My Thoughts on EVO dropping Smash Ultimate

So Evo has released a trailer for Evo Online, a five week tournament for fighting games. Most of us already know what Evo is, so I’m just going to get straight to the point. If you the lineup of games announced earlier this year, you might realize that this Evo Online lineup looks a bit different...

Yup, our very own Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has been noticeably taken out for reasons still not confirmed. Now, I believe (and I am sure many others believe) that the reason for this has to do with how laggy Smash Ultimate’s online mode is. They wouldn’t want to have a game at Evo that is so bad online that it would let 7 year old AliNinja69 win by running away with Sonic the entire match. So it’s safe to say that Smash Online is an obvious reason, but there is another question I’m sure people want answered...who did it? And by “Who did it?” I mean who dropped Smash from Evo?

Armada made a video talking about what he thought of Smash not making it into Evo Online, and he said that it might have been Nintendo themselves asking Evo to drop Smash. I mean, if you had people constantly complaining on Twitter about how bad Smash Online is, you might not want to make your online apart of a big tournament too. So if Nintendo really did ask to take Ultimate out of Evo Online, did they do it just to not be more embarrassed than they already are, or maybe, did they do it because it gives them time to #FixUltimateOnline ? Only time will tell.

Anyways, I’m interested to hear what you guys think about all of this. So leave a comment telling me what you think, and until next time...