Everything happening at Evo 2023
blog.playstation.comMark your calendars. This year’s Evolution Championship Series (Evo) takes place from August 4 to 6. For fighting game enthusiasts, 2023 is certainly starting to feel like the year of the fighting game, with a tidal wave of highly anticipated titles like the recently released Street Fighter 6, Mortal Kombat 1 launching September 19, Tekken 8 on the horizon, Riot Games’ intriguing new foray into the genre, and much more to come.
Photograph by Robert Paul for Evo
Evo is the largest fighting game tournament in the world. Each year, thousands of fans, competitors, vendors, and publishers gather in Las Vegas to celebrate the thrill and spectacle of fighting games. The best players in the world compete across eight games for three days to make it to the coveted main stage, while spectators worldwide cheer them on. It’s an event no fighting game fan should miss.
We’ve compiled a guide of everything happening at the show this year to prepare you for the biggest weekend in the fighting game community.
We’re excited to share that Evo 2023 has set a record for tournament participation. With over 9,000 competitors from 71 countries slated to compete in this year’s competition and a record-breaking number of Evo attendees, we’re set to witness the biggest in-person fighting game competition in Evo history.
Photograph by Robert Paul for Evo
The PlayStation booth will also return and provide a multitude of events and fan experiences, including open sign-up community tournaments, where attendees can win prizes like PS5 consoles, DualSense Edge wireless controllers, Pulse 3D wireless headsets, PlayStation VR2 headsets, PlayStation Plus Plus vouchers, and even the new Street Fighter 6-themed Razer Kitsune hitbox.
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