The Evolution Championship Series (Evo) has just announced that Street Fighter 6 will be playable at its event from August 5 - 7 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
This year's Evolution Fighting Game Championships boasted some of the most surprising results to date. These included two pad players, Shizza and Vance “Vangief” Wu, placing top eight in Super Street Fighter IV, Taiwanese sensation Bruce “Gamerbee” Hsiang eliminating US champion Justin Wong, and top two placers for Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix were both new school players, shutting out legends like Daigo Umehara and Jason “Afrocole” Cole. To America's devastation, Umehara managed to take the gold in Super Street Fighter IV, keeping northern California's EG.Ricky Ortiz at second place. A stream was available at both G4TV and Shoryuken, but it crashed several times throughout the weekend due to technical difficulties, most notably during the Super Street Fighter IV grand finals. Hopefully this won’t be an issue next year and the stream’s producers, Level|Up, will take note. Videos of the finals are available at EVO’s Youtube channel here. Results after the jump.
[Source: Shoryuken]
After Evolution Championship Series 2009 (EVO), we had a chance to talk with Joey "Mr. Wizard" Cuellar about this year's hugely successful EVO and what the future holds.
Interviewer: Chung Kwan "Davis" Fan
Interviewee: Joey Cueller (Senior EVO Director)
T-ono: Hello. Can you give a brief intro of yourself and what you do with Capcom Unity?
Seth Killian: Well, my name is Seth Killian and I've been organizing the EVO tournaments for a long time. Formerly a top ten, but not so much anymore - haven't had time to play or practice. I'm also the senior manager for community at Capcom, where I run the Capcom Unity website.