{"id":108664,"date":"2020-02-05T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/full_evo_2020_line-up_revealed_smash_bros_ultimate_will_represent_nintendo"},"modified":"2020-02-05T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T05:05:00","slug":"full-evo-2020-line-up-revealed-smash-bros-ultimate-will-represent-nintendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/05\/full-evo-2020-line-up-revealed-smash-bros-ultimate-will-represent-nintendo\/","title":{"rendered":"Full EVO 2020 Line-Up Revealed, Smash Bros. Ultimate Will Represent Nintendo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7995d3b4e9ca8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7995d3b4e9ca8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Smash Bros Mural Byleth\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7995d3b4e9ca8\/smash-bros-mural-byleth.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7995d3b4e9ca8\/smash-bros-mural-byleth.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Smash Bros Mural Byleth\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s been revealed the king of fighters <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong> is returning to this year&#8217;s EVO Championship Series.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from Nintendo&#8217;s all-star brawler, the following games have been locked in once again: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/under_night_in-birth_exelatecl-r\">Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late<\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/under_night_in-birth_exelatecl-r\">[cl-r]<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/dragon_ball_fighterz\">Dragon Ball FighterZ<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Street Fighter V<\/strong>, <strong>Tekken 7<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/samurai_shodown\">Samurai Shodown<\/a><\/strong> and <strong>Soul Calibur VI<\/strong>. The new (and old games) that weren&#8217;t featured at last year&#8217;s event include <strong>Granblue Fantasy Versus<\/strong> and <strong>Marvel vs. Capcom 2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"EVO 2020 Line-Up\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9e86432309026\/evo-2020-line-up.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9e86432309026\/evo-2020-line-up.900x.jpg\" alt=\"EVO 2020 Line-Up\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The titles that have been dropped from this year&#8217;s line-up include <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mortal_kombat_11\">Mortal Kombat 11<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/blazblue_cross_tag_battle\">BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle<\/a><\/strong>. The biggest surprise is the return of Marvel vs. Capcom 2. It&#8217;s the <em>only<\/em> classic fighting game on the list and was originally released in the year 2000.<\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re wondering, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/super_smash_bros_melee\">Super Smash Bros. Melee<\/a><\/strong> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/evo_2019_drops_super_smash_bros_melee\">dropped<\/a> from EVO last year, so it&#8217;s no surprise to see it has been excluded from this year&#8217;s event as well. This annual tournament takes place in Las Vegas from 31st July until 2nd August.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think of the line-up for EVO 2020? Share your thoughts below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been revealed the king of fighters Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is returning to this year&#8217;s EVO Championship Series. Apart from Nintendo&#8217;s all-star brawler, the following games have been locked in once again: Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r], Dragon Ball FighterZ, Street Fighter V, Tekken 7, Samurai Shodown and Soul Calibur VI. The new (and old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}