 How's it going everybody? DatoDoy here with a very exciting video for you all today. Because just yesterday the people that run EVO hosted their annual live stream announcing which games are going to make it as part of the main game lineup. For those of you unaware at this point, EVO is the biggest fighting game tournament in the world for almost every fighting game. And it's because of that exact reason that people get so amped up to see their game announced as part of the main lineup and in some cases very bummed out when they don't see it make it as part of the main lineup. And of course these highs and lows usually come along with every announcement. Last year it could be felt with the absence of Marvel Infinite and we'll get to this year's case later on down the line in this video. For now though let's take a look at the nine games that were announced as part of EVO's main lineup. Now of course on this list you do have some games that were pretty much guaranteed locks for the tournament that includes Street Fighter V, Arcade Edition, Tekken 7, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. All very much standard games that you were guaranteed to see here. Of course Street Fighter V and Tekken 7 have a lot of legacy behind it and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate brings in a very different audience for most of these games. The event runners actually went out of their way to go ahead and say that they expect this game in particular to go ahead and break some records and I definitely agree with that this game is the current iteration of Smash Bros. It's already huge and I definitely expect it to do major numbers. Right behind those games where I think almost anybody could guarantee that they would be locked in we have games like Dragon Ball Fighters and Mortal Kombat 11. Now Dragon Ball Fighters did do record breaking numbers at EVO last year but it was a little questionable if it was going to return just based off some licensing issues that were happening before EVO. Luckily those all got panned out. Dragon Ball Fighters got its second world tour so it's very obvious why this one would return. It's a very fun game. Obviously this channel is super biased. It's my favorite fighting game of all time. Obviously super stoked to see it. Mortal Kombat 11 obviously being the newest Mortal Kombat makes sense to make an appearance at EVO. Everybody loves to have an NRS game make it in the lineup. The only reason this one was in a 100% guaranteed lock-in in my mind is just because it's not out yet. It will be shortly though. That's why they have no problems slapping it on the main lineup and I definitely think it makes a lot of sense. Behind those two we have Soul Calibur 6 and BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle. BlazBlue was actually at EVO last year. It did pretty well and then thanks to some new updates the fanbase is very into it again. People are really loving this title so it's great to see it back and Soul Calibur while it does seem to be struggling to hit its stride like Tekken 7 has it still is definitely loved amongst the community and probably will still do pretty good numbers at EVO. And now for the two most out of nowhere exciting games to make it into the EVO lineup I feel like everybody will agree on this. Samurai Showdown and Under Night Inbirth aka Eunice Man. Samurai Showdown first of all isn't even released yet and it's actually a super niche title. It does look really cool though. They had an exclusive trailer to show off at EVO so obviously that indicates that the studio behind it is really making a push for EVO so I think that's great it got in there. I'm super interested in the title itself and Eunice just has the most I'll say passionate community behind it. It is a niche title it's definitely not the size of Smash Brothers but the people that play this game love to play it and it's always a great thing to see a community like that get a big time to shine spotlight at EVO even if it won't be one of the games on Sunday which we'll get into later. First though we have to bring the video back to that point I made a little earlier about people feeling it when their games don't make it into EVO and I'm pretty sure I put it on the thumbnail or somewhere here and you guys would already know even if you missed that it's Millay. Millay has been a part of EVO for a long time now it's a fan favorite for Smash players usually it's always Millay and then the newest Smash game this time it's just the newest one and that's another reason why I think Ultimate will do much bigger numbers people will support the Smash series in any way they possibly can and this time it's only going to be through that one game. Now of course the reason you might have felt that the drama behind Millay not being included was much bigger than other games that weren't included it's also because Millay's fans are super passionate and also Millay has garnered quite a bunch of haters even players that also play Ultimate for some reason I'm not too big into the Smash scene I really don't get that one regardless though there's also some hardcore fighting game players that are really stoked not to have two Smash games and they're Smash players like I said that are pretty stoked that only their Smash game got in so obviously this caused a huge firestorm on the internet which is why you're probably sick of seeing the game's name mentioned everywhere or you're just super upset at EVO both are of course totally fine things to feel regardless though you can't argue that it not being there is definitely creating quite the stirrup now that we've covered all that though we can talk about the separation between even the games that made it into the main lineup and what I mean by that is usually EVO host finals on different days of the week in order to make space for these games in order to give them a bigger moment and it obviously just makes it easier to run and spectate so some finals are usually held on Saturday and then some of the bigger games are usually held on Sunday unfortunately though during the stream the people that run EVO were talking about how last year the Sunday event ran a little too late almost at 3 a.m. on the east coast so they wanted it to cut down from five games on Sunday to four so this results in a weird cut of games on Sunday so now that we only have four Sunday games the ones that were confirmed were Street Fighter 5, Tekken, Smash, and Blaze Blue now if you're like me you're looking at games like Dragon Ball Fighters or Mortal Kombat and you're thinking wow that is crazy Mortal Kombat and Dragon Ball are going to be huge games at this event Dragon Ball literally broke the record last year and Mortal Kombat 11 is the next new big thing now I have seen a lot of people offer up conspiracy theories for this like Dragon Ball Fighters is still facing some maybe copyright issues they don't want it being on Sunday in case EVO gets like a TV deal Mortal Kombat is too you know adult for a TV deal and who knows maybe that could be it but I think a bigger reason is since they're cutting it down they still want to be able to have big events going on later at night so I think games like Dragon Ball Fighters and Mortal Kombat 11 instead of making that sacrifice and having to be held earlier while people are out doing stuff I think they're just going to do them on Saturday and a bit later so while that does suck especially if you're like me and you really want to watch your game on Sunday because that's just kind of been the thing you've been doing at EVO we'll definitely have to change up our schedule so make sure you're looking out for whatever games you want to watch and make sure you're staying up to date on the schedule for these things and that's pretty much all I have to talk about in regards to the EVO main lineup games I think there's a lot of great choices here Soul Calibur 6 Samurai Showdown Unist I'm just super excited to see those games get their time to shine in the EVO spotlight Dragon Ball Fighters like I mentioned my favorite game of all time it has to be there for me super sad it's not going to be on Sunday but I will take what I can get Tekken always a fun time to watch Blaze Blue gotta support my Blaze Blue Street Fighter it's Street Fighter let's be real and then Ultimate which I do expect to break some records at the very if it doesn't break some records you smash people gotta apologize dude what what do you do I'm totally kidding but yeah guys break some records hopefully uh show up support your games by watching or support your games by going to register for EVO the event will be happening in August so make sure you plan your trips and stuff accordingly hopefully you guys enjoyed this video if you did make sure to go down in the comments and let me know how you're feeling about this lineup whether or not you love it or hate it or just anything in between I kind of want to hear all of it and discuss it with you guys down there while you're down there though if you did like this and you like the channel make sure to hit the like button and subscribe so that you never miss out on another video covering all things fighting games and dragon ball fighters here so hopefully you guys would want to stick around for that other than that though thank you for watching this video I'm Datsudoya I will see you in the next one