Evo 2024: How to watch the biggest fighting game event of the year
Evo 2024, the premier fighting game competition also known as the Evolution Championship Series, takes place this weekend in Las Vegas, from Friday, August 19 to Sunday, August 21. Evo 2024 will be the largest Evo to date, with more than 10,000 players competing across eight officially featured games, organizers say.
The games included in the Evo 2024 competition are, in order of number of registered players, Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, Guilty Gear Pursuit, Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, Street Fighter 3: Third Strike, Under Night In-Birth 2 Sys:Celes, Mortal Kombat-1And The King of Fighters 15The competition will be fierce; Street Fighter 6the biggest game at Evo 2024 will have 5,265 contenders for fighting game glory, with Tekken 8 closely followed by 4,646 participants.
If you can’t make it to Las Vegas yourself, you can catch all the action from home thanks to a full weekend of Evo 2024 streams.
How to Watch Evo 2024 on Twitch and YouTube
Thousands of Evo matches are streamed live across seven Twitch channels. To watch the finals of all the main competition matches, watch the Evo Twitch main channel or the Evo YouTube main channel.
For everything else, you can visit the following Evo Twitch channels:
- Evo2 — street fighter 6 swimming pools (Friday and Saturday), Street Fighter 6 top 24 (saturday)
- Evo3 — Tekken 8 swimming pools (Friday and Saturday), Tekken 8 top 24 (saturday)
- Evo4 — Street Fighter 3: Third Strike swimming pools (Friday and Saturday), Street Fighter 3: Third Strike top 24 (saturday)
- Evo5 — Mortal Kombat-1 swimming pools (friday), Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising swimming pools (Friday and Saturday), Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising top 24 (saturday)
- Evo6 — Under Night In-Birth 2 Sys:Celes swimming pools (Friday and Saturday), Mortal Kombat-1 top 24 (saturday), Under Night In-Birth 2 Sys:Celes top 24 (saturday)
- Evo7 — The King of Fighters 15 swimming pools (friday), Guilty Gear Quest swimming pools (Friday and Saturday), Guilty Gear Pursuit top 24 (saturday)
Below you will find a visual overview of the Evo 2024 streaming schedule, provided by the event organizers:
Evo 2024 Day 1 Stream
All showcase events – panels, talks and game expos – will be streamed on Evo’s main YouTube channel and head Twitch channel on Friday, July 19, starting at 10 a.m. PDT. Pools for Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, Guilty Gear Quest, Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, Street Fighter 3: Third Strike, Under Night In-Birth 2 Sys:Celes, Mortal Kombat-1And The King of Fighters 15 will be distributed across the six other Evo Twitch channels.
Here’s what fighting game fans can expect from the Evo 2024 Day 1 showcase stream (all times are PDT):
- 10am — Arc System Works panel
- 11 o ‘clock in the morning – Hunter x Hunter Nen x Impact exhibition
- 1:00 PM — Justin Wong x IFCYipes: Rivals React
- 1:30pm — Capcom Panel
- 2:30pm — Cygames Panel
- 3:00 PM — Sajam Slam: Beat a Pro
- 4:00pm — Bandai Namco Entertainment Panel
- 4:30pm — Cannon Awards
- 4:50pm — FGC feud with JM Crofts
- 5:30 PM — Arc System Works panel
- 6:15 PM — Rivals 2 presentation
- 6:30 PM — Seth Killian x SonicFox
- 7:00 PM — SNK panel
- 8:00 PM — Fatal Fury: City of Wolves exhibition
Evo 2024 Day 2 Stream
On Day 2 of Evo 2024, the six best finals of four matches will be played: The King of Fighters 15, Mortal Kombat-1, Under Night In-Birth 2 Sys:CelesAnd Street Fighter 3: Third Strikeall of which will be streamed on the Evo Twitch main channel And YouTube.
Extra pools and top 24 semi-finals for Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, Guilty Gear PursuitAnd Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising will be streamed on secondary Evo Twitch channels.
Below are the Day 2 finals, with all times listed in PDT:
- 10:00 am — Top 6: The King of Fighters 15 (Twitch | YouTube)
- 1:00 PM — Top 6: Mortal Kombat-1 final (Twitch | YouTube)
- 4:00 PM — Top 6: Under Night In-Birth 2 Sys:Celes final (Twitch | YouTube)
- 7:00 PM — Top 6: Street Fighter 3: Third Strike final (Twitch | YouTube)
Evo 2024 Day 3 Stream
On day 3 of Evo 2024, the best of the best will compete against each other Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, Guilty Gear Strive, Tekken 8And Street Fighter 6. All the action will be streamed on the Evo Twitch main channel And Youtube Channel.
Below are the Day 3 finals, with all times listed in PDT:
Evo 2024 Community Streams
Outside of the main competitive games at Evo 2024, there are a number of community-organized side tournaments, featuring older fighting games like Marvel vs Capcom 2, Capcom vs SNK 2, Ultra Street Fighter 4, Dragon Ball FighterZAnd Samurai Shodown.
All times listed below are in PDT.
Friday July 19
- 10 in the morning – Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R swimming pools
- 2:00 PM — Top 6: Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R
- 4:00 PM — Top 4: Capcom vs SNK 2
- 6:00 PM — Top 6: Marvel vs Capcom 2
- 10 in the morning – Meltblood: Type Lumina swimming pools
- 2:00 PM — Top 16: Meltblood: Type Lumina
- 16.00 hours – Ultra Street Fighter 4 swimming pools
- 6:00 PM — Top 6: Ultra Street Fighter 4
Saturday July 20
- 10:00 am — Top 6: Meltblood: Type Lumina
- 12:00 PM — Top 6: BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
- 2:00 PM — Top 16: Killer instinct
- 4:00 PM — Top 6: Killer instinct
- 10 in the morning – Guilty Gear-XRD swimming pools
- 2:00 PM — Top 24:Guilty Gear-XRD
- 16.00 hours – Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 swimming pools
- 6:00 PM — Top 24: Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
- 8:00 PM — Top 24: Samurai Shodown
- 10 in the morning – Soul Calibur 6 swimming pools
- 2:00 PM — Top 24: Soul Calibur 6
- 16.00 hours – Dragon Ball FighterZ swimming pools
- 6:00 PM — Top 24: BlazBlue: Central Fiction
- 8:00 PM — Top 6: Vampire Savior
- 6:00 PM — Top 24: Dragon Ball FighterZ
- 8:00 PM — Top 6: Dragon Ball FighterZ
Sunday July 21st
- 10:00 am — Top 6: Guilty Gear-XRD
- 12:00 PM — Top 6: BlazBlue: Central Fiction
- 2:00 PM — Top 6: Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
- 10 in the morning – Street Fighter 5 swimming pools
- 2:00 PM — Top 6: Street Fighter 5
- 10 in the morning – Street Fighter 2 SuperTurbo swimming pools
- 2:00 PM — Top 6: Street Fighter 2 SuperTurbo
- 10:00 am — Top 6: Soul Calibur 6
- 12:00 PM — Top 6: Samurai Shodown
- 2:00 PM — Top 6: DNF duel
- 10 in the morning – Skull Girls swimming pools
- 2:00 PM — Top 6: Skull Girls