Evo has announced that the tournament 2022 without Super Smash Brothers – games. This was announced by the tournament organization on its official Twitter account. Evo is a series of popular combat game tournaments, which has made aware of Super Smash Brothers tournaments. The games that will be 2022 part of the tournament will be announced live on March 8 at two o’clock German time. In the same moment, Nintendo decided not to continue to cooperate with EVO.

Nintendo and tournaments – (k) a love story

Nintendo has a more than a conflicting story with the tournament organization Evo and Smash Brothers tournaments in general. In 2013, for example, you had tried to keep Evo from streaming a super Smash Brothers Melee tournament. This attempt met with great protest of the Melee-Fangemeinde and Nintendo returned the original decision.

In the following years again, the relationship became a little better. Nevertheless, Nintendo had threatened numerous other organizations with legal consequences if they use such modifications for Melee or Brawl . Nintendo continued to be a particularly sympathetic impression compared to the respective communities.

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2021 Evo was bought by Sony. In the course of this announcement, Nintendo announced that they evaluate their own options for the future. Since then, with Global Panda you have found your own tournament partner and announced to organize 2022 tournaments for Melee and Ultimate. This is a possible justification for the retreat Nintendos.

Why has Nintendo withdrawn?

More detailed reasons for the end of cooperation are still unknown. It is speculated that the cancellation of the EVO tournament 2020 could play a role. Originally, the tournament 2020 was canceled as a result of the Covid pandemic. Implementation as a purely digital event was also canceled after violent allegations of sexual harassment of a minor to the CEO of the organization, Joey Cullar, came to light.

In the course of these allegations, Cuellar was released from the company, a new CEO was used and the digital tournament canceled after companies like Capcom had withdrawn.

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To what extent can be drawn here is still unclear. The fact is that we will not see Super Smash Brothers at EVO 2022. The tournament 2022 will be the first on-site tournament since the beginning of the pandemic and should take place from 5 to 7 August in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Sources: Evo, Wccfech, GamePot, Kotaku

From Simon Hoffmann
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& Lukas Schmid
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28.02.2022 at 11:57