Fighting games are a broad genre of video games where players, choosing from a variety of characters, go head-to-head in one-on-one combat. A player wins when the health points of an opponent’s character deplete to zero, or if he or she has more points when time runs out.
Tournaments featuring such games can be held online or in person.
The most famous franchises of the genre include Street Fighter, Tekken, King Of Fighters and Mortal Kombat.
Evo 2024 in Las Vegas, which had a collective prize purse of US$240,000 (S$321,000), was attended by 20,000 fans and more than 10,000 competitors from 64 countries.
The 2025 edition will be held in Nice, France, marking the first time it will be hosted physically outside the US. Singapore will be the first Asian country to hold the main Evo tournament in 2026 – not to be confused with Evo Japan, a separate offshoot event that takes place yearly there.