Two Super Smash Bros games will be playable at this year’s Evolution Championship Series following the line-up announcement today. Fighting games confirmed for EVO 2015 were detailed on a special Twitch live stream hosted by Mike Ross and tournament organiser Joey “Mr. Wizard” Cuellar. For the first time at the event, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U will be featured, along with the return of fan-favourite Super Smash Bros. Melee. This year’s EVO also marks Tekken 7’s debut which will be played on arcade machines.
Nintendo joined other companies such as IGN and Twitch to sponsor the championships last year – it’s not yet known whether the company will be returning as a sponsor for 2015. The event is due to take place at the Paris Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas between July 17 – 19. You can check out a list of all the games confirmed below for the 2015 tournament.
- Ultra Street Fighter IV
- Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
- Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
- Guilty Gear XRD -SIGN-
- Killer Instinct
- Mortal Kombat X
- Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
- Super Smash Bros. Melee
- Tekken 7
Looks like a pretty good roster. I’ll probably be looking at the Apex 2015 tournament a lot more since it’s the biggest Smash tourney, but I’m sure that they’ll be some fun rounds of Smash here as well. Watching those battles is always fun!
I’m fine with melee being there, but not smash 4, it’s roster is way too unbalanced for a competitive tournament. I’m dissapointed that it’s taking up a spot that could of gone to BlazeBlue or King of Fighters
How is the roster unbalanced? Melee and Brawl were more unbalanced than Smash 4. Melee will always be my favorite Smash, but Smash 4 doesn’t have any characters that are so bad they’re almost unplayable or are OP. Meta Knight and Falco were HEAVILY nerfed, but they’re still good fighters.
4 is full of camper characters like villager
How did SSB4 make it to Evo since they’re pretty strict on fighting?
“games”
Its fighting game…?
Good move. Keep the current game in the minds of the fans and others. Momentum great games and advertising is all the Wii U needs to at least push sales past GameCube…
Also, that Tekken…
Ugh stupid sexy Samus……..
Shoutout to the comment section for understanding competitive Smash and not being the kinds of people who wonder why Melee is still being played.
I will be defintely watching this tournamet and apex. 2015 gonna be a very fun year.
Will be interesting to see the difference between the smash 4 and melee fights, and if the same people play on both games. As much as I like the new roster and the new game, there’s too many fighters that allow for camping, and too many fighters that don’t require skill to be good. Kind of like lucas in brawl compared to Ness. Brawl started the trend of easy fighters that don’t require much skill, and 4 continued the trend.
Evo was super-fun to watch last year. Fighting games are much more interesting than MOBAs to watch competitively in my opinion.
Good roster of games, but no Skullgirls?
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Why was Injustice removed?
Mortal Kombat X instead. Honestly sounds like a good trade.
You know where else it’s playable? ON YOUR TV.