EVO 2014
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| Location | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States |
| Dates | July 11–13 |
| Venue(s) | Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino |
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The 2014 Evolution Championship Series (commonly referred to as Evo 2014 or EVO 2014) was a fighting game event held in at Westgate Las Vegas on July 11–13. The event featured a major tournament for eight fighting games, including Ultra Street Fighter IV and BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma. The event was part of the first Capcom Pro Tour and its Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament was unexpectedly sponsored by Nintendo.
Evo 2014 was announced in September 2013 and was slated to feature primarily Xbox 360 versions of fighting games. As the first Capcom Pro Tour was announced in March 2014, Evo was scheduled to be one of its ten first "Premier Events". Capcom announced a month later that the company would provide a bonus $10,000 USD to the prize pool of Evo's Ultra Street Fighter IV tournament.Nintendo also sponsored the event, which was noted as a surprising shift in policy after the company tried to shut down the Super Smash Bros. portion of the event in 2013.
All of the tournaments held at Evo 2014 were livestreamed and available for free on the Twitch.tv online video service. Evo 2014 broke the record for the largest Super Smash Bros. Melee competition up to that point, with 970 entrants. The Ultra Street Fighter IV tournament also broke its record, with nearly 2,000 players competing for the title. The event, held at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino on July 11–13, had a total prize pool of $100,000 USD and was described by IGN as "the 'World Cup' of competitive fighting games."
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