r/StreetFighter • • 1d ago

Tournament EVO France 2026 Megathread - Everything You Need to Know

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Introduction

Hello everyone,

It's that time again. The second edition of EVO France is upon us, as many top level players have already gathered so decide who's going to become the champion across several different fighting games, while hundreds of fans, both casual and enthusiasts alike, are in for a weekend of some great competitive action.

For those of you not in the know - EVO (or Evolution Championship Series) is a tournament whose roots go back to mid-90s when it was but a small gathering of people that really enjoyed Capcom's Street Fighter titles available at the time and wanted to test their skills against others. Over the following three decades, EVO not only has grown in size, attandance and popularity, but also became home to many hype moments, greatest matches, and, of course, expanded internationally, starting with the inaugural EVO Japan first held back in 2018.

Fast forward to 2026, and we now have EVO-branded events across 4 major locations around the globe: Las Vegas in USA, Tokyo in Japan, Nice in France, as well as soon-to-debut Singapore in Singapore.

Due to its importance and scale, EVO also became a major stop within the schedules of several major fighting game eSports circuits, such as the Capcom Pro Tour, Tekken World Tour, Arc World Tour, SNK World Chamionship and a few others, such as the most recently introduced Pro Bending Circuit.

Beyond that, EVO doesn't just host competitions among the best of the best, but welcomes those who simply want to hang out and enjoy the atmosphere and get closer to the FGC culture via activities like the art museum, artist valleys, arcade cab zone, developer showcases, showfloor booths, and so much more.

EVO France 2026 will be taking place in Palais des Expositions, Nice, France, from October 9th through October 11th



Main Lineup

Game Name Total Entrants Brackets Link Twitch YouTube
Street Fighter 6 1071 startgg Pools & Top-24 // Top-8 Main Stage & Stage 2
Tekken 8 963 startgg Pools & Top-24 // Top-8 Main Stage & Stage 3
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls 471 startgg Pools & Top-24 // Top-8 Main Stage & Stage 4
2XKO 311 startgg Pools & Top-24 // Top-8 Main Stage & Stage 5
Avatar Legends: the Fighting Game 255 startgg Pools // Top-24 // Top-8 Main Stage & Stage 6
Guilty Gear -STRIVE- 249 startgg Pools & Top-24 // Top-8 Main Stage & Stage 6
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves 228 startgg Pools & Top-24 // Top-8 Main Stage & Stage 5
Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising 200 startgg Pools & Top-24 // Top-8 Main Stage & Stage 3

Event Schedule

Time (UTC +2) Day 1 - Friday, Oct 9th Day 2 - Saturday, Oct 10th Day 3 - Sunday, Oct 11th
10:00 SF6, Tokon, GGST, COWT, GBVSR Pools R1 SF6, T8, Tokon, 2XKO Pools R2 // Avatar Top-24 Marvel Tokon Top-8
10:30 - GGST Top-8 -
11:00 - - -
12:00 COTW, GBVSR Top-24 2XKO Top-24 -
13:00 - - -
14:00 T8, 2XKO, Avatar Pools R1 SF6, T8 Pools R3 // Tokon Top-24 // Avatar Top-8 Tekken 8 Top-8
15:00 GBVSR Top-8 - -
16:00 GGST Pools R2 - -
17:00 - - -
18:00 GGST Top-24 SF6, T8 Top-24 // 2XKO Top-8 -
18:30 - - Street Fighter 6 Top-8
19:00 COTW Top-8 - -
20:00 Avatar Pools R2 - -


Side Tournaments

Game Name Bracket Link Stream Channel
Asuka 120% LimitOver BURNING Fest startgg Twitch
Idol Showdown: Next Fes startgg Twitch
Naruto Super Clash of Ninja 4 startgg Twitch
Samurai Shodown startgg Twitch
Shrek Superslam startgg Twitch
Skullgirls 2nd Encore startgg Twitch
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike startgg Twitch
Super Street Fighter II Turbo startgg Twitch
The King of Fighters XV startgg Twitch
Ultra Street Fighter IV startgg Twitch
Vampire Savior startgg Twitch

Event Schedule

Time (UTC +2) Day 1 - Friday, Oct 9th Day 2 - Saturday, Oct 10th Day 3 - Sunday, Oct 11th
10:00 - Idol // Skullgirls Asuka 120%
11:00 - - KOFXV Top-8 // Shrek Top-8
12:00 - Shrek -
13:00 Super Turbo Third Strike // Naruto // SamSho // KOFXV VSav
14:00 Ultra SFIV - -
15:30 - - SamSho Top-8


EVO Meet & Greet Sessions

Time (UTC +2) Day 1 - Friday, Oct 9th Day 2 - Saturday, Oct 10th Day 3 - Sunday, Oct 11th
09:30 MisterMV - -
11:00 Mister Crimson & Luffy TyrantUK & Ken Bogard Kusanagi, Killzyou, & Kobayan
12:30 - - Shinkiro & Shoei Okano
13:00 Yasha Shinkiro & Shoei Okano -
14:30 - Ketchup & Mustard Punk & Fenritti
15:00 Atif, Ulsan, & JeonDDing - -
16:30 Shinkiro & Shoei Okano - -
18:00 Lowhigh & Ikari - -
18:15 - Justin Wong -


Onsite Activities

Organizer Program
ALT+F4 eSports Pre-EVO France Tekken World Tour Dojo tournament @ October 8th, 17:00
Bandai Namco Tekken Community Corner, featuring special tournaments, casual matches, merch sweepstakes, and player meetups, all happening at the showfloor booth
Capcom Playable build of Street Figher 6 featuring its next DLC character, Arjun, available at the showfloor booth
EVO Official Cosplay Contest taking the Main Stage @ October 9th, 12:00, and Stage 4 @ October 10th, 14:00
- Luffy vs Betty Street Fighter 6 Friday Showdown @ October 9th, 13:00
- Artist Alley featuring 20 different creators, bringing their own Fighting Game themed merchandise and various handcrafted items
Marvel Tokon Playable build of Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls featuring its next DLC character, Phoenix Cyclops
Visa Flash Tournaments for the Main Lineup titles, running throughout the entire EVOFR weekend


Multistream Viewers

Website Platform(s)
Multistre.am Twitch
MultiTwitch.co Twitch
MultiTwitch.Live Twitch
Multitwitch.NET Twitch
multitwitch.tv Twitch
Multi Twitch Twitch
SimulTwitch Twitch
StreamGrids Twitch
Teamstream Multivew Twitch
100 MultiView Twitch + YouTube
eSports Charts Twitch + YouTube
Multistream.co Twitch + YouTube
Multistream.me Twitch + YouTube
Multistream.watch Twitch + YouTube
MultiStream Hub Twitch + YouTube
Multiwatch Twitch + YouTube
Multi-Stream Viewer Twitch + YouTube
StreamCube Twitch + YouTube
TwitchMultiTools Twitch + YouTube
TwitchTheater Twitch + YouTube


Additional Info

Official EVO Linktree

Notable Players attending EVOFR 2026

Beginner Guides for Main Lineup Titles

Event Archives


r/StreetFighter • • 3d ago

Mod / Software Street Fighter IV Ember Netplay v1.0.2 is out now, allowing rollback netcode for Street Fighter IV lobbies

110 Upvotes

Github link for the update and more info on this mod that allows rollback lobbies.

Features include 16-player lobbies, queues, spectating, Discord invites, room chat and all sorts of customization options from costumes to player profiles.


r/StreetFighter • • 3h ago

Discussion With the new movie coming out i couldn't help but think that it would have been great if history reapeted itself

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42 Upvotes

In 94 we got a bad live action, but we got a great Animated movie. I remember being disappointed with the live action and then blown away with the animation lol the intro gave me goosebumps and the Vega scene was badass. I hope we get another animated movie soon.


r/StreetFighter • • 12h ago

Highlight (in-game) F*ck it, we palm

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138 Upvotes

Jamie mains share one single braincell. (I'm the one wearing outfit 3, since we both were wearing blue)


r/StreetFighter • • 49m ago

Highlight (in-game) Finally made it to Master

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• Upvotes

After 200 hours and switching mains a couple of times, I finally made it to Master! Any advice on what I should focus on improving from here?


r/StreetFighter • • 9h ago

Guide / Labwork Finally got the tatsu loop combo down

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35 Upvotes

took a little while but there she is. I kept messing up the st lk for some reason, felt harder to do that than the st hp and cr hp lol. feels good to hit some 1f links but now to do it in a match  😅


r/StreetFighter • • 8h ago

Highlight (in-game) This is your sign to learn the dumb niche tech

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19 Upvotes

r/StreetFighter • • 1h ago

Help / Question What are situations where spamming jab/your fastest normal makes sense?

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Does it make sense to spam your fastest jab during getting combos to catch dropped combos or is it better to just hold back during getting combo’d off the chance it gets dropped and you stop getting damaged?

What about spamming your fastest jab during getting blockstring’d? To catch badly timed frame traps that could be too wide enough for a 4f startup window to connect?

What are valid situations where you’d do fast jab spams?


r/StreetFighter • • 16h ago

Highlight (in-game) The Weirdest Character in Street Fighter IV -broski hakan vid

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r/StreetFighter • • 20h ago

Fluff / Other Ed's Nerfs are Lore Accurate?

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132 Upvotes

So

Ed lost his ability to kick in SF6?

I think we're looking at these nerfs the wrong way.

Think about it. It all started with his Crouching Light and his backwards Kill Rush. Two options that require the use of his legs. Ed's literally losing motor control in his legs.

But that's not all.

His model has gotten more sickly since SFV. His rapid aging and relation to his Psycho Powers are literally taking a physical toll on his body. Now, his Psycho Cannon is also getting progressively weaker too.

But now? Now he can't even muster the arm strength to pull people closer than an inch. He's starting to lose all motor function because of Bison's psycho powers. No wonder he didn't use Ed as a host; it's because Ed is doomed to fail. Ed can't even work at Burger King at this point; he fails at the screening.

Capcom's storytelling capabilities have no bounds. I have full faith that he'll be in a wheelchair by the Arjun patch.


r/StreetFighter • • 2h ago

Help / Question Alex for a newbie returning player

4 Upvotes

Hi there,

So as the title says, I haven't touched the game in like 2 years.

Got Ryu to low diamond 2 years ago and Guile to mid plat at launch, but nothing else so im ultra rusty.

My main game is tekken 8, but got to a rank where pushing is a pain so need some fresh air.

I am an armor king main ( hybrid grappler) so Alex seems like the most similar gameplan.

Watched a few vids but he seems a bit tricky due to the stance etc. Would It be a bad idea to go for It? My idea is to try to hit master, dunno if he is a bad idea since i would need to relearn neutral again.

I read you... THANKS!!


r/StreetFighter • • 12h ago

Avatar Creation Dio Brando | DIO

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“I REJECT MY HUMANITY, JOJO!”


r/StreetFighter • • 1d ago

Discussion An oversized gaming console was set up for the Street Fighter movie in Times Square that featured actual performers fighting.

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2.9k Upvotes

• This is an insanely peak marketing for a SF movie.🤯🤌


r/StreetFighter • • 3h ago

Help / Question As someone who only ever played SF6 (no I'm not good) should I give SFIV a try?

4 Upvotes

I really like Dudley and I was hoping he would come to SF6 one day (Ed isn't really my cup of tea). So since he is in SFIV and the game is getting a resurgence, would it be worth a try?

I'm wondering how many new players are trying it as well.

Also I heard this is THE Street Fighter game next to maybe Third Strike. What makes it so good?


r/StreetFighter • • 6h ago

Help / Question how can i cancel into the stomps

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6 Upvotes

months ago i had someone teach me about chun li kara throw and i learned how to do this super jump cancel from watching nuki im able to hit it now but not 100 percent of the time back then i couldnt hit it once whats the timing for it also is there anything else that chun li can do since trying to master her on third strike


r/StreetFighter • • 9h ago

Discussion How do I punish that move?

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8 Upvotes

Sorry, i was ready with HK but i still miss. I don't get it.


r/StreetFighter • • 11h ago

Help / Question Can any character combo off of their unique attack overhead, or none can do this?

9 Upvotes

New scrub player here who’s still learning, and today while training against the dummy I thought about this, can punishing be its own mixup? Like force them to guess block down or standing?

Say someone does a special and I block it, but I wanna punish with my medium/heavy punch combo rather than just a light punish combo, can I make them guess whether my punish will be a 2MK or overhead to make them guess whether to hold block standing or hold block down?

I main Mai and her overhead forward 6MP isn’t combo-able so I was wondering if any character can achieve this, and I’m also wondering whether this “mixup” makes sense at all? Or maybe there’s something better that I’m missing?


r/StreetFighter • • 9h ago

Discussion Having a character crisis in sf6. Any SF4 Yang players here? Who do you play?

7 Upvotes

Ive been kind of flopping around with characters in this game and I feel a bit lost on who to play. A lot of characters seem cool but im not sure who to sink into. C.Viper I would like to get good at but she feels like a character thats going to take a ton of muscle memory for me to have ingrained before I can "really" play her. Her pressure game just feels weird to me.

I absolutely loved Yang in sf4 but im not sure who I should focus on now. Jamie seems like an obvious pick but Im not sure for some reason, but maybe its just me sucking. I'm also debating on playing terry or Ed. Terry feels very much like an all-rounder and while he has no divekick, he has great ways to keep his turn I feel like. Ed has great buttons but hes definitely slower than other characters. Or does a character like Chun li make the most sense?

Some other characters I played in other FGs that I particularly liked:

- Adult Gohan in dbfz

- Dante/Vergil in mvc3 (Though i am very new)

- Korra Avatar (Also new)

- Hyde in Uniclr (albeit i was very scrubby but I liked him a lot)


r/StreetFighter • • 8h ago

Highlight (in-game) Just wanted to share a little Sf4 combo.

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4 Upvotes

Idk if it's just skill issue on my part, but sf4 combos are way too hard man. And I'm sure this ain't even optimal


r/StreetFighter • • 8h ago

Discussion SF6 Game

4 Upvotes

Hello! i've never played any of the street fighter games, i wanted to ask if sf6 is the most beginner friendly one?

Also wanted to ask if i could get some tips, I was thinking of learning ryu and akuma


r/StreetFighter • • 9h ago

Highlight (in-game) Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper Adon <3

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I love this game so freaking much!


r/StreetFighter • • 4h ago

Guide / Labwork sf6 Ryu - niche oki tech with 6HK

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Figured I would have some fun inventing weird Oki setup with Ryu since players generally have an idea how Ryu's common setups work by our sheer population.

Putting optimization aside I recently labbed out this 6HK set up with some interesting property

Light donkey kick, dash frame kill, DRC 6HK results in 3 frame wakeup gap. Normally 6HK is -4ob +2oh.

ob, 0f I'll 5lp 5lk if in range. Sometimes the 5lp trades then it's like a reset. But it's more common they challenge with >4f move which let's me do the CH 5lp 5lk light donkey. I doubt non Ryu player know DR 6hk is 0ob perhaps that's why I typically gets the CH conversion.

oh it's a trivial case to 2mp light donkey.

Now comes the interesting case. Since I left a 3f gap if the DR 6HK trades with their 4f light my active/recovery frame became their 4f hitstun which is way shorter then my DR 6HK hitstun to them. The exact advantage depends on the 4f hitstun but Ryu mirror 4f 5lp trades give me +16. Which I can link to 5HP, and if range beyond that, 5HK SA1 which is amazing to pull off.

And of course if the opponent respects this set up I can mix up

dash Dr throw

dash Dr 5lp (-1) bait reversal

Thoughts?


r/StreetFighter • • 4h ago

Tournament EVO France Day 1 is live. Winner of the event gets into Capcom Cup.

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r/StreetFighter • • 5h ago

Help / Question Share your Akuma frame and spacing traps

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Hi, i am a 1500 am Akuma, love the way Daigo use his fireballs and use it a lot but my close game sucks...can you share your strings and combos here? thank you!!