Evo 2026, officially the 2026 Evolution Championship Series, was a fighting game tournament held in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, from June 26 to 28, 2026. The event took place at the West Exhibition Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. It was part of the Evolution Championship Series, an annual open-bracket esports event focused on fighting games.
The main lineup consisted of twelve tournaments: Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, Guilty Gear -Strive-, 2XKO, Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, Invincible VS, Rivals of Aether II, BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes], Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage and Vampire Savior. The event had 5,774 unique competitors registered for at least one tournament.
Venue Evo 2026 was held from June 26 to 28, 2026, at the West Exhibition Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Top-eight finals for six featured titles were held in an arena inside the same hall. The event included tournament play, publisher and developer booths, vendor areas, an arcade, artist displays, cosplay programming and publisher panels.
Games The official Evo 2026 rules listed the following twelve main tournament games: Vampire Savior, a 1997 fighting game by Capcom, was included in the main lineup as an arcade title.
+ Game Platform Publisher Street Fighter 6 PlayStation 5 Capcom Tekken 8 PlayStation 5 Bandai Namco Entertainment Guilty Gear -Strive- PlayStation 5 Arc System Works 2XKO PlayStation 5 Riot Games Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising PlayStation 5 Cygames Invincible VS PlayStation 5 Skybound Games Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves PlayStation 5 SNK Rivals of Aether II PC Aether Studios BlazBlue: Central Fiction PlayStation 5 Arc System Works Under Night In-Birth II PlayStation 5 Arc System Works Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage PlayStation 5 Sega Vampire Savior Arcade Capcom
Broadcast Evo 2026 competitions were streamed live on Twitch and YouTube.
Announcements During Evo 2026, fighting game publishers announced characters, downloadable content and other updates for titles. These included the Samurai Outriders team for Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, Kenshiro for Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, The Path of the Warrior: Art of Fighting 3 R, Lux and Samira for 2XKO, season-one downloadable content for Invincible VS, Bob for Tekken 8, Robo-Ky for Guilty Gear -Strive- and downloadable content plans for Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game. Other announcements concerned BlazBlue: Central Fiction, Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, Rivals of Aether II, Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes] and Virtua Fighter Crossroads.
Results The following tables list the top-eight placements for the main tournaments. MenaRD won the Street Fighter 6 tournament, becoming the first player to win back-to-back Street Fighter 6 championships at Evo. Arslan Ash won the Tekken 8 tournament, defeating Rangchu in the final. The win was his eighth Evo title and his fourth consecutive Tekken tournament win at Evo.
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st Saul Leonardo Mena II MenaRD Blanka, M. Bison 2nd unknown Shigematsu Blanka 3rd Kilyan Faucheux Kilzyou Juri, Mai 4th Jaime Bustos Craime M. Bison, Ryu 5th Ryo Nozaki Dogura Elena 5th unknown Tantanmen Jamie 7th Lenny Almanzar CrossoverRD Sagat 7th Kuang Zhen Zhen Dee Jay, Sagat, M. Bison
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st Arslan Siddique Arslan Ash Kunimitsu, Nina 2nd Hyunho Jung Rangchu Fahkumram 3rd Yoon Sun-woong LowHigh Bryan 4th Sanghyeon Jeon JeonDDing Eddy 5th Oh Dae-il Meo-IL Jack-8 5th Qasim Meer Qasim Meer Azucena, Zafina 7th Daichi Nakayama Nobi Lars, Steve 7th Jarrad Gooden Ninjakilla_212 Law
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st Zeng Zhuojun Xiaohai Mr. Karate, Billy 2nd Kenta Ichihara mi2ha4 Rock 3rd Shoji Sho Fenritti Mr. Karate 4th Daniel Fuentes Garcia Dany "El Maza" Billy 5th Akihito Sawada SCORE Mr. Karate, Andy 5th Konstantinos Lamprou K-TOP Mr. Karate 7th Abu Omar AbuOmar Kim Dong Hwan 7th Chia-chen Tseng ZJZ Mr. Karate, Gato
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st unknown RedDitto Ramlethal 2nd Ismaila Gueye Verix Nagoriyuki 3rd unknown NitroNY Leo 4th Andre Covington Cheryo Goldlewis 5th unknown Kshuewhatdamoo Johnny 5th Kermit Alexander Kermit Baiken 7th Kojiro Tsuchiya Jiro Anji 7th unknown T Y Slayer, Giovanna
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st Matthieu Koji Fardet Kojicoco Beatrix 2nd unknown Shio Lowain 3rd unknown Miraias Eustace, Seox 4th Kyran Reives Monarch Metera 5th Alvin Jackson BlueSkyGuyBSG Vaseraga 5th unknown ZanDori Cagliostro 7th unknown Paid Actor Vira 7th unknown Insurgent Eustace
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st Jo'siah Miller Hikari Akali, Ahri 2nd Dominique McLean / Lenwood Arnold SonicFox / INZEM Ahri, Jinx / Teemo, Thresh 3rd Steve Carbajal Supernoon Teemo, Ekko 4th Shunsuke Abe poka Akali, Ahri 5th unknown / unknown Toshi / Haru Jinx / Thresh 5th unknown bleed Ekko, Illaoi 7th Hasni Rivallin Noka Ekko, Vi 7th unknown Globo Teemo, Yasuo
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st unknown akuri__ Omni-Man, Robot, Rex Splode 2nd Drew Stakelum Zippy Invincible, Omni-Man, Rex Splode 3rd Timothy Horvath BoyManGuyPalBudBroBae Invincible, Omni-Man, Rex Splode 4th Dylan G. Dylnyan Bulletproof, Omni-Man, Rex Splode 5th unknown ROW1 Robot, Omni-Man, Rex Splode 5th unknown Cold Ella Mental, Rex Splode, Monster Girl 7th Josh Jodoin NerdJosh Bulletproof, Rex Splode, Robot 7th Trinity C. Claysculpture Bulletproof, Omni-Man, Atom Eve
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st Justin McGrath Plup Orcane, La Reina 2nd Alex Strobel CakeAssault Fleet, Forsburn 3rd Nick Stango Stango Loxodont 4th William Batista Bbatts Fleet 5th unknown Sophilo Zetterburn 5th Tarun Chemiti Beastly Zetterburn 7th Stephen Myers Sandstorm Galvan 7th Ryan Schrier Yoda Cage Absa
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st unknown Fukku Bang, Susanoo 2nd Shoji Sho Fenritti Jin 3rd Ryane Jimenez xcaliburbladez Carl 4th unknown Rascal Bullet 5th unknown Makki Rachel 5th unknown Masa Mai 7th unknown chiri Carl 7th Kyran Reives Monarch Es, Lambda-11
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st Izayah Davis BigBlack Byakuya 2nd Randy C. knotts Wagner, Seth 3rd unknown Pierre Tsurugi 4th Filip Koperwas 2GB Combo Carmine 5th unknown NegaReaper Tsurugi 5th Michael Hernandez PREMIUM STROKES Phonon, Ogre 7th unknown Rio Jin-Mori Hyde 7th unknown mobu murabito Merkava
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st unknown Kaji Lilith 2nd unknown nakanishi Bishamon 3rd unknown Atsuta Hsien-Ko 4th unknown Decameron Lord Raptor 5th unknown kosyo B. B. Hood, Hsien-Ko, Q-Bee 5th unknown Sakamoto Q-Bee 7th unknown orecom Sasquatch 7th unknown DD Sasquatch
Place Player Alias Character(s) 1st Avery Carey GentlemanThief Jean Kujo, Akira Yuki 2nd unknown Gakusei Sarah Kage-Maru, Sarah Bryant, Jacky Bryant 3rd Randi S. Tricky Eileen 4th Yohan Yon VFNumbers Lei-Fei 5th Branden Cole KNR Akira Yuki 5th unknown Crazydrunk Shun Di 7th Connor McBride Limy Lei-Fei 7th unknown GenesisFrenzy Aoi Umenokoji
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