EVO 2011 Results

The Evolution tournament (or Evo for short) is probably the most famous gaming competition on the planet and it isn't for first person shoot 'em ups or real time strategy games, oh no.  Evo is about fighting games, the only genre to still have any sort of presence in modern arcade, thanks to games like Super Street Fighter IV, Tekken 6 and Virtua Fighter 5.

Thanks to the likes to YouTube, it's possible to watch some highlights of the tournament from over the years and this year Sony showed it live on PlayStation Network, which says a lot about the continued popularity of these games.

Sadly, despite it being an absolutely top notch game, Virtua Fighter 5R has fallen out of favour, with more console fighters like the new Mortal Kombat and Marvel vs Capcom 3 taking its place.  However, we aren't interested in the console fighters, so here are the results from the arcade fighters, Super Street Fighter IV: AE, Tekken 6 and BlazBlue: Continuum Shift 2.

Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition

1. Fuudo (Fei Long)
2. Latif (C.Viper)
3. Poongko (Seth)
4. Daigo Umheara (Yun)
5. Kindevu (Yun)
6. Tokido (Akuma)
7. Wolfkrone (C.Viper)
8. Flash Metroid (Zangief, C.Viper)

See the final here.

Tekken 6

1. Kor (Bob)
2. NYC Fab (Bob/Miguel)
3. Rip (Law)
4. JustFrameJames (Law)
5. Crow (Bob)
6. Mr. Naps (Bryan)
7. Tokido (Bob)
8. Ryan Hart (Kazuya)

See the final here.

BlazBlue: Continuum Shift 2

1. Spark (Haku-Men)
2. Lord Knight (Litchi)
3. Tokido (Noel)
4. Zong One (Carl)
5. Heart Nana (Makoto)
6. Severin (A-11)
7. DSmoove12 (Noel)
8. Wuku (Hazana)

See the final here (part 1) and here (part 2).

While I'd love to go to Evo, just watching the games makes me realise I will never have the skilled needed to get anywhere.  Never mind.

Results source: Shoryuken