When is evo 2017

Event Schedule. Edit Markdown. Edit Video. Edit Events. July 14th Singles Super Smash Bros. Singles Injustice 2. View All. Edit Attendees. Dominique McLean. PG SKD. Jachin Harte. Other streams of all the games at the tournament, including Street Fighter V, Tekken 7, and even the coverage mentioned above can be found via Twitch.

There have been running live streams for the past couple days, and the Super Smash Bros. The Street Fighter V Top 8 finals are the main event, and they will take place at 10 p. But the release of Super Smash Bros. Melee for the Gamecube changed things. Justin McGrath. Michael Khieu. Abe, Takehiko. Luis Cervantes. Masanobu, Murakami. Reynald Tacsuan. Samuel Buzby. James Makekau-Tyson. Utsumi, Ryuji. La Luna. Ryan Coker-Welch. Zachary Cordoni. Joey D. Joey D'alessandro. Not Enough Damage.

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If you feel like you know all about fighters already but want variety, use the EVO main channel, embedded above - all nine of the major games will feature on there. Manage cookie settings Watch live video from evo5 on www. Over the course of the weekend each game will have its massive entrant numbers reduced through elimination until they reach the top 8 players.

These top 8 players will make up the 'grand finals' of each game - and this is where you'll really get players making the biggest effort and where the stakes are raised particularly high. For posterity, here's the grand finals times if you want to catch these often nail-biting matches:. For my money, the reason you should watch EVO is simple: pound-for-pound, fighting games are the most exciting, easy to grasp eSport going. There's no worrying about some of the more obtuse aspects of MOBA games or struggling to understand the greater perspective of a match as you might in a competitive FPS: fighters are easy to understand.

Two people going at it. Life bars. Fighting games were bred and built for competition in arcades, where two people would stand as little as inches apart and duke it out. That element of competition is baked into the genre deep, and that's felt in every pore of EVO and other fighting tournaments.

Honestly, it's amazing stuff. Give it a shot. It's extremely unlikely any actual games will make their debut at EVO, but companies do exhibit at the show and often bring announcements such as DLC or new reveals for upcoming game. The following companies are around:.