By Eric Curtis on July 12, 2014 at 11:16am
What a day at "EVO 2014!" We started bright and early at 8 A.M. PDT with "Pools" of "Ultra Street Fighter IV," "Super Smash Brother's Melee," and "Injustice." "Tekken Tag 2" also began and ended today. "Pools" for "USFIV" consisted of 2,000 players, with two players coming out of each pool, one on winners and one on losers. Players came from 46 different countries around the world to compete, and spectator passes were sold out with the main stage holding 8,000 people.
"Ultra Street Fighter IV"
As the night raged on "USFIV" took the entire day on most streams. A trend began to arise that the "Star Players" were losing. Daigo, PRBalrog, Infiltration, and Chris G were all eliminated "Off Stream." It was upset after upset, and "Twitter" rumors didn't help things. Commentators Ultradavid and James Chen continued reporting lies about eliminations. Quickly learning they couldn't trust the Internet, they then stopped feeding the trolls. "USFIV" went from 2,000 players to the top eight:
Winners Bracket
RG|Snake Eyez (Zangief) vs. RZR|Fuudo (Fei Long)
RZR|Gackt (Fei Long) vs. Bonchan (Sagat)
Losers bracket
MD|Luffy (Rose) vs. EG|Momochi (Ken)
EG|Ricky Ortiz (Rufus, Rolento) vs. HORI|Sako (Ibuki, Evil Ryu, Elena, Gen)
These matches will be finished out on Sunday!
"Tekken Tag 2"
"Tekken Tag 2" was short and sweet with a hyped final match. The finals results were:
1. Twitch|JDCR (Heihachi, Armor King)
2. Twitch|Gen Kids (Bob, Leo)
3. BE|Ao (Alisa, Miguel)
4. Jimmy J Tran (Bryan, Dragunov)
5. ATL|HOA (JACK-6, P-JACK)
5. Inkognito (Bryan, Bob)
7. JustFrameJames (Marshall Law, Yoshimitsu)
7. BMNS-13 (Hwoarang, Baek)
"Super Smash Brothers Melee"
"Super Smash Bros Melee" wrapped up pools and will be into "Quarter" and "Semi-Finals" tomorrow. The crowd is always hyped for "Smash," and this year was no different. The big names showed up, and the matches were probably the best yet. The "Smash" community is stronger than ever, and it's amazing to see it once again at another "EVO." The standings are as follows:
Winners Bracket
C9|Mango (Falco) vs. Guts|MattDotZeb
Eggz vs. CTRL|DJ Nintendo (Fox, Bowser)
SS|Colbol (Fox) vs. Crs|Chillin (Fox)
Zhu (Falco) vs. Bladewise
AGC|Axe (Pikachu) vs. Hugs (Samus)
Tipsy vs. j666
Westballz vs. Swift
PikaChad (Pikachu) vs. MOR|Chudat (Ice Climbers)
EMP|Mew2King vs. NMW
Lucien vs. Kalamazhu
MIOM|PewPewU (Marth) vs. Eddy Mexico
Leffen (Fox)
EMP|Armada (Peach)
S2J (Captain Falcon) vs. SS|Soft (Jigglypuff)
SilentSpectre
Javi
Beerman
VGBC|aMSa (Yoshi)
Losers Bracket
Bird vs. Reason
Vts vs. Jpegimage
Drugged Fox vs. Peligro
Tm vs. Massive
Toph vs. Doh
Infinite vs. SS|Flow
Milkman vs. Zeldafreak
Kei vs. Cyrain
Yardsale vs. Brandon Collier
Tom Radovich vs. Atlus
Luis Martinez vs. Jace
Eric Lee
Sawyer
Lovage
Metroid1117
SpiralFlame88
HomeMadeWaffles
HD Bryan (Sheik)
Dudutsai
Matt R
Eval
Peter Osuna
Alan Moore
The day wrapped up with an "Exhibition" 5-on-5 between "Wednesday Night Fights" (WNF) and "Next Level Battle Circuit." (NLBC) Two of the most popular weekly tournaments that take place every Wednesday in the U.S. "WNF" based out of California and "NLBC" based out of New York.
Team "WNF"
Marq Teddy
Keno
Velociraptor
FilipinoMan
Snake Eyez
Team "NLBC"
PIE Zeus
PIE Smug
Sanford Kelly
TS Sabin
Dieminion
"WNF" won the set 5-1.
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