The 2011 Evolution Championship Series (commonly referred to as Evo 2011 or EVO 2011) was a fighting game event held in the Rio Las Vegas on July 6–8. The event featured a major tournament for five fighting games, including Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition and Marvel vs. Capcom 3, as well as various smaller-scale competitions.
Background
Many of the major Street Fighter tournaments had added themselves to "The Road to Evo" group of events in 2011. Players who ranked well in these tournaments would receive a better seed in the Evolution Championship. Five such major tournaments were held between May 27 and June 25, 2011: UFGT7, Montreal Annual Tournament VIII, CEO 2011, NorCal Regionals 9, and East Coast Throwdown 3. IGN noted that competitors had taken a more serious stance towards these tournaments in 2011.
Evo 2011 was held on July 6–8 in the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino. The event was livestreamed on Ustream and reached over 2 million unique viewers consuming over 1.9 million hours of video content in total. This livestream was produced as collaborative efforts of fighting game sites iPlayWinner, Team Sp00ky, Offcast, and FinestKO. The livestream was also available on PlayStation Home.
Event summary
Evo 2011 featured major tournaments for Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, Marvel vs Capcom 3, Mortal Kombat 9, Tekken 6, and BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II, as well as a side event for Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. The Street Fighter IV tournament was won by Keita "Fuudo" Ai, playing with the character Fei Long. The grand finals for Marvel vs Capcom 3 were won by Jay "BOX Viscant" Snyder.
Engadget reported on the success of eight-year-old competitor Noah Solis in the 2011 Marvel vs Capcom 3 tournament, who made it into the top 48 before being eliminated by an older competitor. In an interview with GiantBomb, Solis' father spoke of how he intends to support his son's success in fighting games, citing video games as one way alongside education to avoid falling into gang culture.
Evo 2011 featured various panels with people such as Yoshinori Ono, Seth Killian, Daigo Umehara, and Bandai Namco Entertainment.
Results Place Player Alias Character(s)1st Keita AiFuudoFei Long2nd Abdullatif AlhmiliBrokentier LatifC.Viper3rd PoongkoSeth4th Daigo UmeharaMad Catz MCZ DYun5th Yosuke ItoeLive|Pro KindevuYun5th Hajime TaniguchiTokido MCZAkuma7th Joshua PhilpotWolfkroneC.Viper7th Peter SusiniFlashMetroidZangief, C.Viper
Place Player Alias Character(s)1st Jay SnyderBOX ViscantWesker/Haggar/Phoenix, Wesker/Iron Man/Phoenix2nd Eduardo Pérez-FrangieMCZ|DMG PR BalrogDante/Wolverine/Tron, Dante/Amaterasu/Wolverine3rd Justin WongEG Justin WongShe-Hulk/Wolverine/Akuma, Storm/Wesker/Akuma, Wolverine/Storm/Akuma4th Peter RosascoL.CC CombofiendShe-Hulk/Taskmaster/Spencer5th Noel BrownUVG Noel BrownWesker/Wolverine/Akuma, Wolverine/Wesker/Phoenix5th Ryan Ramirez coL.CC Filipino ChampMagneto/Sentinel/Phoenix, Magneto/Dormammu/Phoenix7th Tinh NgoMineWesker/Taskmaster/Phoenix7th Raymond MonsadaX-RayDante/Amaterasu/Magneto
Place Player Alias Character(s)1st Carl WhiteEMP Perfect LegendKung Lao2nd Giuseppe GrossovVv REOMileena, Cyrax3rd Eric AkinsJOPJohnny Cage, Raiden4th Christopher GonzalezNYChris GReptile5th Denzell TerryDenzell TerryLiu Kang5th Stephanie Brownback 16-BitKitana7th Pirrelli TrumerATL ReddLiu Kang7th Anthony VillanuevaOnlineTony213Kabal
Place Player Alias Character(s)1st Rene MaistryDMG|KorBob2nd Shawn SwainFabBob, Miguel3rd Reepal ParbhooRipLaw4th James GarrettJustFrameJamesLaw, Baek5th Christopher VillarrealCrowBob5th Jimmy TranMr. NapsBryan7th Ryan HartLLL|Ryan HartKazuya7th Hajime TaniguchiMCZ|TokidoBob
Place Player Alias Character(s)1st Alex ChenSparkHakumen2nd Steve BarthelemyLord KnightLitchi, Makoto3rd Hajime TaniguchiMCZ|TokidoNoel4th Kyle BourneZong OneCarl5th Rob NagaroHeartNanaMakoto5th Severine GreySevLambda-117th Damien BrantleyDsmoove12Noel7th Dong YimWukuHazama
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