The 2024 Evolution Championship Sequence has turn out to be the one largest esports occasion in historical past, boasting a document variety of taking part gamers for the well-known combating sport occasion.
EVO is the world’s largest combating sport event, drawing hundreds of gamers from all internationally to Las Vegas, Nevada, to check their would possibly in a weekend of neighborhood and competitors.
Hailed because the Mecca of combating video games, EVO has solely grown larger and higher yr over yr… and now, after rising out of the Mandalay into the Las Vegas Conference Heart, it has made historical past in a significant manner.
As advised in a press launch on June 26, 2024, this yr’s EVO has turn out to be the most important open-bracket esports occasion ever with 10,224 registered gamers hailing from 63 international locations across the globe.
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EVO is the proverbial ‘Mecca’ of combating sport tradition, and this yr, it’s larger than ever earlier than.
That’s not all; EVO 2024 additionally options the most important event brackets ever for titles like TEKKEN 8, Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, and Road Fighter III: third Strike.
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“We’re seeing an increasing number of of the neighborhood exercising their aggressive spirit with us in Las Vegas annually,” EVO’s Normal Supervisor, Rick Thiher, stated of the historic occasion.
“The beauty of combating video games is that whereas there are generations of gamers returning yr after yr, there’s all the time a brand new era greeting them at EVO and aspiring to make a reputation for themselves. What makes EVO particular isn’t just watching who will cement their legacy throughout these generations, however seeing how these generations of gamers come collectively and join as a neighborhood and tradition.”
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This isn’t first time EVO has made esports historical past, by far. Simply final yr, EVO hit a document variety of attendees (one it has now damaged), with strains stretching out the door of the Mandalay Bay on line casino and into the foyer.
EVO / Robert PaulEVO 2023 noticed a document variety of attendees – a document that has now been damaged as of June 2024.
That yr, EVO additionally scored its very personal vacation in Las Vegas referred to as ‘EVO Day,’ and the occasion’s founders — the Cannon brothers — had been awarded the important thing to town to honor their achivements.
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EVO continues to interrupt obstacles and draw members of the combating sport neighborhood collectively annually, and with its first foray within the Las Vegas Conference Heart developing on July 19-21, there’s extra to stay up for than ever earlier than.
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That includes a gallery of combating sport art work all through historical past, a cosplay contest, particular dioramas for picture ops, and far more, this yr’s EVO guarantees to be an occasion that the FGC simply can’t miss out on.
