in response to the new coronavirus pandemic in 2020. However, after Joey Curler, co-founder and CEO of EVO at the time, was accused of sexual harassment of minors, publishers of competition titles such as Capcom and Bandai Namco have stopped participating in EVO. Presentation. Therefore, EVO Online in 2020 has been canceled .

SIE has not mentioned the cancellation of EVO Online in 2020, but announced that it will hold 'EVO Online' in August 2021 at the same time as the joint acquisition. Furthermore, it was revealed that 'STREET FIGHTER V CHAMPION EDITION ', ' Tekken 7 ', ' GUILTY GEAR -STRIVE- ' and ' Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate ' will be adopted as competition titles.


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However, in response to the announcement of the competition title, 'The acquisition of EVO by SIE may prevent Nintendo's' Super Smash Bros. 'series, which has been used in EVO competition titles, from being adopted in the future. Fans are worried about it.



In addition, SIE would like to express its support for the message sent by Evo today, that we will build a safe and inclusive game environment for players. This is our top priority for PlayStation as well. As a management team, we will work closely with each other to ensure that future Evo events remain safe and comfortable for the entire community. '

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