Evo 2020 canceled due to coronavirus

Evo, the world’s largest fighting game tournament, has announced that it will cancel the 2020 event due to COVID-19. All EVO 2020 tickets will be refunded and there will be an online summer event planned as a replacement. Twitter, Evo organizers announced that this year’s event, originally scheduled to take place from July 21 to August 2 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, has been canceled.

Organizers announced that to “keep the Evo spirit alive,” there will be an online event this summer. Details of what the online summer event entails will be revealed later.

Evo is an annual fighting game tournament where the best fighting game players meet to test their skills in popular games like Street Fighter, Tekken and more. Developers like Capcom and Bandai Namco also often reserve fighting game announcements for Evo as new DLC fighters.

Evo Championship 2020 is the last event to be affected by COVID-19. Other games industry events like E3 have been canceled, while others like GDC and Gamescom have switched to all-digital events.

For a complete list of gaming industry events affected by COVID-19, see IGN’s full list here.

Matt Kim is an IGN reporter.