Evo 2024: How to watch the year’s biggest fighting game event

polygon.com:

Evo 2024, the preeminent fighting game competition also known as the Evolution Championship Series, takes place this weekend in Las Vegas, from Friday, Aug. 19, to Sunday, Aug. 21. Evo 2024 will be the biggest Evo yet; more than 10,000 players will compete in eight officially featured games, organizers say.

The games featured as part the Evo 2024 competition are, in order of number of registered players, Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, Guilty Gear Strive, Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, Street Fighter 3: Third Strike, Under Night In-Birth 2 Sys:Celes, Mortal Kombat 1, and The King of Fighters 15. Competition will be fierce; Street Fighter 6, the biggest game at Evo 2024, will boast 5,265 fighting game glory hopefuls, with Tekken 8 following closely behind with 4,646 competitors.

If you’re not headed to Las Vegas in person, you can catch all of the action from home, thanks to a full weekend of Evo 2024 streams.

Thousands of Evo matches will be streamed live across seven Twitch channels. To watch the finals for all main competition games, watch the main Evo Twitch channel or the main Evo YouTube channel.

For everything else, tune into the following Evo Twitch channels:

Here’s a visual rundown of the Evo 2024 streaming schedule, courtesy of the event’s organizers:

All showcase events — panels, talks shows, and game exhibitions — will stream on Evo’s main YouTube channel and main Twitch channel on Friday, July 19, starting at 10 a.m. PDT. Pools for Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, Guilty Gear Strive, Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, Street Fighter 3: Third Strike, Under Night In-Birth 2 Sys:Celes, Mortal Kombat 1, and The King of Fighters 15 will be spread across the six other Evo Twitch channels.

Here’s what fighting game fans can expect from the Evo 2024 showcase stream on day 1 (all times are in PDT):

Evo 2024 day 2 will feature the top-six finals for four games: The King of Fighters 15, Mortal Kombat 1, Under Night In-Birth 2 Sys:Celes, and Street Fighter 3: Third Strike,