Evo 2020 Canceled Due to Coronavirus, Digital Replacement Announced

Evo, the world’s biggest fighting game tournament, has announced that it will be canceling the 2020 event due to COVID-19. All tickets for EVO 2020 will be refunded and there will be a summer online event planned as a replacement. In a short message on Twitter, Evo organizers announced that this year’s event, originally set to take place from July 21 to August 2 at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, has been canceled.

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Organizers announced that to “keep the Evo spirit alive,” there will be an event held online this summer. Details for what the online summer event entails will be revealed later. Evo is an annual fighting game tournament where the best fighting game players gather to test their skills in popular games likes Street Fighter, Tekken, and more. Developers like Capcom and Bandai Namco also usually reserve fighting game announcements for Evo like new DLC fighters. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/02/18/tekken-7-negan-and-julia-dlc-character-trailer"] Evo Championship 2020 is the latest event to be impacted by COVID-19. Other games industry events like E3 have been canceled, while others like GDC and Gamescom have switched to all-digital events instead. For a full list of games industry events impacted by COVID-19 see IGN’s full list here. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Kim is a reporter for IGN.