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- The Evo 2019 fighting game tournament will have 9,173 total competitors, a nearly 20% increase over 2018.
- That player total makes Evo 2019 the second-largest iteration to date by that metric, surpassed only by Evo 2016.
- Several companies are sponsoring the August event, including Samsung, Astro Gaming, and NISSIN Cup Noodles.
Registration for August’s Evolution Championship Series 
(Evo) 2019 fighting game tournament has closed, and a look at the available data shows a nearly 20% rise in player registrations over 2018’s total.
According to data compiled from online tournament platform Smash.gg by SRK Stats , which accounts for players signing up for multiple games, a total of 9,173 competitors have registered for the event. That’s a 19.69% increase over the 2018 total of 7,664 players.
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With that total, Evo 2019 will be the second-largest iteration to date when ranked by competitor count. The largest year to date was 2016 with 9,899 players, more than half of which were registered for Capcom’s then-new Street Fighter V . In 2019, Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has the most registrants, with 3,492 in total. Here’s the complete list of players registered for each of Evo 2019’s nine games:
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: 3,492
- Street Fighter V: 1,929
- Tekken 7 : 1,885
- Samurai Shodown: 1,719
- Mortal Kombat 11 : 1,567
- Dragon Ball FighterZ, 1,191
- UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late[st], 1,156
- Soulcalibur VI, 742
- BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, 640
Evo 2019 takes place at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas from August 2-4, with several sponsors already announced. Samsung , SIMPLE Mobile , ZOWIE , Astro Gaming , DXRacer , and NISSIN Cup Noodles will sponsor the competition, plus the event will sell crossover merchandise based on the Netflix anime series, Hi Score Girl.
