Daunting, exciting, record-breaking: At Evo 2023, Street Fighter 6 is already unbeatable

Fighting game tournament Evo 2023 is set to be the largest open bracket video game tournament of all time, according to Evo general manager Rick Thiher. This comes following the explosive launch of Street Fighter 6, which has led to a staggering 7,061 unique competitors registering to travel to Vegas to compete in August.

In total, there are 9,182 total competitors who have registered for 14,975 competitive spots across the event’s eight headline games. This figure, described as both “daunting and exciting” by Thiher, is record-breaking for both the event, and Street Fighter as a series.

“We’ve had our team digging through a variety of known competitions worldwide – the only open bracket competition that scales above this is in Poker,” explains Thiher. “But, without being able to say so definitively, today we’re pretty confident this is the largest video game tournament of all time.”