EVO 2021 Has Been Officially Revealed

<p>Things seem to have finally calmed down with the Evolution Championship Series &lpar;shortened to EVO&rpar;&period; Last summer cast a particularly dark image on everything regarding fighting games&comma; and various cases of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;the-evo-scandal-and-its-meaning-for-the-future-of-the-fgc&sol;">sexual harassment<&sol;a> came out&period; It resulted in the mass cancelation of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;evo-2020-has-been-canceled&sol;">EVO 2020 online<&sol;a>&period; After everything that happened at the start of that fateful July&comma; EVO was canceled&period; The entire company went radio-silent&comma; mostly&comma; and no one really heard from them after the cancelation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Then&comma; today&comma; PlayStation came to Twitter to announce that EVO 2021 would indeed be a thing this summer and that EVO has joined up with PlayStation and Sony&period; They also announced a preliminary games list for the event and the dates that EVO would be taking place&period; Let&&num;8217&semi;s break it all down&comma; and look at the information given to us&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">Allying with Sony<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>EVO 2021 was announced today&period; You can view Sony&&num;8217&semi;s tweet below and read their attached post regarding the partnership&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"500" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">Welcoming <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;Evo&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&commat;Evo<&sol;a> into the PlayStation family&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;I3J5iOKhha">https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;I3J5iOKhha<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sony Interactive Entertainment and new esports venture RTS have jointly acquired the Evolution Championship Series <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;efOkbf61lU">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;efOkbf61lU<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; PlayStation &lpar;&commat;PlayStation&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;PlayStation&sol;status&sol;1372639773576232961&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">March 18&comma; 2021<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What this means is that the previously in-shambles tournament series is bound to have a second chance&comma; after everything that happened&period; Along with this tweet&comma; another was disclosed&comma; showing the event&&num;8217&semi;s dates and featured games&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>An excerpt from PlayStation&&num;8217&semi;s <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;sie&period;com&sol;en&sol;blog&sol;welcoming-evo-into-the-playstation-family&sol;">blog post<&sol;a> reads as follows&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;Our collective team is laser-focused on one mission&colon; preserving the authenticity of Evo for the fighting game community and finding creative ways&comma; alongside our fans&comma; to grow the tournament and make its events and broadcasts more fun&comma; engaging and accessible than ever&period; At its core&comma; Evo will remain what it has always been&colon; an open-format competition that gives fighting game fans from different countries a chance to connect&comma; test their skills&comma; and forge new friendships&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Going to EVO&&num;8217&semi;s <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;evo&period;gg">website<&sol;a> and scrolling down will show this&comma; but here&&num;8217&semi;s a screenshot below of the information&period;<img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-168997" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;03&sol;18171820&sol;EVO2021&period;jpg" alt&equals;"EVO 2021" width&equals;"1085" height&equals;"586" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Scrolling down further&comma; they mentioned the format for the event&period; For starters&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s free to enter&comma; and four regions will be involved&period; Those regions are North America&comma; Latin America&comma; Europe&comma; and Asia&period; Each region is planned to have regional qualifiers&comma; as well as prize pools and live streams for all Top 4 and Top 8 segments of each tournament&period; We&&num;8217&semi;ll continue to update you on when registration for the qualifiers will open&period; All portions of EVO 2021 will be double elimination brackets&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>EVO 2021 will be occurring on August 6th-8th and August 13th-15th&period; Registration is currently not open right now&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>What did you think about the EVO 2021 announcement&quest; Will you be trying to compete&quest; Are you looking forward to the events&quest; Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;