The Evolution Championship Series is on the horizon.
Here’s a quick guide to the nine games on tap for the show.
Forget theDawn of the Planet of the Apes.
Were on the dawn of Evolution!
But not the Evolution that they talk about inPlanet of the Apes.
Im talking about Evo 2014, this years installment of the annual fighting game Olympics, theEvolution Championship Series.
If you havent caught Evo before, its a sight to see.
Saturday nights also going to have a midnight screening of something called Matador.
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*Im not doing that Boxer crap.
Im calling him Balrog.
** Same with Claw.
Get off my back.
For a complete stream schedule, gohere.
In 2006, they changed it toHyper Street Fighter II, the special anniversary re-release.
On Friday, its the one-on-one tournament, otherwise known as Tournament of Legends II.
The pool will go on for half of the day until were down to the finals.
Hey, I love theTekkenseries.
All their games are fun to play andTekken Tag 2is no different.
Its a blast and I played the hell out of it when it came out.
The problem is,Tekkengames arent the most entertaining to watch.
At least it wasnt Deathstroke spamming his machine gun attack.
Injusticeat least gets to live a little longer thanTekken Tag 2, lasting an entire two days.
That said, I wouldnt bet on the Super Friends showing up for another year.
Especially ifMortal Kombat Xis able to come out with enough time to spare before Evo 2015.
I dont see any mention of the pools or semis.
All they have is three hours to get through their brackets and hit the road.
That kind of sucks.
I dont know all that much about theBlazBluegames.
Theyre very pretty and they look like fun, but I rarely ever hear anyone talk about them.
The different updates ofBlazBluehavent had the most success getting to work with the Evo format.
Of course,Continuum Shiftwas too new, so they decided not to haveBlazBlueon the show yet again.
Keep an eye on this one.
I have a feeling it could go either way.
WithBrawlbeing less than successful, they certainly werent going to go back toMelee, right?
In 2013, Evo decided to let the fans choose the final game of the show.
It was mainlyMeleevs.Skullgirls, butMeleegot the majority and won.
Presumably, someone at Nintendo was visited by three spirits one night.
Nintendo thankfully changed their tune and we got our streamingMelee.
It actually did really well, too!
People loved it and it got record-breaking viewers.
The big difference here is that wobbling is banned.
Fun fact: 7 of the top 8 players at Evo 2010 had Storm on their team.
Yeah, we certainly needed something new.
If anything, the gambit of seeing someone include Phoenix on the team makes everything more edge-on-your-seat.
Its even better when she goes Dark Phoenix and her opponent is able to drop her anyway.
Hes made the top 8 in the last five shows, and four of those times he used Ryu.
He is THE Ryu player.
Hes seen what Capcoms done to the character and is moving on to someone else.
Now, granted, hes going to be usingEvilRyu, but change is change!
Its so raw that I cant wait to see what goes down.
And dont forget to check out1v1WildStarfighting championshiptaking place on Saturday at 8 pm ET!
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