The Evolution Championship Collection–an annual fighting-game competitors and a marquee occasion for the fighting-game group as a whole–wrapped up registration for 2024 earlier this week. Immediately, the group introduced that Evo 2024 in Las Vegas won’t solely be the most important occasion in Evo historical past, however it’ll even be the most important match ever held throughout all of esports.
10,224 distinctive gamers throughout 63 international locations have signed up for at the very least one in every of Evo’s eight major competitions, in response to the official launch. The 2024 occasion won’t be held on the Mandalay Bay Conference Heart and Enviornment like in recent times, because it was beforehand introduced that it is going to be shifting to the Las Vegas Conference Heart.
Evo 2024 will even mark the most important tournaments in franchise historical past for Tekken 8, Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising, and this 12 months’s Throwback Collection sport, Road Fighter III: Third Strike. Different video games represented within the Evo 2024 major lineup embody Road Fighter 6, Mortal Kombat 1, Responsible Gear Attempt, The King Of Fighters XV, and Below Night time In-Beginning II Sys:Celes.
The 10,224 distinctive registrants for Evo 2024 is over 1,000 greater than final 12 months’s 9,182 entrants, with over 7,000 of these gamers registered for Road Fighter 6 alone. Evo 2023 additionally noticed new gameplay trailers for the then-unreleased Tekken 8 and Mortal Kombat 1, in addition to the reveal of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collaboration with Road Fighter 6.
Evo 2024 takes place July 19-21 on the Las Vegas Conference Heart in Las Vegas, Nevada. Whereas participant registration has ended, spectator passes are nonetheless accessible on the major Evo web site.