Evo 2025

2025 Evolution Championship Series
Evolution Championship Series logo
Tournament information
LocationLas Vegas, United States
DatesAugust 1, 2025–August 3, 2025
VenueLas Vegas Convention Center
Participants8,541
Final positions
Champions
  • SF6: Saul Leonardo "MenaRD" Mena II
  • T8: Arslan "Arslan Ash" Siddique
  • FF:COTW: Goichi "GO1" Kishida
  • GGS: "Kshuewhatdamoo"
  • GBVS:R: Matthieu "Kojicoco" Fardet
  • MVC2: Ken "Khaos" Villalobos
  • UNI2: "Defiant"
  • MK1: Dominique "SonicFox" McLean

The 2025 Evolution Championship Series (commonly referred to as Evo 2025 or EVO 2025) was a fighting game event held in Las Vegas from August 1 to 3, 2025 as part of the long-running Evolution Championship Series. The event marked the debuts of Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves as well as the return of Marvel vs Capcom 2 as a mainline game for the first time since 2010. This also marked the debut of the EVO Extended Lineup of 8 games.

Venue

EVO 2025 returned to the Las Vegas Convention Center with a return to a Top 8 Finals lineup. The Top 8 of the official lineup of games took place in an in-building arena while the Extended Lineup took place entirely outside of the arena. Nevertheless, all 16 games were broadcast by tournament organizers and were given a trophy ceremony.

Games

Announced on January 16, 2025, the following games returned as a mainline game: Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, Guilty Gear Strive Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, Under Night In-Birth II and Mortal Kombat 1. Marvel vs Capcom 2 returned as a singles tournament for the first time since 2010. In addition, it was revealed that the tournament would also support 8 additional games as part of the Extended Lineup: The King of Fighters XV, Rivals of Aether 2, Virtua Fighter 5: R.E.V.O., BlazBlue: Central Fiction and Killer Instinct were revealed the same day while Samurai Shodown and Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 were revealed at later dates.[1]

Participants

Nearly 8,500 players competed in the mainline games with more attending the Extended Lineup and other tournaments.[2]

Broadcast

The tournament was streamed on the streaming site Twitch as well as YouTube, broadcast across multiple different streams.

Reveals

Capcom revealed a teaser trailer for C. Viper, the second character in the season 3 pass as well as a trailer for Outfit 4 costumes for several Street Fighter 6 characters. Bandai Namco released a gameplay trailer for Armor King as well as a teaser for Miary Zo, a new fighter from Madagascar. Sega revealed a World Stage update for Virtua Fighter 5: R.E.V.O. as well as brief gameplay of Virtua Fighter 6 featuring Akira and Stella Bryant. Arc System Works revealed a gameplay trailer for Cyberpunk: Edgerunner's Lucy, the final character for season 4 DLC of Guilty Gear Strive. In addition, Wilmas was revealed as the next character for Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising as well as EX versions of every character in the roster. SNK revealed additional gameplay footage of Ken Masters and revealed he is available afterwards while stating the release date of Chun-Li to be the winter of 2025. Hunter × Hunter: Nen × Impact revealed Neferpitou as the first DLC character for the game. There were also beta testing of Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls and Invincible VS.[3]

Results

Place Player Alias Character(s)
1st Saul Leonardo Mena II MenaRD Blanka
2nd Kakeru Watanabe Kakeru JP
3rd Chan Pak-yin Micky Cammy, Mai
4th Arman Hanjani Phenom Cammy
5th Zeng Zhuojun Xiaohai Mai, M. Bison
5th Keita Ai Fuudo Ed, Dee Jay
7th Shin Moon-sup Leshar Terry, Mai, Ed
7th Amjad Al-Shalabi AngryBird Ken
Place Player Alias Character(s)
1st Arslan Siddique Arslan Ash Nina, Anna
2nd Atif Ijaz Atif Anna
3rd Yuta Take chikurin Clive, Lili
4th Han Jae-gyun Mulgold Claudio, Lei Feng
5th Yoon Sun-woong LowHigh Bryan
5th Daichi Nakayama Nobi Lars, Steve. Dragunov
7th Oh Dae-il Meo-Li Jack-8
7th Kim Hyun-jin JDCR Dragunov
Place Player Alias Character(s)
1st Goichi Kishida GO1 Kain, Marco
2nd Lin Chiahung E.T. Hokutomaru, Billy
3rd Shoji Sho Fenritti Kain
4th Lee Chung-gon POONGKO Gato
5th Kazuyuki Koji KojiKOG Billy
5th unknown Laggia Hotaru
7th Ho Kun Xian Xian Gato
7th Tsutomu Kubota kubo Hokutomaru
Place Player Alias Character(s)
1st unknown Kshuewhatdamoo Johnny
2nd unknown RedDitto Ramlethal
3rd unknown Aboii Potemkin
4th Yuya Fujiwara tatuma Sol
5th Kim Jae-won Daru_I-No I-No
5th unknown Jack Happy Chaos
7th Ismaila Gueye Verix Nagoriyuki
7th unknown Precho Goldlewis
Place Player Alias Character(s)
1st Matthieu Fardet Kojicoco Beatrix
2nd Brandon Wanders Zane Grimnir
3rd unknown Tororo Percival, Siegfried
4th Junichi Kumano Fukunaga Versusia, Lancelot
5th unknown Zenith Grimnir
5th Kyran Reives Monarch Metera
7th unknown Ryazu Charlotta
7th Alex Vo Vermillion 2B
Place Player Alias Characters
1st Ken Villalobos Khaos Magneto/Storm/Sentinel, Sentinel/Storm/Cyclops, Magneto/Storm/Cyclops
2nd Andy Nguyen VIGGA Magneto/Storm/Psylocke
3rd unknown Servbot Magneto/Storm/Psylocke
4th Peter Rosas COMBOFIEND Sentinel/Magneto/Iron Man
5th Daniel Maniago Clockw0rk Strider/Doctor Doom/Sentinel
5th unknown Peruchamp Storm/Sentinel/Captain Commando
7th Jason Ramoutar Gconceptz Magneto/Storm/Psylocke
7th Johnathan Talley telly Sentinel/Storm/Captain Commando
Place Player Alias Character(s)
1st Jaden E. Defiant Londrekia, Hyde, Ogre
2nd Izayah Davis BigBlack Byakuya
3rd Randy Knotts knotts Wagner, Orie, Seth
4th Mario Silva Mario Wagner
5th unknown suteneko Mika
5th unknown Revert Linne
7th unknown Senaru Eltnum
7th unknown OmniDeag Eltnum
Place Player Alias Character(s)
1st Dominique McLean SonicFox Cyrax/Madam Bo, Sektor/Kung Lao
2nd Nicolás Martínez Nicholas Havik/Mavado, Reiko/Tremor, Homelander/Ferra, Baraka/Tremor
3rd Mustafa Bicici Kanimani Sindel/Tremor, Homelander/Ferra, Johnny Cage/Tremor
4th unknown Hourglass_of_rain Mileena/Kung Lao, Mileena/Tremor
5th unknown Onlinecale213 Kung Lao/Sektor
5th Javier Alonso MKJavierMK Scorpion/Terra, Scorpion/Tremor
7th George Foulkes Jr. Grr Geras/Motaro
7th unknown MichaelCeraFan Geras/Motaro

References

  1. ^ "EVO 2025 lineup revealed". dlCompare. Fyra Frost. Retrieved January 16, 2025.
  2. ^ "The biggest fighting game tournament is a little smaller this year — but still exciting". The Verge. Ash Parrish. Retrieved August 1, 2025.
  3. ^ "Every big Evo 2025 announcement in one place". Polygon. Marc Griffin. Retrieved August 4, 2025.