EVO 2019 results and top 8 final placements
EA/NintendoEvolution Championship Series (EVO) 2019 – one of the biggest weekends for fighting games of the year – is in full swing with most of FCG’s best players gathering in Las Vegas.
The tournament is bigger than ever this year, with over 9000 total players participating across all games and a good showing for each game on top of that as well.
EVO’s main stage games this year are Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Street Fighter 5: Arcade Edition, Tekken 7, Samurai Shodown, Mortal Kombat 11, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Under Night In-Birth EXE: Late[st] and BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle.
EVO is one of the biggest FGC events of the year.The action begins with pool play on Friday and wraps up with Finals for each game on Sunday, August 4.
As always, you can keep up with all the action right here on Dexerto with our official EVO 2019 stream hub.
EVO prize pool amounts are assigned based on how many people enter each tournament. Ten dollars from each participant’s entry fee is put into the pool and split eight ways (60/20/10/4/2/2/1/1).
For example, the prize pool for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate at EVO 2019 is $35,300, with first place walking away with $21,180.
Listed below are the top Eight players for each game at EVO, which will be updated throughout the tournament.
Smash Bros. Ultimate
Of course, Ultimate will be one of the biggest games at EVO 2019.Ultimate made its debut at EVO 2019 and was the most populated tournament of the weekend to close out the event.
MKLeo and Tweek battled through 3,528 other entrants to reach the grand finals. Leo had to fight through losers to reach grands and ended up resetting the bracket defeating Tweek and his Pokemon Trainer 3-2.
With momentum in his favor, Leo’s Joker was able to take advantage of a tilted Tweek’s poorly-timed Pokemon switches to win the championship
Top 8
1. Leonardo “MKLeo” Lopez Perez
2. Gavin “Tweek” Dempsey
3. William “Glutonny” Belaid
4. Ezra “Samsora” Morris
5. Ishiguro “Raito” Tetsuya
5. ProtoBanham
7. Sota “Zackray” Okada
7. Paris “Light” Ramirez
Finals: 7PM PST on August 4
Tekken 7
Tekken featured 1,899 players at EVO this year all trying to fight their way into the Top 8 and a piece of the $18,990 prize pool.
Pakistani player Arslan ‘Arslan Ash’ Siddique – who was the surprise winner of the Tekken tournament at EVO Japan 2019 in February accomplished the same feat in Las Vegas.
Top 8
1. Arslan “Arslan Ash” Siddique
2. Jae-Min “Knee” Bae
3. Hoa “Anakin” Luu
4. Takehiko “Take” Abe
5. Daichi “Nobi” Nakayama
5. Takumi “Noroma” Hamasaki
7. Sun-woong “LowHigh” Yoon
7. Yuta “Chikurin” Take
Finals: 3:30 PM PST on August 4.
Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition
Street Fighter brings the second highest number of participants to EVO 2019 with 1,952 players registered and a $19,520 purse. Additionally, Capcom provided $50,000 to the prize pool.
At the head of the Capcom Pro Tour standings, Victor “Punk” Woodley is a lot of people’s favorite for EVO this year, so it’ll be interesting to see if he can continue dominating.
Top 8
1. Masato “Bonchan” Takahashi
2. Adel “Big Bird” Anouche
3. DC “Infexious” Coleman
4. Atsushi Fujimura
5. Derek “iDom” Ruffin
5. Masahiro “Machabo” Tominaga
7. Hiroki “Kichipa-mu” Asano
7. Yangmian Huang
Finals: 12 PM PST on August 4.
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
Arcrevo World Tour, which has a $1,000,000 purse and should give tour players plenty of incentive to go all in over the weekend.
Top 8
1. Oscar “Shinku” Jaimes
2. Kyamei
3. Seitaro “Domi” Ohno
4. Kamisue “Mekasue” Kazuya
5. Christina “Bace” Kabacinski
5. Fenritti
7. Kauyuki “KojiKOG” Koji
7. Jone Kim
Finals: 9 AM PST on August 4.
Mortal Kombat 11
With fighting games star Dominique ‘SonicFox‘ McLean in the Mortal Kombat bracket at EVO this year, most people were looking at him as one of the definite favorites.
SonicFox made it past the other 1,574 players entered for a share of the $15,740 prize and came out on top of an epic Grand Finals against Ryan ‘Dragon’ Walker on August 3.
Top 8
1. SonicFox
2. Dragon
3. Tekken Master
4. Deoxys
5. A F0xy Grampa
5. Tweedy
7. Hayatei
7. Semiij
Finals: 8 PM PST on August 3.
Samurai Shodown
Top 8
1. INFILTRATION
2. Kazunoko
3. JWong
4. Reynald
5. CaliPower
5. RB
7. Didimokof
7. ZJZ
Finals: 4 PM PST on August 3.
Dragonball FighterZ
Top 8
2. SonicFox
2. Go1
3. Fenritti
4. Shanks
5. B
5. hirohiro
7. NyChrisG
7. Kazunoko
Finals: 1 PM PST on August 3.
UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late[st]
Official bracket
Top 8
1. Clearlamp_o
2. Oushou-Hittou
3. hishigata
4. くれ
5. Neji
5. Rikir
7. Senaru
7. Libekichi
Finals: 10 AM PST on August 3.
Soul Calibur 6
Leading up to the Grand Final, Yuttoto took down Tamonegi in the Winners Bracket Semis 2-1, before defeating Oplon Skyll 3-2 in the Winners Final.
The final placements for the top eight players can be seen below. For the full list of final placements and a completed bracket, you can visit the official tournament web-page HERE.
Top-8 final placements
1. BNE Yuttoto
2. Bluegod
3. Oplon Skyll
4. Woahhzz
5-6. PG Shen Chan
5-6. Tamonegi
7-8. DF Saiyne
7-8. ORANGE KAYANE
Finals: 8 PM PST on August 2.